First up I would like to thank all those Clubs that sent Delegates and Members to our AGM. The one Remit re “Life Members” was passed and the Discussion paper from Whakatane SCC was discussed and taken on board. I can assure you all that we will take your thoughts into our future running of the Association.
Now I would like to personally thank the five members of the Nationals Committee. Brent, Karla, James, Chad and Grant. A fabulous job of putting on a great event. You need to be proud of this achievement.
To Caroline, her good friend, whose name escapes me, Karla and Tessa. Impressive effort in handling and loading Registrations, understanding the Computer programme and presenting a result in good time.
To those that ran all our Casting, Jock, Grant and co, the Weigh Station, James and Dick.Thanks for helping keeping things going smoothly.
The fish: Huge, plenty and good variety. Just awesome.
We do recognise this great event did have some minor flaws. These have been identified and really only involve some housework that will improve the running immensely.
To our magnificent Sponsors, what more can I say. Each and everyone of you has made us humble. What you all provided was impressive and very much appreciated. Thank you Bradley Smokers for that great smoked fish and whilst on that big ups for the Fielding SCC for all the BBQing and that smoked Kahawai and bread for our sit down and share after prize giving.
Congratulations to all our winners but in saying that, at this time I would sincerely like to thank “ALL” those that chose to turn up and participate.
Though we were down on numbers, the bottom line is, as it turned out we couldn’t have handled more because of the Computer programme we were using. Someone was looking down on us. However we have had some fantastic feedback from all over. Apologies from Members who fished the Ninety Mile the week before, from Kayakers who fished their own Nationals the Weekend prior and locals who had no idea we were there, in their own backyard. All are looking at attending our 2015 event. Most of all, I had some very proactive discussion with some of those who weren’t positive about our changes. I trust that they all now understand where we wish to take this great Organisation and that we have the utmost best interest of it and you, its members utmost in our minds.
Thank you all, also, for listening to me prior to our prize giving.
At this point, I can let you know, the list of Results will be at least a fortnight away and I will have them posted as soon as I can.
Take care all of you, go out and catch fish.
Yoey
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