Christmas Party and Presentation Night 5/12/2015

Forty two people attended this function on a lovely barmy evening. Linda’s idea of seating arrangements opened up the floor space and was a great success with very few people having their backs to each other. As usual a small group of members set up the decorations, tables and chairs whilst Barry Bills soon had the spits up and running. It was good to see Cameron Kloss, our youngest member, and his two younger siblings who are potential members, along with their grandparents. The lucky door prize, now returned to its original concept, was a fun event with everyone getting a prize. All in all a very successful night. 

President Don did a sterling job running the presentation part of the evening despite being ‘handicapped’ by his helpers.  The highlight of the evening was the presentation of life membership to Kevin Minter who gave a very emotional and heart felt response.

Special thanks to Barry and Ken for the spit roasts, to all who helped cook the vegetables and an extra special thanks to the female partners for a superb selection of sweets.

The following are some of the awards.

Longest flathead                     Kevin minter

Heaviest bream (Senior)         Doug McFarlane

Heaviest Bream (Junior)         Shaun Myers

Meritorious Award                 Terry Lynch

Best Club Member                  Robin Widdowson

Bemm River (October)

            Alan Smith Shield        Owen Bennett

Mallacoota

            Heaviest Bream (Senior)        Owen Bennett

            Heaviest Bream (Junior)         Shaun Myers

Marlo

            Heaviest Bream (Senior)        Ian Myers

            Heaviest Bream (Junior)         Shaun Myers

Lake Tyers Club Comp.                       Doug McFarlane

Lake Tyers v’s GLFC

            Heaviest Bream                      Owen Bennett

Bemm River (April)

            Heaviest Bream                      Alan Watts

Tamboon    Heaviest bream               Robin Widdowosn

eaviest Bream jH

           

Bemm River Competition:

Thirteen members attended this competition, again staying at Cozy Nook Flats where we were looked after  by our hosts Chris and Rob.
Thursday started badly for Doug who's outboard only took him 20 meters from the jetty before 'giving up the ghost', which explains why we passed him at Cabbage Tree heading west whilst we were heading east.
Friday afternoon was a glorious day with just the right ripple across the water. Just outside the mouth of the river was the hot spot and most of us caught fish there during the afternoon. The river it self was disappointing both for lures and bait although we may not have gone far enough up stream in our case. A few fish were also caught in the channel to the entrance.
Friday night dinner was taken at the pub and very pleasant meal had by all. 
Saturday again was a pleasant day and many fish were caught again at the river mouth, Bob's Bay and the channel. However the big fish were hard to come by with only two fish over 1 kg being caught for the entire competition.
Saturday night was our club dinner night this time cooked by Kevin with help from Michelle and Deidre and plenty of advise from the remaining rabble. Much to everyone's surprise he produced Silver-side which was a welcome change from steak and burgers. The meal was excellent and also enabled much debate as to the best way to make mustard sauce, which of course is why you have silver-side in the first place.
Sunday morning was a hard day 'fishing wise' with a few glum faces at weigh-in although Don and Jack manage to find a nice lot of fish half an hour before weigh-in bringing in six.
Winner with the biggest bream was Jack Murray 1329 gm and the other species Barry Bills with a flathead of 53 cms whilst Owen Bennet won the secret weight.

November General meeting:

Helen McCubbin is guest speaker and will talk about and show pictures of her fishing trip to the eastern Christmas Is.

Latest news

Dinner at Bairnsdale Bowls Club:

The normal General meeting in October was replaced with a social evening at the above club. 34 people attended and enjoyed a great meal, meeting of old faces and general camaraderie. it is hoped to repeat these evenings especially during the winter months.

  Membership:

The committee decided to make December a 'free membership month'. If you join during the month of December there will be no joining fee (normally $50) nor pro-rata annual fee (normally $25), meaning your next fee would be the annual fee ($50) due in July 2016 if you wished to continue your membership. A great opportunity to join this proud club and participate in our activities.

