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As Smithy demanded, there is my first effort at posting a rather long winded report
The 2005 Sunshine Coast Game Fishing Classic was on again this last weekend. With 42 boats on the board and a few fish around, it looked like it was going to be another fun tournament.
We fished the trench and caloundra 12ml thursday, only managing to drop two billies and land some vermin, so our plan was to go for broke and fish heavy tackle. The calcutta went to plan, with Magic Pudding sold to the crew for $60.
After retying all the doubles etc after the briefing, i then realised we had left the HT lures and rod straps at home. DAMN! So away I went rigging the likes of mini sproket's with single 11/0 7691s hooks so we could fish 24kg at full pressure. Sleep wasn't found until midnight.
Saturday started off with a reasonable sw wind, and a somewhat unpleasent 2hr trip out to the grounds. Start fishing was called at 8am,and it wasn't looking very fishy out wide, with few birds and no bait. At 9.30ish the first rubber band went, but no hookup and a chafed trace grrrrrrrr. The next strike was more successful, and by the fist sked we had tagged a 70kg sail on 24kg.
For the rest of the day, the fish just seemed to not be there in their usual numbers, only busting one more band until the 3.33pm sked. We were still leading the tourny, with no other boat having more than 1500 points. It was obvious that the first boat to 2 heavy tackle fish would be up on the podium.
As usual I stood with the mic in my hand for the last few minutes till cease fishing, and as luck would have it, we hooked a 60kg black with no more that a minute to go. Talk about good timing! I was again on strike so we finished the day with two heavy tackle fish to me myself and I, and leading the field by nealy 1000 points. Unfortunately due to the lack of hands boatside, we didnt have any photo's from the weekend, hopefully smithy can post some of his.
After a good 8hrs sleep, we were again up bright and early on saturday for the trip out wide. To cut a long story short, we ended up with not a single strike all day. In the meantime we were hearing boat after boat equalling out point score.
last night we had a fair idea that we had at least won champion angler, so a night on the turps it was.
With little sleep and one very sore head it was off to the preso at 7am for a good serve of unhealthy food. After a nervous hour or so wait, we ended up with one very full table! We managed to take out champion male HT, champion male overall, champion boat over 6.5m and champion boat overall! What made it all the more sweeter was the cheque for over $4k from the calcutta along with the prizes.
Overall the fishing was patchy to say the least, with a few boats not turning a reel for the weekend. Unfortunately local boat 'Keneka' (which jeffo is crew on) had a blue come up tail wrapped and stiff as a log, so it was hung up on the gantry for publicity and science. The fish weighed in at 163kg, and drew alot of attention to the club!
Finally, I would like to thank all the marvellous sponsors including Taylor Marine, Bodo Muche, shimano, PRECISION RODS, fishermans world, creative air, wellsys and canale travel to name a few; and especially thank SCGFC!
Well Done CJ. I was listening to the skeds out there and by the sounds of all the fish NOT being caught on Saturday ???, no-one was looking like catching you. Shame about one getting tail wrapped and not making it ???
ahh you just got lucky hehe.
nah congratulations CJ, ask the lads on board..all day saturday i was saying "if we cant win there is no one else id rather see walk away with all the prizes more than you". having the courage to say "YEP lets go heavy" in a 7.3m boat deserves it.
good to see there was no " OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ITS GONE"..... lmao.
Well done Captn Crash. You have redeemed yourself very well indeed. The Furuno GPS will be a very sweet bit of gear. Looks like you have some electrical wiring to do. 4 gorillas will pay for a bit of fuel and a few tournaments in the next couple of months.
Cheers boys, and lol phill! Craig would have been happy, i did actually say that for one of the dropped fish. I think i'm going to bs spending a fair few hours transferring gps points over the next few weeks!
Were the small lures out wide the secret technique for the weekend? PP keeps saying the small ones are out there but everyone is dragging much bigger lures for Blues.
I was listening to the skeds out there and by the sounds of all the fish NOT being caught on Saturday ???, no-one was looking like catching you. Shame about one getting tail wrapped and not making it ???
hehe. 
