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January 2011January 2011January 2011January 2011 NEWSLETTER

Sunshine Coast SportFishing Club Inc

Happy new year to everyone, I hope that you have had a relaxing holiday period and are looking for-ward to a great 2011.

The Club Christmas party was a really good day even with the weather that we had. About 40 or so members attended and enjoyed a huge feed and relaxed social atmos-phere. Thanks to Santa for taking time out of his busy schedule for the kids.

Congratulations to those mem-bers who were lucky enough to win a prize in the major Christmas raffle. This year’s raffle was really well or-ganized with a stack of great prizes (not just 1st, 2nd and 3rd, but a total of six really good prizes). Dave, thanks for all your hard work running it and Thanks to Wayne and Barb of Maroochydore Fishing World for your continued support of the club with the AWSOME prizes.

Despite the weather, there were a number of members who got out fishing over the last month and some of their stories and photos are on the following pages.

There is a very important event in February that we all need to put in our diaries. Fisheries is holding a public meeting about the planned 6 week closure to fishing for snapper, teraglin, and pearl perch. See page 4 for more details, mark it in your diary and lets go and at least have our say on the matter.

I am looking forward to a great year, plenty of fishing and getting my boat on the water. Hopefully I’ll have some progress on my boat to report on in the coming month or two. En-joy, and I’ll see you at the meeting at the coast guard on Thursday .

Till then, Fishful Thinking.

http//:www.sunshinecoastsportfishingclub.com.au

Ross accepting first

prize on behalf of

one of his ticket pur-

chasers.

Yeah it rained, but it was a relaxing afternoon with food drinks and good

cheer.

2010-2011 SCSC Club Champion Monthly Score Board

1st 2nd 3rd 4th

Ross Beinke Carl Jensen Peter Girdham Joan Steele

547.7 474.1 440.2 289.5

President’s Pep



Captain Saunders

During the Christmas period, Joe

Hardman and Wayne Knib went fish-

ing, Here is their story.

When: Wednesday (new moon?)

6am-2pm

Where: Alexandra Headland, Outer

Gneerings

We caught: 2 rabbit fish, 4 toad fish,

1 grass emperor, 2 venus tusk fish, 1

pearl perch, 1 Spanish mackerel

Pilchards for pearl perch and tusk fish

Live bait for the Spanish mackerel on

long drifts around the blinker and in

and around the change from the

brown water to clear water

@#$%&: Arrived at the boat ramp

and had forgotten all the electronics.

This meant a drive back home, so we

got out to chase the spotted mack-

erel after the sun was up, which may

have been too late???

Then “Only” one rod tip ferrule this

trip (about average batting per trip –

thx to Wayne at Fishing World for

fast repair!). On our previous trip, Joe

tried to demonstrate the art of dead

lifting spotted mackerel into the

boat. Joe thinks his rebuilt rod, now

10cm shorter, will be better suited

for the job.

Around the Traps

Hi all, I hope that everybody has had a great Xmas and New Year. I would like to especially send our thoughts and best wishes out to John Miller and his wife, who have had a bit of trouble with their house. I am sure everybody in the club wishes them well and hope that their troubles are over soon.

Our Christmas party went off without a hitch. The rain kept a few of the members away, but we still had over 40 members attending. The main club raffle for the year was drawn at the Xmas party and 4 out of the six prizes were won by club members. Thanks again to Dave Butler who donated the 2 hams that were raffled off at the Xmas party.

Start getting your surplus fish-ing and boating gear ready for the club auction in April and last but certainly not least a big thank you to Mark who didn't have the gaff ready for my Spaniard that got away. Cheers, Vince.

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great Chrissy. The weather gods keep dishing up wet windy and sh%#y forecasts, its gotta turn around soon!

As far as the spotties go, ru-mours are that square hooks have collected most of them. Its a shame to see schools of spotties wiped out for cat food. On a posi-tive note some quality Spanish macks have been caught on the close reefs, with pearlies also an the chew out wider. Don't forget that snapper, pearlies & trag jew cannot be taken from 15th Feb. to 31st March (new rules) for this year. Also check epirb rego dates they need to be updated every two years.

Fish of the month for January are Mangrove Jack and Spotted Mackeral.

See ya all at the meeting Cheers,

cap-tain Paul

Keith Bishop, his son Gra-

ham and Grandchildren, Lockie

and Grace had a nice day out on

the Maroochy river.

10 Flat head between 300mm and 500 mm long 1 whiting 300mm long 6 bream between 200mm and 250 mm. All fish were put back. Both Grace & Lochie caught a couple

of bream each, It was Lochie’s first

bream. It was a great ‘3 generations’

Father and son day out.

Mark Armstrong had a couple of trips out to Coolum. 27/12/10 to Coolum and picked up 4 grassys and 4 snapper in the fresh water. 1 grassy went 3kg and 2 at 2kg, snapper 2kg 02/1/11 to coolum again and got 1 spotty mackeral towing 45g slugs. when we stopped to bring the fish in we left the other slug out and threw a pillie out on the baitruner and pulled in 2 snapper 1 at 3kg and 2kg.no more to be found after the tide change.both trips where very late starts - lunchtime and home by 6pm

The line classes for Division 2 Lure Fishing are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15, 24, 37 and 60kg pre-test line. This means that you can challenge your self to catch fish on any of the above lines, fill in a capture sheet accordingly and receive points depending upon the fighting factor and weight of the fish. For more information visit www.ansa.com.au and download the rule book from the ‘rules page”.



