WELCOME• Members and freeloading bums alike were welcomed by the newly instituted moderator, Master of

Ceremonies, and general provocateur Billy PEE at the Waters Edge, 8pm Friday the 14th Dec 2012.• November Minutes confirmed by the Donno in the newly established monthly meeting format of various

members inflicting their oration styles on all the members present. • Present tonight were around 40 members; The Big C & Rosie, The Big C’s Mum Sherry, Tarvi, BBJo,

The Font,The SOON YEE, Rajineeesh, Tukai, Erikk and Geeeta, The Donno, Cherie and menagerie, The Katie and Billy PEE, Lo and Scott, Nathan, The Renee,Mari, Asta, Jack aka Bob, Ronnie, Mike Brook, Charlie Jennings, Jonathon and Taraima Mitchell, Ben, Paddy, Ferd, Sue, Jeff, India, Tandra, Sulia, Cyndee, Charcoal,Kapeena and John Lyn, and Russell.

• Apologies from Ben Pickering who is doing well from his stent dialysis implant and is walking now. He hopes to return in March 2013, The Sarah was either making preparations for the cyclone or watching a tv series, and Rosie stuck in Savu Savu (thus all our usual line up of photographers not present for tonight).

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MONTHLY MEETING

MINUTES14th December, 2012

Cyclone Evan bears down on Fiji.

The Big C having strayed off the Abascal Way!

Tragic Picture of storm damage.

Cyclone Evan’s final track...

EVENTS COMMITTEE

Not much seems to be happening here, The SOON YEE!

ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITTEE

Chairman Mao appears to be missing in action, so without any of his direction, much time and anguish was spent discussing the garbage bin erection, location and maintenance at the Taunovo Beach path.Ronnie volunteered to oversee the bin placement and removal of rubbish project.

Many members’ contemplating doing this in preference to the garbage

bin discussion.Workers and Cheerleaders with

Big Bad Joe’s blue bin effort.

Santa Erikkk enjoying christmas on Beqa.

FISHING TALES

The floor was opened to members to regale us with stories of their fishing tales from the month gone by:

• Young Spud - Spent 6 hours at beach fishing and caught no fish.

• Ronnie/Jack/Jamie/The Donno - 1 day trip to Raki Raki yielded a smorgasboard of 9 Paka Paka fish cooked up for that night’s dinner.

Brian and young spud digging the holes.

New bridge providing public access to the beach.

Pre-wetting the gravel mix for the concrete.

Elsie, The Donno, Leah and Tarvi.

Twisted Leaders immortalised in concrete..

This looks staged.Overseers in white. Muscle in stripes.

IMPORTANT SAFETY CONSIDERATION (from your ever diligent Safety Marshal - The Donno)

Don’t even think about venturing out into the open water to fish during the onset of a cyclone!

EDUMUCATION COMMITTEE

As CYCLONE EVAN bearing down on us, this night’s presentation and general discussion centered around Cyclone Preparedness and evaluating the various forecasting websites.Below are photo’s from a fantastic presentation given by Erikkk back in the October meeting, which was so good it is reproduced here, even though it will appear in that month’s minutes when they finally get done..

Excellent presentation by the Erikk on fish species living in the estuary of Pacific Harbour,

how to catch ‘em and spawning behaviour..

Kake Kabatia

Saga (Trevally) Sabutu (Emporer)

The Best Bait (Scad Mackeral) Saga

Saga Saga (Bronzie)

DamuDamu Light

(1/3 of the weight)

Silasila (Small Barracuda) Kawakawa

November MEMBER’S CATCH

The Big C regaled us with his Oman fishing trip highlights and it was the best of the year, particularly his

story of hauling in by hand a 50kG PLUS GT!

The Rosie looking hot, hot HOT ! with a Bream and

Spangled Emperor

Queen Fish

Spangled Emperor

Bula to all my Twisted Leader friends, Steelhead fishing here on the Rogue River has gotten good.  There have been some big fish.  We just got our first rain in months and it will improve the fishing in the near future for sure.   Here are a couple of the nicer fish in the last week or so.    The big one is 14 lbs!!  That's a big steelhead for here.   Hope you all are having some fun.      Tight lines.............Pablo

TREASURER’S REPORT

We are broke! Membership Fees are overdue !

