The season was again difficult as the weather wasn’t kind to us fisho’s and on the rare occasions when the weather was fine the fishing was poor,but hey, that’s fishing for you. At the start of the season Marcus and Eddie raced away with the lead with some fine catches of Flathead and Mowies.Joel landed a nice Dusky Flathead which was not beaten all season. What we did see this season were some nice Flounder with Tony Straty’s fish of 0.55 kg taking out the season’s best, only just shy of the club record of 0.60 kg.

Then Tristan’s Mowie of 1.51 kg what a cracker and taken on a soft plastic as I understand.

The Dibbos with Juniors Mitchell and Conner showed the seniors how to fish with a nice box of sand Flathead and Conners fish just beating Grandpa’s fish by 0.01 of a kg.

Surprisingly no bag outs this year with the Leatherjackets.The Leatheries disappeared over these months which was a pleasant surprise and so did most of all the species as there wasn’t too much at the weigh ins then the Jackets returned with evengence.

The Flathead were around in numbers in January and February and with some nice catches, as Marcus would say caught them "East of the mooring".

One boat that was always out and mostly on Saturdays were the crew on ‘Bubbles” Marcus,Rob and Joel.Now these 3 Amigos were sneaky,ask them how did you go, only a couple, where did you go, "East of the mooring".

With a possible 18 fishing weekends “Bubbles” fished on every occasion and in all conditions, so they deserved the top honours.

Now i couldn’t leave out two of the Juniors Tristan and Zac.Tristan fished aboard “After Hours" and Zac aboard “Taitors” these lads are two Very Good Fisho’s and it has been a pleasure to fish along side these Juniors .

Once again in March a group of Fisho’s hit South West Rocks and enjoyed some terrific weather and some quality Trags,Snapper and Pearlies.

Another group made a first time visit the top end of NZ for four days on a live on charter and experienced some of the biggest Kingfish,Snapper and Crayfish that you will ever experience,so all is again booked for next year.

So this brings us to the end of another season and even if the fishing on a particular day was quite it was just a pleasure to be out on the watercatch a couple of fish and then enjoy a couple of beers around the BBQ with your mates. 

This brings me to Congratulate all of our winners and everyone who participated this season. To the Committee Thanks for all of your support during the season.The Sunday Seafood raffles with the Boat roster worked out really well and there was only one slip up this year.

The Prawn & Chicken Night- Well what can I say other than a brilliant night,”how good was that”, another great success.To all of you who were involved and helped to organise the night once again and even though the numbers were down, we still enjoyed “The Hard Rockin Amigo’s”

Now for all of the Thank you’s:

Ossie for the Sunday BBQs always Brilliant, and what about our last fishing day with Ossie’s seafood chowder.We also had prawns, oysters, chickens dips and nibblies

Marcus for organising the fish cleaning facility, which now is finally completed.

Our sponsors -Reg Dolden, our major sponsor,Clyde Mason President of Woolooware Golf Club, Ian & Eleanor Frazer “Apollo Creations” and Bill at Gabes Fishing at Sylvania

Special Mention to our hard working Committee for the 2010-2011 season:

Vice President -Marcus Stalker

Secretary-Glenn Fitzpatrick

Treasurer-Tony Smith

Social Committee-Mark Osborn, John Tripodi, Mick Brannock,Dave Moon, Eddie Savonna.

Gear Steward-Tony Smith

Weigh Masters-John May, Eddie Savonna, Brook Dibben, Rob Williams.

Point Scorer- Judy Tripodi

Boat Safety Officers-John Tripodi, Marcus Stalker

Now that’s it for another season and thanks to the Committee once again for all of your support this season and the last three season’s prior as its time for me to step aside and pass on the batten.

Once again Tight Lines

Your President for 2010-2011

Stephen Lalor.

