April Match

The match was decided to be fished at Hampton Pier, Herne Bay on Sunday 22nd April fishing from 10.00 - 16.00. There will be a walkoff for places on the pier.
The pick up point will be at the water pump opposite the Dover Castle pub on the A2 at Teynham at 09.00.

Knockout Competition

J Mann bt N Sharrocks
T Price bt T Chesson
S Seager bt R Hills by toss of a coin

The draw for the next round resulted in the following heats to be fished at the April or May Matches :-

R Butler	v	J Allen
J Padmore	v	J Mann
S Chesson	v	S Seager
T Price	v	D Allen

Pairs Knockout Competition

Pairings
1. J Mann	+	S Seager
2. J Padmore	+	J Allen
3. T Price	+	R Butler
4. D Allen	+	N Sharrocks
March Results
1	bt	3
2	bt	4

Correspondence

These were shown and discussed.

Kent Casting Club

KCC will not have access to the casting field until further notice due to the Foot and Mouth epidemic. Casting would carry on at Sutton Valance on the last Sunday of every month. T Carroll of Zziplex was getting more rods for the club to evaluate.

Any Other Business

1. Further to the appeal by the Chairman at the last meeting a letter was received and is reproduced below for members to comment on. Any other ideas could also be distributed in the minutes and could remain anonymous by handing into Chairman :-

"My thoughts on Blue Circle (Sitt) SAC.

I feel that we could do with a couple of people who's job would be to find out what and where the fish are before each meeting allowing us to make an informed guess as to where might be best to hold the next match.

Also we do need to consider the needs of all the members as I feel it is unfair to discriminate against the young, old and unfit by choosing venues that are either a long walk, may be dangerous for youngsters or put them at a disadvantage.

My reasoning for this is: -

1. We fish by length. If we fish all scratch matches or difficult to get to venues, some club members stand a good chance of not catching a fish all year at a club match.

2. If we want to attract youngsters and lady anglers along to our matches, they need to be able to catch fish. If you blank too often you may well be inclined to give up.

3. I know people say we go to the same old venues all the time, but you have to go where the fish are, not hope the fish are going to move along to where we have chosen.

4. Does the recent attendance of club matches mirror what people think of recent venues?"

There being no other business the Chairman closed the monthly meeting and opened the Extraordinary General Meeting

An Extraordinary General Meeting of Blue Circle (Sittingbourne) Sea Angling Club was held at the Ivy Leaf Memorial Club, Sittingbourne on Thursday 23rd March 2001.

Members Attending and apologies were as shown above.

The EGM was called to discuss the proposal that the Kent Casting Club should be disbanded in favour of joining Kent Sportscast.

Heated discussion took place on the pro's and con's of disbanding KCC and the reasons for and against this including the lack of support from members of Blue Circle, the lack of "administration" within KCC, the loss of revenue to Blue Circle, cost of membership of Blue Circle members to join Kent Sportscast, the loss of members from KCC when Kent Sportscast starts up, lack of official casting distance recognition when Kent Sportscast starts up, loss of any advantage by being a founding member to Kent Sportscast etc.

J Mann offered to resign his position on the committee of KCC but this was rejected.

It was proposed and seconded that any decision about the future of KCC should be made at the AGM. This proposal was passed by the casting vote of the Chairman.

There being no other business the Chairman closed the Extraordinary General Meeting

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