Not sure we should be charging for the junior comp.
We do not charge seniors and there are many comps open to them
Juniors are the future.
When we chatted about the juniors Charlie we were thinking about being far more relaxed with the them, so they didn’t have to be “family” members. I have two godchildren who have children who I think I might join in, so it was suggested non direct family members just pay a small entry fee to cover a PBSBAC “pack” .This might just entice them to enter again or later in life. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
1 hour ago, great white said:Not sure we should be charging for the junior comp.
We do not charge seniors and there are many comps open to them
Juniors are the future.
Charlie have a look at my post Thursday in this thread, open invitation to non family members 1 x £5.00 fee, fish as many times in the July August period. Our junior members perhaps do not pay? What do you think.
Sorry Mal
I cannot see that bit about only charging non Members.
My thoughts would be to fish for best specimen rather than biggest fish.
And maybe have to have some age ranges and allowance for the youngest to have assistance, while older ones do not.
10 minutes ago, great white said:Sorry Mal
I cannot see that bit about only charging non Members.
My thoughts would be to fish for best specimen rather than biggest fish.
And maybe have to have some age ranges and allowance for the youngest to have assistance, while older ones do not.
Good feed back Charlie, best percentage sounds good and assistance for those who can't reel their catch in has always been ok with me. We do need some dads, grandads uncles and all other family members to show interest in taking part.
Hi all
We had very good fishing times with the Juniors comps many years before
the thought of charging to enter would be ridiculously
you only have to look at the numbers of boats in senior comps that struggle to get interest and that’s free to enter
if there are none members that would like to fish then try and talk them in to becoming junior members on a reduced price
then they could fish all year round
with fuel and bait etc hitting very high prices
i think it’s going to be hard, I hope not as I certainly enjoyed fishing with the keen kids
good luck with all your thoughts and I hope it works
if all goes well I’m happy to put a prize in 🎣
May I suggest before you start discussing the rules and regs (and who or who not is going to be charged to enter etc) that you see if there is enough club junior participants to make it viable for a comp.
Brian used to publish a list of juniors who were part of the family membership group.
Once that has been established, then you can evaluate whether the comp is viable with club junior numbers. And as I suspect that there may not be enough take up from club member's juniors, then open it up to non member juniors who are closely associated with the club (i.e club member's friends and relatives juniors)
I personally agree not to charge an entry fee at all.
If all the numbers stack up then a dedicated club member parent would need to take charge and organise the comp (like what happened in the past) as they have a vested interest for it's success.
Speaking from experience, it does take a lot of organising, however if successful, it is very rewarding.
PS - Unless I am mistaken, I believe the maximum age a junior could be was up to the age of 16 Years ????
In 2022-23 there are 18 Junior members.
I don’t have dates of birth for 4 of them so numbers could be less in 2023-24.
Hi Guys,
Thankyou everyone for your thoughts and comments, all of which have been taken on board and discussed with the committee and club members, and really good to hear.
Here are our thoughts:
We want to encourage as many youngsters as possible, so it was discussed that non family members (anybody) could join in.
Obviously with the correct parental/adult supervision.
We would have an open fishing calendar in July, when junior members and new “ junior” members could fish as often as they can, and put forward their catches towards the junior July Competition.
In August we would hold a one day Competition with perhaps a bbq and prize giving for the July and August Junior Competition.
Those Juniors who are not already family members would be asked to pay a Poole Bay Junior Competition Membership of perhaps £2.00.
They would receive a card for there Competition membership, perhaps a species identification card, some details of the club, and other fishing information.
With this in mind, it would be nice to know which members might be able to offer their boats if we had a good take up for this Competition.
Non of this is set in stone so we look forward to any other thoughts.
Jerry