nofrills
09-02-2004, 05:52 PM
howdy all
fished the bribie sportsfishing club interclub comp today which is my first ever sportfishing comp and i had a ball doing something different.
thanks to jeremy for putting up a post about it or i would'nt of done it.
i fished with dazza and to say we had a bad start is an understatement.friday arvo im all keen go out to pick up my boat(which is holidaying in a mates shed for a while) only to find that last trip,which was pretty lumpy,i had snapped my roof frame in a couple of places without realising :o ::) ???
so i had a good sook and decided to call the weekend off.
but dazza got me geed up again whith words of encouragement like'' col at fisher boats said he will fix your piece of crap roof first thing in the morning''so we were back in the game.
should point out that my boat isnt a fisher but col seems to enjoy fixing things as much as i enjoy breaking them ::)
so boat fixed,we decided not to fish saturday to give the others a head start and also because we are lazy and watching someone fix the boat wore us out.
so now the fishing bit ::)
left bribie at 0330 and headed out the trench to get some really big lives to win the comp''AS IF''.we found livies ok but the school mackerel wouldnt let us get em in the boat,so after about 5 bait jigs and a lot of cussin i decided to troll a lure around on 2kg.i did get nailed a few times but it hard to pin em when your line is weaker than dental floss and your rod is like a piss weak chop stick.
but hey its a comp so no guts no glory 8).so decided to head up off caloundra with the hope of getting bait there''WRONG''
now buy this time its about 0800 and weve got nothing,except one school mac taken on the bait jig and i dont think ANSA have a class for that.and the wind is picking up ::).in desperation i pull out a couple of lures a mate gave me(DONT ASK :-X)we rig em up and chuck em out saying we'll give it 10 minutes and were gone.
we;ll first run i get a spaniard'only a baby' but it was size and things were lookin up.then dazza got a wopper school mac.
this is what makes these comps fun.you can only weigh in one fish of a certain species and up to five species,so now dazza and me are deciding what to do with the next strike cause he wants a spanno and i want a schoolie.we decide if its slow its mine if its fast its his.
its slow,but to my surprise up comes a nice grassy sweetlip.the first of four we pulled off the one patch trollin for macs ;D
then the wind blew so we bolted back to bribie just making it to the pub for the weigh in.
any way dazza scored the highest pointscoring fish on 6kg{sweetlip}
and i scored highest pointscoring fish on 8kg(spaniard)
we got a roll of platapus platnum and certificates.and also scored top lucky door prises like shirts a $20 gift voucher at sundown marine and of course stubby coolers 8)
so what started out as a crap day at the end of a crap weekend turned out tops because of a couple of hours good fishing.
cheers scott
jason the fish hater(right)and ashlee the fish eating machine with probably the only reef fish she will get this year so i hope she dosent eat it all at once.or at least let me cook itTHIS TIME. :o
fished the bribie sportsfishing club interclub comp today which is my first ever sportfishing comp and i had a ball doing something different.
thanks to jeremy for putting up a post about it or i would'nt of done it.
i fished with dazza and to say we had a bad start is an understatement.friday arvo im all keen go out to pick up my boat(which is holidaying in a mates shed for a while) only to find that last trip,which was pretty lumpy,i had snapped my roof frame in a couple of places without realising :o ::) ???
so i had a good sook and decided to call the weekend off.
but dazza got me geed up again whith words of encouragement like'' col at fisher boats said he will fix your piece of crap roof first thing in the morning''so we were back in the game.
should point out that my boat isnt a fisher but col seems to enjoy fixing things as much as i enjoy breaking them ::)
so boat fixed,we decided not to fish saturday to give the others a head start and also because we are lazy and watching someone fix the boat wore us out.
so now the fishing bit ::)
left bribie at 0330 and headed out the trench to get some really big lives to win the comp''AS IF''.we found livies ok but the school mackerel wouldnt let us get em in the boat,so after about 5 bait jigs and a lot of cussin i decided to troll a lure around on 2kg.i did get nailed a few times but it hard to pin em when your line is weaker than dental floss and your rod is like a piss weak chop stick.
but hey its a comp so no guts no glory 8).so decided to head up off caloundra with the hope of getting bait there''WRONG''
now buy this time its about 0800 and weve got nothing,except one school mac taken on the bait jig and i dont think ANSA have a class for that.and the wind is picking up ::).in desperation i pull out a couple of lures a mate gave me(DONT ASK :-X)we rig em up and chuck em out saying we'll give it 10 minutes and were gone.
we;ll first run i get a spaniard'only a baby' but it was size and things were lookin up.then dazza got a wopper school mac.
this is what makes these comps fun.you can only weigh in one fish of a certain species and up to five species,so now dazza and me are deciding what to do with the next strike cause he wants a spanno and i want a schoolie.we decide if its slow its mine if its fast its his.
its slow,but to my surprise up comes a nice grassy sweetlip.the first of four we pulled off the one patch trollin for macs ;D
then the wind blew so we bolted back to bribie just making it to the pub for the weigh in.
any way dazza scored the highest pointscoring fish on 6kg{sweetlip}
and i scored highest pointscoring fish on 8kg(spaniard)
we got a roll of platapus platnum and certificates.and also scored top lucky door prises like shirts a $20 gift voucher at sundown marine and of course stubby coolers 8)
so what started out as a crap day at the end of a crap weekend turned out tops because of a couple of hours good fishing.
cheers scott
jason the fish hater(right)and ashlee the fish eating machine with probably the only reef fish she will get this year so i hope she dosent eat it all at once.or at least let me cook itTHIS TIME. :o