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Fishing

Locally the scene continues to be set for a

bumper season with a lot of reports backing up

the sea temperature figures and the SST charts which show a strong Leeuwin Current hopefully

carrying a swag of fish. Indicators such as flying

fish and the presence of shark & Spanish

mackerel so early in the season are very encouraging. The FADs have been variable for

small mahis.

Southern bluefin tuna are closer in to Rottnest’s

south side than they have been but still at around the 40 m mark. Going west there

appears to be bluefin to the 100m line followed

deeper by striped tuna and reliable reports of

big yellowfin out around 200m. Spaniards have been

caught on

Direction

Bank and shark

mackerel

hooked up

around west end.

Typically

the

sharkies

will move into the

areas off

Salmon

Bay and Parker

Point in

shallower

water.

Jessica Jarrett (11 years old) above, got the

thrill of her life last weekend fishing from dad

Mark’s “Reel Addiction” with a 3.44 kg southern

bluefin on 3 kg fought for over an hour to stake

a claim for State and Australian record status.

Well done Jessica.

Elsewhere new member John Sorrell below,

spent a good hour landing a 20 kg 1.3 m long

yellowtail king from his kayak off Parker Point.

He also got a shark mackerel off Dyer Island.

Neap tides this weekend could present some

opportunities around the trench.

Jurien Bay continues to be a hot spot for big

mahis, with typical fish up to 1½ m long hitting

12” skirted lures at the FADs.

Marlin have showed up, albeit occasionally rather than consistently. Since Christmas, Craig

White has had a hook-up on a 100kg black just

near the RED FM FAD and seen a free jumper of

about 30 – 40 kg around the 600m line. The publicity the Jurien FADs have received has

increased the activity offshore considerably.

Birds and bait have been plentiful in the wamer pockets of water where 22.4° has been

commonplace with 23° holding the bait. As with

the metro area there are plenty of southern

blues around and what appears to be a very

sharp temperature change out wider.

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Jurien Bay marlin – Local record – Good signs for this season – Sambo mortality

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Weather

Sea Surface Temperature

To find out more about seasurface.com visit their

website at

www.seasurface.com

SST image taken at 00:56 AEST on 5th January

Fremantle Tides Friday 7th Jan 2011 0.45m @ 6:54 AM

0.94m @ 10:07 PM

Saturday 8th Jan 2011 0.48m @ 6:33 AM 0.68m @ 1:47 PM 0.67m @ 3:47 PM 0.89m @ 10:31 PM

Sunday 9th Jan 2011 0.50m @ 6:28 AM 0.72m @ 2:06 PM 0.71m @ 4:43 PM 0.84m @ 10:51 PM

Monday 10th Jan 2011 0.51m @ 6:34 AM 0.77m @ 2:39 PM 0.75m @ 5:56 PM 0.80m @ 9:11 PM

Weather forecast

provided courtesy of

www.seabreeze.com.au

Fees Reminder Annual Subscriptions are now overdue.

A few members are still overdue on annual fees. Those wishing to avoid the inconvenience of

renomination should forward their fees immediately to the club at: PO Box 57 North Beach 6920

or EFT to PGFC BSB: 016 120 Account: 4233 84667

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Major Events Coming Up

Club Championship Scores

Member Loyalty Lee McNicol and Don Gilmore

are celebrating 30 years of membership in 2011.

Congratulations to you both.

Reaching the 20 year

milestone are Brian Arnett, Bob Biernat, Peter Coote,

Stephen de Courtenay, Barry

Patterson, John Prince,

Trevor Scott, Gary Shugg & Phil Volich.

Paul Matson has 15 years of

memebership up this year.

Sir Garrick Agnew

The following document is the citation by PGFC Life Member Neil Patrick supporting the

induction of our late member Sir Garrick Agnew into the Cairns Game Fishing Hall of

Fame.

Sir Garrick Agnew

Induction into Cairns Game Fishing Hall of Fame

November 2010

Garrick was an Olympic swimmer and a very successful business man and he approached his fishing

in the same manner.

He took up game fishing in the mid sixties and soon became successful and rose to the president of

WA’s oldest game fishing club the PGFC.

Club Sambo

Competition

Sunday 16th

January Rottnest Island All club members welcome

February Social

Night

Tuesday 1st

February

RPYC Annex

Fremantle

Guest speaker; briefing for

opening weekend.

Opening Weekend

Sat & Sun 5th & 6th February

Rottnest Island No fee informal weekend & comp. Book pens with club asap

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He soon realised that his objective was Marlin even though none had been caught in WA waters on

IGFA regulation tackle. He had however heard of encounters by commercial fishers and set out to

start a recreational fishery for billfish on the West Coast.

