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Change of meeting date

Please be noted the MFC's meeting date for December has been moved to 14 December, one week earlier than the regular monthly meeting.

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Mounties Fishing Club Presentation night - Friday 26 August 2011

The Presentation night is at Elizabeth room on Friday, 26 August 2011.

We will be having more attendance this year, and it will be another great night for everyone.

The cost of this dinner is $25 per head, please make sure payment is made at the next monthly meeting on 24 August.

Thank you.

Vi

28 May 2011

Good weather conditions, fish north of Toothbrush island, Port Kembla for catches of 3 leatherjackets, 5 morwies, 2 flatheads, 12 snapper,  1 kingfish & 5 pointers. Biggest fish of the day 1.83kg morwie caught by Maria Sechi.

Mounties Fishing Club Annual General Meeting (AGM)

This year's AGM will be held on 20 July 2011, to be eligible to vote at the AGM you must be a current member of both Mounties and the Fishing Club.

I will be coming to the meeting at 7pm to process the fishing club membership renewal. The currency of Mounties membership will be verified at the renewal time.

Please make sure you are a financial member of the mother club on the AGM night.

Thank you.

Vi
Treasurer

New points for leatherjacket

The Fishing Club committee has decided leatherjacket will be reduced to 5 points per kilogram, this new point score will be effective from the next competition season commencing July 2011.

The decision was made due to a plague of leatherjacket in Kiama over the last years which allowed members fishing out of this location to catch plentiful of this species and hence accumulate a points quicker than those fishing out of Wollongong.

The committee believes this decision will helps equalise the overall points for those who fish out of Wollongong and Kiama.

The score sheet will be updated and introduced in July to reflect this new change.

Message from the O'Rourke family

The O'Rourke Family wish to sincerely thank the members of the Mounties Fishing Club, as well as Directors, the Sports Club Captain and  Assistant for their  attendance at Margaret's Funeral Service and for their support and well wishes leading up to her passing.

Mounties Fishing Club Presentation night

The Presentation night is at Elizabeth room on Friday, 26 August 2011.

Please mark the above date on your diary.

Last year presentation was a success and we are hoping to make it an even more successful event this year.

More information will be distributed at the future club meetings.

Message from Col O'Rourke

To All members of Mounties Fishing Club My wife Margaret who is known to many of the club members,  wishes to thank everyone for their kind thoughts, well wishes and generosity. She was moved by the number of members, particularly newer club members who she has not yet met, who wrote on the card wishing her well. I myself had a tear in my eye when I read the card and thank everyone for their support and the  Gift Voucher which was enclosed. We both wish you all the very best for the upcoming  festive season and hope that you all remain healthy.

Mingara Fishing Tournament

For those who did not attend the monthly club meeting on 20 August, Mingara Fishing Club has extended their invitation to our club once again this year.

All costs of the tournament is not subsidised by the MFC, it is to be covered by individual member.

Please contact me should you be interested in participating in this tournament, a team will be formed if we have enough number. You need to do this by Friday, 17 December 2010.

Below is the brochure of this tournament, and the letter of invitation from Shane Hawkins, President of Mingara Fishing Club.



Tournament Invite 2011.PDF

Fellow Anglers,

I am very pleased to be able to invite you to the annual Mingara Fishing

Tournament to be held on the weekend of 5th and 6th March, 2011 on the

Central Coast.

This years tournament (2010) was bigger and better than the previous year

and we are hoping to make next years better again. This year we saw some new teams competing who had never fished the waters of the Central Coast but walked away with some very impressive prizes. With the knowledge gained I am sure they will be better off for next year.

For those that have competed before we look forward to catching up and

hearing the ones that got away, for those newcomers, the tournament can be

best described as a good weekend with great prizes and great hospitality. I

also encourage you to forward this invitation to any other clubs you have

contact with.

Full details are in the attached invitation, so please read through the

information and should you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact

Daniel or myself using the email address or our telephone numbers on the

invite. I would really appreciate a reply email to acknowledge receipt of

this invitation and possibly an indication of your club's possible intention

to enter the tournament or even when your club will next meet to discuss the

possibility of entering as per the voting buttons.

I need to emphasize that we are asking for registration and entry fees to be

received by Friday 17th December so please address this as soon as possible.

Again, if you need further information, please let us know.

Shane Hawkins

Mingara Fishing Club President

0414 209 168

2010 MFC Annual Presentation slide show

The slide show projected at the 2010 MFC Annual Presentation can be downloaded below, you may need a PowerPoint 2007 viewer if you don't have it installed on your PC:

2010 MFC Annual Presentation Slide Show

PowerPoint 2007 Viewer

12 September 2010

11 fishos on board. Good day quiet morning but went to 60's and caught over 100 leatherjacket, some morwong and heaps of 5 pointers, biggest fish caught by R Calleja, morwong 1.23 kg.

Fish Club Presentation

Date: Saturday, 28 August, 2010
Location: Elizabeth Room
The subsidised cost of presentation is $20 per person, if you are attending this presentation and have not made your payment please try to do so on the presentation night, please present correct amount and be early to avoid delays. Thank you.


Vi

Annual General Meeting - 21 July 2010

The AGM was held at 8:10 PM on 21 July 2009.

