TASSALI RIGATONI With SALMON and SPINACH

VOL. 17 ISSUE 6
JUNE 2012
THE WAR VETERANS FISHING GROUP IS A NETWORK OF VETERANS DEDICATED TO
ASSISTING DISABLED VETERANS TO PARTICIPATE IN RECREATIONAL FISHING
TASSALI RIGATONI
With SALMON and SPINACH
800g Atlantic Salmon Portions , sliced into 4cm
squares
500g rigatoni
1 medium brown onion, diced
100g baby spinach
60g capers, rinsed
1 large red chilli, finely chopped
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup of white wine
Method
Boil pasta and strain with cold water. Pan-fry salmon for 3-4 minutes, cover and set aside.
Sauté onion and chilli, adding the wine when the onion is translucent. Simmer for 2
minutes and add pasta, salmon, capers, spinach, butter, salt and pepper.
Serve when salmon has warmed through. Serves 4...Cooking Time 10 mins
Next Meeting Friday
TPI House
171 Richmond Rd Richmond
27th JULY 2012 at 1000h
The WVFG meet at 1000hrs on the last Friday of each month, except when the
last Friday coincides with a public holiday. It will then be brought forward one week.
The Group does not meet in December.
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June 2012
ROLL CALL
Kevin Stone, John Murphy, John Hamlyn, Greg Dwiar, Graham Parks, Tony Lawrence,
Lofty Atkinson, Leo van Wijk, Rod Langman, Mike Cleary, Jim Pugh, Mick Mummery, Ray
Vadeikis, Nick Williams
LEAVE PASS ISSUED
Les Walker, Stan Stone, Garry Cook, Ron Swain, Tug Wilson, Roy Burdett, Ike Treloar.
Vince Iannuzzi, Peter Collyer.
AWOL
John Cook, Max Crowhurst, Alex Munro, Bruce Standen, Paul Wells, John Sutton, Mick von
Berg, Bernie Cummins, Warren Kennedy, Ron Milsom, Ray Stanley, Trevor Wilson, Graham
Deguet, Vic Ellul, Paul Millbrook, Klaus Racman, Norm Bell, Pete Smith.
STANDING APOLOGIES, COUNTRY MEMBERS.
Robert Nitschke, Rob Schueler, Max Grund.
NEW MEMBERS
No new members this month. All present and accounted for.
John Murphy chaired the meeting, opening the meeting and reciting the Ode.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning.
We will remember them.
Lest We Forget.
Any enquiries about the
War Veterans Fishing Group
should be made to
Mick Mummery OAM
WTFRW
4 Hassell Ct.
WOODCROFT
p.h. 8387 6707.
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June 2012
Activity Reports
About the middle if June, 14/15/16 to be pre- Photo's of their days work
cise Mike C arranged another TUNA run before
the season closed down, With him were Nick
W and Mick M,
Departing ADELAIDE the trio this time went to
Port Fairy in Victoria, arriving at their lodgings
with ample time to prepare for the forthcoming
days adventure, that's a prelude to their TUNA
run,
I will let them tell their own story, with Mick M
telling of his time, followed by Nick W while
Mick C can summarise the over all trip.
Well done boys for another great fishing
adventure of the group.
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Garry C has had reports of good fishing
from the Southern grounds, garfish and whiting
are still plentiful although the winter Whiting
have not yet fully come into their usual
grounds, they are about for the patient fisherman who will hunt around for the patches and
broken bottoms, Squid are being caught in all
their usual places, it not being unusual to get 2
or 3 squid at a drop and all being of very good
size, One group caught 79 big plump garfish
while another finished the day with 11KGW's
all over the 38cm size.