OTHER NEWS

• The Big C has signed the Club up to NaDraki weather to be emailed daily to all “paid up” Twisted Leaders’ members.

• Lo and Scott relocating to Coffs Harbour early in 2013.• Introductions included members of Mike Brook’s family, Jonathon and Taraima Mitchell.• Ronnie’s boat almost finished and prior to the delay of the impending cyclone, was to be ready before

Christmas. Looks like the painting and fittings will have to occur in January now.• New Meeting Disciplinary position appointed to Mike Brooks, formerly to be known as the Sargeant

at Arms aka as bully boy.• Still waiting on the Ciguteara report and Emergency Phone Tree which will hopefully be made

available sometime in 2013.• Reports from Nadi of lots of Tuna and Fly fishing Trevailles at Yassawa.

Meeting ended at 9.30 pm. PLEASE NOTE. Next meeting is Friday the 11th Jan, 2013 at 7.30pm.

Rather emaciated looking Twisted Leader Piggy Bank

which appears to be suffering under The Renee’s

ministrations.

FISH RECIPE OF THE MONTH

Almost Fresh Philistine Fish (Based on a true story)

1. Promise your fishing buddies you’ll clean up the fish and that you will deliver their share tomorrow. But as a “wise” man once said “If I give you some, that will be less for me.”

2. Don’t bother cleaning the fish when you get home from such a hard day out on the beautiful waters of Waidroka Bay. Lay your weary ass down as soon as you return home. Those fish will be fine in the cooler overnight.

3. Drip dry your fish as you walk through the house and toss them on the freshly laid tablecloth. That’ll distract The Missus while you commit some other heinous crime in the kitchen.

4. Gut those fish in the kitchen sink, and discretely shove the entrails down the drain when she’s not looking.

5. Preparation.....Shmeparation! Store bought herb mix. Sprinkle apply.

6. Fry those suckers up. Three or four pans going at once. Ignore The Missus’ grumblings that those fish are too fat to shallow fry.

7. Eat until done. Take photo and send to fishing buddies so they can share in your meal.

8. Lay on bed allowing oil and fish crumbs to soil pillow case while patting rotund belly and enjoying a job well done.

DISCLAIMERIf something in these minutes offends you, please bring it to our attention so we can all collectively heap scorn and derision on you. My sense of humour may hurt your feelings, I suggest you drink a bowl of grog and get over it. Members and other unauthorized recipients are advised to be ATTENDANT at the meeting in order to establish the veracity and accuracy of these minutes. The author is not liable for any libel arising from any inaccuracies and flagrant distortions of the observable truth, due in part to the possible onset of dementia, short attention span, and effects of Grog on this sub prime crusty old fart. I also appear to be going deaf, so PLEASE SPEAK UP !! Any miss spelt words and/or bad ‘grama’ and/or piss poor punctuation - tell it to someone that cares. (maybe The Rosie, head of our Complaints Department, who it is known, likes to listen to drawn out tales of woe and self-regret).Any criticism of these minutes will be treated the same as a legless man teaching running, and there will be no answering of any query based on the possibility (however remote) that the answer is not known. From experience, It has been found pointless in arguing with idiots, as they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.If you received these minutes in error, take it as a sign that you are indeed blessed and fortunate to be receiving the pearls of wisdom contained therein and then remit the requisite membership fee as a sign of appreciation. Failure to do so may result in ubiquitous viral nasties infesting and plaguing your computer, which won’t be from any contained within the transmission of this document, but by the bad JuJu inherent in your erstwhile actions. Failure to invite and actually TAKE OUT FISHING the author on any fishing expeditions, may result in a diverse disproportionate disturbing diatribe disseminated onto your deserving deadset drongo dropkick delinquent derriere. If voicing any disdain at this dilemma, don’t let the door hit you where the creator split your difference on the way out.It should be emphasized that no photos received are altered in any way by the author, to render the subject (sender) in unflattering ways, however, sometimes the subject forgets (in their quest for universal acclaim and approval of their feats) that they indeed may be considered butt ugly and no amount of editing or photoshop can fix their unfortunate plight.Whilst I am busy dispensing self serving platitudes or aphorisms, remember “carpe diem” and “fishing is a way of life”, and failure to do either is not “mea maxima culpa”.

The Donno - Twisted Leaders Secretary (with mucho help from The Sarah)