EHSA Litter Clean Up: Barcelona Point
Saturday Nov 23 at Noon – Meet Sag Harbor Golf Course lot

Rain or Shine –
EHSA is sponsoring this clean up, with a focus on educating the community about conservation. We ask EHSA members to show up at noon on 11/23 to demonstrate our interest in a clean environment and our willingness to do something about it. It will NOT be a long or arduous clean up job.

Along with leaders from the local Latin American community, the EH Town Litter Action Committee will be there with garbage bags and picker-upper contraptions.

The EHSA Christmas Party has been set for Tuesday December 17 at 7PM at the American Legion. Please bring something to share (besides hunting and fishing stories about the one that got away!)…..

Various hunting events for are also scheduled…please contact Bill for details. Hunting season is here….    

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Meeting: Monday September 30th 

Ashawagh Hall 7PM

Reconnect – Discuss all topics/plans – Refreshments 

All on the agenda for this meeting are early goose season, summer recreational lobstering tales, early bow, Maidstone updates, a members-only skeet outing in October, future plans for the annual Kids Fishing Trip, a pheasant hunt in November and an incredible free two day waterfowl training for youth ages 12-15. Plus, an open forum for all of your own comments and suggestions.  

EHSA fishermen go for a Grand Slam

In July, The East Hampton Sportsmen’s Alliance entered its first ever

boat in the Montauk Grand Slam fishing tournament, which takes place annually over two days.  Twenty eight crews competed for the  highest combined weight of four species – Sea Bass, Fluke, Bluefish and Porgy –  in pursuit of an $8,000 prize and 364 days of bragging rights.  The Alliance sponsored the boat’s entry fee, with any winnings to be split between EHSA, as a fundraiser, and the fishermen.   

Click here to read how it went.

Dues and Finances

Our dues are only $30 per year ($50/2 years, $500 lifetime) and provide bare bones support of EHSA’s mission to further the sporting life here and help protect sportsmen’s rights when necessary.  A great many of you are past due, and given the minor expense and the major societal threat to our mission, we are asking everyone to click here now and get current.

There is no change, and there are no payments due, for Lifetime members. For one and two year memberships, if you think you are behind on dues, you probably are, so please make the job of calling lapsed members individually easier by renewing now.  

Importantly, when (not if) anti-sporting initiatives arise locally, the number of paid up bona fide members is a matter of credibility  when EHSA organizes to get our voices heard.  Don’t come to meetings or actually do much with the Alliance?  Consider paying your modest dues anyway, as a token of support for the sporting life here and sportsmen’s rights.  Or make a donation.  If EHSA did not exist over the years, there would be no spring turkey season here and deer hunting would be seriously curtailed. 

Dues go toward subsidies on youth education programs (like the Kids Fishing trip), modest subsidies on member outings, like goose hunts and deep sea fishing (funding has not allowed this in recent years), occasional sponsorships consistent with our mission and admin costs such as insurance.

Membership dues will now be payable/renewable on a once per year cycle – by October 15th, supported by a concerted membership drive like this one.