Next Meeting Tuesday 5th February Beenligh Neighbourhood Centre 10/12 James St, Beenligh

Editor Trevor Saunders - 0418708858 [email protected]

www.sbsfc.org PO Box 5057, Eagleby 4207

Next Meeting

Please note as above, the changed venue to the Beenligh Neighbourhood Centre. The continuing shuffle around at the bowls club was starting be a drama. The centre is quiet and has facilities for audio visual/DVD showing etc. (they are going to show us how to operate them) Parking is tight, but you can park next door (NAB carpark). No alchohol, but the club will supply tea and coffee. With the Tag a Toga trip coming up, a past club member, Dean Rosolen will pass on some Toga fishing tips. Thanks to John Eldred for organising him. Upcoming Trips

February 9th – Peel Island, Brad Baldwin trip captain.

.March 1st to 3rd - Tag–a-Toga at Borumba .

March 23rd – LAFMA Carp and Tilapia removal comp at Wyalarong Dam. For more information go to the LAFMA website, www.lafma .org

Presidents Ramble

Welcome to my notes for the February newsletter. We are still looking for a new home in the Beenleigh region but this is still a work in progress. Sharon starts work at the Gold Coast hospital in February. We were hoping for Brisbane Private but the NUM (Nurse Unit Manager) claimed this was a conflict with our son working there. In any case we are helping our son buy his first home in an apartment in the city and this settles early February and this has taken quite a lot of time.

Membership - Please renew if you have not already. It is your club and your views on what we do is important. If you are considering not renewing then please by all means let us know why and what we can do to fix it.

Committee Meeting - We will hold the next committee meeting in early February. We will continue with the small group approach but of course everyone is welcome if they want to contribute.

Fishing Trips - At the December we will firm up the trips for next year. The three major week long trips for the second half of the year. They will be:-

August Rainbow Beach

September/October

November Glenlyon Dam

At the December meeting and at the Christmas Party I canvased views and it was decided/agreed we will stay with weekend and weeklong trips but advertise through Facebook or other means if someone is going mid-week and invite others along.

This I think is a great solution. I will certainly exercise this option once I have a new home for me and my gear rather than a mixture of temporary storage.

Fees - By now most if not all of you should have got a refund or distributed the monies elsewhere.

Past Members - My mistake but I believe our 25th anniversary is 2020 and we will contact past members to come along for a dinner. Perhaps this will also be a time to encourage them to re-join. John Reid is doing a good job gathering names of past members as we work towards this.

Borumba Trip - I have nominated and will take my red boat. Martin has indicated he will deckie with me and I am looking forward to that. Information has been coming through but it seems the Deer Park Caravan Park has changed hands and knows little of the event. Accommodation may be less than the standard of previous years but we go for the fishing and fellowship. A bed is a bed.

Website - We delayed our visit to the ANSA Facebook gurus. Still plan to get it done. This may be the way we go. This is work in progress to make our presence better known and attract new members and engage better with you all.

In the mean time now I have a bit of spare time I will start using Wix to develop a fresh website. If anyone has a good photo as a backdrop – preferably colourful and someone photogenic please email me.

Australia Day - Thanks to Ray and Helen for hosting this event once again. Latest progress for some of the above

Club Future Directions

John and I met with Brendan from the Kingaroy Club to discuss using Facebook and growing the club It came down to a strategic discussion/brainstorm of what we are selling. Based on that discussion I have put together the start of a new website home or landing page. Once this website is running then I will open a closed and open Facebook page. Closed for members only, and the open as a marketing tool for the club. I would like consensus if this is what we are offering irrespective of the mid-week or demographics. This will drive the type of people we may attract. I welcome any deletions or additions to the points.

Responsible fishing for a sustainable future

Looking for a club of like-minded people to enjoy fishing with?

Southern Brisbane Sportfishing Club Inc is a friendly fishing club that meets at Beenleigh and regularly fishes within the region. We also hold week long trips up to 350km away each year.

We are members of ANSA and are anglers who organise and promote fishing with a motto of “sport, conservation & integrity”.

Sport to us means:

 we enjoy fishing  fishing is a lifetime activity that the whole family can and should enjoy  members can and do eat some of what they catch  although we do not run club competitions we encourage our members to challenge and improve their skills through the many ANSA programs  we participate in other ANSA club activities where possible to meet new friends and learn new skills

Conservation to us means:

 we aim to minimise any negative impact on the fish’s environment by knowing that anchoring and speed restrictions are as important as preventing littering, pollution and habitat destruction.  we respect the rights and interests of other anglers and commercial fishers who are legally participating in the fishery.  we run and participate where possible in scientific, educational and community programs that benefit the fishery or recreational anglers.  fish taken should be killed quickly and prepared and preserved to minimise spoilage and waste.  where a fish is not wanted, it should be returned to the water quickly and properly to maximise its chances of survival.

Integrity to us means:

We follow and respect the local regulations that govern fishing wherever we are

You Tube

If you haven’t already done looked at it, the club is on you tube, uploaded by our President’s tech savvy daughter. Go to Fishing with Southern Brisbane Sportfishing Club Inc around SE Queensland. As of 19/1/2019 it has had 72 views. It will be interesting to see if we have any responses to it.

Lake Samsonvale Trip Report by John Eldred

I had an opportunity to fish Lake Samsonvale () in early January with past club members Chris Eldred and Dean Rosolen, along with Dean’s son Nick and a mutual mate named Darren.

