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Gearing up for our busy spring season in San Antonio! First up, Wednesday, March 4 we will have an Anglers’ Night Out at Alamo Café starting at 6:30 p.m. This is for the San Antonio membership to come for a fajita buffet dinner at $20 per person. We will have Dr. Michael Wetz, Ph.D. with Harte Research Institute speaking about Investigating Reactive Nitrogen Sources that Stimulate Algal Blooms in Baffin Bay. We will also sell raffle tickets for a guided fishing trip and some door prizes.
Next is our 13th Annual CCA San Antonio Sporting Clay Shoot & Crawfish Boil, to be held on Friday, March 27 at the National Shooting Complex. This is a really fun and relaxing event with great comradery and a tasty crawfish boil for our guests to enjoy following the shoot. We expect to have upwards of 60 teams (4-person team), and we treat them right with prizes for the top shooters in various categories, raffles, door prizes…and crawfish! If you would like more information, please call Brandon Stellges at (210) 436-9305.
Next up is our Cast for Kids event, to be held this year at Live Oak Park Pond. Scheduled for Saturday morning, April 11. Our CCA committee provides funding and committee member volunteers for the 60 to 100 children and families in attendance. A big thank you to Texas Parks & Wildlife who stock the catfish. For more information, please contact Jim Behnken at (210) 414-8048 or Tom Akin at (210) 313-4860.
And then our big event will follow on Thursday, April 30, 2026, our 47th annual San Antonio CCA banquet. Bigger and better than ever, we are shooting to increase our total guests in attendance to about 1,600 … so we are looking for table buyers! We have some new ideas in the planning, so expect a slightly revised format but with all the good stuff you always expect on the banquet floor! For more information, contact our banquet chair Brandon Carpenter at (210) 218-2393 or co-chair Chase Anderson at (210) 710-1820. We are looking for a few new volunteers to join us in our fundraising journey; if you have experience or want to be part of our organization, please reach out to me, Brandon Stellges at (210) 436-9305!
Keep your lines tight and take a kid fishing…or hunting!
Officers
President: Brandon Stellges
VP Banquet Chair: Brandon Carpenter
VP Banquet Co Chair: Chase Anderson
VP Sponsorship: Bill Masden
Secretary: Liz Hewitt
Treasurer: Tom Akin
Sargent at Arms: Bill Sommers
Chapter History
The San Antonio Chapter of CCA was founded in 1979 as the Southwest Chapter of GCCA. From the very beginning, the San Antonio Chapter has been at the forefront of fundraising and policy making for CCA. Although located approximately 130 miles from the coast, the San Antonio Chapter consists of approximately 4,000 men, women and children who fish from Port O’Connor to Port Isabel. It is this diverse membership with ties to such a large portion of the Texas coast that has allowed the San Antonio Chapter to lead the way in CCA conservation efforts. Today, the San Antonio Chapter of CCA is one of the top three largest fundraising chapters, grossing over $1 million in our last banquet. The San Antonio Chapter of CCA welcomes participation in its efforts from those interested in making positive impact on our coastal resources.
Sponsors
We are proud to once again recognize our sponsors for 2022. Many of the companies listed below are returning sponsors from last year. To them we say thanks again and to the new ones for this year, welcome and thank you. These companies and individuals provide additional dollars to support CCA efforts in Texas. We are proud to have them with us tonight. Please take a moment to thank them during the course of tonight’s activities.
Platinum Sponsors
Academy Sports + Outdoors
Frost Bank
Scott A Freund Memorial Foundation
Silver Eagle
