Game boat section winner !!!!!
When I first got my boat the nephew and I decided to go down to the Mandurah fishing comp for a go !! This would have been the 2007 comp I think. We arrived the night before and dropped the boat in and got some very funny looks as we tied up to the wharf (being a cheap ol rough looking boat with a rough looking skipper and a bloody hippy). But as we did not give a rats ass what they thought off to tea in the club house we went !! I slept on the boat and Shaun set his swag up on the landing (more funny looks).
In the morning up for the breaky and set the boat up and off to the start line !!! What a buzz. More boats than you can poke a stick at and all wanting the front possie. The start is something to see(from the back). By the time they all get going the wake/seas and swell make for the biggest washing machine you would ever see. After letting them all go for a minute or two off we putter.
Not fished in Mandurah all bar twice before we thought we would go in the direction that most boats had taken. Out to the 30's and fished all day with very little to show for it. To say we were disappointed would be an extreme understatement !!!!!! But we wanted to get back for the weigh in so off we toddled.
We got half way back a few birds were diving on a school of bait fish. We each threw a lure out the back and skirted the school. Within the first minute I was on and then Shaun. We got the tuna in the boat and was happy just to have something to eat atleast. On the way in we were joking that the fish Shaun had caught was the winner and what we would do with the prize money(there were game boats heading out that would top the magic mil I recon)!!!
At the weigh in the tuna pulled the scales down at ALMOST 3kg and was hanging there for quite some time!! We were watching the bags empty out of the fridge and the joking got less and less!! Well blow me down Shaun(and my boat) had won the game fish section. Some of the BOYS that had been looking at us the night before and were giving a chuckle here and there ATE SOME HUMMBLE PIE!!!!!
$1000 for a days fun on the water !!!! The bragging rights !!!!! The red faces !!!!! Just goes to show you don't need a multi 00000 boat to be in da money at the comps !!!!!
PS: Only just found these pictures and video on my phone and downloaded them
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Splitting the winnings!!!!
feral1975
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I bet there was some home
I bet there was some home made bourbon in there that night .
Dreamweaver
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Great going Rod!
Bloody top effort mate for you and Shaun - what a crack up - humble lil batterred Tinny beats all the BIG guys - would have been great to see their faces when you won!
Great story and outcome mate!
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Hi fellas
good one you all, as colin2 said beats all the big guys, humble pie ha fellas good on you.
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Good on you Staal
A classic case of don't judge a book by its cover.
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Auslobster
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Great story!
I remember one year when it was screaming easterlies all day...big boats went belting out far and wide, caught stuff all 'cause they couldn't hold bottom, would've copped a hammering all the way in, would've chomped through loads of fuel.
Meanwhile, a guy in a dinghy took out the biggest herring and biggest sand whiting and pocketed 2 grand while outlaying maybe 5 bucks for petrol.
On a side note, dhufish (and samsons for that matter) aren't permitted to be entered into that comp, so that people don't target them. But obviously they are caught anyway because snapper, blackarse, baldies etc ARE able to be submitted and dhuies end up being a "bycatch".
And then the stupid local rag publishes a heap of dhufish pictures "from the fishing competition". What a giant handjob.....
till
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Great work!
Great work!