The Screeming Reel.....

Edition one...1/2/14

Presidents report
The 2013 Broome Fishing Club AGM saw a great deal of support from club members to vote in the new club constitution and also to build the 2014 committee, with attendees helping to nominate one of the most diverse committees in recent time. With Wes Francks passing the presidential helm to long standing club fixture, Jig Albert and Shane Shags Minshull stepping up to the vice-presidency, taking over from Karen Crosby. The remainder of the 2104 committee comprises a range of young members and other long serving fishing club volunters enabling the club to deliver a professional approach to sponsorships and experience in handling big events. move the 2014 billfish classic to predominantly a circle hook only tournament; lures being the only technique to enable anglers to use the more traditional J type hooks. Furthermore debriefing post tournament saw anglers showing overwhelming support for tagging of undersized billfish in the aim of increasing the spectrum of year classes of animals. Anglers will be seeking to tag the baby fish with modified tagging equipment to limit the stress induced from the regular tagging equipment.

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slippery slope!!

Early December the disappointing announcement that the proposed $50 Million dollar funding to construct a new and contemporary boating facility adjacent to Simpson beach was to be retracted. The news was a shattering blow to the Broome community who have been dealing with the torment of poorly developed boating facilities Along with the advancement of the for far too long. With captiualtion of funding the community referbillfish tournament regulations, great support from club, committee ence group; the Broome Boating members and key stakeholders in Alliance has disbanded. In a final the WA recreational fisheries sector effort before closing the doors have backed the development and behind them the reference group The evolution of the Broome have passed some other options official tournament use of a new fishing club continues into 2014, to the minister for transport Troy brag ..Continued Page 2. with a conscious decision to Buswell, in the hope that this wont Jeff Cooper locking horns with a big Brassy Trevally just be swept aside. Its heart breaking for the reference group volunteers and fishing families to see this occur so soon after the acknowledgement of the state government to apparently commit a further $15 million to bring the total funding up to $50 million. The only thing left for the Broome community to do at this point is to rally around the Broome shire council who see the loss of funding as a tradgey all we can hope is that the hard work doesnt completely go unrecognised

Club Correspondance
The club is excited to announce that the are working towards establishing an open day on the 30th of March, last year the committee put the day on hold due to some upgrades to extend the lawn to the extremity of the lease. This was to hopefully occur to enable the opening of the new area up for the festivities surrounding the billfish and AIBT tournaments, negotiations between the club and the lessors are looking encouraging and should hopefully see a nice extended lawn down inside this year. The Kimberley Training Institute aquaculture facility will once again open its gates for the occasion, showcasing some of the new East Kimberley fish that enable the aquaculture centre to re-stock lake kunnunurra with fry in the hope of achieving the same results that the department of primary industries queensland have been achieving for many decades, a water way thats easy to access, relatively safe and full of 50lb Barramundi. As we move further into 2014 the club is now taking memberships and have membership satchels available for those who register as a member, so come down to the club sign up. Billfish tournament surplus fishing shirts are now available at heavily discounted rates. Long sleeve quick dry shirts $35 and tournament polos $10 (only available to members.The dates of some of the competitions have altered slightly with the Mayday Tournament now the first cab off the rank on the 17th and 18th of May - presentation and awards to be held on the 25th of May. The threadie shoot out is to be held on Sunday the 8th of June. Club and committee members are all ready seeing exciting signs of great things to come towards the end of the wetseason. The committee is currently working towards redesigning the website to enable access for mobile device users and increase the visibilty of the site to search engines to ensure greater access for those people searching for fishing options around Broome and with hopefully online registrations and store for club merchandise. The Mary island fishing club annual competition is fast approaching and is a generally well contested competition, with groups from Broome making the annual migration, to test there skills and other abilities in an ideallic location. For those who have wanted to have ever had that inkling to want to head up but felt that they lacked the nautical knowledge, then perhaps some training will give you some confidence to give it a go. The Kimberley Training Institute will be running accredited night courses in navigation. The course will ne held over six nights (Tuesday 4th - Thursday 6th February and Tuesday 11th - Thursday 13th February) from 17:30 - 21:00. The course focuses on reading and interpreting maritime charts, estimating fuel consumption in relation to planning voyages and planning routes for safe passage. The course has been designed to incorporate Buccaneer achipelago charts along with the predicted tides coinciding with the weekend of the buccaneer classic. Total course cost is $146.30 exlcuding any (non-essential) materials that can help with the training. For more information contact Leanne Tait on 08 9192 8909 or at leanne. tait@kti.wa.edu.au.

mat to enhance the treatment of fish during the diverse range of tournaments that club hold throughout the year. Due to poor performance over the last few years the bluewater blast typically held late in the dry season has been dropped from the competition lineup. The committee and the supporters of the club are hoping that the license buy back from within Roebuck Bay will help to increase the status of the recreational fishery and boost competitor numbers for those competitions held within the bay, offestting the loss of the blast.

