With Club membership at capacity, it was decided to change from an ‘Open Day’ with advertising in the local media to a “Club Day” for our members.  This time the venue was at White Water Farm in the Stanford valley where 28 anglers kicked off a competition in the face of a fairly stiff breeze blowing from the North West.  These adverse conditions, coupled with really unco-operative fish, saw only one fish landed – by Jan Steyl on an olive fritz.  With more members arriving for the presentation and raffle, we moved down to the restaurant area.  As the focus of the day was on flies and what fish eat, the fish was killed and the stomach contents emptied into a shallow bowl of water where anglers were able to see the contents of the stomach and the sacs of immature eggs.  Gordon van der Spuy identified various insects and larvae and this became the basis of a truly amusing and highly informative talk that had everyone smiling for an hour.

There was a lucky draw and all in attendance got some goodies to go home with.  Our thanks go to Xplorer for the fantastic sponsorship of 6 vouchers and all the tackle and accessories, and to Bouchard Finlayson, Whalehaven and La Vierge for the wines.  The Club sponsored a boerie roll for everyone in attendance and we were totally spoiled by the hospitality and the exceptional venue at White Water Farm. Dave Russell won the raffle with a ticket bought with a R100 borrowed from his good mate at the table.  After the event, the die-hards were back on the water in their tubes and were rewarded with several really impressive fish between 2 -3kgs.  

Brad Baadjies was awarded the Club Champion Trophy for his consistently impressive catch returns for the year.  In total he had netted 98 fish.  Congratulations Brad!