Weekly Fishing Report

31/05/2004 to 06/05/2004

Well we are six days into the last fishing month of the year. The rain is still hanging around and the fish are still bitting. We have only seven capture sheets handed in for this week. By the looks of them, all fishing boats had a good day out on the water. There were just a few stories about the bird fishing that has been created here in Lae. It is quite a challenge for the fishing people in our club. Nevertheless, they seem to be doing it with ease. There was also a lot of talk of the flying Mackerel not just this week but last week too. It is good to stand a listen to the fishing tales of to day and how much fun they all had. Keep it up that is what fishing is all about.

06/06/2004

Ratchet was out in the rain all day on Sunday. Well I think all the fish are hibernating near the Buso River or B4 on the grid reference. Andrew Smits weighed in eight Giant Trevally the heaviest weighing in at 4.8kg on 4kg line class and a Yellowfin Tuna weighing in at 3.5kg on 4kg line class. Ron Smits weighed three Giant Trevally weighing 3.5kg on 4kg line class, 3.6kg on 4kg line class and 4.1kg on 4kg line class. Well done to both of you.

06/06/2004

Black Label were on the water on Sunday with one of our younger fisher persons of the club, Lachlan Seeto. Lachlan managed to catch himself a 2.09kg Yellowfin Tuna on 6kg line class. Well done Lachlan good to see you out fishing with dad.

06/06/2004

NuzuNuzu was fishing up in the Sugarloaf area, which is C2 on the grid reference. Cathy Kenward found herself hooked up on a 4.2kg Mack Tuna on 4kg line class. This also gave Cathy the chance to grab the vacant spot in the National Record Book. Congratulations Cathy on your hard work.

06/06/2004

Reel Estate was also out on the water. They had a very successful day of fish. Theo Pelgen caught four Tuna Mackerel the largest weighing in at 4.4kg on 6kg line class. Eight Giant Trevally, the biggest one weighed in at 4.4kg on 6kg line class. Theo also tagged and released three fish. Very well done Theo. Daphne Pelgen had a good day of fishing on Sunday. Daphne weighed in one Mackerel 4.6kg caught on 6kg line class. Two Tuna Mackerel the biggest one weighing in at 3.8kg on 6kg line class. One Yellowfin Tuna weighing in at 2.5kg on 6kg line class. Four Giant Trevally the largest on weighing in at 4kg on 4kg line class. This fish was not only the largest of all Daphne’s Giant Trevally but was also a National record. Well done Daphne.

Gary Wong was also out on Reel Estate on Sunday and did very well for themselves. Gary weigh in a Mackerel at 2.5kg on 4kg line class. Three Tuna Mackerel the biggest one was 3.4kg on 4kg line class and four Giant Trevally the biggest one was 4.4kg on 4kg line class. All the hard work payed off Gary well done.

Well that is all for the week, hope you enjoy the report. Please don’t forget we have the Mobil comp on this weekend so come a long and join in it is over three days and your best two days out of three will be recorded.

Regards

Val Smits 

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