Hello everyone and hello to our new members.

On the weekend we had eight people fish with Dave Brown take out the top Male rod. Second was Dean Wetherall and Antony O’Dwyer was third. Top lady was Bec Trees and Toby Russell took out the junior prize. Lucky angler went to Dean.

May is the month when we have a quick turn around and so there is a competition this weekend (25th) coming. Weigh in will be at the RSL at 3pm. I hope to see you there. 

We are still looking for a secretary so if you want to talk about the role, please see either myself or Di Brown. The club boat is still unavailable, I’ll update you when we have a resolution. 

See you Sunday!

Antony Wardle (Club President)

Hi everyone

At the AGM, there were some changes to the fishing competition voted on.

These are now in effect from the next competition.

In short, the three changes are:

All fish be gilled, gutted and roed.

1cm be added to all minimum fish lengths.

Cash prizes are reduced to $25 and awarded for best junior, female and male Inside Fishing catches and best junior, female and male Outside Fishing catches plus luck angler.

Please see the attached rules and feel free to reach out to me or any committee member if you notice any errors. Our next competition is on Sunday 18th with a 3pm weigh-in and then one week later, our next one. 

The club boat has an issue with it, and it is unavailable for use. Our boat captain is working on resolving this issue and we hope to have it available as soon as we can.

We are still looking for a secretary so if you’ve got some time to help out, please let me know.

Thanks

Antony

The awful weather this weekend meant that only 4 hardy anglers who braved the storms weighed in. Top men’s rod on the day was Scott Russell on 81.6 points, with top Lady angler being Rebekah Trees on 13.8 points and top Junior was Toby Russell on 33.2 points.

Lucky Angler prize went to Dave Brown.

Hopefully the weather will be better for the next competition on the weekend of 11th and 12th May

The weekend just gone, saw round two of our competition with Bateau Bay. We went into the weekend with a small lead from the first round. Some challenging conditions and only nine people fishing meant that we were going to find it challenging to stay ahead. So it proved. BB seemed to have some good catches, but when the scores were tallied up, our Estuary fishos did well and we ended up with 1117.3 points on the day. 

When this was added to the first round score we ended up with 2618.6 points and
we ended up taking out the trophy by 200 odd points. I looked at the trophy and I only saw one Gosford RSL badge, so this was the first win since the year 2000! Congratulations to everyone who fished. Your catch made this win possible. Special call out to Steve Tait and Larry Prior. They were anchored up when a 40 ft catamaran ran over them and they were stuck underneath it for an hour before they were able to get themselves free. Steves boat lost its windscreen, fish finders and rods but he and Larry made the weigh in, and Steve took out the lucky angler prize.

Our top three rods were:
John Timp 267.7
Dave Brown 191.5
Dean Wetherall 186

Toby Russell managed a 9KG Cobia and rounded out the top four! Great work everyone

https://www.grslfc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GRSLFC-3way-winners-1.pdf

Congratulations to the team from Gosford RSL Fishing Club who won the annual competition against Bateau Bay for the first time this Century. There were some really good catches and a very good team effort to score 1117.3 points for the April round to add to the score of 1501.3 to give a combined score of 2618.6 points.

1. John Timp 267.7 points
2. Dave Brown 191.5 points
3. Dean Wetherill 186.0 points
4. Toby Russell 171.6 points
5. Kevin Timbrell 108.6 points
6. John Hatcher 90.4 points
7. Antony Wardle 58.3 points
8. Larry Prior 43.2 points

With the terrible weather last weekend only 3 die hard anglers ventured out for a fish. Top of the pile was Rebekah Trees with 58.12 points followed in 2nd place by John Timp on 57.4 points and Dave Brown on 31.6 points.

Lucky angler on the day was Dave Brown.

A big thank you goes out to the helpers on the day who cooked and served lunch.

The next competition is Sat 12th / Sunday 13th against Bateau Bay with the weigh in being at Bateau Bay and all fish must be in the weigh in area by 2:00PM. Rule to be advised later.

The first of the Bi Annual competitions against the Grange Hotel was fished in difficult conditions with only 6 competitors from each side weighing in. The result was reversed from the last competition with Gosford RSL coming out on top by 670.7 points to 520.6 points.

Top angler on the day was Antony O’Dwyer on 184.6 points, followed in second by Rebeka Trees (also top lady angler) on 147.6 points.

Top junior was Toby Russell on 91.2 points.

The good weather this weekend meant another good turnout with 13 people weighing in. There were some excellent catches of Flathead, Bream, Whiting, Teraglin, Tailor and Bonito weighed in and Adam Overton came out on top with yet another really impressive score of 419 points. Antony Wardle came second with a score of 214 points and Scott Russell coming third with 183 points.

Top lady angler on the day was noon with 129 points.

Top Junior angler on the day was Toby Russell on 43 points.

Lucky angler prize went to Antony O’Dwyer

The weather made the fishing difficult this weekend but there were still some fantastic catches weighed in. Top rod on the day was John Timp with an impressive catch of Tailor, Mullet, Whiting and Bream with a total weight of over 19Kg scoring him a total of 292.75 points. Second place went to Adam Overton with a score of 177 points and in third place was Dean Wetherill with 151.6 points.

Top lady on the day was Rebekah Trees with 20.82 points

Top Junior was Toby Russell with 8.50 points

The winner of the Lucky Angler prize Adam Overton

Last weekend was our first competition for the year, and because of Australia Day weekend, it will be the only competition in January. Despite an ordinary forecast, a few people went out and some good caches were brought to the weigh in. Adam Overton took out the men’s comp with 430.7 points. New member Bec, took  out the ladys comp with 71.8 points and Steven Rennie was the only junior who was able to fish.

Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on the calendar and the Club Person of the year. Attached is the updated calendar, and the weekends points score. If you notice any errors. Please let either myself or Gary Rothwell know. 

A reminder that the AGM is coming up on Sunday 2nd Feb 10:00 am at the club and we will have the first committee meeting of the year in the afternoon at 1pm. I expect that the incoming committee will organise some food.