The access to the dam for fishing is via a locked gate system through a Boral quarry access road. The key holders need to be members of the Pine Rivers Fish Management Association or an associated member. The associated members pay an annual fee of around $110.00 for access to the dam with the proceeds going to the stocking of fingerlings in the dam.

More info on the dam will be available at the February meeting when Dean gives us a presentation the dam as well as a talk on Saratoga.That being said, on with the story:

5 .30am start, through the gate and down to the most rank smelling and slippery ramp I have ever seen or smelt in my life. The local pelicans use it to roost at night and it is absolutely caked in pelican crap. A quick and very careful launch, making sure to wash our feet before getting in the boat and we were away.

The dam fishing area is electric only so trolling was the order of the day for the first couple of hours. Chris and I trolled the drop offs looking for Bass and schools of bait fish and picked up fish on a regular basis with the best going 45cm. By 7.30am. We were casting to the schools of bait on the sounder and the dam edges for a few more. All the Bass were in prime condition and very well fed.

I did also recapture a tagged Bass that grew 10mm from 235mm to 345mm in 71 days and had travelled 1km down the dam. Chris took a 50cm Tilapia while casting which was disposed of on our way home.

The other boat containing Dean, Darren and Nick did much the same as us with the exception of Nick pulling a couple of Yellowbelly on spinner baits. The wind came up later in the morning and the bite shut down so we called it quits and were back at the ramp around lunch time. For the day, we caught around two dozen Bass, two Yellowbelly and two Tilapia.

Victorian Government Fisheries Website

If you want to see how far behind recreational fishing enhancement in Queensland is, compared to Victoria, google Fish eFacts Newsletter – VFA. You can subscribe to it, I do, and it is very informative. If only Queensland would follow Victoria’s example, we wouldn’t have a third world rec fishing policy.

2019 Lure & Fly Expo

If you haven’t already heard “it’s coming to a place near you”, Beenligh showgrounds to be precise on the 1st to 2nd of June. Only a suggestion, but it could be to our advantage. Ipswich sportfishing club has been at the Ipswich venue in the past, so they might not shift camp. We could have a display there, 3 x 3m, inside $250, outside $150. We could even suggest that LAFMA share it, to enhance both our profiles, and promote our shared goals. Something to think about it.

Trip Reports– Australia Day Shark Trip & Barbeque

Lloyd and Tom – Tom and I fished from about 6am to 11.40am, fishing approximately 400m down stream of Eichma Island, down river from the Paterson Rd walk bridge. John was just below the island and Chris further downstream. Using old frozen jewie baits, banana prawns and squid, we caught some good catties about 200 to 300mm for live bait. Rigging them up on the shark lines (myself on 4kg monofilament , Tom with 10lb braid). The tide was on the last of the ebb with not a lot of run. It wasn’t long before my float was cut in half and Tom watched me land our first and only shark of the morning, an 83cm specimen, the same size as the one Chris caught earlier on. Tom went a float, and I went to a free swimming bait. The tide slowed and the bite rate dropped to zero, including catties. I had another bite, but dropped it when I applied pressure, and it came back looking worse for wear. Just like jewies, you have to know when to strike. Tom had fun catching catties on light line, but his bait catching prowess was not reflected with sharks. The fishing action seemed to dwindle as the tide slowly bottomed out. As the tide started to flow at a good rate, the schools of mullet heading upstream were unbelievable.

Thanks again to Ray and Helen for the great aussie day arvo.

TRIP REPORT – AUSTRALIA DAY SHARK FISHING IN THE ALBERT RIVER

By John Reid and Ray Bricknell

After the fishing, members and their wives once again gathered at the nearby home of Ray and Helen Bricknell for what several members now refer to as the premium social gathering of the year for the SBSC. As usual, Helen decorated her home with an Australia Day theme to set the mood.

The mood is set at the front door. Themed table settings ready for guests.

This year 19 people sat down to lunch in the air-conditioned family room, grateful that the meal is no longer eaten in the covered outdoor entertaining area (although this Australia Day was not as hot as some have been, it was still more comfortable inside). Sadly, Neil McNeil was too ill to attend this year, being half way through a course of chemotherapy which is really knocking him about. And Eddie Latz demonstrated once again what a thoroughly decent human being he is – both he and Esther had the flu, in spite of the flu injection in Esther’s case, and so they opted not to attend for fear of passing it on. Thank you Eddie and Esther.

As usual, Helen took the edge off the fishers’ (and non-fishers) appetites with hot party pies and sausage rolls on arrival, and these were washed down in most cases by that always fantastic first beer. Some chose bubbly instead – a sign that the day was off to a good start.

The first guests arrived at 12 noon, and the conversation flowed from then until the last group left. These pictures show just how much everyone enjoyed the company:

Deep in conversation here……………and here. No stress here.

On the basis of the “voting with feet” principle, this was clearly an enjoyable day for all, as no one left early and the last group did not leave until 5:15pm. So the club’s year is off to another great start.

Annual Membership Fees (Due by August Meeting every year)

Normal Membership - $45, Family Membership - TBA, Student over 16 - TBA Student under 16 (non family) $15, Junior – $15

You can pay by cash at a meeting of by direct deposit into BSB 814282 Account 30814236

Any club member wishing to sell gear, please let me know so I can place it in the newsletter

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