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2004 Fishing Reports
18/11/04
Snapper have been the big talk of late with reports coming from all over the bay. Carrum has been producing snapper to 4.5kg in 19-21 meters of water. Black rock in 15 meters and down past Fawkner beacon has also been going well.
Trout to 3kg has been caught at Eildon pondage, and the lake has produced some yellowbell to 4kg in the delatite arm.
Lake Eppalock has been producing yellowbelly to 2.5kg and some smaller Redfin.
Lake Bullen Merri has produced some good salmon trolling Tassie Devils on the surface.
Lake Dartmouth has produced Trout to 2kg on local Gudgeons.
9/10/04
Three members of the club headed up to Lake Eppalock last weekend to chase after the Yellowbelly with some great results.The fish were caught on stumpjumpers and fatwrap lures.
Three Yellows scooped with one hooked fish Mark with a nice 9lb 14oz yellowbelly
Tim & Mark with 2 nice yellowbelly Tim with a nice 9lb 4oz Yellowbelly
Allan with another Yellowbelly to 5lb
17/9/04
Photos of our previous Khancoban Trip where all anglers caught and released fish over the weekend
This is one of our clubs measure only competitions where the comp is fished by length and not weight and members often release most of their catch for the next time we go back, and hope they are alot bigger.
The group at Khancoban After removing the boats 58cm Brown trout in tank
Allan with a 56cm Brown Florian Cleaning his catch Snow on Mount Kosiosko
Tim with a 52cm brown Brian and Conway chasing fish Allan & Shane hidding from rain
Al & Shane in the rain Brain Blethyn landing a brown Weigh in on the sunday
16/8/04
Greensborough and District Angling club had there presentation night last saturday night and was very well attended by more that 80 people. The new club angling champion and Club member champion was Russell Conway with a Fantastic year and only missing 5 competions for the year. The champion Junior angler was Graeme Neilson and he was also the champion Junior club member. There were some close results for the year with one of our newer members Florian Karwacki giving Russell a run for his money for the championship.
The results for the year were as follows
CLUB AWARDS
*Champion Club Member (Snr)……R Conway
* Champion Club Member (Jnr)……G Neilson
*Champion Angler (Snr)…
1/ R Conway (83pts) ;2/ F kawacki (55pts) 3/ A Moore (51pts)
*Champion Angler (Jnr)…
1/ G Neilson (14pts) 2/
*Freshwater Aggregate……
1/ C Knight (11.1kg) 2/ A Moore (9.17kg) 3/ R Conway (5.89kg)
*Saltwater Aggregate………
1/ R Conway (25.01kg) 2/ T Phillips (20.93kg) 3/ P Campbell (17.72kg)
*Presidents Trophy………Linda Bussey
*Ken Jones Trophy………Florian Kawacki
CLUB SHEILDS
*Heaviest Snapper In Comp……Brendan King 4.56kg Snapper vs Police
*Heaviest Trout In Comp………C Knight (3.2kg Brown Trout) Bullen
Merri
*Heaviest Trout Out Of Comp……
D Rowlands (4.26kg Rainbow Trout) Pondage
*Heaviest Freshwater Fish In Comp…C Knight (3.2kg Brown Trout)
*Casting Champion……. Tom Phillips
*Johnsonville Bream Comp……R Conway (1.67kg)
*Heaviest ANSA Point scoring fish In/Out Comp…
F Saunders (1.19kg Brown Trout) on 1kg line = 119pts
DONATED TROPHIES
*Heaviest Bream In Comp (Allan Moore);
A Moore (1.23kg Bemm River)
*Heaviest Aust Salmon In Comp (D Rowlands)…
T Plummer (2.38kg Bemm river)
*Heaviest Saltwater Fish In Comp By Female (C Knight)…
G Bam (.980kg) Bemm River
*Most Meritorious Capture Melb Cup Comp.(V Lesniauskas)..
C Knight (2.12kg Brown)
*Murray River Sheild Heaviest Native Fish (G Bussey)…
A Moore (3.79kg Yellow Belly)
*G.D.A.C V`s Deepdeene Surf ( J Whitfield)…
F Kawacki (.670kg)
*N.A.F.A Perpetual Trophy By Fines Master (J Dafilis)
Crazy Conway & Hapless Hayton for their effort at Warnambool trying to retrieve
there boat in 40 knot winds, flooded river and no idea why they were even out
there.
25/7/04
Reports of good fishing have been a bit quiet due to the weather
Portsea back beach has reports of Australian Salmon to 1kg on pippie and blue bait
Tambo and Nicholson rivers are fishing slowly but the fish which are caught in the nicholson are of good size to 37cm
Eppalock has reports of Carp to 8lb being landed in close to the banks on corn
Eildon lake has the odd trout to 3lb on trolled Tassie Devils or Cobras
Eildon Pondage has fish to 2lb being caught on Power Bait and Scrub Worms.