Presidents report ....continued

the Family!!

Ingredients: 1 x 2 minute Phone Call A sprinkling of cash Petrol for the car to and from the takeaway food outlet. 4-5 hours of boating, previous to use of other ingredients Method: Undertake the 4-5 hours of boating in the pretence of catching things that swim in salt or fresh water, then upon return use the phone call to determine the next method for using the petrol. Following use of petrol, sprinkle cash and hey presto you may have something to eat. Jigs tried and true method comes from the experience of fishing in the challenging waters of Port Phillip Bay and the Devils Bend Reservoir where Red Fin were apparently avearaging a kilogram when the weather was warm!!

Tips and tackle, to catch you more fish!

The report

For those fishers that made the most of the good weather when it was available over the christmas break will no doubt be telling stories for the rest of the year. The fishing has been amazing. When the swell and poor weather hasnt been keeping boats in the creeks, the fishing for Coral trout, Bluebone, Snapper and Trevally offChinamen, Coral trout and Bluebone shore has been great, trolled lures, cant help themselves when jigs drop in! jigs and baits of squid and mulies have all been producing good fish. There are so many different things a lack of knowledge regarding the The near shore reefs are still being that an angler has to bring togeth- stuff that keeps you connected to ravaged by serious numbers of er, to actually succeed at catching the fish! thats right, how often do sharks, prompting many anglers to you find youself walking around fish. Firstly if you cant cast you pull the pin early or move around. in the store or browsing on line in When the weather has kept anglers wont be able to catch fish. It certainly depends on what type of an aimless atempt to find the line confined to the bay, good capequipment you decide on. I know that will cover all bases? For me I tures of fish from the deeps to the find that a good quality PRT braid shallow flats south of Crab creek for one thing, I cant even work in the 30 - 40lb category the most and almost all of our creeks have out how to use a handline withflexible line and will enable the out wrapping myself up in knots been producing fish there have angler to fish for Queenies, Mack- been some respectible numbers of but I learnt at a young age to cast lures and flies. To be truly efficient erel, Squid, Cobia on the surface, Barrmundi being caught, with fish theyre great lines for trolling lures yielding to most techniues prior we need to understand the tides, moon phases, water temperature, whether it be for Barramundi to the good dump of rain we had or Tuna. Ultimately youll realwhat sort of beer to stock in the near the end of January. Those esky and nothing short of a marine ly see the benefits of using them fishers wishing to try their hand at bioloigy degree to figure out what when jigging the offshore reefs for lures should try small traditional the fish actually want to eat! When Bar-Cheeked trout, Bluebone and bibbed minnows and some soft Snapper. The sensetivity of these vibes, however some days it doesnt you finally piece it all together someone throws another spanner lines is second to none, enabling really seem to matter what you in the works to keep you thinking the unassuming anlger greater rip through the water, it will get chance of hooking small bites that annihilated! Some good reports are and doubting the decisions that can end up in chaos. I recently you make are actually the right still filtering through about threadhad a little tap, set the hook and ones. The only way to truly know fin popping up in places where Ive immediatelty got demolished for sure is to keep track of these never heard or seen them before. by a 20kg + Cobia, on a jig that decisions in as much detail as With any luck we are in for a crackaccounts for many other bottome ing 2014 threadfin season. Keep possible. Something that I really speceies. Knowing what line to struggle with. The fishers that I your finger crossed. use isnt the last key to success, you know who keep accurate diaries sill need to understand what knots Cheers, Beno......... know exactly what they want to do in advance and regularly dom- and rigs are suitable for which inate the fish. Really though you application. Next edition Ill speak a little about the knots that work can keep all the records you like know everything there is to know and dont let go when theyre tied correctly. Until then have a look about currents, temperatures, barometric pressure and it can all at this website and get practicing; come unstitched at the seams with www.animatedknots.com.