Welcome to our world!
The Hook and Reel Angling Club
Schooner Crescent, Swartkops, South Africa
This is the page where all our members, as well as former members, are invited to display their memories or just plain show off! Please dust off those old photo albums and let us have all those images of the good old days. Just scan them, zip them into a zip folder, click on the email button above, write us a short message and attach the zip folder. If you don't know how, ask your three year old! If you have too many, send a message anyway and we will collect them from you and display them in a web album bearing your name.
Although we all enjoy our club facilities tremendously, we seldom appreciate the fact that it took a lot of blood sweat and tears of former members to aquire those facilities. The following images from the album of our honorary chairman, Jimmy Burgoyne, depicts how Tiger Bay came into being and also shows the first sod being turned to erect the clubhouse.
And just to show off a bit!
Beginning of the excavations at Tiger Bay.
Channel from Tiger Bay being formed.
Channel being dredged.
Tiger Bay and channel as we know it today.
Interested spectators at the sod turning ceremony. Mike Flanagan can be recognised on the left and Johan Kok on the right.
Then chairman, Jimmy Burgoyne, turning the first sod.
The clubhouse as we know it today.
Jimmy Burgoyne with a night's catch of grunters in the good old days before restrictions came into effect.
Jimmy's once-in-a-lifetime kob.
A respectable steenbras and a nice fry of grunters.
Jimmy as captain of the Springbok team to win the International Light Tackle Boat Championship in Wales in 1983. The gold medal was for the team effort and the silver for Jimmy's individual achievement of the second heaviest bag for the competition.
The Hook and Reel A-Team also took top honours in the Eastern Province Angling Week during 1983. From the left is Willie Beeton, the late Johan Kok, Leon Kok and Jimmy Burgoyne.
Okay folks, let's have those photo's. They do nobody any good gathering dust!
Slipway completed in the foreground.
The following images were emailed by Denton Keegan from London, UK. He snapped them on a Swartkops River fishing trip with the webmaster early in 2006.
Sunrise on the Swartkops River.
Yours truly reflecting on the philosophies of life.
And here's one I snapped of him. Hi, Denton!
The best side of Denton Keegan.
View towards Tipper's Creek.
The boat next door. (He hooked a good one just before the photo was taken).
Ready to go on Kromme River, 15 May 2006.
The next morning, 6 am.
And the result, master fisherman Gurney Stanley showing off his 35 kg kob caught on a mixed grill.
Channel nearing completion.
Ruth Senior is looking for Hennie and Marlene (70+) who used to live in P.E. Marlene is the daughter of the late Olive Du Toit. If you can help, please contact Ruth at the following address: ruthsenior11@tiscali.co.uk. Thank You.
