1) New Members. Cristian D joined the club for 2022

2) Live meetings / banquet With current pandemic conditions, we will continue Zoom meetings only.

We do have an offer from Twin Peaks at Arapahoe Rd and I25 to host our monthly meetings. Some

concerns have been raised based on their business model. BPS still wants to support our meetings,

but conditions as must get better. We were planning a 2021 banquet but have put that on hold at this time.

3) Volunteer committees - Initial assignment are as follow...

- Juniors Jeff Gombos

- Conservation Rich Crine

- CBN Mark Warren

- Rules Looking for a volunteer

4) Member of the Year for 2021 is Cliff Purslow. Congrats

5) A motion was made to make Megabucks a points event for AOY. This was proposed to encourage more participation in Megabucks.. A vote will be coordinated in January with the membership.

6) STQT Coordination. We are starting coordination of DBM participation for the STQT on June 12th-June 18th at Lake Oahe in South Dakota. We will send out an initial signup form to identify those who want to participate, identify participants that need partners, and assist in coordination for accommodations.

7) A tackle pack was given away to participants. Congrats Justin Apfel

Zoom Link Replay of the Meeting

1) Welcome Jason Brown as a new member of DBM

2) STQT Update

- Signups will start in Feb/Mar

- We have two DBM members looking to go as co-anglers. If

there are any boaters looking for travel partners, let Cliff know

- Already have ~12 DBM teams tentatively committed

3) First event of the year is the Ice Breaker Open on Sat Mar 25th.

Signups will start Mar 1st

4)Who wants to be part of the core team to review the rules/ bylaws ?

Howard B, Cliff, Jeremiah so far….

5) Results of AOY points awarded for Megabucks

Yes 20 votes, No 9 votes. Megabucks will now be a AOY points event.

6) Alabama Rig. Discussion for use in 2022

We discussed two options. 1) Continue to dis-allow per BASS rules or 2) Adopt state

regulations for their use. For instance, Colorado has a three hook maximum. We decided

to allow discussion among the membership through February and we will have a vote in March.

To hear the discussion, please click on the Zoom Meeting replay link at the top of

these minutes.

7) Gene Campbell of Roman’s Warriors Foundation was a guest speaker.

Roman’s https://www.romanswarriorfoundation.org/ is an organization that

coordinates therapy trips for first responders ,gold star families, and military vets.

Looking to network with DBM for volunteer opportunities throughout Colorado. To

get more information, contact Gene at gcampbellfishing@gmail.com

8) TBF Update from Howard Binkley

No qualifiers this year. Colorado is in a division by itself. You can sign up for TBF

in 2022 and automatically qualify for the regional on Oct 1^st and 2^nd at Pueblo. Winner

of the regional gets an invite to the TBF National. Contact Howard Binkley for more

information.

9) Tackle Packs were given away. Congrats to Jon S and Ramsey

1) New member check. No new members joined the call.

2) Ice Breaker Open signups are open

- Sat March 26th

- You pick your partner or can fish solo

- Entry is $250

- 20 boats guarantee's $2,000 for first place

- Live weigh tournament

3) DBM#1 Pueblo April 16th

- Signups start 3/2

- Must be registered with DBM for 2022

- $40 to enter

- Draw format / Card tournament

- Draw to be held 4/6

- To be in the draw, must be entered, and paid, by 6:00 pm 4/6

- Wait list only after draw

4) DBM#2 Wilson April 30th - May 1st

- Signups start 3/2

- Must be registered with DBM for 2022

- $60 to enter

- Draw format / Card tournament

- Draw to be held 4/6

- To be in the draw, must be entered, and paid, by 6:00 pm 4/6

- Wait list only after draw

5) STQT Signups are now open.

- To signup, go to the Colorado Nation Bass Nation website

- You pick your travel and practice partner

- You must be a member in good standing with DBM for 2022

- Payment for the tournament is made to DBM

- $225 to enter

- $30 Big Bass option

- If you need help finding a travel partner, let Cliff know

6) Live meeting updates. Looking for a location

7) Alabama Rig discussion. Vote to be published on use.

8) TBF Update - Howard Binkley

9) Juniors Update - Curt Welch. Dates are to be determined, Cliff to publish a calendar to help Curtis plan the season. Justin Apfel and Gabe Dubois volunteered their support.

10) Congrats to Ramsey Romanin for qualifying for the National Championship in 2023. We won’t hold it against him it was for the state of Utah. We claim Ramsey as ours and wish him nothing but success in his journey.

