Kalbarri Offshore Fishing Club
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APRIL 20th COMPETITION RESULTS

Strong easterly kept the boats inshore but over night it was very pleasant along the river with bream coming from right up river. The biggish swell made it difficult for the land based guys but they still did well.

Club sponsor this month was Kalbarri Signs; use them when you need signs and graphics.

The river is back to normal now and running clean with bream being found all the way up river. 12 anglers fished the river but none of the juniors managed to land a fish. The Ivey family have found a good spot with Garry Ivey showing 4 live bream and winning the section twice in a row now! What’s happening Brett! Tracey Ivey also had 2 bream, Cheryl Eley 1 and Di Stewart 2, one being the biggest at 846grams. Still no whiting or mangrove jacks after the flood. All the bream were kept alive and returned to the river after weighing.

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The Land Based Section was fished by the evergreen Tarasek brothers and Tristan Neumann all landing good fish from Frustration. Simon’s mulloway at 3.5kg was not good enough and Daniel thought he was in with a chance with a 6.55kg mulloway and pink snapper but was knocked off by young Tristan Neumann with his 11.15kg shark.
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Only 2 boats fished the ocean section. Laurie and Sue Malton had to borrow Peter Duigan’s dinghy as all of their’s were hired out and Paul Maindok went out in his over 7.5m boat “Santa Barbara” Both boats tried for a mackerel or two and ended up at the same place out from the Sand Patch.

Paul Maindok with Peter Dooley and Ron Neumann aboard “Santa Barbara” moved on further north and recorded a triple hook-up with Paul Maindok landing the only mackerel of 8.55kgs on 6 kg line, enough to win his game section. Peter Dooley had a very nice 4.25kg snapper to win the bottom over 7.5m section. Laurie and Sue sat out the strong easterly on anchor fishing with 2kg line hoping for a game snapper, but picking up odd fish like skippy, red throat, cods and the like on 2 kg line and weighing them in the bottom section. A very lucky hook-up at the end of the day resulted in a big 7.25kg snapper on 2kg line for Laurie! A pending State record winning him the game section and he also picked up the bottom section with the few other fish caught, just beating Sue who was leading all day.

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The $50.00 Anzac award went to Laurie Malton for his big snapper, while Len Mitchell won the $50.00 worth of scratchies raffle, the restaurant voucher went to Paul Maindok and the Mystery fish went to the biggest mulloway: Daniel Tarasek.