MEMBERS and guests of the Rosewood Amateur Fishing Club ended the competitive year with their annual Presentation Night on Saturday (November 30).
The event was held at the Rising Sun Hotel in Rosewood, where Darren and his team host monthly club meetings and weekly Friday night fundraising raffles.
After everyone tucked into a fabulous smorgasbord of crabs, prawns, oysters and roasts with all the trimmings, the serious business was announcing the 2024 prize winners.
Junior competition winners
Holly Bazzo: Freshwater champion 122.8 points; Saltwater competition 42.03 points; Overall champion 163.83 points.
Arielle Bazzo: Freshwater runner-up: 53 points. Overall runner-up: 53 points.
Heaviest fish awards
Cooper Buhmann: yellowbelly 2.7kg (beating the seniors with this catch).
Holly Bazzo: bream 0.5kg, silver perch 0.66kg.
Cooper also received the new perpetual shield for 2024.
This shield was gifted to the club by the Browning family, in memory of their 19-year-old son Dean, who tragically lost his life on May 18, 2023.
Dean loved fishing for yellowbelly at the Glen Lyon Dam competition.
This trophy is to be awarded yearly to the junior or senior member who lands the heaviest yellowbelly, at the club’s annual Glen Lyon trip.
Senior competition winners
Daren Henderson: Freshwater champion 341.4 points; Runner-up Saltwater 209.2 points; Overall champion 550.6 points.
Jamie Harris: Runner-up Freshwater 282.1 points.
Terry Sheppard: Saltwater champion 367.5 points.
Heaviest fish awards
Peter Gillon: murray cod 3.765kg.
Andrew Browning: yellowbelly 2.2kg.
Viv Bazzo: jewfish 1.8 kg and flathead 1.16kg.
Jamie Harris: bass 1.605kg.
Donna Henderson: silver perch 0.8kg, bream 0.94kg.
Daren Henderson: whiting 0.27kg.
Judy Litfin: tailor 1.02kg, estuary cod 1.06kg, javelin (grunter) 1.04kg.
Terry Sheppard: vermin (shovel nose) 2.48kg.
The year 2024 has been a great year for the club with a membership of 31 seniors and six juniors. There has been good attendance at most trips.
We are all looking forward to February 2025 when War on the Water starts again.