Presidents Report September 2011

September 2011 saw an early start to our annual competition but sadly a continuation of the poor weather which hindered us earlier in the year. Marcus was the only brave soul to venture out on the weekend of the 10/11th and was rewarded with a bream and the first club points for the year. The weekend of 24/25th was marginally better with Stephen and Glenn venturing South for a good bag of 15 flathead, the target species for the trip, and Steve on the board with a pair of snapper on plastics the biggest at 1kg. "Taitors" streaking ahead on the ladder now in fron of "Bubbles". Marcus, Rob and Joel tried hard under difficult conditions only having to call back in to port to drop Joel off, when he put on the green mask, then venturing back out to find a leather jacket and nice morwong to Rob. BBQ had to be cancelled to to the poor weather conditions, but the boys all shared a friendly, sociable beer to finish off the weekend. Next trip 8/9 October and hopefully some better weather and fishing conditions.  

Presidents October 2011 report

October has seen a major turn around and I am pleased to report that 94 fish were caught for a total of just under 42kgs, well done lads, including a new member Nick Matthews, son in law of Malcolm Chung. Also wetting a line for the first time this year was the Special K crew  with Mitchell and Connor scoring as well as Triston Hannan, who also posted some points. Past President Steve Lalor has hit champion form once more and leads the points table following a slump in form from Marcus, but he assures me it is still early days.Eddie and Oz have gotten off to a late start but will be sure to be posting some points in November. Numerous whale sightings added to the excitement of fishing "outside" but an added need for caution.   

Presidents November 2011 Report

Weekend of 5/6 November saw the return of the poor conditions and fishing to match with 9 fishoes catching 24 fish weighing 12.84 kgs. Target species was bream and only a few specimens presented.

Weekend of 19/20 November was also rather poor with 12 fishoes landing 27 fish for a totsal of only 10.16 kgs. Most notable catch was Mark Osborns 3.24kg groper.

Presidents December 2011 Report

Weekend 3/4 December saw more ordinary weather however 8 fishoes braved the conditions for a catch of 14 fish for a total of 5.08kgs. New member Nick Matthews took out the day with 36 points and a couple of nice fish. Traget species was flounder with none caught this trip. Our juniors have been a little quiet owing to the poor weather conditions.

Weekend 17/18 December saw a major turn around in the weather and the best fishing day for the year with 7 fishoes, including new lady member Carol Moon, landing 92 fish for a fantastic 41.45 Kgs. Target species was leatherjacket and some fine samples brought to the scales with Nicks .83kgs the best for the day and a total of 134 points. Best overall was President Glenn with a nice bag of fish including snapper, leatherjackets, morwong and flathead for 171 points with skipper Steve a nice catch of 6 snapper,3 morwong and some flathead. Dave Moon bagged out on flathead and leapfrogs a few on the ladder now on 149 points.

The weigh in was followed by a christmas seafood and chicken lunch whith special thanks to Steve Lalor for his great catering job. A number of wives joined us to finish off the first half of the season in fine style. Good to see a few "oldies" Warren Walker, Ron Myers, Steve Williams join us for the 2011 finale. 

Presidents January 2012 Report

Welcome to 2012 and hopefully everyone had a safe and happy Christmas /New Year. The 2012 season has begun relatively slowly with the weather conditions not favourable however on the Jan 14/15 trip 8 fishoes braved the elements and came in with a mixed bag of 23 fish weighing 10.47Kgs. Nick won the day with 98 points and streaked to the top of the leaders board and really handing out the challenge. His keaness was rewarded as he even had to return to base to drop off his deckie Malcolm who donned the green mask, only to return and add to his bag. Well done Nick and welocme to our new member Johnathan Towe fishing with John Tripodi and crew.

The weekend of 28/29 saw only slight improvement in the weather with 12 fishoes landing 45 fish for 16.79kgs. Mostly flathead with a monster board fish bream caught by Tony Straty at .77kgs and a very nice dusky flathead by junior Mitch Dibben at .920kgs well done boys. The day was won by Steve Lalor who regains the top ranking from Nick so this year looks like it will be a neck in neck struggle.