The 2009 event will be a significant milestone in our history, it was in 1979 when a small group of members of the Catfish Association of Great Britain from the north west of England decided to form a area group of the association. It will also be ten years since the group went fully international and changed it's name to the Catfish Study group. To mark the occasion we are putting on a very special event.
There are full details under the Convention heading on the CSG web site http://catfishstudygroup.org/core/convention_2009.htm, so please check it out. This promises to be our best event ever, so don't miss out, get your bookings in early.
Ian Fuller
(Chairman)
if anyone is still undecided - book it now!
I'm just saying that to wind up Ian. However, it is true that it's vital for such events to ensure repeat visitors, and engaging with people there helps that greatly and is greatly helped by big old name badges. But then you will all be wearing your Planet catfish t-shirts then won't you?!?!?
If I am still organising future events I may incorporate such things as location and website handles, but this could be a bit of a nightmare to implement, especially if there were several web sites involved. However, Jools, you have sown a very nice promo/sponsor seed with the web handle idea. I think a web site could actually sponsor the name badge printing incorporating there site logo. I have not as yet started to lay out the name badge so it's not too late, so I am open to bribery, I mean offers 
We currently have four aquatic web sites in our sponsor programme. Maybe Planet catfish would like to be the first, having said that I would need all those PC members that have signed up to the convention to forward me their PC handles and or local society name. I am not about to go looking for member details as I already have enough to do.
. Mind they don't run out of stout & lager too!