Gerringong Sub-Juniors Win Again!

The South Coast Fishing Clubs Association held the annual Beach Comp on the 15th & 16th of February and this year it was hosted at the Lakeview Hotel. Our club had 7 competitors on the day with 4 of these being the sub-junior team made up of siblings Tom & Hannah Cronin and Lori & Eddie Stalgis. They had big boots to fill considering Gerringong had won champion Junior team the two years prior. The fishing turned out the be pretty tough with plenty of drizzly rain and some very cold water moving in. After about 5 or 6 hours of fishing at Gerroa on the Saturday, nobody had a fish to weigh - the only ones to bite were a couple of small stingrays! The kids were not giving up that easy and Tom Cronin was out of bed at the crack of dawn on Sunday morning and didn't waste any time starting to get a few fish in the esky. With news of a few fish coming in the rest of the kids assembled on the beach in no time and started catching the Mullet left, right and centre. Off to the weigh in they went and Tom Cronin's early start certainly paid off with him Winning the Champion Sub-junior prize with 169.68pts. Lori and Eddie both tied for runner up with 140.9pts each. Hannah Cronin took out the prize for the biggest Mullet with a 0.450kg whopper! The scores were tallied up and the winning Junior team announced "Gerringong Juniors" so congratulations kids - all those hours paid off! Great result - now 3 years running. They are all already looking forward to next year!