Fishers donate to flood appeal
A fishing club based at Ettalong Memorial Bowling Club has raised $1500 for the Queensland Flood Appeal.
This follows a donation of $1000 to the burns unit at Gosford Hospital.
The money was raised through evening raffles held at the Ettalong Memorial Bowling Club every Thursday night.
The fishing club raffles off over 30 trays of seafood, red meat and poultry, conducts a regular 100 club and has eight local sponsors to raise money for a number of organisations.
"Last year we gave many thousands of dollars away to organisations such as the Leukaemia Foundation, HeartKids, Early Intervention unit at Woy Woy Primary School and Cystic Fibrosis NSW," said club secretary Mr Fred Parker.
"Our primary purpose is to conduct fishing competitions and be a friendly social club.
"We are very community-orientated and give a lot of donations to charity," he said.
The club participates in a range of social events including a barbecue held once a month, several social nights held throughout the year and social days including visits to the Hunter Valley wineries.
The club holds monthly fishing competitions for adults and juniors with three divisions including deep-sea, inside (Brisbane Water) fishing and shore based.
"At our last competition, we had 32 weigh-ins, catching 152 fish for 66kg clean.
"Plenty of flathead were caught outside and a lot of good bream were landed inside," he said.
Mr Parker said despite already having over 200 members, the club was always happy to welcome new members.
"The best time to catch-up with the Ettalong Bowling Club Fisho's is on a Thursday evening when we conduct our raffle in the licenced club,' he said.
The club also has a junior tinnie fishing day at Patonga planned in March.
Email, 18 Jan 2011
Fred Parker, Ettalong Memorial Fishing Club