Dry Casting Report July 2002.


		Surf Casting and Angling Club of W.A. (Inc.) Dry Casting Report July 2002

Listening to the forecast for Sunday, we all got out our wet weather gear and waterproof boots and got ready for some "wet casting".

But whoever organised the weather did a magnificent job. Sunday dawned cool, with some clouds which looked like they held light rain, but stayed sunny and breezy for much of the morning.

And the breeze was a good westerly, coming from behind us instead of all those head winds we have had for so many months.

The breeze was great for the distance events, but added some challenges for the accuracy. But the grass was dry, so we didn't have to keep wringing the water out of our accuracy pom poms, like we did on the dewy morning in June.

Just check out those distances! Chas Riegert and Nick Allsworth each threw 112 grams 175 and 180 metres, which were new club records. Six casts were 169 metres or over.

Chas threw 56 gram 169 metres and five 56 gram casts were 150 metres or over.

Despite the wind, there some bursts of good results in the accuracy. Tony and Terry were marking some of the veterans double handed accuracy, and all scores for casts at one target were 17 or over.

Terry immediately proposed a quick change to the rules similar to the "catch and release" fishing rules, and asked if he could be credited with the average of everyone else's cast - but no go.

His first cast was a 17, helping to keep up the average, but the second cast was "only" a 14, so dragged the average down. Lots of good natured ribbing about that.

Once again we had several visitors and new members looking for dry casting tips and tuition, and thanks to George once again for all the effort in looking after them.

One visitor came all the way from Three Springs after reading about dry casting in the AAA articles in the West Coast Fisherman, and others came from the AAA clinics, and have since applied for club membership.

Some of the 112 gram weights were burying themselves 150mm into the soft grass. Weights with short plastic tubing were very hard to find, since only a little bit of the tube was visible.

Please make sure all of your plastic tubes are close to the maximum length of 250mm. It's also very hard to see these as they come through the air.

Keep it straight and long.

Willo and TerryF.

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Results for the day:-

Seniors	[112 Cast 1 Metres	gram] Cast 2 Metres	112g Total Points	[56 Cast 1 Metres	gram] Cast 2 Metres	56g Total Points	Double Handed Accuracy	Single Handed Accuracy	Day Total Points
Chas Riegert	180	175	36	153	169	32	139	13	220
Nick Allsworth	175	180	36	158	158	32	112	16	196
George Holman	0	175	18	160	0	16	132	21	187
Malcolm Harris	101	110	21	95	88	18	118	15	172
Gary Gildersleeves	158	0	16	0	149	15	118	18	167
Terry Willison	162	169	33	129	138	27	76	16	152
Peter Stoeckel	108	105	21	90	90	18	83	12	134
Ric Parker	0	154	15	134	134	27	75	14	131
Veterans
Roy Killick	0	136	14	120	132	25	159	28	226
Mal Head	135	146	28	0	119	12	118	20	178
Tony D'Alonzo	0	125	13	124	125	25	119	20	177
Terry Fuller	82	93	18	100	102	20	110	23	171
Don Batchelor	120	133	25	0	0	0	119	14	158
Jim Strong	0	101	10	99	98	20	123	4	157
Trevor Stam	37	105	14	0	86	9	98	14	135
Andy Thorgersen	84	91	18	83	73	16	92	8	134
Ladies
Vix Alexander	0	0	0	77	76	15	92	11	118
Mini Juniors
Andrew Stoeckel	60	56	12	65	65	13	47	4	76

Winners of the Day:-

Competition	Winner	Score
112 gram	Chas Riegert / Nick Allsworth	36
56 gram	Chas Riegert / Nick Allsworth	32
Double Handed Accuracy	Roy Killick	159
Single Handed Accuracy	Roy Killick	28
Winner of the Day	Roy Killick	226
Ladies	Vix Alexander	118
Mini Junior	Andrew Stoeckel	76

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