October 9th - Perth Game Fishing Club

Perth Game Fishing Club Inc
Postal Address:
PO Box 57 North Beach 6920
President:
Ben Weston 0419 777720
© Perth Game Fishing Club 2015
www.pgfc.com.au
contact@pgfc.com.au
9th October 2015
IN THIS EDITION:
Season over – results to be announced at Presentation Dinner. Snapper taking over
where salmon left off in Cockburn Sound. YFT showing up.
Fishing
Local
The 2015 club year has closed and the Club Championship points calculated. A flurry of
activity in the last couple of weeks leading up to year end on 30 th September, saw big
salmon schools closely attended by sharks in the Mewstone area. They became a frenetic
target of club members trying to capture the fish that would have them winning the year
end trophy. The usual suspects were out there and were joined by a few newbies all with
the same focus. Good fun, good fishing and all in the spirit of clean competition.
The run of salmon has been somewhat superseded by the snapper pre-spawning run, with
most snapper anglers bagging out in their favourite spots with this iconic species. We may
not have billfish all year round off the Perth coast, but we certainly have a great variety of
other species to chase all year round.
But it hasn’t just been snapper.
Gabriel Gomez was out fishing
off Hillarys for pinkies when
he saw this 40kg yellowfin
tuna swim past on the
surface. They quickly threw
out some cubes while he
ripped his snapper rig up from
the bottom. After quickly
cutting off the sinker and
putting a whole mulie on the
single 3/0, he cast out for a
quick hook-up on what he
considers one of his most
memorable fish. “Long time
since I have been on the rod
and I haven't felt this excited
on a fish for a long time”.
There is a rumour that a
similar fish was caught off the
bottom out from Fremantle
last week.
Hopefully a sign of good things to come early in the season.
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President Ben Weston took
father-in-law Greg Meldrum
out for his birthday snapper
fishing with Al Bevan on
Shikari Charters along with
club members Dave Gray,
Rick Ashton, Nick Lorenz and
Dean Rundell. They had a
great day out catching some
great pink snapper. Birthday
boy Greg caught a whopping
90cm pinky weighing in at
over 10kgs. It was a great
fish and well worth getting a
group together if you want to
learn how to fish soft plastics.
If anyone is keen to come out
please contact Ben 0419
Greg Meldrum’s 90 cm snapper
777720 as he is keen to go
out again and learn some more. Al is a very experienced skipper and the first spot we
fished on sunrise produced the goods with the other birthday boy Dean hooking a nice fish
and a few others lost due to the ground they were fishing. A great day out with a really
good bunch of guys.
Garden Island
Past President Rhyss Whittred penned this item after a torrid week of afternoon and evening
fishing around Garden Island.
“Having some good weather around during September
and the ease of having Ashram based at Cockburn
Power Boat Association made the decision to target
snapper over at Garden Island an easy one. We would
pop down to the Club at lunchtime, load up and put
the boat in a pen until we knocked off work. 15
minutes steaming to the other side of Garden Island
put us in the right area and a quick sound around to
locate the schools with anchor laid was a pleasure.
Frank’s brace of snapper
We found a lot of good schools but over time learnt
that snapper schools near reef ledges generally
resulted in us getting busted off on the reefs with that
initial run at hook up. Finding a school on the flatter
limestone ground and fish that schooled near the
bottom it appeared they seemed to feed more actively
than those that were higher up the water column.
We started off bait fishing with conventional 20 pound braid but fishing for snapper became
quite easy and over the next few trips we used 3, 4 and 6kg mono for those that joined us
from PGFC and wanted to tag for some points. Dave from Taylor’s and industry friends that
came out all enjoyed either their first or biggest snapper caught.
Lukas’
first
snapper
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Good mates Ryan,
Frank, Dave and
Regan took it to
the next level and
we purely fished
soft plastics, fine
tuning retrieve
techniques for
catching and
releasing fish.
Sinking fly lines
Ben – bagging out
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on 9 and 10 weight rods with 8 kg tippet became the next project and many snapper to 8kg
were caught.
It was now time to introduce some juniors to the fun and those lovely balmy afternoon/
evenings allowed us the opportunity to get a couple of 6 year olds, Ben and Lukas out to thrill
them with their chance to catch fish. Both lads did well and caught a couple each but the size
of the fish and size of them required a little help from one of us. Nevertheless the excitement
and smiles on their faces will never be forgotten and the fishing bug has definitely bitten these
two.”
Heading North
Not so far north, but definitely
warmer than Perth, keen pair
Steve Ducas and Lisa Powell
headed for one of their
favourite beach fishing haunts,
Horrocks Beach, nestled on the
coast just on 500 km from
Perth. This is a great getaway
destination when there is a
preference to get off the water
for a change. Among other
catches was this nice 5kg
mulloway for Lisa.
Members Only Facebook Page
For those members who are on Facebook we have a Members Only Group that sits behind
our public club page.
