Save Our Fish

Round Table Pizza
4002 A Street SE
Auburn, WA
The meeting starts at 7:00 pm.

President's message

Well what can I say this has been a very busy summer so far and many are in vacation mode. I hope each of you is having a good summer. It seems there are several of you we have not seen for a while, I hope you can make time to get to this months meeting, you are missed. I am very encouraged with some success we have had this year in getting the attention of the department and influencing sportsmen's opportunity. The first area was with the Springer fishing on the Columbia and the second was the tribal netting on Lake Washington others were the earlier opener on the Puyallup and the additional weekend on Elliot Bay. We are making progress but it takes effort, the more of us involved in this the greater the impact. If you want to do more come to a board meeting and we will help you understand what you can do. Thanks to all of you who have become involved.

July Speaker

Our very own VP Dick Phillips will be speaking on the Big Blue and Tuna fishing. He will cover lots of good information such as water temp, trolling speeds, types of baits and much much more. If you've ever thought about Tuna fishing you don't want to miss this.

New Yahoo group's site

I am to leave this as second month for those of you who have not yet joined. A new online group site for Save Our Fish has been established. This group site will be for the exclusive use of our members. It is a Yahoo group called Save Our Fish located at the following link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saveourfish/ The basic idea behind the group is to provide a communication tool for our members to post pictures, arrange for other to go fishing, and use as a forum. The site will be moderated by members of the club to keep it in lines with rules of the club. Yahoo user ID is required but any email address is acceptable to receive messages, post messages, etc. We hope the members will find this useful.

New Membership Contest

Do you know anyone that is interested in becoming a member of the Save Our Fish Chapter of Puget Sound Anglers? Now is the time to sign them up. A membership drive and contest will take place between July 1, 2008 and October 31, 2008.

For new memberships only, the rates will be reduced by $10 during the membership drive and contest. The membership drive rates will be as follows:

Adult membership $30 reduced to $20
Family membership $40 reduced to $30
Juvenile membership $15 reduce to $5
Senior membership $20 reduced to $10

New members will have immediate membership for 2008 and as an extra incentive; the dues for 2009 will be covered as well!

This contest is open to all members, including new members signed up during the membership drive.

Membership forms designated just for the membership drive and contest will be the official entry into the contest. Forms will be available online and at general member meetings.

Membership forms and payment must be submitted before the end of the contest period to be eligible.

The member who signs up the most new members will win a fly rod and reel combo graciously donated by board members Mark Herwick and Cliff Kuppinger.

SOF Fall outing

We will be going out to the Hump or Satsop the October the 24th and 25th if the weather or fishing does not work out we will move it to November 7th and 8th. Gary Williams is going to set it up so we can stay in Wiska at his buddies place again. If you missed it last year you have a chance to make it this year it was a great time so put it on your calendar now.

Cast for Kids on July 26th We are looking for boats to help with the Cast for Kids on July 26th. All boats will be launching for free from Pt. Defiance then they will cruise over to Dock Street Marina to pick up the kids. We will not be charged for the use of the docks there. It will be from approx. 7:30 AM to 11:30. There will be a picnic to follow. Everything should be done by 2 PM. Thanks, Rich Silva, GHPSA president 360-893-1518

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