Fishing Field Day Report, Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin Field Day


		Surf Casting and Angling Club of W.A. (Inc.) Cape Naturaliste to Cape Leeuwin Fishing Field Day - July 2002.

The 2002 Cape to Cape Field Day was postponed to this weekend because of the rather dire conditions forecast for the designated weekend. This however was no guarantee that the weather would play along. As it turned out the weather on the Saturday was cloudy and windy with strong swell running. A few brave souls were at the sign-on including Malcolm Harris, Vix Alexander, George Holman, Ken Black, Tony D'Alonzo and Ben and Colin Lilburne. With the formalities completed they dispersed far and wide in search of fishable water.

Tony D'Alonzo told me it was more of a survival course than a fishing expedition with many spots wiped out or too dangerous to try. He described some pretty atrocious swells and acres of white water making any fishing difficult.

However the Surfcasters are a redoubtable bunch and set about catching what they could in the adverse conditions. Malcolm and Vix managed a few skippy and herring between them. George Holman did well to catch five species including herring, flathead, bream, blackfish and a leatherjacket.


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But it was Tony D'Alonzo that once again managed to pull the rabbit from the hat. He struggled for good fish but did manage a great snook of 2.1 kg for the heaviest scale fish and also topped the heaviest bag. Some did not weigh in and probably decided it was too hard or too dangerous.

The rain that came through late on Saturday night put a further dampener on matters and it was a wet weigh-in at Busselton Jetty. Not the greatest Field Day with regard to attendance or catches but that is often the way with fishing. One takes the good with the bad and the participants seemed to have had a good time nonetheless.

John Jardine

Results.

Attendance:- Seniors 6, Juniors 1, Visitors 0, Total 7.

Angler	Weight	Species	Fish	Total Points
Tony D'Alonzo	16.2 kg	5	29	262
George Holman	2.68 kg	5	7	126.8
Malcolm Harris	1.3 kg	2	6	83
Vix Alexander	1.25 kg	1	8	72.5
Ken Black	0	0	0	50
Ben Lilburne	0	0	0	40
Colin Lilburne	0	0	0	40

Sportsperson of the Year Section Winners and Field Day Prizes for July.

Best Scale Fish	Tony D'Alonzo,	Snook	2.1 kg
Best Bag of Scale Fish	Tony D'Alonzo,	Mixed	16.2 kg

Field Day Sections for 2002/2003 up to July.

Section	For	Angler	Species	Weight.
1A	Best Scale Fish (1st Six Months)	Vix Alexander	Salmon	4.15 kg
3	Best Shark (4.5kg min)	Tony D'Alonzo	Shark	8.15 kg
5	Best Tailor (1.0kg min)	Bradley Zaknich	Tailor	1.05 kg
6	Best Salmon (3kg min)	Vix Alexander	Salmon	4.15 kg
7	Best Skipjack Trevally (0.5 kg min)	Malcolm Harris	Trevally, Skipjack	0.64 kg
9	Best Scale Fish (Other than above)	Tony D'Alonzo	Snook	2.1 kg
10	Best Bag Of Scale Fish	Tony D'Alonzo	Mixed Bag	21.44 kg
12	Best Bag Of Tailor (2 Fish Min)	John Jardine	Tailor	5.75 kg

Field Day Top Ten up to July 2002.

Position	Angler	Total Points
1	Tony D'Alonzo	1016.5
2	Ken Black	307.5
3	Malcolm Harris	307.4
4	Vix Alexander	294.7
5	Ian Taggart	223.5
6	Filomena D'Alonzo	214.1
7	John Jardine	209.0
8	Mark Farnay	205.6
9	Ross Kember	191.1
10	Bradley Zaknich	179.0

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