USFA Inc.

Contact Officers for Clubs and Independents

St George Spearfishing Club
1. Lee Dalli - 0413 033 224
2. Craig Shephard - 0408 967 576

Mosman Whalers
1. Andrew Kyle - 0431 451 920
2. Gerard Lloyd - 0412 114 913

North Shore Underwater Club
1. Timothy Forster - 0406 750 369
2. Andrew Moderer - 0418 204 951

Sans Souci Dolphins
1. Dan Galea - 0412 017 208
2. Simon Trippe - 0439 818 409

Central Coast Sealions
1. Stuart Rech - 0435 143 128
2. Andrew Pearce - 0417 423 820

Newcastle Neptunes
1. George Davies - 02 4957 4571
2. Dallas Davies - 02 4957 4482

Living Water Freedivers
1. Stephen Bird - 0419 550 717
2. Ian Mallett - 0488 278 993

South Coast Skindivers
1. Josef Hyzdal - 0418 740 266
2. Vivien Schulter - 0412 274 309

Revesby Workers Spearfishing Club
1. Eddie Skerry - 0410 599 766
2. Garth Byron - 0448 490 706

Independent Divers
1. Darren Higgins - 0417 216 008
2. Lee Dalli - 0413 033 224

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

The USFA was one of three finalists in the award for Excellence in
Recreational Fishing Communication for the USFA Guide to Spearfishing in NSW
and the AUF one of three finalsts for Project of the Year with the Great
Australian Shark Count.

Attending from NSW were Darren Higgins, Adrian Wayne, Mick Rupnik and Mel
Brown with Adam Smith and Chad Lunow from Queensland and Matt Koopman from
Victoria.

For the size of our organization we can take great pride in the fact that
both the USFA and AUF were the winners of their respective categories.