AUGUST 19th COMPETITION RESULTS

The swell was down but a NNW wind picking up during the day made it a bit difficult for the boaties this month but the land-based guys were happy and a small tidal movement all day did not help the river anglers.

Plenty of river anglers fished with a whopping 11 juniors this month. Only three of the juniors managed to land a fish however. Steven Eley had two bream but was unlucky that one died before weigh-in reducing his point score. Amy Stewart had a respectable live bream of 580grams but Martin won with his 728gram live bream to win the junior river section. Di Stewart and Cheryl Eley each had one live bream while Gary Ivey three fish which put him in the lead for a short time until Leah Skinner opened her esky to reveal a 3.25kg mulloway and one live bream winning by a good margin. All the bream are tagged and returned to the river.

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Leah Skinner’s 3.25kg winning mulloway

Brett Bain changed his style and went for a beach fish landing 4 tailor from Wittacarra while Don Owen had 7 fish. Tristan Neumann showed 4 respectable fish but Daniels bag of 5 fish which included a massive 19.9kg amberjack won him the beach section as well as the Anzac Meritorious award of a $50.00 voucher for the big amberjack from the rocks. Thanks to the Kalbarri RSL for the vouchers each month.

The Kalbarri RSL Anzac Meritorious award went to Daniel for this big amberjack.
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Jamie Waite with Faye Sutherland and Ralph Bulndell were out early headed north and picked up some nice fish. Faye was onto a snapper first drop with her new rod and reel and went on to have the time of her life out fishing the two guys onboard “Alliance”. “Bulawayo Buoy” was not far behind with Laurie and Sue Malton aboard and when they spotted birds working a bait school in very clear water, dropped the lures behind the boat promptly picking up a couple of blowies! Persisting with the lures Sue came up tight with an 8.35kg mackerel on 3kg line! Kind of unheard of at this time of year? Within minutes she was on again but dropped it. It was then Laurie’s turn and he soon found himself out gunned on 3kg tackle and eventually bust off after 20 minutes.

Mark Flanagan’s catch of nice snapper
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While “The Master Baiter” with Paul Loffler, Matt Tenant and Mark Flanagan aboard were out deep landing snapper, Faye was onto more fish including a 7.9kg amberjack that was good enough to win her the under 7.5m boat section and Sue and Laurie were catching under size dhuie when the mulie under a small balloon out the back of “Bulawayo Buoy” exploded as it was ripped under water which turning out to be an 8.5kg yellow-fin tuna on 6kg line for Laurie.

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Sue and Laurie’s out of season game fish

The over 7.5m boats “Santa Barbara” with Paul Maindok, Peter Dooley and new club member Lui Palmara and “Top Deck” with Steve Wiseman and the committee from A.N.S.A. all caught fish but Lou Palmara had the best bag of snapper to win his section.

Lui Palmara with two of his three winning fish
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The Mystery Fish voucher from The Gilgai Tavern went to Laurie Malton. The restaurant voucher from The Jetty Seafood Shack went to Daniel Tarasek. Steve Wiseman won the scratchie draw and donated it back, thanks Steve and no mug of the month story was submitted.

Thanks to Trevor and Donna from the Kalbarri Beach Resort for their sponsorship.

Next comp is on 23rd September.