President's Report
Hello everyone and welcome to our first newsletter in 2025,
I hope everyone had a great Christmas spending time with your loved ones and a happy New Year.
There has been some great game fishing opportunities so far this year which we hope will follow through to our 3 day fishing competition in February and March. A big thank you goes out to our February sponsors Riverhaven Farms Rod & Reels Repairs, Begovich Builders, Matamata Butchery Ltd, Top Cru, Stihl Shop Matamata & Bob Autridge. Unfortunately, as we all know Bungey has now closed Sportsworld. We want to thank him and Pauline for their massive support and commitment to the Fishing Club over the years. Bungey’s new venture is Riverhaven Farms Rod and Reels Repairs. He has kindly sponsored our February competition. If you need any rod or reel repairs or new line, give Bungey a call as he’d be only too happy to hear from you.
Our February competition is the second weekend of the month and is for 3 days, Friday the 7th, Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th. Everybody is welcome to fish all 3 days as well as the Game Fishing people.
A new initiative we have decided on is any new members or returning members who sign up for the February or March competitions go into the draw to win their membership money back! If you know of anyone that is thinking of joining, give them a friendly reminder.
A big thank you to all the people that gave up their time and their boats to attend the Matamata Christmas Parade, This was a great exercise and a very positive outcome for the Club and it was enjoyable. Also big thanks to Santa for his appearance at the Club for our December competition. Get those hooks sharpened and game gear ready for our February competition! Looking forward to it.
Tight lines, all the best,
Phil