Leo had not been able to get out on the
water as his boat trailer need some Major and
Minor work done to it, having such a heavy
boat and not sitting evenly on the rollers, it had
to be adjusted to get a regulation towing
weight on the tow ball, moving the rollers to
alleviate the problem, also replacing worn and
sticking rollers, replacing 4 sets of wheel bearings and 4 sets of brake pads, the boat easily
slides off and into the water, retrieval of the
monster is also a lot smoother. So, what is the
next move after all that work has been carried
out? Giving it a trial at O'Sullivans boat ramp
seems the logical thing to do. Launching the
craft was child's play according to Leo, once
outside the harbour the winds were already
reaching close to 20knots, just the type of waters that a re-invigorated boatie was needing to
put it through its paces. The boat handled the
wind and the waves which were running at 1.5
meters and white horses being tossed about
by the wind, which was increasing by the way,
it was time to anchor up to see how stable it
was in the swell and slop for the next hour or
so. Putting a line in the water whiled away
some of the time at anchor, after an hour of
this up and down stuff it was decided to pull up
the anchor and head back into the calmer waters of the marina, his final score being 1 KGW
to 40cm, 1 Tommy Ruff and 2 Red Mullet. The
bait shop owner was pleased to see Leo back
on dry land safe and well, as he was waiting to
close up and head off home for the day out of
the cold.
Mick went to Port Hughes on a charter,
with port Hughes charters strangely enough,
they have a reasonably good deal going this
winter whiting season, for $99 per person you
can get a whole days fishing, all rods and baits
supplied, keep your own catch or arrange before you go out who gets what share of the fish
taken. The boat will hold 10 people including
the Skipper who also acts as his own deckie,
all you need to take is your own lunch and
drinks.
The day started at 1000hr, a bit later than
normal as some of the paying personnel were
late getting there and finished just after
1600hrs, so overall a pretty good deal. so after the wrap for this mob, what was the days
catch results? The final tally was 60 KGW's, 5
keeper snappers and a few squid, although no
one really tried to seriously for them. Mick suggests you keep this trip in mind if you want to
gather a few mates or other members for a day
out on the water. This is their every day price,
no further discounts apply.
John M fished out from Moana about
mid month when the weather calmed down
and made conditions favourable for fishing,
Coming close inshore, his target species was
Silver Whiting, these are a nice table fish and
easily caught if you use a light rod, reel and
size 6 long shanked hooks with cockles or softened squid for bait. They finished the day with
28 Silveries, 7 Sweep of eatable size and 2
short finned Drummer. Returning to the same
area a few days later, they caught 12 Silveries,
20 Sweep, all keepers, an uncountable number of Leatherjackets, Wrasse and this time for
something different, a Silver Drummer. These
are good areas to fish if you think there is nothing in the northern end of the Gulf, try changing directions on your way to the ramp.
Tony L has been pretty quite at Port
Hughes over the last couple of months, not being able to get out as he almost severed one of
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Activity Reports
his fingers in an incident at home. Some reports are that the fish have not been schooling
up as yet, with only scattered fish about, the
blue crabs are still about the place, mainly being caught between the two jetties, at the moment they are pretty skinny on the meat size as
they have been a bit slow to move out to their
winter hiding/mating grounds.
Tony went out with the Pt Hughes boat
club on one of their fishing days and returned
with 14KGW's ranging between 32 and 42
cms, so there are signs of things to come during the colder months in the area.
MIGHTY
MARRON
MARATHON
We visited Fisheries, Council. PIRSA
and National Parks and Wildlife offices for information. They had none. In fact, the National Parks people whose job it is to police Marron
on the island, had no idea, no policy and only
knew that Marron were caught west of
Parndana. But we did find out one important
thing. Most creeks and rivers run through private property and farmer catch Marron to sell
to the Marron
Farm when
things get
tough and
income is
low. So they
take unkindly
to people
who trespass
on their property to catch
their Marron.
So that
leaves precious
few
places
to
fish.
The Wildlife
No trip to Kangaroo Island is complete
without getting seasick on the ferry, and eating people told us that the Middle River Damn, a
favourite place for tourists to catch Marron, had
Marron.
been fenced off and was no longer available to
Having
the public. More Crown land lost to us. So we
accomconsulted our map and made our plans.
