March 2018 Newsletter

FISHING
We have been out a few times so far this year.. our first was a surf casting comp at Baileys
Aerials for the Dennett Graham trophy and the Kelvin Derry cup. a few decent sized Kahawai
were caught but Larissa won the competition when she landed a 4.5kg shark just as
we were about to finish for the day, which meant she won nearly all of the trophies available..
the only ones she couldn't win were specifically for the juniors.
Following on from there, a group of us headed off to Twizel at Waitangi weekend to hopefully
get some nice fish. Yeah Right !!!! Day 1 had 4 boats out on Ohau C and 1 boat on
the Aviemore canal and lake. Result.. only 3 fish caught.. well the next day had to be
better. Surely?? Wrong !! 5 boats out on the water for 5-7 hours and no fish. Didn't matter
what we tried.. they were not biting. Even with a down rigger which goes right to the
bottom couldn't get a nibble. Oh well.. that's fishing. new plan was to try our luck there
on the way home next day. As we got closer to Ohau C dam, we could see some seriously
decent white caps on the water.. to venture into it, we all needed surf boards such was
the height of them.. ok.. lets look At Lake Ruataniwha as its on the way home. Good idea
but unfortunately the white caps were there as well so we thought lets be safe not sorry
and had an early trip home via the famous Fairlie Pie Shop to stock up and then onto what
we know as The Red Barn on the north side of Geraldine, for some lunch.. a place we think
is well worth a visit.
Recently we had surf casting comp at Rakaia. Not bad surf wise, a warm day and a tail
wind to help get some throwing distance. Most of us caught juvenile dog fish or baby
shark species, except Trev, who caught a lovely 5.6kg elephant fish which won the comp.
The fish fillets were very nice for tea that night. Coming up is a trip to Lake Brunner and
our annual Champion of Champions comp in mid March. Both of these are usually well
contested. C'mon Woolston, lets get a major share of those trophies again.
Trev with his Elephant Fish!