February/March Newsletter

RESIDENTS REPORT : Jim Barrie

It has been a while I know but as you all know there has been a heap going on.

We have run a couple of great events over the past months and are about to run yet another Squidgy Southern Bream Series this weekend week at Port Hacking.

The Series first round found us hosting 84 teams in the Georges River. All the Committee’s hard work is paying off. I will leave filling you in on the rest to the other committee.

We used the Flathead Classic as a trial run for the club’s new Series trailer. This trailer started off as a box trailer and over two weeks and a lot of late nights it became a very professional display of what this club and its members are capable of. To anyone who hasn’t seen the trailer on display it will be flying the flag for the club next weekend in Bateman’s Bay, but for those not travelling down there come 18 th of April we will be using the trailer at St Georges Basin at Palm Beach (round 4).

The Flathead Classic 2010 was attended by 32 teams. Numbers were down with a lot of our members fishing the BETS Hawkesbury round but they all still put in effort with preparations. We attracted families from Canberra to Sydney and the weather was definitely an improvement on what blew up on Saturday afternoon. The largest Flathead was coaxed in by the flathead whisperer Ian Philips and measured 900mm and weighed 5.795 kg. Ian and Greg Reid returned this awesome fish to the same place they caught it…. SOMEWHERE IN THE BASIN. Biggest flathead on fly was won by Glenn Godwin with a 680mm and 2.060kg. Ryan Jamieson took out the Heaviest Flathead (junior) with an 815mm and 3.855kg (after late penalty), Ryan was fighting this flathead and it took him over the finish time, so the last cast does pay off. I bet it was one of the most nervous fights he has had in a while. The day threw a few different seasons at us, I say this because it just isn’t right to be fishing in summer and shivering. Thanks to everyone for helping out throughout the day with people offering to cook BBQ’s and sell tickets. A special thanks to Scott Sharpe, Wes Murphy and Amy Barrie for staying on the shore all day taking care of all our fish.

Amy was truly rewarded at the end of the day when the raffle was drawn. She has now added to the garage a Brand new Hobie Outback thanks to Hobiecat Australasia and Outdoors and Beyond. The raffle was a great fund raiser for the club and with businesses helping us out it has made this another good start to the year for the club. Amy and the Hobie hit the water after everyone went home from the Bateman’s Bay round of the SSBS. The next big purchase will be a set of roof racks.

The Squidgy Southern Bream series really showed the club to be capable of running a very professional event, as is always the case. We have the support and knowledge of some of the biggest companies involved in Bream tournaments in Australia. We had the biggest tidal movement of the year on round one. Well that was something we couldn’t control. Everyone from the club helped and made helped spread the load. So thanks everyone and look forward to round three at Port Hacking.

Currently we have released the new SSBS site and are about to release the new Basin Lure and Fly website hopefully in the next few days. It looks great and we have to thank Duade For his excellent work on both sites. Also with our site update we are also giving Wolindilly Bas clubs site a revamp. So on the Web side things have been Busy. The new basin site will remain at the same address

The new Squidgy Southern Bream Series Site as follows http://www.ssbs.basinlureandfly.org.au

A quick fishing report from me:

I can’t find any flathead over 60cm. Big bream have worked me out and know how to avoid me. I keep finding 50cm Trevally and heaps of Tarwine.

I am looking forward to getting back into the Bay with reports backed up by pictures of good Snapper. Hope that breaks the drought for me.

Cheers

Jim

SECRETARY REPORT: SCOTT SHARPE

Well what a start to the year we have already two of the biggest comps our club hold have either started or been. The flathead classic was a raving success and the thought of a field as keen as it was in weather that was could not have been thought of. a big congratulations to all the winners on the day (except for Amy because I wrote here ticket out and also spent a little bit on trying to win the kayak myself so bar humbug to you hahaha ) no well done aim!!

The second was the start of the SSBS which was held at the Georges river as most would already know and that two had a feeling of worry put over all the committee as it was our first that our little club that could had held and I’m here to tell you buy 5:40am after driving since 2am I had a feeling that maybe we had bitten of more than we could chew and it wasn’t the amount of people it was the lack of them. But buy 6:00am it looked somewhat like the Sydney boat show and the feeling of worry about not having enough people to participated turned into a feeling of “HOLY CRAP WERE IN TROUBLE NOW” but as always everyone had a job and even those that didn’t show found one and I thank you for that buy the way. Everything couldn’t have went smoother and the site was I must say a little awe inspiring to see 64 boat teams and 20yakas lining up for their first crack at the SSBS round .

