Entries by Brett Horner

Online Event Registration Coming Soon

This year the Gold Coast Sportfishing Club will be offering a full online registration and payment process option for the Flathead Classic. Please be patient as we put the finishing touches on this process. Entry Fee Seniors *$175.00 early bird (before 30/07/11) or normal entry $200.00. Late entry from 17/9/11 $225.00 Juniors $100.00

Club Member Discounts May-June

Keogh Marine Electrics You only have a few days remaining on the great offer from Keogh Marine offer ends 31th May For the month of May (1st to the 30th) Keogh Marine will run the following specials for all club members – 25% off the RRP for all Lowrance – 20% off the RRP for […]

Barra Classic Wrap-up:Ben Job

We arrived to the daly river on the 7th of may, leaving us with 4 days of pre fishing leading up to the 5 days of competition. Myself and my other team mates (Ross McCubbin and Brad Job) which is also our flathead classic team, caught plenty of fishin pre-fishing both casting and trolling up […]

King of Moreton Bay

An exciting new fishing tournament on the calendar. The King of Moreton Bay is a Catch and Release teams event for Whiting, Bream and Flathead. Kayak and land based anglers also welcome. Full Details: http://www.kingofmoretonbay.com.au

A Juniors Perspective

Jake Neilson: I have found that being a junior of the Gold Coast Sport Fishing Club has been a great way to kick off my fishing interests. In 2006 my Dad (Paul Neilsen) and myself had our first introduction into the club. We fished the Flathead Classic and  throughout the 3 days of fishing we […]

Team Lucky Strike 4th @ the Barra Classic

Hot off the press we have just heard that club members Ross McCubbin, Ben Job and Brad Job have finished 4th in the 2011 Barra Classic .This is a big achievement in a very worthy field of anglers. A big congratulations and well done. Stay tuned for a full wrap up.

An Interesting Flathead Fact

On the 29th of June 1996 Mick Dohnt tagged a 44cm flattie tag no. FH 05383. L Smythe recaptured this fish in October the following year, it had grown to 50.5cm. Then, David Green recaptured the same fish on the 1st of August 2004 when it measured 85cm. This growth of 41cm took 8years +. […]

Strong Foundations

Club History by Don Woodford Back in the late 60’s I was a member of the GoldCoast Game Fishing Club. As such I became friends with Pat Gaye, the then President of the QGFA and later President of the GFAA. I’d been a fisherman, estuary and bluewater all my life, but Pat taught me the […]