The link below will take you to the group where you can ask to join.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/675319895921444/
We will be checking all people off against the members list before we approve their access
to the page to ensure only eligible people are granted access.
This page can be used for reports, looking for crew, for sale etc so we encourage everyone
to join if you can.
If you have any problems getting into the page you can message us on Facebook and we
will look into it ASAP.
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Record Membership
The club has set yet another membership milestone. The final membership number for the
year ending 30th September 2015 was 366!
In a value conscious climate when many other clubs are struggling to attract and retain
members, PGFC continues to grow, with already 6 new members for 2016.
Target for 2016 is 400 members - do your bit to help increase our numbers.
Calendar
Changes and updates may occur, check the website and click on Events for details.
October
Fri 16
Annual Presentation Dinner
RPYC Crawley
Tue 10
Annual General Meeting and Social Night
RPYC Fremantle
Sat 14
FAD Deployment
DPI Fremantle
Sat–Sun 21-22
Opening Weekend
Rottnest Island
Annual Christmas Social Night
RPYC Fremantle
November
December
Tue 1
History of Hook-Up
The first issue of Hook-Up was sent to members under
the banner “Newsflash” on 28th January 2003. On
15th November 2003 it was renamed, at the
suggestion of Kay Webber, as Hook-Up. At the time
of the first single page edition there were only 20 or
so members that had email addresses. This issue
of Hook-Up will go to well over 300 addresses with
only around 10 members now not having an email
address.
During the past 12½ years contributions have
come from a huge number of members for the
benefit of all. The objective of Hook-Up has always
been to inform members of what is happening on the
local game fishing scene, club goings-on and the activities of likeminded members. At a guess there has been around 300 separate Hook-Ups circulated.
The future of Hook-Up is sound, but it does rely on members being its primary news
source, so keep the information coming through, however small. Future issues will
include extracts from past publications.
Next Issue
The next issue of Hook-Up will come out following the Presentation Night and will include
all scores and trophy winners for 2015. There’s also an item on the Monte Bellos and
whatever else comes in during the week.
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PGFC Annual Club Championship Scores
Eddy Moss Trophy - Champion Angler
John Holmes
Glen Rattigan
Dylan Picken
Shane Anderson
Rhyss Whittred
Brian Arnett
Tim Carson
Brett Fonti
Des Beach
Alexander Kaiko
Deon Van Der Westhuizen
Phillip Volich
Kevin Baker
Luke Ryan
Hon Su Chin
Peter Harvey
Carl Babarskas
Richard Buchanan
Mark Jamieson
Nicholas Lorenz
Ashley Hicks
Robert Nesbit
Warren Jolley
Christian Strydom
Steven Ducas
Mark Jarrett
Peter Babarskas
Mathew Gruber
Andrew Pearson
Heinrich Wasserman
Duane Whelan
Ben Weston
Rick Ashton
Cameron Trowbridge
Darren Burleigh
Trent Chilman
Mathias Luedtke
John Webber
5099
4368
4279
3090
3074
2783
2539
1784
1729
1375
1294
1079
1025
915
892
892
856
817
728
714
646
548
473
471
460
455
432
423
396
354
328
327
289
250
237
140
132
125
Club championship points are updated to
18th August 2015.
Kay Webber Trophy - Champion
Female Angler
Sarah Coleman
Lisa Powell
Rebecca Oncken
Rachel Tees
Kristine Koening
1128
753
546
344
176
President’s Trophy - Champion Boat
Southern Blue
Rock N Roll
Vanquish
Ashram
Whiskers
Naturaliste
Likely Story
Deeper Still
Striker
Simrad
Bill Play
Buddha
Salacia
Midnight Rambler
Alura
9637
7846
5079
4848
3006
2676
2309
2179
2119
1443
1375
1278
892
856
776
Junior Trophy
Jessica Jarrett
106
Neil Patrick Trophy
Brian Arnett
Dylan Picken
Ashley Hicks
Jim Ireland
Neil Patrick
Damien Cestrilli
Peter Harvey
Kevin Ireland
Rhyss Whittred
4
4
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
h
Members are reminded that whilst all care
is taken, members are responsible for
ensuring their points are correct. No
adjustments up or down, will be made
after the final club year points have been
awarded.
Garden Island Snapper on fly.
Image: Rhyss Whittred - Ashram
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Opening Weekend
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FOR SALE
2014 Haines Hunter 650R Limited – “Resurgence”
Resurgence is a highly capable game fishing trailer boat; it won the
PGFC Marlin Cup this year. It is fully set up to start fishing right away
with nothing to be done – heaps of rod storage, outriggers, Furuno
sounder/chart-plotter, twin live wells, bait board. The large cockpit
will easily accommodate four anglers, and the cork floor is non-slip,
easy to clean and stays cool.
The vessel is in immaculate condition, has done only 230 hours, and
would suit a potential new boat buyer.
For more details please contact Shane Anderson on 0407 003 453.
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