All,
Front page list updated and in order of paid / boarding for the day. We had 4 cancellations, 2 of which donated their trip so the actual count as of today stands at 32. Confirmed means paying at boat.
Heres the deal: Trip costs were based on 40 people going to cover boat cost, tip for crew and $ 5.00 donation for SSFFF and $5.00 donation for RFA. A goal of 50 was the cap on the trip but seems out of reach at this point.
Obviously and disappointingly we are still short of that 40 number. Its apparant or should be to anyone who reads anything fishing related that the SSFFF and RFA are doing a fantastic job fighting for all involved in fishing.
The hope every year running this is to give a little back to guys like Capt Ron, Capt TB, Capt Adam, Dave A, the RFA team etc etc for the groups they represent so well and work so hard for. This trip should be multiple boats, news worthy and just plain fun but every year its a last minute struggle to fill out 1 boat. Al Ristori is hyping it in his blog, Fishermen magazine doing a press breif, Brochures all over the place and posted on "other" sites.
5,440 views and less than 1 percent partcipation
Maybe people are waiting for the weather? NOT (40 of us went on PUOSU in 15 degrees and 30MPH Winds), Maybe its the economy. NOT (plenty of reports, fishing going on), Maybe fishermen dont care: NOT (plenty of computer keyboard muscles, opionions posted all the time) Maybe its the species targeted and regs: (Who cares, its a day on da water and that can be changed by popular vote day of) Maybe its me. (Now thats possible!
) I will say however that ALL of the sign ups to date have come from this site. Thats cool
Personally I do nothing but spend a bit of time arranging this, its those I listed above who you are doing this for but mainly you are doing it for yourselves and THANKS to everyone who signed up so far.
I am NOT going to get into anymore about WHY you should be part of this, if you dont see it by now no one is going to convince you. But if you want to do a small part and have a great NJfishing.com experience with great people then please consider getting on board.
PS: Capt Ron says we are going regardless. How F' ing unselfish is that! But I really dont want him to and cant let him take less for his work so lets get the number up there.
You will feel better about doing something than staying on the sidelines.
