A total of 16 members and 3 juniors fished Lake Eildon and the tributaries on the opening weekend. The streams fished were the Howqua, Delatite, Goulburn and Jamieson Rivers. The Goulburn and Jamieson were very dirty as was the lake except for the Delatite arm. The dirty water areas did not produce any fish. The weather conditions were good being mostly overcast with a few light showers.

The Delatite above Merrijig proved the premier location with worms being the best bait using the float fishing techniques. 21 brown trout and 8 rainbow trout were taken for a total 8.355kgs cleaned weight. The best fish was a brown trout the weighed 0.560kgs and the heaviest bag was 2.110kgs.

The club participated in the annual Howqua Association competition and were successful in winning the John Kirkman Memorial Shield. The rules of the competition only allow fish in excess of 35cm to weighed for competition purposes.

The results of this competition were:

Preston Northcote Angling Club

6 trout for 2.490kgs resulting in an average weight of 0.166kgs per competitor.

Dunlop Bayswater Angling Club

3 trout for 1.759kgs resulting in an average weight of 0.097kgs per competitor.

Ian Stanfield from the Dunlop Bayswater Club had the best trout weighing 0.650kgs and Andrew Brandi from Preston Norhtcote had the best bag with 3 fish for 1.290kgs. No fish were taken from the Lake. The Delatite and Howqua rivers produced all the fish.

Peter Patterson, Sue Kirkman, Les Penrose

The Saturday evening BBQ was excellent thanks to Chefs Ivan and David. Peter Patterson accepted the trophy on behalf of the Preston Northcote Club and thanked all who participated and Dunlop Bayswater for their organisation of the event.