He was the first person to catch a blue, black and striped marlin and was the second to catch a sailfish

on IGFA regulation tackle in WA waters. Today there is a recreational marlin fishery from Fremantle

in the South to the Rowley shoals in the North.

Having successfully accomplished this he realised he had to get amongst the giant black marlin of

Cairns.

He set about planning this trip. By this time he had had built the beautiful Raymond Hunt designed

boat Pannawonica named after a very successful Iron Ore deposit found by him which is still being

exported from Cape Lambert by Rio-Tinto.

This trip from Fremantle to Cairns is not a walk in the park especially in the days before GPS and the

much more modern electronics available today. It is 3150 n miles each way and a couple of hundred

miles off half way round Australia.

He did this trip every year from 1972 to 1985 inclusive a total of 14 voyages. It is estimated he did

over 350,000 nautical miles in Pannawonica.

His first trip he stopped at Lizard Island (well before it had a resort) and caught about a 900 lb fish.

Peter Bristow was at Lizard at the time and he came onboard and gave him some very helpful advice.

This resulted in getting rid of the fishing stool in the corner of the cockpit and getting a custom built

game fishing chair and better outriggers when he reached Cairns.

Garrick drove his boat and Garrick planned the fishing. When they got a hook-up he would leave

the helm and very quickly take the rod. His Mate, David Rosenbrock would take over the controls for

the fight. He strongly believed that marlin fishing is very much a team effort and every member of

that team had to perform very well and specialise in his job.

The time he fished the reef area was an incredible time. There were not as many small fish and a 500

lb marlin was described as a rat. There were no mobile or satellite phones, all contact between boats

was basically on HF radio. All phone calls were via Townsville radio and all could hear both sides of

the conversation on most frequencies. There were some very interesting or funny ones. The MARLIN

DARLIN had her regular broadcast and all ears were tuned in to hear what scandal she had to

broadcast.

I recall Brazzaka driving Sea Venture coming up alongside Pannawonica and blasting both Garrick’s

baits with a 12 gauge shot gun and making a wry comment something along the lines of “Hi money

bags those baits are not swimming to well”. Another time when Pannawonica was alongside the old

wooden jetty when the Green Island ferry was offloading its passengers, crew member Graham

Watkins wanted to have a leak over the side. When Garrick suggested he should think about the

public on the jetty and use a bucket Graham immediately put a bucket over his head and continued

with his business.

Garrick caught 428 marlin and weighed 22 marlin over 1000 lbs when fishing this area.

Garrick has previously been inducted into the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame.

His success in Cairns and Western Australia was keenly followed in WA which resulted in many of

Western Australians booking trips to fish the REEF.

I have pleasure in presenting a photo to the CPGFA of Garrick on board Pannawonica with his 1417

lb Black marlin.

I believe that Garrick is a fine inductee for the Cairns Game Fishing Hall of Fame.

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REEL NEWS Issue 20   November 2010 

Looking after our Sambos

  

Each year, towards the end of spring, metropolitan anglers wait with baited breath for reports of the first schools of Samson fish to begin aggregating in waters offshore form Perth. Fast forward a few months, and many anglers have already tussled with this strong, hard fighting species. December is usually one of the best months to target Samson fish in deep water.

This season however, the increasing numbers of sharks around common Samson fish grounds has been concerning. Large numbers of fish are being hooked and then lost to these hungry predators.

Increasing numbers of concerned anglers have been contacting Recfishwest in regards to this issue. Reports of recreational anglers hooking and losing fish to sharks for hours at a time have been very concerning. Unfortunately fishing mortality of this level is unacceptable.

West Aussies are lucky to have such a great sportfish in inshore waters. The uniqueness of these amazing fish is even more reason to urge those fishing for them to treat them with c

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are and respect.

Samson fish are indeed a wide ranging and easily targeted species. Much of the west coast region is blessed with the kind of features that Samson fish like to call home. Any rocky or reefy area deeper than about 5m is likely to hold ‘sambos’ at various times.

One method for targeting these brutes in shallow water is to anchor and berley. Although a little patience is required, you will certainly know when they arrive as gang attacks are made on baits and lures in the water.

Sambos provide great fun over shallow ground. This fish was caught on a soft plastic in only 10m of water.

Fishing for sambos in shallow water can be very exciting, as these giants take off for the nearest bit of reef. Recfishwest asks fishers to be vigilant for the rest of the sambo season. If sharks are about, it might be time to try for some inshore Sambo action.

Fish today for tomorrow

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