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Lake Lyell Convention 2025

Wrap up from 2025 Lake Lyell convention

Lake Lyell Convention 2025

Deep Sea outing August 2025

Deep Sea outing report Sunday 31st August.

Report by Michael Markich

With the forecast of big swells i changed the boundaries for the deep sea day to the lower regions of the Hawkesbury River to allow more members to fish. The large swell wasn't as bad as they said it would be as it was only rough until about 10am and almost glassed out close to shore after 12pm as there was a westerly wind.

Even though it was nice to be on the water and plenty of fish on the sounder, the fishing wasn't the best with lots of time between bites. Andreas Peukert had 4 on board taking Ron Abdilla, Cristy Dickson and Alison Dring out fishing with him. A Rumour getting around said that when the sea was rough in the morning there was plenty of burley being put in the water but still the fishing was a bit slow. Ron Abdilla got 2 keeper snapper between 30 -40cm and a nice gummy shark which added a bit of excitement to the day. The rest of the crew got a mixed bag of undersized or undesirable reef species. In my boat myself and my son Cameron Markich did pretty much the same with 1 x 395mm Snapper and a large Banjo shark and the odd reef species as well.

I also had my main auto bilge pump fail ending up with a few hundred litres of water under the floor. Thankfully my secondary pump worked so im replacing both pumps in the next few weeks. Tony Pearce fished inside the river around flint and steel and Cowan landing a legal bream and Shovel nosed shark as well. Due to the small number of participants for the day i didn't end up cooking the usual BBQ but it still ended up being a great day out.

North Narrabeen Beach - March 2025

Sat 15 March 2025 3-8pm

A nice afternoon and evening outing was held here last weekend. The beach days are proving to be very popular. A total of 21 men women and children attended which was fantastic.

With the last throws of summer pushing well into autumn, it was a beaut sunny and warm afternoon, with a bit of a cooling nor-easterly breeze. Not everyone fished but that’s fine, we all enjoy being on the sand at the beach.

There were some record sized Whiting caught, most notably a 436mm by Peter Bylsma and 407mm by young Blake Meadows. A few others landed Whiting, Dart and Tarwine, however not many in total.

Squeezing our contingent between the swimmers to our south in the SLS flagged area, and the surfers to the north made it a bit difficult to spread out at 3pm however after 5pm we had plenty of room.

Seeing the rise of the ‘blood moon’ over the ocean on the horizon was spectacular.

After we packed-up, some of us sat down for fish n chips and hamburgers at the local cafe before heading back to the Hills. A bit easier than a bbq in the dark

Big thanks to Ben Withford our official photographer for the outing, and still managed

to catch a nice Whiting.

Mick