Sponsors News

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A big thank

you to The

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for providing

the club with

TWO DVD’s

every three

months for our

monthly raffle.

Anyone who

would like to

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the DVD, it only costs about $11ea to

have sent to your door. What an awe-

some birthday present—even for your-

self.



Both my son and I had a fan-

tastic week in the Northern Terri-

tory when we linked up with some

friends and headed to the mouth

of the Daly River. The weather

was at its best and so was the

fishing. We caught Barramundi

with live poddy mullet from the

creek banks and ventured into the

bays with squid for golden snap-

per (fingermark) and dew.

Most of the time we spent

relaxing due to the fact that we

fished in a small depth of water,

the bag limits were quickly filled

and our local guide knew where

the fish hung out. So after thirty

minutes of fishing it was home

again. The following days were to

replace what we had eaten. I must

say all of it tasted fantastic and

surprisingly my pick was the dew

fish. I have caught many a dew in

Mackay, but none have tasted

that good.

The adventure quickly

turned around when ‘one more

cast’ for barra bait turned into a

sudden hit to the ankle from a

stingray. The hit instantly para-

lysed my right leg and within a

split second I found myself crawl-

ing to the beach by elbow propul-

sion with blood gushing out of my

foot from a severed vein. No one

came to my aid as they thought I

was joking . Finally help arrived

and Boyd, my son, stuck his finger

in the hole to stop the bleeding.

According to the doctor this saved

my life.

My friends carried me to the

house and started bathing my

foot in extremely hot water to

neutralize the toxins. This cooking

of the leg went on for three hours

and I began to worry if my friends

were cannibals. It is impossible to

fully describe the excruciating

pain. I have played rugby with

broken arms, cut off my finger,

swallowed 20cent coins, fallen off

motor bikes and had many knocks

living a country life. Nothing and

again, nothing compares to the

pain inflicted by that stingray. It

was like standing in boiling hot

water being constantly hit in the

ankle by a sledge hammer.

One thing leads to another.

The blood clot saves your life, and

then the same clot could become

a killer on the flight home - if not

fully checked: foot swells, blood

and bone infection sets in, leg cut

off and so on to maybe death. It is

all good now, although I still have

frequent spasms of pain and a

cold right foot. So my advice to

the fishing fraternity, enjoy the

Northern Territory and avoid tan-

gling with stingrays.

Doug Hauff

Northern Territory Fantastic: Stingrays Not!

Drunk Tuna

4 Fresh Tuna Steaks

Marinade

2 tbsp Lime juice

2tbsp olive oil

1 bottle of dark rum

Salt and ground black pepper

Open Rum and test to make

sure it is OK. Combine all the marinade

ingredients (3 tbsp of the rum) in bowl

and have another check of the rum.

Add the tuna to the bowl and rub the

marinade all over. Set to one side and

mak sure that the rum is stilll good.

Cover the bowl of tuna and allow to

marinate for at least 4 more rums (1

hour) at rom tempertur.

Grill on hi heat for abot 2 min

each side for rare or but loner for

meedium or somethin. Bruch de fishh

with de stuff a bit as it cookss. Da rum

is good eh. Slop it up wid a bid o

watsuuuup (wasabi) mayo if ya feeeel

lik it. Chuk som pepper an shi% on if ya

wanna. Bloo#% good eh mate.



Yellow Patch

WOW! What a beautiful and

unique location. Yellow Patch is

on the North Eastern side of Curtis

Island off Gladstone and is part of

Curtis Island National Park. Glad-

stone is about a 5 hour drive from

the Sunshine Coast and from

there you can travel by boat to

Yellow Patch either around the

ocean side or up through the area

between Curtis Island and the

Mainland called The Narrows. Via

the outside it is about 28Nm from

Gladstone harbour and about

45Nm up through the Narrows.

Although it is further via the Nar-

rows it is mostly very sheltered

waters and therefore possible for

tinnies and smaller boats.

Back in September Trina,

Sophie and I were lucky enough to

spend a week at Yellow Patch with

my parents on their boat “TackZ

Haven”. Although the wind blew

around 30kn all week, we were

perfectly sheltered in behind the

sand dunes and trees.

There are numerous man-

grove lined creeks with awesome

amounts of structure and plenty

of mud crabs. We caught heaps of

fish including flathead, bream,

cod, stonefish, tarpon, pike and

fingermark as well as losing a few

bigger fish to the snags. There

were a couple of Barramundi

caught by other boaters whilst we

were there, however we were not

lucky enough to tangle with one.

There is a campground in

amongst the trees that is well pro-

tected from all but mosquitos. It

could make a great destination for

a club trip. The view from the top

of the sandblow is spectacular

with views out to the Keppel Is-

lands and beyond as well as back

down the Island to the South. Yel-

low Patch is well worth a visit if

you get the chance

Chris.

