Southport Amateur Fishing Club Inc

G.R. Thompson Park Marine Parade Southport Qld 4215

PO BOX 587 Southport BC 4215 www.safc.net.au

Our guest speaker on 7th August will be Jonathon Miller of Master Mech. Marine, Helensvale on the maintenance and preventative servicing of marine equipment.

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Sat 14th to 21st July. Deep sea charter and accommodation at Evans Head. - fully booked

Fri 31st Aug to Mon 3rd Sept Evan’s Head Camping Trip com-bined with deep sea charter on both Sat/Sun trips out. Interested members must book by mid July. For details please see flyer at-tached.

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SAFC welcome the following New Members to our Club:

The Hinde Family, Frank Baines, Jeremy Orr, Garry Richards, Corey Richards

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The SAFC would like to mention the passing of one of our past members Mr Theunis Oberholzer. His funeral was held on Friday 15th June and we send our condo-lences to his family at this time.

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Our annual Pot Luck Dinner is on the 7th July. Please see attachment for your invite and all the details.

Regards

John Ford

PRESIDENTS REPORTPRESIDENTS REPORTPRESIDENTS REPORTPRESIDENTS REPORT

Welcome everyone to our June/July Newsletter. Wet conditions have con-tinued but have not dampened our enthusiasm for fishing events.

We have fished our annual Comp against the Amateur Fishing Associa-tion of Queensland who are located at Bribie Island. The contest was held in the Tipplers to Jumpinpin area, accom-modation was booked at TSS camping grounds on Sth Stradbroke Is. SAFC won the Comp and we can expect to see the winners shield ‘sometime soon!’

The base provided good facilities and was appreciated by all that used them in fact we would like to consider hav-ing a purely SAFC weekend there in the future.

Our Ballina trip on May long weekend, organised by Wayne Davis was a very successful trip and a similar trip next year has been proposed.

Our lease on the club site ends in June 2013, negotiations are underway for a renewal of lease but will be affected by the 2018 Commonwealth Games and therefore the future outcome of the club will be strongly negotiated.

A big thank you to the Club Members attending the polling booth in support of our Patron Dawn Crichlow. Our booth scored a 53% polling for Dawn and it was great to see her elected for another 4 years.

Agreement has been reached with the Gold Coast Sports Fishing Club for a further years continuation of occupa-tion of the Clubhouse at a 60% in-crease in contributions.

NEWSLETTER JUNE/JULY 2012

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Club Members have attended two fund raising BBQ’s, Earth Hour and The Gold Coast Monster Machinery Day organised by Bernie Gaven and proved very success-ful for club funds. A big thank you to Bernie and for the excellent support from our hard working members.

The “Take a Kid Fishing Day’ had 22 jun-iors including 13 Cub Scouts attend for a great effort with 13 fish caught on The Broadwater in front of the Clubhouse. Members volunteered and ran the day with a workshop session and a casting competition. We received a glowing thank you letter from QAFCA for our efforts.

The drive to increase our membership is having effect with 31 Associate Members joining and 54 Full Members, please keep the effort up as our level of Membership helps our negotiations for a new Club-house.

We have had two informative guest speak-ers, firstly in May , Dr Bill Anseline from Skin Alert, Paradise Pt emphasised our need to protect and treat skin cancers. In June, Ian Banks made a wonderful presen-tation on our Seaway marine life. Thank you to both. Our next guest is Wayne Young , on the 3rd July. Wayne is a well known writer and TV presenter who will feature Fishing in the Broadwater in par-ticular whiting so please come, learn and enjoy.

This is especially important as our 2nd round of the SAFC vs Southport RSL Fish-ing Competition 9 is on 21st July and we won the first round and would like to re-tain the shield winning round two. Please remember the Comp rules will be closely watched so all names on individual eskies for weigh in.

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April $38.00

July $30.00

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SAFC

COMPETITION

TOP TEN

As of July 2012

Laurie Stone

Cameron Richter

Mick Matulla

Wayne Richter

Bernie Gaven

Wayne Davis

John Rowley

Elaine Gaven

John Ford

Joanne Rangi

CAPTAINS REPORT

Competition 7

We had 19 members who fished on the night and it was hard going

fish wise but a perfect night on the water.

7 fish were caught with a total of 29.18kg

The winners of Comp 7

A Grade Winner - L Stone

Runner up - C Richter

B Grade Winner - W Richter

Runner up - M Matulla

Ladies Winner - L Edwards

Runner up - M Johansen

Junior - J Day

PLEASE NOTE

• Please call or text me no later than10 minutes prior to comp start time to register that you

are fishing.

• If you retire early on the comp night please contact me once

again to sign out.

• To weigh in all fish must be in a container that has your name clearly marked on it otherwise you cannot weigh in and no points can be

awarded.

• No undersize fish are allowed in the weigh in area

Good fishing to all and stay safe

John Rowley 0400 883359

P A G E 2 N E W S L E T T E R J U N E / J U L Y

What is the definition of a “Fishermans Thumb” - A temporary hook holder!

Mother to daughter advice ;-

Cook a man a fish and feed him for a day…...

But, teach a man to fish and you get rid of him for a whole week-end! Sea Probe Charter

CAPTAINS REPORT

Competition 8

Welcome fellow piscatorians, we ventured out for Comp 8 af-ter the dreadful week of rain and wild seas and 18 brave fisherpersons faced the ele-

ments.

Surprisingly, not a lot were caught and 7 people caught

zero, including me.

We had 4 new members fish for the first time which were Phil, Garry, Corey and Graham, wel-

come to our Club.

