ANSA NATIONAL MASTERS AWARDS

Current Masters list click here

In addition to claiming National Records all ANSA members can participate in a range of activities that can lead to personal achievement awards known as Masters Awards. There are essentially two kinds of Masters Awards, the first being driven by line class and the mass of the fish and its prescribed fighting factor and the second where line class is not a factor and the only determinant is the overall length of the fish. The National Rule Book ( pages 32 – 36 ) explain in considerable detail how these Masters Awards are governed.

For a list of masters awards pending click here (This link is coming soon).

Line Class Masters

There are 9 separate tackle divisions eligible for Line Class Masters Awards – these are

To achieve a Line Class Masters Award in a particular Division a member must capture a minimum of 10 different species each of which must exceed 100 points (see rule book for how the point system works) and submit each capture to the member’s Club Recorder. Either the member or the Club Recorder (or both) will track captures until a minimum of 10 captures is reached.

When this milestone is achieved, a Masters claim form should then be completed and forwarded to the National Master Keeper for processing via the State Branch Recorder / Masters Keeper. Claim forms are available from the forms page.

There are special concessions that apply for Junior members and Tasmanian Members (See Rule Book).

There are other categories of Line Class Masters Award that may be claimed by members once they have achieved the initial Masters Award. eg Masters 20 or Masters 30 Awards.

ANSA National will issue a certificate and embroidery emblem to members who achieve these awards.

All Tackle – Length Only Masters Awards

This is a new award which only come into effect from 1 July 2008. Essentially the member must submit 10 different eligible trophy species of a minimum length (as listed pages 8 -10 of the Rule Book or as determined by individual State Branches) to be eligible for this award. As the “All Tackle” prefix implies there is no line class or fighting factor involved in achieving this award. Any type of eligible tackle may be used and the overall length of the fish is the only determining factor. This type of award has special emphasis on capture and release fishing activity.

For more details refer to pages 35 – 36 of the Rule Book.

When this milestone is achieved, a Masters claim form should then be completed and forwarded to the National Master Keeper for processing via the State Branch Recorder / Master Keeper. Claim forms are available from the forms page.

There are other categories of All Tackle – Length Only Masters Awards that may be claimed by members once they have achieved the initial Masters Award. eg Masters 20 or Masters 30 Awards etc.

ANSA National will issue a certificate and embroidery emblem to members who achieve these awards.

Other Masters Awards

Members are also entitled to claim for Tagging Awards, Freshwater Impoundment Masters Awards and Land Based Sportfishing Masters Awards. Details of these awards can be found on pages 36 -38 of the Rule Book.

Masters data base history.

This list was initially prepared by former masters keeper Ron Poole by recording all the masters claims that were still held as National archives in the original claim forms on to a data base. The forms resided in several cardboard boxes and somewhat separated by a system of folders tied with string.  The list has been added to by other master keepers until around December 1997.

Since then a new master keepers have been appointed and more later listings have been added. These are now included in this growing list.

I feel sure there are still quite a few missing however over time these may surface and assist in completing the list.

The data base list was once loaded into a computer somewhere that had the date settings set to the US system and that mistake consequently destroyed a lot of the data relating to dates. Fortunately Ron kept an old book that had all the masters listed up until the time he vacated the master keeper position and that faded list was checked and all the dates that were listed in the book were painstakingly re-entered by Dennis Fox, a member of the Townsville Sportfishing Club.  As quite a lot of the actual date data has been destroyed any information relating to correct dates will be greatly appreciated. The list will be updated as changes come in from members.

A special thanks to Bruce Tozer, he has managed to get together all the NSW masters from 1997 onwards and this has been added to the list. Lets hope other States have some sort of listing history that we can add to this important list of achievements.

You can download the current list  HERE. The list is about 200K in size and is in pdf format.