11) Justin Apfel did a presentation on tying jigs

12) Announced sponsorship by Boat Juice. Use discount code 5150 Fishing to get 10% off

https://shopboatjuice.com/

Meeting notes from the July 6^th meeting

·Jeremiah went over the State Team results. DBM did bring home the club trophy this year. The following guys make the team and if I missed anyone, I apologize. They don’t have all of the results online yet.

o Mark Warren

o Casey Welch

o Ramsey Romaine

o Andrew Bowman

o Tai Hunt

o Luke Davidson

o Richard Crine

Congratulations to all who qualified.

Tournament rescheduling / Jeremiah and HB

· We are trying to reserve October the 8^th for a reschedule of Horsetooth. I’ll keep everyone posted on the outcome of this.

· We are looking to move the Pueblo Night tournament o Boyd Lake. I’m in the process of checking with Boyd on availability and potential dates. We are trying to get in late July or August.

·Chatfield is plan B if needed. We can get on Chatfield on August 20^th or 28^th.

·However, Boyd is the preferred lake now.

Ft. Carson Kids Day / August 13^th / Pueblo / Jeremiah

· We need boaters for this event. Due to scheduling conflicts with other clubs in the state, we could run short of boats. The size of the boat doesn’t matter, they will pair you up to suit your boat size and be legal.

· To sign up for the event, just go to the Colorado Bass Nation web site to get signed up.

· If you’re a non-boater and want to help, they can use helpers with cooking, distributing the gifts for the kids etc.

· The start time will most likely be around 8AM on the 13^th.

· The event will take place at the North Marina ramp on Pueblo.

· More information to follow.

Juniors Program / Curtis Welch

· Curtis has set up a date of July 23^rd for Donovan’s Pond to a junior’s tournament.

· Curtis is expecting 12 to 15 kids.

· Please get in touch with Curtis if you can attend.

· These generally go for a few hours in the morning.

· Curtis will get more detail out soon.

Cliff update

· Cliff is doing fine after the first knee replacement. He had a few complications that were worked out. He is currently going through PT, which is never a fun time, but he is doing well. And he’ll probably be upset that I put this in the notes. Oh well.

Tournament suggestions /HB

· To make our tournaments run as smooth as possible, I’m open for any suggestions. This year has been tough regarding weather and participation. With gas at its current level, its not a cheap venture to go to. So, with that said, we are trying to make everything run as smooth as possible and if you have any suggestions, I will ask that you send me your suggestions in an email, and I’ll do what I can to work with it.

· We have new scales this year, which was a plus, and with the breaks we have had so far this year, I’m just trying to make the tournaments run smooth and enjoyable. Thanks HB

Meeting notes from the August 3rd Meeting

1) Discussion around reschedule of night tournament to 8/27 at Boyd

- Why move to Boyd. Limited options to get the tournament in

- Why 4:00 pm - 12:00am > BOD vote. Will discuss more for 2023

- Draw will be held one week before on Zoom 3 boaters, 4 non's signed up

Agreed to put a survey out soliciting feedback from the club for future night events

2) Announcement of rescheduled Horsetooth to 10/8

3) Low water discussion for Mac on 9/10 & 9/11. Backup if we cant fish Mac will be Cedar Bluffs, KS

4) Mac results from 7/9 Congrats to Gabe DuBois for his first club win

5) Juniors Event on 7/23. Successful at Donovan's Many fish caught, good time had by all

6) Three draws at the September meeting

- Lake Mac 9/10 Draw will be August 31st on a Zoom call

- Pueblo 9/24 Draw will be September 7th at club meeting

- Horsetooth 10/8 Draw will be September 28th on a Zoom call

7) Fort Carson Kids Day on 8/13. Still need about 5 more boats. Please sign

up on the CBN website. Email sent out with the registration link

8) STQT 2024

- Being held in March 2023

- Need 3 - 5 lakes nominated.. Take into consideration distance, time of year, accommodations, etc.. Lakes nominated and online vote is active through 8/10

- Fees will be raised next year to offset rising costs. Ok with it.

- Are you willing to pay a higher entry fee if there are payouts ? Yes was the consensus

- Are there any other recommendations or suggestions to improve the event ?

- We need a 2nd rep for DBM on the CBN committee. Any volunteers ? Casey Welch volunteered

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DBM Meeting minutes from 9-7-22

Reviewed the results from the Boyd night tournament.