plished
the first on
I used lamb heart as bait after much rethe trip
search. It proved to be a great decision. We
over, there
drove west 55km to Parndana, then continued
only reon until we came to a dirt road that would take
mained
us into the forest country. About 4:30 we locatthe deed a likely spot and humped our opera nets
lightful
down to the river. To my mind, it was an extask of
tremely small creek but I am assured it was a
eating the
river that feeds into Middle River Dam. We
marron. So off to Andemel Marron Farm. It’s
worked our way up the creek until we were
an interesting if short visit to the Marron display
about 100 metres from the road, a necessity
and the 52 breeding pools do tend to lack the
the Ozone Publican told us as most locals
ability to remain focussed for more than a few
check rivers and creeks near roads to see if
seconds. The restaurant however, is another
they are any tourist nets they can raid. Up at
thing entirely. We satisfied our curiosity and
6:00am next morning and on the road by 6:30.
hunger pains with a Marron Platter for two at
Pulled the nets at about 7:30. We did well.
just $84. It was very, very, good. And they
Almost all Marron and very large, in the 300were dotted throughout the Restaurant, with
350gm range. Rebaited and tossed them back
many people enjoying their very first taste of
in. Back at the unit, we placed the live Marron
Marron.
in the freezer tray and left them there until they
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became dormant, then dropped them in boiling
water, cooking them until they floated to the
top, then dropped them into iced water to stop
them cooking on the inside. When they cooled
we scrubbed them with a nail brush to remove
as much of the black crap they move about in
on the bottom of the river as possible. It’s more
for appearance sake. But they come up excep-
we spend time on the Kingscote Jetty indulging
in our favourite pastime of drowning Gents, and
feeding the bottom dwellers off the Jetty. After
three days, not a Tommie to be seen, no
snook, one 40cm KGW, one small weedy whiting and a lone baby octopus. But we did get a
nice squid. There is evidence of some very
large squid ink squirts along the jetty but they
are old. We weren’t alone on the jetty, sharing
it with a number of squid hunters who remained
squid less and even a few Tommie fishermen
who remained Tommieless. I thought that with
the Kangaroo Island Cup and the KI Feast
Spectacular just passed, that it was possible
too many visitors had over-fed the fish with berley, but subsequent enquiries’ proved that there
hasn’t been any fish since the end of summer.
But those who ventured out in boats into the
bay during lulls in the rain, did catch fish.
tionally well. Then we dried them and placed
them in the freezer. When frozen we bagged
them up and stored them in another freezer
tray. Then it began all again at 6:00am the
next day and the day after, and the day after
that. On Thursday, it was raining and Martina
pulled the first net and found to her surprise a
huge Marron, far bigger than any we had seen
at the Marron Farm. At 27cm it is a huge specimen but if we knew what parts of it to measure, it may well have gone 30cm.
Some very big salmon came from the
southern side of the island. But it was a great
time and I enjoyed it immensely, visiting the
honey farms, the liquor distillery, the eucalyptus
distillery the Marron Farm, the Pure Dairy and
The Bay of Shoals winery. Two boxes of wines
I brought home from that winery to go with my
Marron. There are a lot of productive fishing
grounds not too far from the coast and as long
as you don’t venture too far south, you don’t
need a large boat.
We caught very few Yabbies as the Mar- Graham P
ron proved to be the dominant species or they
were quicker than the Yabbies. What we did
find is that the Yabbies while smaller, did average the size of the Marron sold in the Restaurant. So they added to our delight.
Xmas wind up
Lunch
In an attempt to supplement our Marron,
Xmas wind up Lunch and awards will be
at the Ambassadors Hotel King William St Adelaide on Sat 24th November starting at 12
noon. We have (or Graham P has) booked the
upstairs balcony for the lunch, overlooking King
William Street with the hustle and bustle of
xmas shopping going on underneath us. We
have the area to our selves so will not be competing with others on the day. Prices for mains
start at $17.00 Book with Graham at the next
meetings.
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FUTURE ACTIVITIES
COWELL
August 20th—25th
and are available at Target stores for $2.50 a
can, might be just the thing next time you go on
a charter or have a day in the boat. Their web
site is www.hot-can.com.au
The next road fishing trip is our journey Latte, Hot Chocolate, Mocha and Tea, also Toto Cowell for the winter Whiting and Snapper mato, Vegetable & Chicken soup.
departing on Monday 20th August and returning Sat 25th August. cabins have been booked
at the Cowell Cabin Park.
