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June 2011

NEWSLETTER Sunshine Coast SportFishing Club Inc

Sadly, Ray Gibbings, a founding and life member of our club passed away recently. I am sure everyone joins with me to send our condolences, thoughts and best wishes to his family. I know he will be missed dearly by his family and his many close friends.

We are just about mid way through the year and winter is here. Time to start thinking about our winter species like bream and Jewfish and the reef species such as snapper and perlies. Finally we are starting to get some crack-ing fine weather and blow me down with a feather, it has even coincided with a few weekends.

A few brave souls faced the brass monkey weather and headed to Boondoomba dam for the competition that was post-poned from February. I say it every year, “I’m gonna go to that next year”. It always sounds like a great trip away.

This months meeting will give you an insight into spanner crabbing. Unfortunately the “how to” video was put together by Ken, Vince and myself which is kind of like a Nun giving a sex education class at a catholic boarding school. The students probably know more about the topic than the teachers but Vince goes for a swim so it might be worth a watch.

Till then, Fishful Thinking,

Regards Chris.

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Ross did well with his bass in muddy waters. It Weighed 1.4kg and is a nice looking fish.

Sunshine Coast SportFishing Club Inc


Many fond memories are flooding back of Gibbo in Death Wish 11 and earlier in a very wet Clark Abolone chasing tuna and makeral in terrible conditions off Mooloolaba in the 80s. Gibbo always had a smile no matter how hard he was hurting. He will al-ways have a warm spot in our memo-ries. Peter and Jenny Hart.

Foundation and Life member of the Sunshine Coast Sportfishing Club

1948 - 2011

“You had a smile for everyone, You had a heart of Gold, You left behind memories that we will always hold. So, thank you for the years we shared, the love you gave, the way you

cared. In our hearts you’ll always stay, loved and remembered every day.”

Around 22 people went to the” Raise a Glass for Gibbo” dinner at the Waterfront Hotel on Monday night, including Ron Carby (life Member), Mick Worth & Mick Hansen long time old members and friends of Gibbo. As well as an old co-worker who worked with Gibbo at the Nambour Hospi-tal. A good night was had by all.

Our AGM is on at our July Club meet-ing, so anybody interested in taking on a committee role must have their nomination form in 31 days prior to the July Club meet-ing. Our lure board is drawn at our June Club meeting, so if you have any tickets that have been sold can you get them to Dave or Maroochy Fishing World. Good luck to all who have purchased tickets. Four club members made the 3 hour trip to Boon-doomba Dam over the weekend to take part in the annual fishing comp which was postponed from February to June due to the floods earlier in the year. Ross Beinke was the only one who caught a fish, with a 1.4 kg bass being weighed in. The dirty water from a fresh in the river didn't help much, but we did get to sleep in due to all the thick fog.

Cheers Vince.

President’s Pep



12 months ago. Fishing in the UK. Using rigs and meth-ods that were alien to me - Worlds Away for more than one reason!

My Cousin Mark is a very keen angler and collector. Just before I arrived he cleaned up his garage and put 32 rods and reels that he wasn't using up into the attic. That only left about the same quantity stored in the ga-rage. He could open a small tackle shop and has proudly earned the nickname Tackle Tart.

For my taste of fishing UK style we got underway about 5pm, a bit late in the day but when it doesn't get dark till 11pm that leaves plenty of time to fish and have a few (dozen) beers before sunset. About 3 hours later I had a run on one of the

three matched Shimano Baitrun-ners that Mark had provided for me. It fell for a pop-up boilie that sits just above the bottom. After a nice fight on 5lb line I had my first European Carp on the bank for a few photos and a weigh. It went to 10lb which is a decent fish (double figures not commonly caught and especially not for a first fish) but not a patch on Marks PB of 32lb. Not long later I

fooled another similar sized one on an un-weighted floating dog biscuit. After a long fight on 2lb line the tiny size 18 hook pulled at the bank.

The Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Although Carp are consid-

ered a pest in Australia, they are keenly sought in the UK

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Hi everyone, sorry I missed last months newsletter. What a great trip, Inskip point is a perfect location as it offers fishing for every type of angler - beach, inshore and offshore. From all reports from the members who attended Housing accommodation was the way to go. For all the boys who put the effort in, doing overnighters most cer-tainly got rewarded coming home with trophy reds ,and a lot of quality reef fish. I was most pleased with Brian Faith, a new mem-ber to the club who came along learnt from more experienced mem-bers and caught some quality fish. He managed to take home two trophies for his efforts, well done Brian. Peter guru Gurdham smashed everyone taking 11 off the 16 target species being Cham-pion male. Joan Steel took the female Champion angler with 4 off 16 species being caught. Thanks to Wado and Kirka for all their efforts in find-ing the houses so close together and help-ing to provide all who attended with a well organised event. this month is boon-doomba dam event I will not be able to attend so good luck at the dam everyone Cheers captain Paul

Captain Saunders

as well as other parts of Europe. They are surprisingly fin-icky fish and difficult to trick - Pos-sibly due to many of the course fish (we would call them impound-ment fish) being caught and re-leased a number of times in their lives.

Tackle Due to the tricky nature of

the target species, tackle and fish-ing methods in the UK have evolved to a higher level than in Australia, requiring the angler to be more technical, finer in detail

and more precise in order to catch fish.

We used numerous different rigs some of which are photo-graphed. The piece of equipment that intrigued me the most was the PVA mesh that when filled with berley (dog biscuits or boilies) and cast into location ‘melts’ away and leaves your berley sitting right around your baited hook. One type of mesh when stretched tight around the berley, explodes sud-denly soon after being immersed in water, to distribute the berley in a 300mm radius around your bait.

We used sinkers that were either clear or rock shaped for dis-guise.

Debate about Bait The bait we used included

Gents (maggots) that came in natural, or dyed a myriad of col-ours, or soft plastic variants. Corn was also used in natural, straw-berry flavoured, and soft plastic in red, yellow and fleuro colours. Bread both baked and artificial. (something that needs to be con-sidered later in the night with a belly full of grog and other stuff that makes you hungry - the artifi-cial stuff is hard to chew!) Dog bis-cuits and boilies (man made balls made of egg and other ingredients

that are flavoured and infused with fish attractants. Altogether a huge selection to match the fish’ tastes on the day. It was a real educa-tion.

A Good Trip We got to bed at about 4am,

as the sky was starting to lighten. On getting up at 8 we found a car-ton of empty beer bottles littered around our camp as well as an empty bottle of Jack and 10 yr old single malt scotch. Don’t know how they got there but my head certainly felt like it was a World Away too.



My dad with his best catch of the day - a little Roach

Note the rod holders. Each has a bite indicator that beeps faster or slower depending on the amount of line movement. They light up at night, and have a remote alarm for the bivvie.

Artificial bread Hair rigged hook

Disguised sinkers

Exploding mesh filled with berley and hooked to an arti-ficial boilie hair rig

Boilie rigging tools - mini hook (left), mini drill (right)

Artificial maggots and corn



At $179 for 24kg rod and 7500 reel in the last catalogue sale at Maroochydore Fish-ing World why even bother looking on the net. Check out the deals next month with the Off-shore series reels packaged with braid from just $149.

The Fin Nor Offshore series of reels and matching rods represent really good value for money. I used the 7500 for the first time on the Rainbow Beach trip and I really put it through its paces. (albeit on snags rather than good fish) The drag on these reels is ex-tremely powerful and is backed up by solid aluminium body and stainless gears and shaft.

