June 2011 Lions Roar

At our last meeting in May we discussed how we might re-invent the Clayton Lions Club and make it an organization that is so much fun to belong to that everyone will want to attend meetings. We have gotten away from organizing programs at our meetings and we’ve tended to spend our time discussing Lions projects. The meetings aren’t as fun and interesting as they used to be.

We’re determined to change this and become the vibrant club we used to be. We need your help, specifically we need your attendance. Here are some changes we intend to implement. We will have summer meetings, when our club members are here and we will look at scaling back or curtailing meetings in the winter, when attendance has been poor. We will have pot luck dinners once a month and we’ll have an interesting program at our dinners. We’ll reinstate Tail Twisters. We’ll have a good time again. But we need you there. We need everyone to make Clayton Lions the club it once was and all it really takes is for everyone to participate.

Installation of Officers/End of Year Meeting

On Monday June13th our last meeting of the will be held at C-Way Restaurant, at 6:30 p.m. Everyone will order off the menu. In keeping with our pledge to re-invent our club, we have a good program lined up. Geoffery and Chandra Burghardt will demonstrate

Jetski Poker Run 2011 - Clayton NY Lions Club

Clayton Lions Club Jetski Poker Run

The second annual Clayton Lions Club Jetski Poker Run will be held on July 16, 2011. The event is a fundraiser to support the Lions Club’s child eye disease detection program and other community projects.

The poker run is held in Clayton, New York on the majestic St. Lawrence River. This year it will be hosted at the world famous Antique Boat Museum at 270 Mary Street in Clayton. The event is sponsored by Caprara Brothers Honda of Watertown. Co-sponsors are Watertown Savings Bank, Community Savings Bank NA, the Clipper Inn of Clayton and Mild to Wild Automotive LLC of Orange, Connecticut.

The run is comprised of five card pick-up points stretched over the 35 to 40 mile course on the St. Lawrence. People may register in advance to ensure a spot by sending a completed registration form and a check payable to

Clayton NY Lions Club Bass Tournament Rules and Regulations

French Creek Marina, Clayton NY 13624  

June 25, 2011

Interpretation of rules is left exclusively to Tournament Director(s).  Decisions of Tournament Director(s) is not subject to appeal.

Participation is open to teams of any two people.

All live wells will be checked prior to the tournament.

Any person entering the tournament under age of 18 must have the signature of a Parent or Legal Guardian in the space provided on the entry form.

A brief pre-tournament Angers Meeting will be held before 6:00 a.m. on Tournament Day.

Boats ae released from French Creek Marina stsarting at 6:00 a.m. on Tournament Day.  Boats are released in the order in which registrations are recieved.  All boats must return to French Creek Marina no later than 3:30 p.m. to avoid late return penalty.

Safe boating must be observed at all times.  Each contestant must wear a fastened U.S. Coast Guard approved personal floatation device (PFD) whenever the boat engine is in operation from boat check to weigh-in.  We strongly encourage anglers to wear their PFD at all times.

Participants mus have a valid New York State fishing license.  Participants who choose to fish Canadian waters must also possess a valid Ontario fishing license.  Anglers entering Canadian waters are responsible for abiding with all applicable Immigration regulations.  The Clayton NY Lions Club recommends anglers use navigation charts.

The Clayton NY Lions Club, tournament sponsors and anyone directly or indirectly associated with the tournament are in no way responsible for any injury or accident to person or equipment.  At the discretion of the Tournament Director the tournament may be rescheduled or shortened due to unsafe weather or water conditions.

Contestants are required to follow high standards of sportsmanship, courtesy and conservation and to conduct themselves in a manner that will be a credit to themselves, sponsors and the Clayton NY Lions Club.  Examples of conduct not complying with those standards include but are not limited to the following expamples:

1. Consumption or possession of alcholic beverages or any kind of mind-altering substance during registration, the pre-tournament meeting or during tournament hours extending through weigh-in.
2.  Any words, conduct or action reflecting unfavorably upon the efforts to promote safety, sportsmanship, fair competion and compliance with Tournament Rules are prohibited.
3. In case of any conduct not complying with the standards of the Tournament Director(s) the Director(s) shall have the right to disqualify a contestant.

All bass must be caught in a conventional sporting manner.  Only artrificial lures may be used, with the exception of