Cowell is a 6 hour road trip, but you will
find it well worth the effort if you attend. We
have checked out the tides, the sun and moon
will be alright, the only thing we cannot assure
you of is the wind and sea conditions, however
Franklin harbour is well protected from the wind
so 5 days fishing will be the go. The cabins are
well fitted out for comfort, the only thing you will
need to bring is your bed linen if needed or a
sleeping bag. There are two boats going at this
stage, Max G who lives opposite the Cabin
Park will have his boat available also.
If you have not already done so a $10
deposit is needed and can be paid in at the July meeting. The cost per cabin per night with 3
people is $120, if you want to be all alone in a
cabin the cost will be $100 per night.
Suggestions have been made that we
do a land based late afternoon fish for yellow
fin and Silver whiting during November.
Another thought is that we have another
late afternoon fish this time targeting flathead
during December
The cockling season starts up again in
November, so start improving your ideas with
cockle catchers, while the December Snapper
opener will be upon us as well, best we get a
charter arranged for that day as well. Start saving your $$$$’s now.
Web site bring revamped
Nick W gave an updated report on
the whys and wherefores of the web
site, Rob S has passed on to nick the
administration of the web site and the
ability to keep it up dated and ongoing.
Nick has not the knowledge that Rob
has with web designs and building, Nick
saying that he has found it difficult to
keep it in the same manner that rob had
set up. In order for the website to be a
more hands on user friendly web site,
Nick has redesigned it to allow him to
easily keep it up dated. If you have anything of interest you would like to have
on the web site, then a call to Nick or the
article emailed to him and i am sure he
will be able to fit it in somewhere.
Need a hot cup of soup or coffee on you
next fishing trip. There is a new product on the Nicks email is 1nickw@gmail.com, the
market called Hot can, drinks come with a ring website address is wvfg.org.au
pull top which then starts a heating process
WVFG Newsletter
Tug Wilson
Fisherman of the Year 2011
MSPECIES
BARRACOUTA
BARRAMUNDI
BLUE CRAB
2012
BLUE GROPER
BLUE MORWONG
2012
REEF BREAM
BREAM
EAGLE RAY
EUROPEAN CARP
CORAL TROUT
CRAYFISH
CUTTLEFISH
DRUMMER
EAGLE RAY
FLATHEAD
FLOUNDER
GARFISH
GOLDEN SNAPPER
HARLEQUIN
2012
JEWFISH
KINGFISH
LEATHERJACKET
MULLET
MUD CRAB
MARRON
MACKEREL (SLIMY)
NANNYGAI
OCTOPUS
PERCH - SILVER
PERCH - REDFIN
SALMON
SAMSON FISH
SHARK- GUMMY
SHARK - WHISKERY
SHARK-SCHOOL
SHARK - WOBBEGONG
SNAPPER
2012
SNOOK
SQUID
STRONGY
SWALLOW TAIL
2012
SWEEP
TREVALLY
BROWN TROUT
RAINBOW TROUT
TUNA BLUEFIN
2012
WHITING YELLOWFIN
TUNS SKIPJACK
WHITING K GEORGE
2012
