2025 Meeting Minutes

South Jersey Kayak Bass Fishing Club
"South Jersey's original freshwater kayak bass fishing"

Meeting Minutes – February 13th, 2025 – 7pm

Atlantic County Library – Hammonton, NJ

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Meeting was called to order at 7:10pm with the following member anglers in attendance: Alex
Bronsky, Bill Bentliff, Megan McCafferty, Jim Dick, Ryan Hannah, Bob Gheysens, John Goss, and Vic
Carapucci, plus guest angler Harold Eckett Jr.

Alex Bronsky, Vice President:
2025 Season Preview/Off-Season Review
- Alex discussed the offseason including a group of members leaving the club. The club now
has open spots, and we are excited to bring in some new members.

SJKBFC Forms
- Membership Application/Renewals/Tournament Waivers
o ALL ANGLERS MUST COMPLETE THE 2025 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM AND THE
2025 TOURNAMENT WAIVER FORM BEFORE THEY CAN COMPETE. These can be
downloaded off the website and sent to the Secretary at John.Goss15@gmail.com . We
will also have physical forms at meetings and tournaments to complete if needed.

- Website Profile Information Forms
o Members who wish to update their Membership Profile information may also complete
the Website Profile Information Form. You can update your photo by sending it along
with the form to President Alex Bronsky at ab08330@gmail.com

- Membership Dues
o $50 Annual Membership Dues MUST BE PAID BEFORE fishing your first tournament.
We are extending a grace period until the first tournament and angler will fish.

- Members in Good Standing / Not in Good Standing
o The club discussed any anglers not in good standing who we thought might wish to
return in 2025. The executive board will be in contact with this angler.

- Angler Probation
o Club held open discussion if there was any need to place any members on probation,
or if there were otherwise any problems between club members. Club agreed there
were no problems between any members and the discussion ended there. In light of
recent events the club encourages open dialogue between members.

- SJKBFC Bank Account
o We’re in a good place financially, all of our fees are paid outside the Alloway permit
which is going in the mail next week. Club balance is north of $800.

- Tournament Items

• Making tournaments OPENs

 In order to secure additional funds and anglers for tournaments considering our
lower overall membership numbers heading into the season, we are considering
making more tournaments OPENs. We need to confirm with SJBCA that no
other clubs have OPENs on the same day as that’s an SJBCA rule. President or
Vice President will review with SJBCA. We are then likely to make multiple
additional tournaments OPENs this season.

• Lowering Requirements for Membership

 Motion was given to lower the OPEN tournament requirement for membership
from 3 to 2 tournaments. Motion was unanimously approved. Guest anglers
now only need to fish TWO OPENS to be considered for membership.

• Alloway permits

 Alloway permit and fee is going in the mail this week for approval.

• Catching Same Fish Twice

 A vote was taken to restrict the “can’t catch the same fish twice rule” to be only
applicable March – June to better align with the spirit of the rule of preventing
abusing bed fishing. The idea is to not catch the same fish multiple times on a
bed, as opposed to preventing the random occurrence of catching the same
fish twice who wasn’t on a bed.

• Ketch boards

 Alex placed link on website for ketch boards. Because we’re on limited
membership this year and we want most of the money to go back to members
for the banquet, it was suggested we don’t buy a bunch of ketch boards to
have on hand for tournaments. We will have 1-2 extra from spare 2024
inventory, but we don’t want to spend needed funds on Ketch Boards vs other
initiatives. We will leave to the responsibility of the angler. Should membership
increase we will reconsider.

• Switching Union Lake tournament date

 As President and Vice President cannot make the June 7 th tournament at Union,
we explored switching this tournament date. However we ran into conflict with
SJBCA and other tournament schedules. We will continue to review but
otherwise we will need member anglers to step up and support this OPEN
tournament.

• September 6 th Scramble conflict

 The Lake Lenape permit for our Sept. 6 th scramble tournament was denied due
to another tournament on Lenape that day.
 A vote was taken and Willow Grove Lake was decided as the third lake for the
scramble, replacing Lenape. Willow Grove Lake now replaces Lenape for
the Sept. 6 th scramble.

• Wristbands

 Alex to check w/ past Tournament Directors for a bulk pile of wristbands,
otherwise we need to order more for tournaments.

Fishing Flea Market
- Due to other priorities with the club’s busy offseason we will not be participating in the Fishing
Flea Market this year.
Banquet
- Last year the SJKBFC Banquet awarded 17 medals… in order to save cost it was motioned to
change medal requirement from 200 inches to Top 10 AOY Standings. Motion was made to
change to Top 10. Motion passed unanimously. Medals at the banquet will now be
awarded to Top 10 AOY Standings.

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-Executive Staff Elections
- Elections were held for the board. This year we will need a strong group effort considering the
lower membership. This may include some anglers acting as tournament directors even
though they do not hold that title.
- After votes were taken, the below anglers were voted into Executive Board positions:
o President: Alex Bronsky
o Vice President: John Goss
o Secretary: (OPEN)
o Treasurer: (OPEN)
o Tournament Director #1: Jim Dick
o Tournament Director #2: (OPEN)
o Social Media Director: Alex Bronsky
- Congrats to all who were elected to the Exec Board! We still have an opening for Secretary,
Treasurer, and one more Tournament Director. Alex and John are prepared to take on
Treasurer and Secretary responsibilities if needed, but also welcome any member who wants
to participate as an Exec Board member – including Tournament Director. This is a great way
to get involved with the Club.
John Goss, Secretary:
- SJKBFC Forms

• Reminder you can download the required forms and send them to me electronically at

john.goss15@gmail.com

- Reminder on 2025 Classic Qualifying (Tournaments + Meetings)

• All anglers must fish over half the scheduled tournaments and attend at least four (4)

SJKBFC meetings. SJKBFC events such as Youth Outdoor Day also count toward
meeting attendance.
- 2024 Banquet Attendance

• Secretary will be confirming attendance of all who went to the 2024 SJKBFC Banquet.

Banquet attendance counts towards 2025 Classic Eligibility.

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-Meeting was adjourned at 8:15pm.

Upcoming Events:

1.  Kirkwood Lake (Preseason – OPEN) – Saturday, March 29, 2025 – 9:00am – 3:00pm

2. Prospertown Lake (OPEN) – Saturday, April 5, 2025 – 6:00am – 12pm

3. Rainbow Lake (Members Only) – Saturday, April 12, 2025 – 6:00am – 12pm

4. Newton Lake (Members Only) – Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 6:00am – 12pm

5. Lake Lenape (OPEN) – Saturday, May 3, 2025 – 7:30am – 2:30pm

6. Assunpink Lake (Members Only) – Saturday, May 31, 2025 – 6:00am – 12pm

 

Next Meeting Thursday 3/20/2025 @ 7pm at Hammonton Library