Yarra river at docklands has a few Bream landed to 800grms on sandworm.
12/7/04
Following are some of the photos from our Johnsonville trip when we fished the Tambo River and the Nicholson river
Brian & Gail Bam waiting Carl recieving a trophy for Hally with a 37cm Bream
heaviest bream of 1.2kg
Russell waiting for a bite Russell weighing in his Bream Tim & Heather having a Latte`
Mark landing another Bream
Photos from the June long weekend at a very cold Bullen Merri
Allan with a nice trout Tim with an Atlantic Salmon
Live bait tank of fish
Allan with our fish
14/6/04
Reports from Eildon have been of good trout to 5lb in the big river arm trolled on Tassie devils and loftys
Lake Bullen Merri has been hit and miss at the moment with alot of small Atlantic Salmon and Quinet salmon around. The odd fish to 1kg is being caught trolling but you need to work hard for them.
Lakes Entrance has Bream and Taylor going well on most baits
Werribee river has been producing bream to 34cm on worm
Kilcunda has been producing Salmon to 35cm on blue bait and pippie
10/5/04
Reports have come in over the last week from all over
Pinky Snapper have been caught off Black Rock on dusk, with almost any bait or lure
Flathead and squid are being caught of safety beach in good numbers
Excellent snapper fishing of Merimbula with the Watsonia RSL fishing club having an excellent trip there last week
Lake Fyans has been producing a few redfin and trout under a float on Mudeyes
Surf fishing off the rocks at Phillip island has produced snapper to 2kg and the odd salmon
The Eildon pondage is producing trout to 2 kg on lures
Kilcunda has been fishing well with salmon being caught on the run in tide.
03/03/04
Reports of whiting along the Mornington Peninsula have been coming in with sizes to 40cm near safety beach
Reports of Snapper at Corio bay and whiting at Queenscliff but are a bit hard to find.
Whiting have also been in good numbers out from Werribee with some good sized fish amongst them.
Reports of Salmon to 2 kg at the heads being caught on lures.
Reports from Western Port are saying that a few Elephant fish are being caught now but should improve alot in the next few weeks
Port Albert has been fishing well with reports of good sized Flathead, whiting and Gummys. The whiting have been around the Basket Beacon and the flatties in the channel, with gummies just outside the entrance.
Bemm River reorts have been good with reports of good luderick and bream in the lake, flatties in the channel and estuary perch up the river. The entrance is closed
Bullen Merri has been producing trout and salmon to 4 lb on lures under a downrigger
11/02/04
Snapper have been caught in the bay out deep in 21mtrs off Mornington with fish to 4kg
Salmon and Kingfish have been caught in good numbers off Mornington pier.
Whiting have been caught in the weedbeds out from werribee in 4-5 mtrs of water.
The docklands have been producing bream on soft plastics among the pilons
Whiting have been caught around Brighton in close on the wed beds
Salmon fishing at Robe has been excellent with Salmon to 5lb being landed
Western port has seen alot of pinkies being landed but alot are undersize.
Reports have come in from Corio Bay at geelong with whiting and the odd Snapper landed
Bemm River is fishing well with Luderick and Bream in the lake and Estuary perch in the river and channel.
28/01/04
Greensborough Angling Club had a competition at Forges Bend on the Murray River over the long weekend,but the fishing was a
bit quiet.Allan Moore landed a Yellowbelly to 3.8kg and 1 at 1.78kg, there was only two other fish landed that were size.
All in all it was a very social trip with family`s enjoying the camping and atmasphere down on the river.
The tempreture over the 3 days was in the low thirty`s so it was getting a bit warm sitting in the boats.
Following are photos of the weekend at Forges Bend Yarrawonga
Pat hooking up a cod John and Brian deciding John Battista had a swim how to catch them trying to catch this cod
A night around the fire Afternoon under the tent Allan & Mark chasing yellowbelly
Fishing Reports have come in from club members from all over the state this week.
PortPhillip Bay has produced good whiting and squid arond the Portsea area
Snapper reports from Westernport near Rhill have come in with snapper to 8kg
Mallacoota has had good catches of Flathead to 3.5kg
Bemm River has produced Bream to 2.0kg and Estuary Perch to 3.0kg.There has been some good trevally and flathead
caught in the channel.
Lake Eildon Pondage has produced some 1kg Trout and a Yellowbelly to 2.8kg
Lake Eppalock has been quiet except for only a few Yellowbelly to 2kg landed from the bank.