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June 2012
WAR VETERANS
FISHING GROUP
OFFICIAL RECORDS 2012
WEIGHT
N/R
5.86 kg
N/R
N/R
Est. 20 kg
6.5kg
4.8kg
4.5 kg
1.56 kg
Est 60kg
1.38 kg
4.2 kg
3.2 kg
3.5 kg
N/R
Est. 60KG
2.15 kg
N/R
N/R
4.00 kg
3 kg
N/R
11 kg
27 kg
N/R
N/R
1.6kg
N/R
N/R
4.4 kg
6.74kg
N/R
N/R
4.12 kg
17 kg
N/R
N/R
17.7kg
N/R
9.7kg
7.7kg
N/R
1.1 kg
1.15 kg
1.3 kg
N/R
N/R
4 kg
2.1 kg
0.9kg
18.4 kg
17kg
N/R
3.5kg
1.3 kg
N/R
LENGTH
110 cm
80.2 cm
65cm
60cm
N/R
86 cm
80cm
59.5 cm
48 cm
1.70cm
51 cm
70 cm
N/R
N/R
52 cm
170 cm
67 cm
48 cm
41 cm
69 cm
58 cm
43cm
112 cm
140 cm
43.5 cm
31.2 cm
N/R
30cm
46.5 cm
65 cm
132 cm
32 cm
28 cm
69 cm
N/R
175 cm
Est. 150 cm
145 cm
210 cm
100 cm
87 cm
89 cm
86 cm
47 cm
46 cm
43cm
54cm
70 cm
50 cm
41 cm
N/R
N/R
39 cm
N/R
57 cm
56cm
LOCATION
Coffin Bay
Corroboree (NT)
Sema4 Reef
Sema4 Reef
Cape Forbin
Pondalowie
Pondalowie
Shoal Bay (NT)
Pt. River
Ardrossan
Renmark
Fitzroy Reef
Western Drop
Corny Point
Tipera Light
Ardrossan
Pt. Turton
St. Kilda
N.W. Ground
Darwin NT
Investigator Strait
Pondalowie
Bynoe NT
Port Augusta
Port Hughes
Coffin Bay
Leeders Creek NT
Kangaroo Isl
Pondalowie
Pondalowie
Pondalowie
Renmark
Khancoban
Gunyah Beach
Cape Forbin
Pt. Victoria
Port Victoria
Pondalowie
Port Hughes
Pt. Victoria
Port Victoria
Roslyn Shoal
Fowlers Jetty
Fowlers Ledge
Rivies
Pondalowie
Pondalowie
Darwin Reef
Khancoban
Eucumbene
Pt Lincoln
Pondalowie
Pine Point
Port MacDonnell
The Pines
Tipera Light
CATCH
Tony L.
Phil C
Vic E
Graham P.
Mick M.
Michael C..
Tug W.
Tug W.
Rob S.
Kevin S.
Bob. H
Ted C.
Tug W.
Jeffery B.
Tony L.
Kevin S.
Klaus R.
Sid J.
Greg D.
Bob H.
Kevin S.
Graham P.
Tug W.
Mick M.
Tony L.
Bob H.
Tug W.
Martina
Mick M.
Tug W.
Mick M.
Kevin S.
Bob H.
Richard I.
Eugene N.
Ike T
Tug W.
Terry W
Rob S.
Richard I
Mick M.
Sid J.
Jeff B.
Mick M.
Michael C.
Kevin S.
Kevin S.
Vince I.
Kevin S.
Lofty
Michael C.
Kevin S.
Colin S.
Fred DeL
Tony L.
Tony L.
Nick Williams
Catch of the Year 2011
WITNESS
John H.
Bridget C.
Anna E.
Greg D.
Rob S.
Nick W.
Michael C.
Mal N.
Mick M.
Nick W.
Vince I
Laurel C.
Lofty A.
Paul M.
Fiona L.
Nick W
Ross C.
Col F.
Graham P.
Greg D.
Vince I.
Kevin S.
Bob S.
Max G.
Rod L.
Greg D.
Malcolm N.
Graham P
Nick W.
Mal N.
Graham P.
Bob H.
Kevin S.
Peter B.
Rob S.
Vince I
Mick M.
Klaus R.
Tony L.
Norm B.
Nick W.
Mick M.
Rob S.
Paul M.
Mick M.
Vince I.
Tug W.
Kevin S.
Beverley S.
Helen
Bob C.
Nick W.
Paul M.
Michael C.
Fiona L.
Fiona L.
DATE
Oct 06
Sept 08
Feb 11
Mar 12
Failie 02
Dec 11
April 12
May 06
Feb 98
Feb 11
May 07
Aug 02
Jan 06
Failie 02
Feb 12
Feb 11
Mar 05
April 00
Mar 12
Aug 08
Oct 10
Dec 11
May 00
Aug 02
Mar 07
Oct 06
June 11
June 12
April 11
Dec 01
Jan 10
May 07
Nov 06
Feb 01
Failie 02
Oct 10
Oct 06
Jan 10
Mar 08
Dec 09
Dec 11
Failie 03
Sept 00
Sept 00
Failie 03
Apr 12
Apr 12
Aug 08
Nov 04
Mar 10
Mar 03
Apr 12
Mar 08
Apr 12
Mar 08
Feb 12