The week it was ..started with the AIBT first.   Day one   started with fresh crew and a great attitude on day 1. 

    First day was a day of trawling...  First fish was Baz's Sailfish popped his cherry. Was a great little fish we switched up from a plastic to a bait.

    Day 2.  Very uneventful day but still raised 3 Billies.

    Day 3.  Was a long rough day , we went out wide and trying to play with the big boys no no avail.  We decided to head home about 1ish to beat the rush at the ramp . We raised a sail on the 37kg which i hooked and landed. We did the big turn around and set the spread and Cliff hooked up again on the same lure and the same rod. So that was 2 on the 37kg..

   Equals 1 on 15kg and 2 on 37kg which equals 1000 points.  for team deepwater.

Runner up Tag & Release Sailfish section.. Team deepwater.

                                                GAMEX

Going to cut this one a little short as only 1 fish weighed in.  and 4 tagged sharks.

   Most days were pretty reasonable conditions with some real crap moments in between..  raised about 11 billfish in the 6 days for 0 tags. not even 1 hook up. 

Day 4  we were out trawling the 400m mark when the 10kg went screaming out , it didnt jump so i got the little fella up to take charge. After 10minutes he had the monster subdued and it was a 13kg Wahoo. I rang the wife to let her know we would be weighing in a fish for a photo as it was our first fish for the boat to ever be weighed in.  Vicky ( Deepwater widow) rang back with the news i was hopeing for .. the state record was 12.4 kg so we were hoping it was gonna be bigger than that.

  Last day of fishing we were fishing in the passage and we picked up some snapper for tea and 2 of the sharks.

Presentation night was the night we were waiting for...  Alex collected the prize we were hoping he hadn't been beaten on the last day.  Alex took out the 10kg line class section winning a Shimano T-Curve rod and a Tyrnos 16 with some tackle and lures and 1000m of 10kg line and some vouchers.

Was a fantastic prize to add to his growing collection.

Big thanks to all my crew AIBT..Cliff and Baz thankyou very much and GAMEX a big thanks to My uncle Simmo and Alex my main man..

 Jeff

P.S  A BIG WELL DONE TO ALL THE WORTHY BOYS.VERY WORTHY WINNERS .        IT WAS GREAT TO CATCH UP WITH YOU AT BOTH TOURNAMENTS  THANKS A LOT GUYS.

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