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May Newsletter 2019

Hi all, hope all is good with you and your families. Speaking of families, wasn’t it good to see a good gathering at our May comp. I must say it was excellent to see our sponsors out at the club enjoying themselves: Vaughan and Paul from Fairviews; Lindy from AMI; and of course the evening wouldn’t have been complete without the Jones’ boys. Our other awesome sponsors were of course the Laurent boys but they were so busy shifting stock etc that they couldn’t make it. These locals are all...

April Newsletter 2019

Hi, hope all is good with you and your family and friends. Here we go again with another competition, where do the months go? The April competition was another good one, while the numbers weren’t huge the enthusiasm made up for it. The more of those competitions you go to the more you realise how lucky we are to have such incredible support from our sponsors. Yes, once again there was an awesome line up of prizes. Thank you very much to LJ Hooker, Matamata Auto Services and Electrical, and of ...

March Newsletter 2019

Hi all,let me firstly apologise for not being at the March big fish competition. I can’t remember when I last missed one as I enjoy them so much, and no doubt you all do too. I understand it was a great competition and thanks to our awesome committee everything went off well. March of course has an excellent line up of sponsors, Matamata Challenge, Matamata Vets, Plumbco, King Electrical, Matamata Marine and of course for the kids for the first of two months in a row, Waharoa Transport. I don�...

February Newsletter 2019

Hi, hope all is good in your world and you are getting out on thewater or streams. What an excellent day we had at the club on Sunday the 3rd of Feb. The year kicked off with a very good comp sponsored by some very long-time supporters of the club, your club of course. A great big thank you to the team of Sportsworld, Begovich Builders, Spice Construction, Matamata Butchery, Wayne and Michelle Jones and of course that awesome beastie from the Holmes family. Wasn’t it great to see Latham u...

December Newsletter - 2018

Hi and Merry Xmas, as you are reading this the Big Guy in the red suit shouldn’t betoo far away. Didn’t he make an awesome visit to the fishing club at the December comp prizegiving? Great work Santa, the kids loved ya. For those who were there you will already know we had an excellent turnout for our December/Christmas comp. The weather for the weekend was not great, so when we had over a hundred turn up for prize giving it was awesome. A special thanks must go out to our longtime sponsors,...

November Newsletter - 2018

Hi, hope all is good with you, wow, as president of our awesome club I was so pleased to see a great turnout for our November competition. I would like to say a special thank you to our committee, they are a fabulous team and believe me, the job of putting that competition together is huge. I would also like to say a big thank you to you the members, without your participation the club would not be what it is, and the fact we get the whole family involved is great. To those who make the effort t...

October Newsletter 2018

Hi, don’t you just love this time of the year, warmth in the sun, longer evenings to enjoy it, and the fish are biting everywhere. October the 6th & 7th saw another excellent comp at the club, it was enjoyed by many including an excellent number of women and children. With spring in the air it is always great to see all the Daltons Garden Products up the front they really are amazing sponsors of our club; Allenco Marine to touch up your boat before the summer period; Matamata Directional Drill...

September Newsletter 2018

Hi,Yes, here we go we are off on another awesome season of our wonderful sport theycall fishing. I can’t think of a better way to enjoy it than being a member of the Matamata Fishing Club. If you have been a member for years you will already know that. So, if you know of anybody thinking of joining up certainly encourage them to do so. The weather wasn’t great for our first competition on the 1st & 2nd of September, however we still had a good crowd along to prize giving, and thanks to our v...

July Newsletter 2018

Hi all, another season gone and unfortunately another year off the life clock ah. As a president of our awesome club, I have really enjoyed the season. Looking back we have had excellent numbers at our weigh ins, prizegivings and a great mixture of ladies and children creating a really nice atmosphere. I would like to take this opportunity to once again thank our committee very much. A president only has the ability to do a good job if he or she has a good team around them in support, and I can ...

June Newsletters 2018

Hi, wow can you believe it, only one comp to go in our club season. May I take this chance to say I think it has been a good one. We have had very good numbers at our weigh ins and prizegivings, and a big percentage of the members have been women and children, great ah. Can I also say that things run very smoothly, this is where I am very lucky as president, I have a great team of ommittee behind me and that’s what counts. The June comp was another good one even though the weather was rubbish,...

May Newsletter 2018

Hi all, great to have your company at the May comp, if you weren’tthere you were probably duck hunting. It would be fair to say the crowd wasn’t huge, but we still had over 70 in the club rooms for the prize giving, very cosy.  The cool thing to me was still plenty of kids.I know I took one of our wee Grandies out, Grayson, just 3 years and we had a great time, something I can highly recommend to you all. I would like to say a great big thank you to our sponsors for May – Fairview Mo...

April Newsletter 2018

Hi all, hope all is good with you and your families, a bit of a shock last week to have a frost but it is autumn and those sudden southerlies will do that. The good news is there is still plenty of very good autumn fishing to come, as the water temperature drops the bite time increases as the snapper feed up to put condition on for the winter, not a bad idea that. The April competition weekend saw some strong winds around the coastlines but I’m very pleased to say we still had a very good turn...

March Newletter 2018

Hi all, hope all is good with you and you are setting aside a bit of time to put aline in the water. I am really pleased to say the March comp was another good one. We had a funny weekend with blue skies overhead but out at sea there was quite a strong wind, particularly on the east coast. The cool thing is, regardless of that, and the fact that quite a few didn’t get out, we still had a good turnout at the weigh in and prize giving. This is one thing that I’m loving about the club at the mo...

