JOIN US ​AND FISH

Click on the entry form to download, if you do not fill it in you can complete these at briefing on Friday or there are some hard copies at the Tauranga Fishing Club. 

Please direct debit your $40 entry fee into 12-3209-0153933-00. In the reference please include JOSHUA TINGEY, your name and your boat name as reference (if you do not have a boat yet please write no boat). 
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Josh had a philosophy of including everybody in his adventures. He especially enjoyed exposing friends (and often new friends he only just met) to the activities he loved, with the aim of sharing the peak experiences (companionship, adrenaline, progression) and valuable skills gained (endurance, resilience, competence) with others. He did this without any thought of inconvenience to himself. Hours were spent running around finding spare protective clothing for new riders, maintaining other peoples’ motorbikes to ensure they could come, taking an extra person on the fishing trip even though he would have to spend much of his time helping them, or getting someone in position to shoot their first deer. He was selfless in this regard and more than willing to sacrifice his time and effort to show someone something new. In Josh’s world there ‘was always space for one more’ and ‘everyone was welcome’. If you had never tried the activity, that didn’t matter, you were welcome and he would spend his day helping to make sure that anyone included had an epic adventure with plenty of laughs along the way. His enthusiasm for life was infectious. The inaugural Joshua Tingey Memorial Fishing Competition was run in this spirit. Spaces on boats were found for anglers who wished to honour Josh and to catch a fish or two, but did not have access to boats. This is the spirit the committee would like to challenge anglers taking part in this year’s competition, to embody. Goals for 2020 · Run a professional and fun event · Grow the competition in honour of Josh’s spirit · Grow Josh’s Memorial Fund for distribution to youth in the community