A big thank you to the girls from Gorges cafe for their sponsorship this month.
The river section fished very well again this month with some nice bream weighed in. Di Stewart had 3 live bream, all caught within a couple of hours as she had to work most of the day. Cheryl Eley had 2 and Brett Bain one. New member Maryanne Muir debuted with two bream out fishing husband Peter. Well dome Maryanne. Weigh master Gary Ivey did it again showing 4 live bream with the biggest at .758grams making it the biggest for the year so far, and winning the river section.

Maryanne shows off her bream.
Only 2 juniors fished the river this month and Beau Ivey won the section with a bream and a whiting. Beau’s bream equalled the biggest for the year at exactly .758grams that Gary had. 
Drawing for the biggest for the year, junior angler Beau Ivey
The land based or beach section was very quiet with no anglers fishing, might have been a bit to do with the big swell pounding the beaches over night.
An extraordinary good day presented itself for the boat anglers amongst the windy, cold, rainy weeks we have been and are having, so the three boats who took the advantage and went out were rewarded with some fair fish.
Nik Bramwell was out early in his dinghy “Hurricane” thought about going west, saw the grey sky and turned south along the cliffs. He need not have worried as the day just got better and better. Nik told us that he could not get past the dhuies to the better fish, releasing multitudes of undersize ones and missing out on the snapper?
His haul of 4 fish included 2 dhuies, a small sambo and a cod that was the biggest for the year at 1.044kg. That won’t last long.
Laurie Malton and Jason Agrela were out aboard Bulawayo Buoy, mixing it up between game fishing and bottom. The mackerel and tuna were absent but they found a snapper spot with Jason landing a 2.1kg pinky on 2kg line to win the game section. Jason’s first line class fish, well done Jason.

Jason shows off his line class snapper and tackle he caught it on.
It wasn’t long until the blowies moved in and began destroying their tackle so they up graded to the heavy stuff and found it hard to get through the blowies to the snapper, but Jason did it again landing a nice 3.5kg specimen. Laurie’s two snapper added points for the boat.

Jason with his 3.5kg snapper
The third boat out was Jo Jo with skipper Craig Gibson and new member Russell Page. They also went south and had trouble getting past the skippy! Both had 8 fish mainly skippy with Russell’s skippy the biggest this year at 1.88kgs while Craig romped it in to win with skippy, black arse cod, a small samson and the biggest snapper so far at 4.117kgs.
Jason Agrela won the RSL Meritorious voucher of $50.00 for his line class snapper as well as the restaurant prize from Gorges Café. Clint from Perth won the $50.00 worth of scratchies raffle, and there was no mug of the month stories, so the free beer went begging
Next event is a monthly comp on the 22nd August.
Laurie Malton