Bribie comp report

[Jeremy]

Bribie Island Sportfishing Club comp this weekend. 61 nominations from Bribie, Brisbane, North Brisbane, South Brisbane , Ipswich and Kingaroy clubs.

As with everyone, we found the fishing a bit slow this weekend. Alot of green dirty water in close. Best fish I saw weighed was a 5.5 kg yellowfin taken on 4 kg line. Damon tagged and released a black marlin on 6 kg line, the only billfish caught in the comp, which earned him the highest point scoring fish offshore.

My best fish were a 1.5 kg grass sweetlip on 2 kg line and mack tuna 1.8 kg on 3 kg line.

The Brisbane SFC were overall winners of the comp with the highest scoring 3 anglers with a total of 2304 pts.

Great weekend with fantastic weather, good venue, lots of nominations and $10, 000 worth of prizes given away by random draw at the end.

PS. Cloud_9 - I was a bit surprised that nobody from the Gold Coast SFC turned up.

Jeremy

[Mick]

Very light lines you guys are using. Was it a class restriction, or was that the secret..., to use lighter lines?

[Jeremy]

The rules allow the use of lines from 1 kg to 15 kg. The way the points are calculated is the fishes weight is divided by the line class used, so the lighter the line you catch a fish on, the more points it will score. All the lines have to be pretested mono also.

I tried catching some mack tuna on 2 kg line, but wasn't able to. Was popped off twice. Darryl from our club caught some spotties and mack tuna ( all around 2 kg) on 2 kg line, and Roy and Damon caught mack tuna (around 1.5 - 2 kg) on 1 kg line. Great effort I say!

Jeremy

[damons33]

but jeremy, you got to tell the punters that it takes 7 bust offs to get one 1.5kg mack tuna to the boat on 1kg, after a 50minute fight- the fish comes to the boat "twitching" its tail and is basically D.O.A.
I busted off on a spotty over 4kg on 4kg line(on a lumo uzi) boat side while trying to lift it in instead of gaffing it- that fish would of made me the highest scoring angler, roy said it was the "3beers" i had on the sunday morning at 7am that cause the f#$k up!
i saw a few lill' spaniards caught on the weekend and it was picture prefect weather wise, congradulations to gordon mcdonald for winning the comp again with a 30kg shark on 4kg- wonder how long that took to get boatside?
damon

[dazza]

hi jeremy,
could't make it on the weekend, bloody work >:( >:(
you guy's had great weather.
looks like we will have to make a huge effort next year so the bribie boy's can give you guy's a real hurry up. if my roster works out hopefully i will be at the brisbane interclub
cheers
dazza

[Jeremy]

Damo - didn't know you lost a few before you go one in. Good persistence.

Dazza - We must have just pipped Bribie this year. Hope you can make it next month and maybe you Bribie boys can even the score then. Otherwise, we'll definitely be back again next year.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[vertico]

what about leadeR ? can you run 20lb leader ?

[damons33]

in division 1(sportsfishing) you are allowed a leader and double of a combined length of 1.5 rod lengths- so with a 7ft rod i use a leader about 7ft and the double is about a 1ft of stren 4kg flurocarbon and platypus mainline(good and stretchy!).
i started to worry that roy was getting the shits using the 1kg line because of all the knot tying and the fact we didn't look like landing any- till we started to get aggressive with the boat handling, backing down hard on baby mack tuna! sounding the herd and avoiding incidental line collisions by the still feeding fish around the fish you hook up, also it helps if you hook the fish in the gill rakers so there is some oxygen depravity to aid in the fishes demise. we spent over 3hours trying to get the 2 fish we did the plan was to catch 4.
2 for each to weigh in as per the rules of the comp, but we thought it would be easier to troll some bigger stuff out wider.
damon