Its QLD week

so grab some

local prawns

and give this

recipe a try

Wayne’s Fishing Report from Maroochydore Fishing World

ESTUARY: Bream moving into the Maroochy River on the high tides with fowl gut and froggies best. Whiting taking yabbies around Goat Island. The Cod Hole is firing for jew, grunter and estu-ary cod and tailor. Flathead at the Bli Bli goal posts. Garfish in the Mooloola basin using prawn pieces. SURF: Sea bream taking prawns and gar fillet from Mudjimba to North Shore. Chopper tailor and bream at Pincushion with dawn and dusk best. Dart and whiting on pippies at Maroochy Beach. OFFSHORE: The Blinker area for parrot, sweetlip and moses perch on squid and cut baits. Cobia, squire and red emperor at Murphy’s Reef with the Barwon Banks firing for larger snapper and pearl perch on plastics. Spanner crabs prolific at present in their usual spots. GAMEFISHING: Live bait out wide hard to locate but plenty inshore near the shark nets off Ma-roochy Beach producing mac tuna and longtails providing sport. Trolling baits and lures form eight mile out to eighteen mile patch on 60 degrees for small blacks and mac tuna. Water temp around 20 degrees. FRESHWATER: Borumba Dam returning togas right up in the Sticks with golden perch, bass and jew below the dam wall. Most of our local impoundments are working well down at their weirs with rattling lures and spinner baits best. Somerset Dam has bass and golden perch taking live shrimps and deep diving lures. Don’t forget the red claw traps!!!! WAYNE NILSSON. MAROOCHYDORE FISHING WORLD



Fishing Report For June 2011

Calendar of Events 2011 June: Fish of the month are Bream & Venus Tuskfish.

July: Fish of the month are Jewfish (Mulloway) & Pearl Perch.

3rd, 4th and 5th Boondooma Dam comp Club to pay for camp and comp fees.

9th Members General meeting 7pm

for 7:30 start Coast Guard Mooloolaba

15th, 16th and 17th Snapper competition.

Weigh-in &BBQ @ Park beside Coast Guard Mooloolaba

Sun. 1pm—1:30

14th Annual General Meeting

7pm for 7:30 start Coast Guard Mooloolaba

Newsletter Bits & Pieces If you have any stories, pictures etc that could add to the reading enjoyment of our fellow members, p l e a s e s e n d t o [email protected] Thanks, Chris Kelsey

Boat Insurance Members – boats entering ANSA or SCSC competition MUST have public liability insurance, together with all required current safety gear and equipment.

Sunshine Coast Sportfishing Club Secretary Dave Butler 280 Kiel Mountain Road, Kiel Mountain. 4559 Office Bearers for 2010 – 2011 President Vince Kreis 5478 2526 Vice-President Joe Hardman 5445 8969 Treasurer /Sponsorship Les Ross 5477 1822 Secretary Dave Butler 5442 1192 Club Captain Paul Saunders 0417 247 640 Club Recorder Paul Jensen 5448 5707 Membership Officer Colin Arena 5476 5034 Raffles Gail Ross & Joan Steele 5448 4946 Drinks officer Ken Brazier 5445 2931 Newsletter Editor Chris Kelsey 5476 7019 Chris’ email [email protected]

Club Info 2010-2011 ANNUAL CLUB MEMBERSHIP FEES (July 1st to June 30) You need to complete an application form and pay the membership officer. If you are not financial, you are not covered by any ANSA insurance policy. 2010-2011 Annual Fees ANSA SCSC TOTAL SENIOR FEMALE $45.00 $25.00 $70.00 SENIOR MALE $45.00 $25.00 $70.00 FAMILY (2A+2J) $70.00 $30.00 $100.00 JUNIOR (With registered senior) $ 6.00 $ 4.00 $10.00 JUNIOR (no registered senior) $ 5.00 $15.00 $30.00 HALF YEAR FEES – from December for NEW members. Seniors – $35.00, Family – $45.00, Juniors – same as above BRING A FRIEND WITH YOU – get them to join the club and get $10.00 dis-count off your annual fees for each full year adult member recruited (maximum discount - $30.00)

ANSA Visitor Membership For a visitor to be covered by the ANSA PLI Policy they must be registered as a temporary ANSA member before the event Costs is $10.00 per senior, $2.00 per jun-ior, or $25.00 per family.



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