Jase if you wish to quote me please use my words and not your quite poor interpretation.

Nowhere have I suggested boat fishing and distance casting should be removed from the NZACA. I have suggested, and quite clearly, these should be looked after by various sub committees who would then report back to the NZACA with suggestions for ratification. That is the normal way for a governing administrative body to handle multi facet input. The NZACA would still be ultimately responsible for the running of our sport.

I trust you are not pinning your suggestion that boat fishing has little or no skill on me. I have suggested, that surfcasting is a superior skill, a totally different matter indeed. The rigs used by boat anglers are generally of a simple nature, rarely including the comprehensive, quite specific designs the keen surfcaster now takes for granted.

Here I will quote you verbatim: there are many skills to learn, such as where and how to approach reefs, the best way to drift, understanding tide and currents.

I agree completely but I suggest what you have listed are boating skills not fishing skills. The skills I was alluding to were rigs and bait presentation, reading the conditions, identifying gutters and holes plus the ability to place the bait in the required position.

As for your final comment about shooting the NZACA down, can you kindly point me in the direction where I have made such an assertion. Threads have arrived on this site asking for comment, ideas, suggestions and feedback, I believe I have been totally constructive and have acted exactly as the writers requested.

If suggestions on taking an innovative, somewhat slightly different approach are to be treated with disdain, then it begs the question: why ask for comment and feedback in the first place?