I fish abournd "LIBERTY" for the competition.
We had a trail run on friday hit the trench didnt find a great deal of bait or fish so we heaed to towards hutchies for a look.
In the 3 hours we caught 4 yelowfin and a 6kg dollie.Had fair shows of bait and fish so agreed hutchies was the place to start.
Saturday gametime,We had to drop of a mates car at scarbie boat club left there at 5.25 then heaed to bribie to jump on liberty.
As we left scarbie all the boys where heading out of newport."Water Rat" was just leaveing the leads.We made up time and caught him at combie point doin 43knots.We made it to hutchies with 5 minutes to spare before start fishing.
Black pearl tagged a black at 7.20am and there where 4 blacks tagged for the day Animal 2 Blacks ,100kg speciment from Hey Mate East of the cape 100mtr line.
Big Business Weighed 2 hoo 18 kg and 16.9kg
Conditions where abosolute crap 20-25knots 2 mtrs on 2 mtrs.The under 7mtr boat where doing it tough and a take my hat off to them.
South of the cape plenty of bait,As you headed to the 100mtrs line the wind gained 10knots.
We caugth 1 yellowfin lost 2 hoo 1 a bite off and 1 lost due to it running betwwen the motors in the final stages.
Sunday we started in the trench then headed back to hutchies.
Conditions where better then saturday but still not great 20knots ese With 1.5mtrs of swell.
Didnt find alot of bait on the trench.We made it to 1 of my marks at hutchies triple on yellowfin.
Then managed a line class hoo(8.05kg) lost another next to the boat 15-20kg range due to a pulled hook.
Didnt turn a reel for 4 hours.
No marlin for the day from any 1.
The Big winner was Animal 2blacks and 1 yellowfin, calcutta was $4400 for first.
Steve also won the last man standing,A 5hp four stone johnson motor.All up they won about $10000 in prizes and money.
Second was the Black Pearl on a count back 1black$2200 calcutta.
Third was Hey Mate 1 black$750.
Under 7mtr was won by Aquisition.
Not a great deal of fish around.
We finshed in 5th spot overall.
But had fun anyway.
Cheers Troy