Our next Comp 9 is on the 21st July against the RSL and Ti-gers and starts 4pm Saturday till 10am Sunday. Weigh in will be 11 am at the Clubhouse fol-lowed by breakfast. We just ask for a contribution of $3.50 per head to cover meal costs.

Several of us will fish through the night and would like to see some numbers as we have a good chance then of holding

on to the trophy.

If an oversize fish is caught it may now be used in the Com-petition. You must contact the Captain whom will give you in-structions as to what to do to record the size, take photo and release the fish (flathead etc).

Hope to see you all at the Pot Luck Dinner on the 7th July.

The winners of Comp 8

A Grade Winner - L Stone

Runner Up - C Richter

B Grade Winner - W Richter

Runner Up - M Matulla

Ladies Winner - E Gaven

Runner Up - J Rangi

Junior Winner - Corey Richards

Congratulations

Date: Saturday 7th July 2012Date: Saturday 7th July 2012Date: Saturday 7th July 2012Date: Saturday 7th July 2012

Time: 6.30pmTime: 6.30pmTime: 6.30pmTime: 6.30pm

Venue: Safc ClubhouseVenue: Safc ClubhouseVenue: Safc ClubhouseVenue: Safc Clubhouse

Alcohol and soft drinks are available at the barAlcohol and soft drinks are available at the barAlcohol and soft drinks are available at the barAlcohol and soft drinks are available at the bar

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Just let Monica know if you and any guests will be able to attend by emailing Just let Monica know if you and any guests will be able to attend by emailing Just let Monica know if you and any guests will be able to attend by emailing Just let Monica know if you and any guests will be able to attend by emailing secretary@safc.net.ausecretary@safc.net.ausecretary@safc.net.ausecretary@safc.net.au or let Bernie know at the July meeting or let Bernie know at the July meeting or let Bernie know at the July meeting or let Bernie know at the July meeting

P A G E 3 N E W S L E T T E R J U N E / J U L Y

POT LUCK DINNER

P A G E 4 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

DIVING THE GOLD COAST SAFC welcomed international Dive Instructor and Photographer Ian Banks along as guest

speaker at the last Members Meeting to talk about his marine studies of the Gold Coast

Seaway and Broadwater.

We viewed fantastic footage of the Nth and Sth wall from the entrance to the Seaway and

the Sand Pipe, Wave Break Island and the rock walls and sand flats along Marine Pde side

of The Broadwater. Some of the footage had been taken that morning on high tide.

Ian believes the Gold Coast Seaway is by far the best dive site in any Australian city. We

have an incredible diversity of fish which are regularly observed such as trevally, bream,

flathead, luderick, tarwhine, whiting, mulloway, queen fish mackerel as well as bull sharks

and plenty of sting rays.

The fish don’t feed while they hang out at the Pipeline, they just get serviced by the local

cleaner fish in their unique ‘Seaway Sanctuary’

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Anaconda Sth Port Fishing & Dive CentreAnaconda Sth Port Fishing & Dive CentreAnaconda Sth Port Fishing & Dive CentreAnaconda Sth Port Fishing & Dive Centre

Broadwater Seafoods Baldog Broadwater Seafoods Baldog Broadwater Seafoods Baldog Broadwater Seafoods Baldog

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Trophy made and donated by Josh and Bruce Day

Fishing tips for the Broadwater by Raffy

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16th June16th June16th June16th June Competition 8Competition 8Competition 8Competition 8 4.00pm to midnight4.00pm to midnight4.00pm to midnight4.00pm to midnight

23rd June23rd June23rd June23rd June Offshore Competition Offshore Competition Offshore Competition Offshore Competition 5.30am to 11.00am 5.30am to 11.00am 5.30am to 11.00am 5.30am to 11.00am weigh in at 12.00amweigh in at 12.00amweigh in at 12.00amweigh in at 12.00am

24th June24th June24th June24th June Sea Probe CharterSea Probe CharterSea Probe CharterSea Probe Charter 5.00am to 3.00pm5.00am to 3.00pm5.00am to 3.00pm5.00am to 3.00pm

3rd July3rd July3rd July3rd July Members Meeting Members Meeting Members Meeting Members Meeting 7.30pm7.30pm7.30pm7.30pm

7th July 7th July 7th July 7th July Pot Luck DinnerPot Luck DinnerPot Luck DinnerPot Luck Dinner 6.30pm6.30pm6.30pm6.30pm

10th July10th July10th July10th July Committee MeetingCommittee MeetingCommittee MeetingCommittee Meeting 7.00pm7.00pm7.00pm7.00pm

21st and 22nd July21st and 22nd July21st and 22nd July21st and 22nd July Competition 9 SAFC Vs Southport Competition 9 SAFC Vs Southport Competition 9 SAFC Vs Southport Competition 9 SAFC Vs Southport RSL vs Tigers Football ClubRSL vs Tigers Football ClubRSL vs Tigers Football ClubRSL vs Tigers Football Club

4.00pm Sat to 4.00pm Sat to 4.00pm Sat to 4.00pm Sat to 10.00am Sun. Weigh 10.00am Sun. Weigh 10.00am Sun. Weigh 10.00am Sun. Weigh in 11.00am at SAFC in 11.00am at SAFC in 11.00am at SAFC in 11.00am at SAFC ClubhouseClubhouseClubhouseClubhouse

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COMPET I T I ON & CALENDAR DATES

SMALL BOAT OFF SHORE COMPETITIONS

For information please contact John Ford on 55376814 or 0414 295010.

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