God has visited
WE had a visit to Moulamein by one of the gods of AFL – James Hird, who dropped in for a visit to support a mate at his father’s funeral.
This was a thrill for our bowling club manager Courtney, when James just wandered into our club looking for a feed in the morning.
Photos were taken and Courtney will never forget the meeting.
I’m sure Audrey would have liked to meet the great man, but he was not in town for long and he was here to support a mate.
Not to be the centre of attention.
Town looking good
THERE have been plenty of comments as to how good our little town of Moulamein looks.
Well done to whoever is in charge and to whoever is doing the extra miles to keep everything looking neat and tidy.
It has not gone unnoticed, thank you for caring.Koolamein Cup
OUR team went over too our Wakool Waker mates for the big challenge.
I could not get there as I was on ‘Pop duty’ for the weekend.
I had a great weekend, and I think our teams did as well.
The new Wakool Club rooms look great and they will enjoy them for many years to come.
It may be an old trophy we were playing for but it stayed in the new clubrooms.
We will try to get it back next year.
Make sure you bring the trophy with you next year as we will be trying to keep it.
EWAA AGM at the WMLIG office for a BBQ
THIS mob stays under the radar most of the time.
But they do a bloody good job in the background.
The Edward Wakool Angling Association will be having their AGM on November 19 at the Western Murray Land Improvement Group offices in Barham at 6pm.
The meeting will be followed by a barbecue and a couple of drinks.
If you would like to know more about this mob, give Rodger a ring on 0419551203.
Ducks still not in the rice
IT is good to see crops greening up around the district.
There is a bit of wind damage but there are still bugger all ducks around.
I keep telling my shooters that ring up, keep ringing me as things can change very quickly when this water dries up, wherever the duck are.
If the ducks can stay away for another week or two, most crops will be past the duck damage stage.Pennant bowls started last weekTHANK you again to Lake Boga for bringing both teams over to start the season off.
Our Division 1 struggled all day and could not get a rink up.
The bright spot was our Division 4 mob – they had a great game and got a rink up and a draw.
A great day was had by all.
It is good to be out there again.
COVID almost paid us a visitWE had a very close call when one of our visitors to our town tested positive five days after the Cup celebrations.
So far everyone that has been tested has come back negative, so he must have picked it up after coming to our little town.
It is a matter of when, not if, this dreaded bloody thing gets into our town.
At least anyone with a brain is now double vaxxed, so the damage should not be that bad.
Natural selection I call it if those that have not got the jab get crook.
River levels
THE Edward is around 3400 megs at Moulamein at the time of writing.
The Edward is dropping very quickly and will keep dropping as there is only 2600 downstream of Stevens Weir.
And I finally have a fishing report – I had a couple of fellers camped up on the creek and they had a ball.
There were 38 cod from 20cm to 65cm, five yellers from 38cm to 51cm, three grunters from 20cm to 50cm and six carp from 50 cm to 81cm.
Thank you for that great fishing report Des, it is much appreciated. There was also a 75cm cod landed this week as well as plenty of ‘Subway’ cod (footlongs).
If we can get away without a blackwater event this will be great for our fishing in the future.
I’m sure Des has marked the spots that he got the good ones out of so he can come back in December and get a feed.