Gladstone



DATE TO

REMEMBER MONDAY 7th FEB,7PM

If you are interested in the Snapper,

teraglin & pearl perch 6 WEEK CLO-

SURE in February. A meeting to dis-

cuss the Future of this Review to be

held at the Landmark Resort, The

Esplanade, Mooloolaba Come along

and listen to what Fisheries have to

say. Have your say! There is also a

Response Form in the format of a

survey On the Rocky Reef Fin Fish

Fishery Regulatory Impact Statement,

this is available On line or call into

Maroochy Fishing World for a copy to

be completed & posted by 25/2/11.

With the Mackerel here in force, use this rig if you are lucky

enough to get onto some live bait. Slow troll and get ready.

Midgie Repellant Recipe

200mls Dettol

200mls Baby oil

10mls Pure Lavender oil

10mls Eucalyptus oil

25mls Tea Tree oil

Biting midgies have a hista-

mine like substance in their saliva

which can cause intense itching in

sensitive individuals. To prevent

acute allergic reactions and allow the

body to develop its own immunity to

midge bites, try taking vitamin B-1.

Not in a blend, but pure B1

(Thiamine) This vitamin has an anti-

histamine type action. An adult dose

of 200mg twice a day with meals,

preferably starting 2 weeks before

exposure to midgies has been sug-

gested.

As immunity is developed this

dose can be reduced. Personal immu-

nity generally comes with regular

exposure to low numbers of midge

bites, not occasional heavy exposure.

Treatment of Affected area

♦ Wash asap with soap & water

♦ Calamine lotion

♦ Paste of baking soda and water

♦ Witch hazel (chemist)

♦ Aloe vera gel

♦ Pee on it (let me know if this

works)

Wayne’s Fishing Report from Maroochydore Fishing World

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL CLUB MEMBERS!HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL CLUB MEMBERS!HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL CLUB MEMBERS!HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL CLUB MEMBERS! ESTUARY: Lure casters working snags up Petrie and Coolum returning mangrove jack, bream and flathead. Mud crabs around Bli-Bli Islands. Whiting on yabbies and worms at Cotton Tree with trevally at Twin Waters. Good jew catches reported under the Motorway Bridge with the new moon. SURF: Tailor along Maroochy Beach early morning using pillies and any shiny lure. A few chop-pers and bream at Pincushion just after dark using frogmouth pillies and hardy heads. Flathead and whiting in low tide gutters at North Shore (Twin Waters). OFFSHORE: Spotted and spanish mackeral from Caloundra to Noosa with up to 30 boats seen from the headland chasing them each morning. Snapper reported at the Barwon Banks. Sweetlip, parrot and moses perch at Murphy’s and the outer Gneerings. GAMEFISHING: Bait in all directions, out wide and in close. Black marlin free jumping of Pt. Car-tright and sharks moving into the breakers. Cobia and dolphin fish hanging around the Blinker with some unstoppable. FRESHWATER: Check latest flooding reports before travelling to dams. Reports coming in thick and fast from Bjelke-Petersen and Boondooma with quality catches of golden perch, bass and jew taken on live shrimps, earthworms and deep diving lures that can work down from fifteen to twenty feet. Our local dams of Borumba and Lake McDonald also returning their share of the same. Don’t forget your license.

WAYNE NILSSON. MAROOCHYDORE FISHING WORLD

Fishing Report For January 2011



What’s on & When

The chief woman ‘Greenie activist’ who was respon-

sible for fishing closures around the coast was climbing a

tree to have a look out over a forest when a Tawny Frog-

mouth owl attacked her for invading its nesting site.

In a panic to escape, she slid down the tree getting a great number of splinters lodged in her crotch area. In con-

siderable pain she hurried to the nearest doctor, told him she

was an environmentalist and how she got the splinters. The

doctor listened with great patience and then told her to go

into the examining room and he would see if he could help

her.

She waited 3 hours before the doctor reappeared.

Angry, the woman demanded “What took you so long?’

“Well....” Replied the doctor, “.....I had to get permits from

the Parks and Wildlife, the Department of Natural Resources

and the DPI before I could remove ‘old growth timber’ from

a ‘recreational area’.......I’m sorry, but they all turned me down.”

DATE EVENT

13th January Monthly meeting @ Coast Guard Mooloolaba

14, 15, 16th Jan Sun 1pm - 1:30pm

Estuary Lure comp Weigh in & BBQ @ Fishermans Rd

10th February Monthly meeting @ Ken Mills Toyota TBC

11, 12, 13th February Boondooma Dam Comp and camping trip

10th March Monthly meeting @ Coast Guard Mooloolaba

18, 19, 20th March Sun 1pm –1:30pm

Tuna and Estuary Comp Weigh in and BBQ @ Mooloolaba

14th April Monthly meeting @ Coast Guard Mooloolaba Annual club AUCTION.

15, 16, 17th April Sun 1pm-1:30pm

Mackeral Comp Weigh in and BBQ @ 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.

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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