Hi All
Just to reiterate what has been said about Private Access. As Host Club we took a lot of consideration before putting our final stance to the exec on Saturday. We asked members, listened to feedback from past and more recent, took into consideration the boundary and availability of public access, talked with some private owners and listened to the complexities from their perspectives before we come up with our stance.
Private Access refers to any land that can be only accessed via seeking permission to enter. If permission is needed to be sort, then it is not accessible. I hope that makes it clear and allows everyone some clarity.
We are about to release some information in the next month to all clubs and also on the NZACA Nationals 2013 Gisborne Facebook page and NZACA Website that will show that the boundaries have an extensive number of wonderful public accessible beaches/shorebased areas to entice every sort of anglers, as Mark mentioned there are still areas that can be accessed via hiking with your gear, and good luck to those anglers who put in the hard yards to get to them.
Personally, I think that to be a top angler it takes an angler who researches and studies the area, takes into consideration the target species, best fishing times, talks to locals, hatches a plan, starts out with that plan, when it doesnt work, they move on to plan B,C,D,E and also knows the best gear to use in those areas. That person (combined with some good fishing skills) makes top anglers and when those people compete against each other to do the same, then the one whos plan hatched best will be the winner of the tournament.
To also give some heads up, we will also be following a very similar programme to what was held in Feilding. Only difference being is that we will be having the Registrations, Briefing and AGM on the Wednesday morning prior to Distance Casting starting. Feedback we received was that people liked that format, so we are running with that also.
We want Gizzy Nationals to be awesome, we look forward to you all coming