The following members were elected to the Fishing Club Committee for 2010-2011 term:

Executive committee members

President: Maria Sechi
Vice President: Bill Razmovski
Secretary: Warren Rankin
Treasurer: Vi LamNon-executive committee members

Records Registrar: Col O'Rourke
Club Captain: Bill Razmovski
Publicity Officer: Paul Young
Sub Club Officers: Joe Ariti, Paul Burkardt, Maria Sechi.
New Members Coordinator: Stan Levanic

New point scores system

At the MFC meeting on 21 July 2010, a new point scores system was unanimously adopted:

• 2 pointers fish are now awarded 5 points
• 7 pointers are now 10 pointers
• 11 pointers are now 15 pointers
• 17 pointers are now 20 pointers
• Leatherjacket are now in 10 pointers group

I have just updated the club's points table, and have also taken this opportunity to revise the size and bag limit in this table. This table is updated using the information on the NSW Department of Primary Industries' website.

There have been substantial changes since this table was last edited, many species have their size limit increased. As the result this table is also substantially changed, I've added bag limit for species where the limit is less than 20.

The table is as listed below (click it to enlarge the image), you can also download a copy from http://www.mediafire.com/?66j01gy6759nfu2

Angler fined $11,000 for illegal fish haul

BY MICHELE TYDD

12 Jun, 2010 09:43 AM

A day out fishing for elders in the Aboriginal community cost Adam Brady $11,000 in fines and costs.

He copped the fine for exceeding the daily limit for leatherjackets.

Mr Brady, who is passionate about balancing marine sustainability with preserving Aboriginal cultural links with fishing, expressed his disgust over the penalty in an appeal to Wollongong District Court yesterday.

"I made a mistake but this penalty is ridiculous and on my calculation I'll be paying if off until 2050 when I'm dead and gone," he told the court.

Mr Brady, 32, of Stanwell Park, was found guilty of the offence in April this year.

He had 101 fish in his possession. The limit is 20.

Brady fought the charge arguing the fish were a number of different species and that they were to be distributed among several sick elders.

But the Fisheries Department engaged a legal and scientific team to prove him wrong over the species issue and said there were no provisions under the Fisheries Management Act for an indigenous entitlement.

They charged him two days short of the two years allowable for prosecution, an issue which was strongly criticised by Judge Paul Conlon yesterday.

Mr Brady told the court that on the day he had been fishing for aunties who included high-profile elder the late Aunty Mary.

He said despite the fact he was unemployed, he worked voluntarily as an Australian Aerial Patrol director and had lobbied ministers including the now-deposed Ian Macdonald for a better deal for indigenous fishing rights.

Mr Brady said while he supported the work of Fisheries Department officers, he felt they had come down too hard on him in this case.

Judge Conlon halved the fine to $500 and halved the costs to $5000.

Outside the court, Mr Brady said that was still too high considering the offence.

He said the real issue was the feeling among the indigenous community that they had been locked out of a cultural pursuit even when the species - such as leatherjacket - was abundant.

"I've written at least 20 submissions to the Government on indigenous fishing access issues but we are still not even considered stakeholders in the debate," he said.

Source: The Illawarra Mercury

Resources: NSW Bag and size limits - saltwater

Results of 2009/2010 Fishing Club Championships

Club Champion: Rifit Hadzic

Runner Up: Guiseppe Ariti

Veteran Champion: Guiseppe Ariti

Runner Up: Stan Levanic

Under 55 Champion: Rifit Hadzic

Runner Up: Doug Harris

Female Champion: Maria Sechi

Junior Champion: Bradley Harris

Fish of the Month:

July 2009	M DJakovic
August 2009	S Cefai
Septermber 2009	G Mifsud
October 2009	R Hadzic
November 2009	R MacKenzie
December 2009	B Harris, H Tepesh
January 2010	R MacKenzie
February 2010	P Young
March 2010	P Young
April 2010	R Hadzic
May 2010	S Levanic
June 2010	I Mauro

Bag of the Month:

July 2009	M Camdzic
August 2009	B Razmovski
Septermber 2009	S Levanic
October 2009	R Hadzic
November 2009	G Ariti
December 2009	R Hadzic
January 2010	G Ariti
February 2010	R Hadzic
March 2010	R Hadzic
April 2010	R Hadzic
May 2010	H Tepesh
June 2010	R Hadzic

Fish of the Year:

R Hadzic – Flathead 1.94 kg

Top ten Fishos, best of 8 trip scores

R Hadzic	977.00
G Ariti	810.98
S Levanic	802.21
H Tepesh	772.23
B Razmovski	734.93
C O’Rourke	724.89
D Harris	638.21
M Camdzic	549.53
V Lam	537.66
S Cefai	533.64

Latest Club Rules

The latest version of Mounties Fishing Club rules incorporate changes in the last few months with regard to the Arthur Spud Award, trip reservation for members who live too far from the club, as well as the trolling rules.

This version of can be downloaded here.

December's meeting is moved to an earlier date

Due to the scheduled monthly subclub meeting being too close to Christmas, 23rd is Christmas eve's eve ;-), it's been decided that the meeting is to be held a week earlier, on 16 December 2009.

The venue is the dart/table tennis room, you may recall we had meeting at this location from the past.