February Newsletter 2018

Hi, what a great start to 2018, not our first competition for the season of course but the first for the new year. Sunday evening saw over 100 people in attendance at the weigh in and over 30 of them were children, great to see the juniors enjoying themselves so much ah. While there was not a huge number of fish weighed in there was still plenty donated for the cooking. Many thanks to those who consistently give forth their prize catches. Phil and Chooky have that cooking down to a fine art, Wil...

December Newsletter 2017

Wow what a way to welcome in Christmas, what a comp, record numbers of fish, anglers non-anglers and kids, 61 of them to be exact, in total over two hundred people. As with other months we had a wonderful team of sponsors, Swaps,Comag, Golden Flow, and of course Viking Kayaks. I’m sure Garth was the envy of everybody there when he won that awesome Kayak. As a president it is very humbling to see the continuous growth in numbers attending our comps, especially the high number of women and child...

November Newsletter 2017

Hi all, a great big lot of thank yous to you all, the members, for fishing and coming along, the committee for doing such an awesome job and last but not least, our wonderful group of sponsors for making it all possible. Swaps Contractors were our major sponsors and were joined by no fewer than 40 others. Please make sure you read your newsletter and acknowledge every one of them. A special thank you to the McDonald family who every year supply free of charge, those three sheep that are hand cra...

October Newsletter 2017

Hi all, “put it on and people will come” they say, so we did and they did. Sunday October the 8th was not a nice day weather wise but due to our awesome sponsors, Daltons, Chookys Auto, Allenco Marine and Directional Drilling, the prizes were lined up in abundance and the members turned out in numbers to enjoy the spoils, many thanks guys. On the fish scene there was a lot to be admired, kids like the Henderson girls heading out to Mayor Island with dad and granddad, full of smiles at the we...

September Newsletter 2017

Hi All, Wow what a great way to start the new season, the weather was not good but we still got one hundred people to our weigh in for the September competition, it was so good to see. The really cool thing was that many hadn’t had the opportunity to go and fish, weather etc, and yet they still came along to enjoy the festivities of the evening. I would also like to comment on the fact that 30 of them were kids, and in many cases they had “told” Dad & Mum, hey we want to go to the fishing ...

July Newsletter 2017

Wow, the Sheriff would have been proudof you all. Shocking weather for theweekend and yet we still had over 70 turn up for our July Comp, the last of theseason.The July Comp has a very interesting make up of sponsors. I would like to takethis opportunity to thank them all very much: Matamata Tractors and Machinery,Bell & Graham Solicitors, Install Tech Kitchen, Joanne Prevett Travel, and ofcourse yourselves for supporting the travel voucher raffle.September the 2nd and 3rd is our next comp and i...

June Newletter 2017

Wow here we are, the last comp for our season is upon us and it should be another good one. Wasn't June a beauty, lots of nice fish weighed in and an awesome array of prizes thanks to our wonderful sponsors, Harry Fort Decorators, Allenco Marine, and of course our new man Arrum Ali from AA Farrier Services. Lots of fun was had by all including a heap of very happy kids, the smiles on their wee faces when they came up to get their spot prizes was classic. July is the Kerry McKinley Memorial comp ...

May Newsletter 2017

Isn't it great that we have such a consistent group of sponsors in place for each competition, trust me we are the envy of many clubs. So where you can please support them in return. May turned out to be another very good competition with over 50 anglers weighing in fish, and course with awesome sponsors, AMI, Fairview Motors, Paul Jones Contracting and the Laurent Brothers, there were plenty of great prizes. Well done to Hughy for another big snapper over that magical 20 pound mark, and ...

April Newsletter 2017

Hi all and thank you. What for? Well, for making our April Competition another fun filled family weigh in. The day saw nearly 40 kids turn up and they even brought along over a hundred adults with them, mums, dads, grandparents and friends made for a great evening. There were a lot of very nice fish weighed in and anglers ranged from the very young like Isaak Crosland with a beautiful Kingi to the very experienced like Arrum Ali with the heaviest snapper. Congratulations to all the anglers, you ...

March Newsletter 2017

Hi, wow where did summer go, or did we have one? Believe it or not here we are planning the April competition, and yes my friends that is autumn. I hope you had a chance to get along to the March competition; it was another beauty, lots of fish, lots of anglers, and lots of kids, forty three of them in fact. I have to say it is really great to see more and more kids coming along and thank you to the parents and Grandparents that take the time to get them out on the water. March was a three day c...

February Newsletter 2017

Hi all, wow another comp has come and gone. It was a good one aye. Without a comp in January of course February is our kick off for the year. We had a great turn out with heaps of kids, parents and grandparents coming along to show off their catches. Once again we had an amazing line up of prizes. A top one for each category and of course what we all love, heaps of spot prizes and lucky member draws. A special thanks must go out to our awesome sponsors. I hope you all realise how very fortunate ...

December Newsletter 2016

Hi all and a great big Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas to you, WOW what a December competition we ended up having. There was an excellent crowd, heaps of fish weighed in and kids everywhere, really putting family back into Matamata fishing family club. A very special thanks to the Matamata Fire Brigade for picking Santa up from the South Pole and bringing him down to the club, the kids loved it ah. Another very special thanks must go out to our sponsors, J Swap Contracting, Viking Kayaks, Comag, Golden...