Clean-up Day:

The 11th October was the day club member took part in a clean up of fishing sites around our little bit of Gippsland Lakes and rivers. Teams visited the Kalimna rock wall walk, around the club rooms, Nungurner, and the banks of the Mitchell and Tambo Rivers, collecting the equivalent of four trailer loads of rubbish. The worst area was along the Rough Rd., beside the eastern side of the Tambo River.
The sad part of this day was that club members had to pick up all this rubbish left behind by our fellow fisher persons.

Bemm River Competition:

Our next club event is a trip to Bemm River on the 23rd October staying at Cozy Nook Flats for the weekend. This is one of our best club trips and is usually well attended. Friday night's dinner is at the local pub whilst the Club provides a meal on the Saturday night.

Squid fishing
Plans are in place for a club trip to Port Vincent in South Australia in March next year. If interested get in touch with the club.

Marlo Fishing Competition - August 21st - 23rd 2015

Eleven persons ventured to Marlo for this weekend, nine arriving on Friday whilst Peter and Kerry turned up on Saturday after spending a few days sorting out the calving stock. The Myers family came as a unit with Bronwyn, Ian, Sean and James.

We stayed at the Caravan Park opposite the hotel, luckily getting 4 sites beside each other at the back of the park which enabled us to fit in the Myers caravan, David’s tent and delightful clinker built boat, the McDonald’s large boat attached to a Landcruiser, Barry’s tent and my caravan.

The weather was perfect although it was predicted to deteriorate on Sunday afternoon.

Fishing for the weekend was somewhat difficult for most of us although Sean managed to out-fish both his brother and father most of the time. It was soon apparent that prawns were not the flavour of the month and nearly all fish were caught on the good old sandworm including those marinated in metho. Typical of what happened over the weekend was demonstrated in my boat where I caught 2 keepers on Friday afternoon whereas on Saturday Barry caught about 10 with 6 or 7 keepers and I only caught two undersized and then on Sunday morning we caught one keeper each. However in the Myer boat they caught 16 between them on Saturday afternoon. Saturday was the best day with David and Carol catching 2 and even Alby caught one (but there may be a fine associated with this latter one as there was a whisper in the camp that Carol had to bait his hook.)

We all headed for the pub on Friday night where an enjoyable meal was had by all-- David picked out the wrong card and missed out on the $1900 but got a glass of wine instead and Barry won a meat tray in the Friday night raffle

Saturday saw the arrival of the Edgley's who proceeded to head out to sea, via the entrance. Whilst out there Kerry threw a few lures around and managed to catch a variety of fish including the winning ’other species’ that being a Wrasse which just pipped Carol’s Mullett.

Saturday night saw many hands pitch in to preparing the ‘Club dinner’ which consisted of beautifully cooked rump steak, spuds cooked in foil, carrots and peas and corn--special thanks to Barry for cooking the potatoes in his ‘spit thing’ and Carol, Bronwyn and Kerry for their help. Sandra Bills sent Barry along with a steamed pudding and Carol brought along 12 little apple pies she had made. The only issue with the meal was that there was a whole saucepan of peas ‘n corn left over.

The winning bream was caught by Ian Myers weighing in at 669 gms whilst the junior award went to Sean Myers for a fish weighing 561 gms.

These weights may seem low but most fish caught over the weekend were around 30-32 cms long.

The secret weight was won by Barry Bills.

22/5/2015
Lake Tyers Bream Comp.
12 people attended this weekend with 10 staying at the Lake Tyers Caravan Park, Friday and Saturday night.
Friday night was spent at the Water Wheel Tavern where we had an excellent dinner- Robin said it was the best steak he had eaten for years - he also one a prize in the meat raffle at the bar.
Saturday was nice and sunny with just a slight ripple on the water but despite this some had trouble finding the fish, but in general a successful day.
Sunday saw most of the group sitting around gossiping and drinking coffee whilst Doug tried to repeat his luck from Saturday but to no avail.
Doug McFarlane won the biggest fish prize with a bream of 1154 gms  and Carol McDonald won the secret weight section winning a rod and reel, kindly donated by the Management at the Water Wheel Tavern.
Saturday night was topped off by Kevin who along with some slightly frayed female partners, cooked a great steak and roast vegetable dinner.
We all look forward to a repeat next year. Well done Kevin Minter.