Girls Catching Most Fish
Illawarra Mercury
Friday March 5, 2004
THE days of the blokes going fishing every Sunday morning and then straight to the club or pub, after dropping the fish off at home for the lady of the house to get ready for a barbecue lunch, are just about over.
Nowadays the girls are going fishing with the blokes and what's more they are catching most of the fish. However, the blokes are not going to the pub any more after fishing, but straight home instead to barbecue the fish for lunch.
Yes the fairer sex are getting stuck right into the old boys' fishing escapades out in the deep blue water.
For starters, take Diane Devine down at the Windang Hotel Fishing Club. She's catching so many fish in Lake Illawarra, they call her The Lady of the Lake.
If anyone living around Lake Illawarra knows of any woman who catches more fish that the Lake Lady, let me know.
The first time I went fishing with Diane and her partner Steve Acland, we fished the southern end of Windang Beach and she plonked me on to a hot spot where I caught heaps of whiting.
The next time we fished together was from a boat in Lake Illawarra for blackfish on squirt worms on the western side of the Windang bridge.
The very next time we fished together was on the eastern side of the bridge for a swag of whiting.
Di and Steve are taking me down to fish the Shoalhaven River during the next Windang Hotel Fishing Club Derby against the Open Hearth Hotel Fishing Club and I bet I end up with another hot spot to disclose to Fishing Lines readers.
Warrawong High School runs a fishing class in conjunction with their school sports program, with Josette Dus, who teaches English as a second language, taking the kids fishing every Thursday afternoon.
A highlight of the program every summer is a deep sea fishing adventure aboard a party boat off Wollongong. This year they plan to run two trips, one for the boys and one for the girls. I bet the girls catch most of the fish.
And, it's not only in the salt water caper the girls are starting to shine, but in the freshwater trout action as well.
Every November when I hit the road over the mountains to fish the Snowy Mountains Trout Festival I always have a fish out with a girl called Cath Wynn.
Cath is a trout fishing guide with Lake Jindabyne Trout Fishing Adventures and knows every hot trout fishing spot in Lake Jindabyne.
Just a few weeks ago I went fishing for whiting on South Shellharbour Beach with the Cristiano sisters Ausilia and Crissy.
Now the sisters seldom go fishing, but in no time at all they were casting baited hooks out into the third line of breakers.
It just goes to show boys, all you have to do is give the sheilas a good line and by hook or by crook they will sink your ego by catching the biggest fish of the day.
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