Aquatic activities involving BotF members
Category: Fishing & Surfing
Harbord Bowling Club Fishing Comp – May Round
This month’s fishing comp was against the Narrabeen Sand Hotel fishing team. Weather conditions last weekend were less than ideal with winds predominantly from the South (South West or South East), with a reasonable bump in the swell. A reconnoitre …
Fishing Harbord Bowling April comp and Up the Coast
A belated blog and have combined last 2 weekends into 1 blog. The April round of the Harbord Bowling Club Fishing Comp, the weekend before Easter, had wild and woolly weather in Sydney. The fishing was difficult with 30 knots …
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Point Plomer, Queens Beach and the rest of the road trip
The second half of last week was spent back at the cabins at the secluded Point Plomer, less than 100 metres to the beach. With the full crew of Rich, Lambo, Terry, Pup, Hof and myself, we had two cabins …
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Arrawarra Headland and brief jaunt to Angourie
On the way to Angourie yesterday afternoon, checked out many different beaches for a surf in a South Easterly wind. We checked out half a dozen beaches, the Hoey Moey hotel beckoned in Coffs, but Lambo was determined to get …
Surf Road Trip (Wallaby Point, Saltwater Reserve)
1st report from the Surf Road Trip – at Wallaby Point, not far from Old Bar/Taree. A Point Break, with peeling 3ft waves and only a couple of other punters. Lambo surfed the point, Rich and myself took on the …
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Harbord Bowling Club Monthly Fishing Comp (Feb 2011)
This weekend was my second foray at the monthly fishing comp and I planned to fish some where a little different – having seen all the surface fish from the back of the Manly ferry, decided would try west of …
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Kahawai (the Australian Salmo the leaper)
A day off work so decided to go for a cruise/fish in the harbour and launched the yak at Little Manly. Did not get there too early, darts comp started last night so a slow start and with kids getting …
A nice Flathead and prettier than a mother-in-law
Very happy to see that BoTF members are expanding the beer reviews to the contiguous pursuit of fishing. One of the greatest surf fish you will ever catch is a Flathead I have been trying to catch them for …
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Harbord Bowling Club, Bonito and a King
Harbord Bowling Club is the venue for many family Friday night pizza’s and a few beers. The pizza parlour is good, the beers are cold and plenty of seating inside and outside. On one Friday night a couple of weeks …
The New Pornographers, Mountbatten Hotel, County Clare and Pure Blonde White
BotF forgot until about two days before that he had tickets to the New Pornographers at Manning Bar. The New Pornographers are an 8 piece band from Vancouver (though one member doesn’t do OS travel at all) and they have …
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back of the ferry 