USFA Inc.

Three Way State Championships

Proudly hosted by the South Coast Skindivers Club

Thankyou to all the divers who competed at the 2010 Championships and for your patience in waiting for the results. I made a few data entry errors on the day of the competition that affected some individual scores and also some results. I personnally apologise to those divers who have been affected by this and regret any inconvenience.

Ellis Higgins

Note: Rock Hopper results are still being sorted.

The Sixth Australian Hand Spear Championship
Hosted by the Sans Souci Dolphins Spearfishing Club

When: May 30th 2010
Where: Long Bay. Malabar. Registration at Northern Car Park
Time: 8am sign on for a 9am start 1.30pm sign off
Cost: $25; Sub J’s and Junior grunts $10
Scoring: 100pts per fish 10pts per kilo

Rules:
Hand spear only to be used, must be shown at registration.
Hand spear head to be covered at all times when out of the water.
Rock hop only, no other form of transport allowed.
Sub Juniors (Divers under 16 years of age) and Juniors (16 up to 18years) must be accompanied in the water by a diver over the age of 18years old at all times. This diver too must accompany Junior diver to the registration point.
Float, International Divers Flag A, and diver’s knife must be part of the kit and must be shown when registering. Flag must be displayed on Float throughout competition.

Prizes:
The already prestigious Long Bay Hand Spear Championship Trophies for the first three placing’s. Plus a selection of prizes for the Junior categories.

Species List:
Ineligible: Black Reef and Orange Spot Jackets, Wirrah, Silver D’s, Ling, Sergeant Baker, Maoris. Other species as prescribed Sydney Metropolitan Zone standards
Penalties -50pts for bringing these fish into the ring.

One fish per specie except -
2 per specie may be taken of:
Rock Blackfish, Luderick, Bream, Flathead, Blue Morwong, Tarwhine, Mangrove Jack, all pelagic species including Mulloway and Snapper.

Minimum Weights as per Sydney Metro Zone standard.

BBQ and refreshments provided free for competitors after the weigh in.
A fun day is guaranteed, so check out your garage or shed and dig out your old hand spear and come along for a great social day of fishing old school style. Hope to see you there.

All spearos are welcome.
See you down there!

Simon Trippe
Event Organiser
On behalf of the Sans Souci Dolphins
0439818409

On Sunday 17 May 4 spearos from the Revesby Workers Spearfishing Club assisted the National Parks and other interested volunteers in cleaning up the Towra Point area.
While most people were at the State Titles I was able to coerce my son and 2 of his mates with an offer - that if they helped with the clean up I would take them out spearing for the same amount of time and show them a few old spearo tricks.
We were given the job of recovering anything that was in the water and deeper than your knee, like an old oyster boat, 44 gallon drums etc
The jobs were enjoyable and we made some new acquaintances with some linos who also believe there are better ways of fish conservation then being locked out.
Craig Shepherd organised the day which ran smoothly and fuss free, I would gladly donate more of my time to assisting Craig and the other National Park officers who have the same environmental concerns as most spearos.

The National Parks were so appreciated that we gave up our time and put in the effort to attend, that they donated 2 eskies as raffle prizes and guess who won one - YES me!

So after the clean up and a warm chicken sandwich washed down with a cold soft drink all donated by the National Parks, I took the boys out the front of Kurnell and it was BIG.
I couldn't anchor so I went boatie and shouted instructions to them. It must have worked as they all got a feed and the sawtails they picked up were huge.

I would encourage others to attend the next cleanup and enjoy the comradery.

Gary Crawford.

The USFA/AUF is to hold a re-union dinner to celebrate its 60th anniversary on Saturday 19th September commencing at 6pm. Revesby Workers Club, the venue for the highly successful 50th anniversary re-union has again been chosen to host this event .

Speech Transcript – Keynote Speaker
Bob McComb, Chairman, the Adventure and Safari Industry Association of NSW
USFA Event 7 May 2009
Sydney

6th - 12th April 2009

Please refer to http://www.spearfishingdownunder.com.au/pacific_coast/ for details.

Downloadable Competition Rules

USFA Spearfishing Competition Rules — PDF, DOC

USFA Spearfishing Competition Procedures & Minimum Standards — PDF, DOC