Hi everyone.

The weekend was the setting for the first round for our Annual competition against Bateau Bay Hotel fishing club.

Tough weather over the weekend restricted a lot of the offshore people to the estuary and some of our
fishos did a great job in very trying conditions.

1st for RSL was Dean Wetherill on 306 points.
2nd. Scott Russell 285 points.  
3rd. Toby Russell 190 points.

This helped the RSL to a first round win.

RSL 1500.25
BB   688.5

Prizes went to:
Dean, Helena, Scott and Stephen.

We even saw three Generations of the “Brown Family” weigh in today.

A massive effort by all our fishos,helpers,cleaner uppers & everyone else who helped to make it a great day. Many thanks “AGAIN” to our “Master CHEFs”   Ray Bates and Noon for doing an excellent job on the BBQ and David Craig
for his generous prize donation.

We’ve got a lead and this could be a great chance for us to actually win the competition this year, so hopefully we get another great turn out for the return leg!

Saturday had a brief window for those that were able to head offshore. Inside fishing was slow. The RSL had 5 people who caught fish and did pretty well. The Grange, who were the hosts, had 9 or 10 people with fish, and the extra numbers showed in the final scores.

The Grange Hotel came out on top with a total of 1056.15 points to the RSL’s 717.20

Top rod for the RSL on the day was Scott Russell with 192.5 points followed by John Timp on 164 points, Adam Overton on 147.2 points, Antony Wardle on 115.60 and Dean Wetherill on 97.9 points.

David Craig attempted his first comp for donuts, and has said that if he doesn’t catch anything the next time, then he’ll be selling his boat!

Congratulations to the Grange for their good catches. The competition, as always, was conducted in great spirts, with some good food. We’ll be hunting to get the trophy back next time!

The Gosford Fishing Club has turned 50 and we are having a dinner at the RSL to celebrate! Reach out to Di Brown or Antony Wardle to book your spot. Tickets are $50. The date is 4pm on Sunday 22nd of September. Tickets are selling out fast!

The decent weather meant a good turnout for the competition with 10 anglers weighing in.there were good catches of Flathead, Bream Luderick and Mullet. Adam Overton came out on top of a close competition with 162.29points, John Timp coming second with 151.03 points and Dave Brown finishing third with 137.72 points but that included the best Garfish so far this weighing 100 Grams.

Di Brown came out as top Lady on the day with 43.8 points.

Peter Stuart won the Lucky Angler Competion

Next comp is against the Grange Hotel on 7/8th September

Dave Brown, Gosford RSL Fishing Club presenting yearly Radio club membership plus donation to Bobby Gilbody of Marine Rescue, Point Clare.

Tough conditions and wind meant only 6 fisho’s weighed in, with Scott Russell coming first with 200.6 points, Dean Wetherill coming second with 60.6 points, and Owen Hughes coming third with 178.7 points.

Top junior on the day was Toby Russell with 178.7 points.

The days Lucky Angler prize went to Helena Toulson.

The good weather finally prevailed for our comp last weekend 9/6/24, but fish were hard to find. Being a long weekend only had 8 fisho’s fished. In first place was Dave Brown with 108 points and in second place was Antony Wardle on 52 points. In third place was Larry Prior on 31 points.

Lucky angler on the day was Steve Tait

Our new members enjoyed the afternoon and many thanks to Ray & Di for organising the food & the washeruppers. It was great to have our New Boathouse being fully functional.

Next competition will be 14th. July.

The weather was good for fishing and 7 anglers fished. Top of the pile was Adam Overton with 247.1 points with John Timp coming second with 110.4 points. Dave Brown cam a close third on 101.2 points.

Top Junior on the day was Aydon on 57.8 points

Lucky Angler was Dean Wetherill

Gosford RSL took on the Grange Hotel in the first of the Biannual competition’s last weekend and came out comfortable winners 1810.05 points to 1276 points.

Top angler on the day for Gosford was Adam Overton with and incredible 477.05 points followed in second by Samar Singh Panwar with 188.3 points. Scott Russel was 3rd with 174.2 points.

Top Lady on the day was Noon with 60.2 points.

Top Junior was Toby Russell with 144.5 points.

Last weekend’s competition was marred by strong winds but there were still plenty of fish weighed in.

The winner was John Timp with an impressive 253 points.

No ladies weighed in

Top junior on the day was Toby Russell with 67 points.

The Lucky Angler prize was won by Dave Brown.

Congratulations also go to John Timp, Antony O’Dwyer and Antony Wardle who were picked to represent the Central Coast in in the Estuary round of the State Championships (Roy Barnham Trophy). Despite the horrific wind the team managed to come out overall winners.