Whilst on the bank Amy and myself did the mundane jobs that go with setting up for the return all the while in the back of my mind I was thinking how good it would be to be out there hitting the water with everyone else but the usual call of “HEY SCOOTER CAN YOU??” Bought me back to where I was and the job in hand.

All in all it was an awesome day and a day a few of our local crew will not forget for many a day to come I’m sure!! (This will get covered in more detail as the newsletter goes along) Some of the up and coming things to think about are!

• The point score weekends
• The next rounds of the SSBS

Something also worth noting is a email that is getting around and most tackle shops should/will do have copies but if you don’t it’s in the newsletter so have a read as it is a good thing I think.

Well that about wraps my ends up anything I can help you with don’t hesitate to call!!(Just not at 10:30pm like guy)

RECORDERS REPORT :

Well, a lot has gone on since the last newsletter. As you would be well aware of, Basin Lure and Fly Anglers have taken on what was known as the Squidgy Series and has been running the Squidgy Southern Bream Series. Round 1 took place on the Georges River on the 24th of January 2010. A huge field took to the water with some heavy bags weighed in. Congratulations to Team Onagain Neil Kelly and Andrew Hansler on their 5.16kgs bag of 5 Bream for the boaters. Kayaks section was won by Carl Dubios with a full bag of 3 Bream weighing in at 2.175kgs. Round 2 was held on the Clyde River, Batemans Bay on the 26th Feb. 46 Boats and 18 Kayaks participated in the event. Team Culburra Bait and Tackle 2, Grant Kime and Scott Brown won the day for the boaters with a bag of 5 Bream weighing in at 3.27kgs. For the Kayaks Team Hobiesports, Daniel Holder claimed victory with the only full bag of 3 Bream weighed in at 1.15kgs. We had a fantastic turn out for both rounds, looking forward to the next Round on the Hacking on the 7th of March. The club was lucky enough to have a new box trailer donated which we have transformed into a stage area for the presentations and weigh in’s. We needed to step things up for this year with a more professional look. We have picked up some new sponsors this year for the comps and have held onto some of the old sponsors. These include: Culburra Bait and Tackle, Damiki Fishing Tackle, Shimano, Skeeter, Lowrance, Hobie, Mad Keen and Fishing World.

For those who are not aware we run a monthly point score competition from January to November. Anglers fish for 3 Bream, 3 Flathead, and one of every other species, with upgrading permitted. Lengths are recorded and all fish returned safely to their homes. There have been two monthly point scores for the year so far. First one was held on the Basin; Tom Mclean took out the first round with a score of 3518 points for the men. For the women Chris Mclean came in with a score of 2515 points. The juniors was lead by Travis Balzan with a score of 829 points followed by his brother Jake Balzan with a score of 674 points and Tom Keighley with a score 640 points. The second point score was held on the Basin for February. Ryan Jamieson won with a score of 3700 points followed by Paul Farmer who is leading comfortably after 2 rounds with a total score of 6565 points.

Our information nights are held on the second Wednesday night of every month commencing at 7:30pm at the Meriton St Hall St Georges Basin. All are welcome to attend. It’s shaping up to be a big year for the club. We have taken on many new members this year, the support is appreciated.

Walloper

Vice Pres

Basin Lure and Fly Anglers Inc

President

Jim Barrie
Mob: 0409 275 434

Vice President

Wal Balzan
Mob: 0413 339 932

Honorary Secretary

Scott Sharpe
Ph: 0410575470
E-mail address: culburrabait@people.net.au

Honorary Treasurer

Amy Barrie
Mob: 0417235376

Weight Recorder

Wes Murphy
Mob: 0439 722 162

Committee

Guy Jameison
Craig Johnson
Grant Kime
Shane Connelly

Editor

Scott Sharpe
E-mail address : culburrabait@people.net.au

Club Contact Details:

Any of the above committee

Website- http://www.basinlureandfly.org.au