Dear Friends and Patrons......
Over the past several years I have had the honor of designing, procuring and marketing various Fly fishing tee shirts to commemorate our claves, gatherings, and functions...
It is always a joy and a fun project, and aside from learning a few marketing lessons, has always proceeded fairly smoothly. I have had the pleasure of establishing a real nice and enthusiastic client group from among your ranks, with many of you making wardrobe collections from the annuals or semi annual offerings.
It always does my heart good to see you all sporting different editions of the Ich Tee shirts at various gatherings...
The first project I took on was the 5 th NEC gathering in lake Placid, and I have taken the production of this particular event's tee shirt offering to heart for nearly every year since then..
It is sadly, then, that I need to inform you that despite a developed design..... ( I generally do this during the winter period), I will not be able to manage the marketing, ordering, production and distribution of the NEC shirts this year.
A recent negative development in my personal life will be sucking up sooooo much of my precious spare time over the next 3-4 mounths, that it would be foolish for me to even entertain thoughts of being able to complete the project.
.................and it wouldn't be right for me to lead you along that same hopeful path.
The time theft , although extremely disruptive, is not health related, and my quality of life is not threatened in any way. Abet, when this trial has past, I may well be better off.
But it must be dealt with ,and I need to deal with it almost immediately.
All is not lost, the design I developed can be used for a design for next year's (2005) NEC commemorative IchTee shirt, and I look forward to the production of it at that time.
My apologies to those of you who I have dispensed a bit of disappointment upon with this, but believe me, I am grateful for all of your past and future support in making these projects possible, and look forward to next year's encounter.
May the spring and early summer fishing bring you closer to your inner child, and i hope to see lots of you along side the streams soon.
Sincerely,
Stephen Di Cerbo