1^st. place: Howie Wong, which was Howie’s first win in 17 years. Congrats to Howie for winning on an overall tough night.

2^nd place: Gary Schipporeit,

3rd place: Sean Devos

Big Bass went to Howie

Boat Weight went to Jeff Winnicki and Gordon Phair

Troy Stenson with TBF came in and gave an update on next years TBF activities and direction.

· Troy is trying ot get New Mexico in good standings and he’s working on the qualifiers for next year in an effort to get more than 2 people to the next level. In the past it was the top boater and non-boater.

· This year they have 18 teams fishing Pueblo for the National Qualifier.

· For those fishing this year’s qualifier, the check in is at 3:00 PM at a pavilion by the south marina.

· After that they board will meet and discuss replacement possibilities for the 4 open positions on the TBF board.

The CBN board is meeting on Thursday the 8^th to set a date for next year’s state qualifier. Locations will be determined later.

Curtis gave an update on the junior’s recent event at Liberty Ponds. The turnout was light at this event. And fishing was slower than usual for this location.

Donovan’s Labor Day weekend event for veterans went well, they had 11 boats participate and everyone caught fish.

Jeremiah received an email from Sara Bronson thanking everyone for their help at the service and to thank everyone for the donations on behalf of DBM. We were able to raise $780 from club donations and the club donated $500 for food and drink at the service. JJ’s dad has a video that he put together of the service and we will make that available for everyone.

We had the Pueblo September 24^th draw. That information has been sent out to the participants.

The Horsetooth draw will be held at the October 5^th meeting.

1) Cedar Bluff Results - Congrats to Jason Carpenter

We had 12 anglers complete. 1^st and 2^nd were separated by less than a pound

2) Pueblo Results - Congrats to Jason Carpenter

We had 22 anglers compete.

3) STQT 2023 Lake Vote - Casey Welch

The club was presented with 7 lakes to vote on. We had to narrow down

to 3 that would be presented to CBN. They were, as voted on….

- #1 Tenkiller 10 votes

- #2 Table Rock 9 votes

- #3 Possum Kingdom 8 votes

- #4 Choke Canyon 3 votes

- #5 Quanchita 1 vote

- #6 Texoma 0 votes

- #7 Bull Shoals 0 votes

4) Club officer for 2023 nominees at Nov meeting

If you are interested in being an officer of the club, let Jeremiah or Cliff know by 11/1

Positions open include

- President

- Vice President

- Treasurer

- Secretary

- At Large (3)

5) Megabucks draw

1) Horsetooth results – Congrats to Jason Carpenter for his 3^rd win in a row

2) Megabucks results – Congrats to Bobby Martin, figuring out the fish were shallow.

3) AOY , ROY, Top 10 announcement

AOY – Travis Sneith

ROY – Jack Wilson

Top 10

1. Travis Sneith

2. Jason Carpenter

3. Howie Wong

4. Luke Davidson

5. Richard Crine

6. Matt Jurcin

7. Jeremiah Hofstetter

8. Gabe Dubois

9. Gary Shipporeit

10. Jonathan Sharpe

4) Announcement of STQT 2023 days

Possum Kingdom in Texas

Pre-Fish April 1^st – 3^rd 2023

Tournament April 4^th – 6^th 2023

5) Motion to sponsor Jon Pollock for travel expense to the

BASS Nation Championship Nov 9 - 11th. Motion made

and seconded for $500. Membership voted in favor for

6) 2023 Nominees for DBM BOD

- Nominees BOD

President – Jeremiah Hofstetter

Vice President – Mark Warren

Treasurer – Gordon Phair

Secretary – Cliff Purslow

- Nominees At Large ( 3 positions )

Jon Pollock

Richard Crine

Luke Davidson

- Nominees 2022 Member of the Year

JJ Branson

Howard Binkley

Jeremiah Hofstetter

A vote will be launched on 11/6 and will be open until 11/30/22

Results will be announced at the December meeting on 12/7/22

7) Future Discussion topics for 2023.

- When should we have the Ice Breaker Open ? Think mid to late April

- Any team tournaments in 2023

- Night tournament. To have or not to have

- Fishing in July/Aug. Historically we have avoided due to heat. Some of our more

more recent successful tournaments have been in these months. Should we consider ?

