Sunday was our big fund raiser for the year. The
ocean #1 fire company’s fishing flea market. We recover sinkers all year and
sell them back to the fishermen and anything else we find, ie fishing pole,
lures, tools, anchors or old bottles. Some people will buy any thing. One year we sold a three foot high concrete owl
that sue and tom recovered.
This year we
had over 2056lbs of sinkers and over one hundred lures to sell and fishing poles
and anchors. It took over eight hours to clean the sinkers and lures to get
them ready to sell. Saturday night we finished up the sorting and cleaning and
loaded up the dive truck for Sunday.
Sunday morning saw a pretty good turnout of members
to get set up and sell! Sell we did!! It didn’t look to us like a good turnout,
most times you can’t walk around due to so many people. But not this year, you
could walk around without any problems. Sales were slow for a little while but
picked up after about an hour. The good lures were the first to go. Afew old
bottles got sold and the anchors were gone, tom was pushing the fishing poles
and sue and flo had the sinkers flying off the table!
Then it was let’s make a deal time! People didn’t want bags of sinkers, they wanted half buckets of sinkers. The captain of the queen mary got all the 4 oz sinkers and that started it off. Paulie D and his hand truck got one hell of a work out, he was running half buckets of sinkers out to cars and trucks the rest of the day. By 1200hrs we were sold out of sinkers and lures and anchors. We had afew fishing pole and some old bottles and that was it.
Getting back to the building and getting everything put away it was time to sit back and start planning for next year! May be we can get 2500lbs this time!
We had our best year ever, we made over $1300! I would like to thank Ocean fire company #1 for the table” you guys are the best”, and I want to thank Sue, Flo, Joann, Ali, Tom C, Tom T, BOB, Mike B, Paulie D, and new member Joe P for all their hand work in pulling this off.