- Low water challenges and contingency plans

- Membership participation

- Open topics by the membership

8) Denver End of the Year Open 11/5 at Pueblo

2021 Schedule

Including Megabucks

STQT 2021 – Grand Lake, OK Pre-Fish 3/21 Tournament 3/22 – 3/23

STQT 2022 – Hudson. OK Pre-fish 3/24 Tournament 3/25 – 3/26

Central Divisional for 2021 -Milford Lake, KS Tournament 4/21 – 4/23 ** Must Qualify **

DBM #1 – Pueblo 5/1

DBM #2 – Horsetooth 5/15

DBM #3 – Red Willow, NE Pre-Fish 6/11 Tournament 6/12 – 6/13

DBM #4 - Pueblo 8/22 **Night**

DBM #5 – Pueblo 9/11

DBM #6 – Lake Mac, NE Pre-Fish 9/24 Tournament 9/25 – 9/26

Megabucks – Lake Wilson, KS Pre-Fish 10/15 Tournament 10/16 – 10/17

Fundraising

Opens

4/10/20 – Pueblo Big Bucks Icebreaker

11//6/20 – Pueblo Entry fee and payouts TBD

SuperBowl Squares

$5 squares are available now. See email from DBM – Cliff to enter

Other

Decision on the night tournament.

Majority voted to continue.

President Appointed Positions

• • Tournament Director: JJ Branson

  • Juniors: Jon Webb

  • Conservation: Richard Crine

  • Public Relations: Tom Grace

  • Colorado Bass Nation Rep: Mark Warren

There are three Board of Director seats for 2021. Taking nominees now.

Communication Methods

Will continue to communicate the following ways.

Owners are as follow…..

• • Social Media - Jeremiah

  • Email Utility - Cliff

  • Email Discrete - Cliff

  • DBM Website - Cliff / Brandon

  • DBM Meeting Minutes – Will resume publishing Jan 2021 – Cliff

  • Within a week of each DBM monthly meeting

Tournament Results

Currently tracked on Excel.

Will continue to use the Excel spreadsheet. TD will own.

Payment Methods

Need automated way to accept credit cards. Gordan will identify a provider and define a process.

Scales

Will continue with current scales.

Must have a minimum of 40 working scales.

JJ has some for repair / replace.

Get a known good count from JJ .

Place an order to meet the minimum.

Tournament Payouts and Fees

The following fee and payout were discussed and approved.

Fee's collected from participants

Entry Fees

One Day Tournament - $40

Two Day Tournament - $60

Megabucks - $50

Tournament Allocations (big bass, scales, permits, marketing, etc).

10% of every entry fee will be taken by the club to cover operating expenses.

Megabucks allocation (Put into prize pool for Megabucks) $5 per entrant.

There is no allocation taken for the Megabucks event itself.

Big Bass

(Paid to the angler with the biggest fish each tournament day)

$4 per entrant - 1 day

$6 per entrant - 2 day (Total pot split between day 1 & day 2 angler)

Boat Weight

(Paid to the boat with the highest total combined weight)

$4 per entrant - 1 day

$6 per entrant - 2 day (Total pot split between day 1 & day 2 boat)

Payouts

Number of boats:

1st - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th payout%

Less than 14:

50 - 30 - 20

15-19:

47 - 28 - 15 - 10

20-24:

45 - 25 - 15 - 10 - 5

More than 25:

43 - 23 - 13 - 9 - 7 - 5

New Membership drive

Expecting another COVID year. Will rely on our website and social media to attract new members. Jeremiah will talk with CBN about updating their website

Automated Forms Move to Microsoft Forms - Done

Adopt permanently? Eliminate all paper - Done

Megabucks 2020

Discussed splitting between two regular tournaments in 2021 as a side pot.

There are 26 members that qualified for 2020 Megabucks. The total prize pool is $640.

The following option was selected:

Treat as a side payout over the first two DBM tournaments in 2021. The top 3 eligible qualifiers will be paid 50% ($160) - 30% ($96) - 20% ($64) per tournament. The highest combined total between both tournaments will be named as the 2020 Megabucks champion.

Comments:

You cannot “buy in” for 2020. You must have fished 3 tournaments

There will not be an entry fee for the qualifiers

AOY

Suggested we expand best 4 finishes to all tournaments entered.

Discussed. Opted to continue with the best 4 finishes.

Expenses for 2021

Discussed buying DBM branded gaiters for all 2021 active members of DBM.

Cost NTE $500 Quoting suppliers. Approved on 12/29

STQT

Discussed having a DBM only meeting to discuss structure, signups, and fee’s.

Will be scheduled for late Feb.