The idea was brought up by Bluetonic some time ago to have a friendly comp between the Bunbury & Dunsborough crew which quickly grew legs forming KOTC a family focussed comp & cheers to Adam for letting me push the agenda through FW.

We had massive support from local businesses here; Pete @ Bosun Marine, Bux @ Ultimate Timber Flooring, Edge @ Eagle Bay Brewery & Damo @ Dunsborough Outdoor Sportz I can't thank you all enough. A special mention to Dave Allen from Xtreme Coolers many know him here, top bloke, sponsors the site & always goes out of his way to support fishing, as he did with the FW Exmouth Comp he donated some great prizes out of his own pocket that had the winner's eyes light up - cheers mate! Wind-on-Dave, put so much time & effort in to seeing this through, without him it was dead in the water.

There are so many others I need to thank & I know you guys are wanting me to shut up, apologies but those whom have been involved with grass roots competitions will know how hard it can be especially for us fisho's

We lost count of the actual total number of entrants but we had over 90, Seakem & DanT made the trip down with their families which was just awesome (thanks for the prize donation of a sounder Andy, the young bloke that won it was almost off like a flash to buy a tinny to put it on).

For those not aware, it was basically a comp of three formats with land based, inshore & offshore with junior & senior divisions, a comp within a comp! Each format had 7 species of fish to target, points were awarded to the longest fish (as with most picture comps these days) & two species in each awarded double points for difficulty. Prizes awarded in each format for winner & runner up but the King of the Cape was decided by the person with the most points overall, people in tinny's were battling it out with big boats & land based fisho's putting in the long night hours!

It was a two day comp, with day one cold & windy (pretty much how it has been for what feels like eternity down here minus the rain). The young members who have been posting had a cracking start in the juniors offshore section braving the weather & cleaning up on KG's, Pinky's & having a crack at the biggest squid prize which was hard earned in the milky water by them with a 32cm hood. When it's clear 35 - 40 cm hoods have been no issue but not many could get past 28cm, I believe the member sand_whiting pipped his cousin by 1cm to win the egi combo (check out their pics)

In the senior's not many could get wide in the offshore category so the inshore & landbased sections got a big jump on them, in saying that some offshore teams made a very wise tactical decision to chase the pinkies.

Two absolute ball tearers by one of the competitors, the one in his left hand going 97cm Richie & his mate fishing the inshore category made the bold move of launching the tinny into some washing machine water for big bay sambo's, he landed on day one two horses (one going 1.3m) which was in the double point territory & well deserved.

It was a wise decision allowing them day 2 to target the other species in the inshore section

Day two was a pearler, the swell was up but those in the offshore section could let loose. DanT followed me out for the day, my spots were looking pretty quiet for the most part which was an absolute bugger & considering I had not fished that way for months due to weather. The boys did well on the jigs & one spot was firing for them with sambo's on top & dhuies / pinks underneath, but Habanero & myself got bricked by two good size dhuies on arrival heading for an infamous ledge. Habanero had a line roller ping after turning the fish perfectly moments shy of safety & I had that tell tale first slow diesel engine run for cover with not much hope on pe2 going just above the leader, we rigged with artificials again for a rinse & repeat on the next drift *ping* *ping* It certainly put the spooks into them (sorry Dan) but we managed some small dhues & pinky's whilst having fun speed jigging the sambo's.

One of my deckies with a 68cm dhuie to bait Whilst out there I could keep tab of the action with pic updates rolling in, a young girl Chanel & her Father were on fire fishing the inshore section. They didn't have a bulk of fish coming over the side but targeted the bigger models in the species with ease. She was in a a huge duel with the young boys on here for the junior overall & likewise for her Dad with the senior. Local bloke Toby & his team played a brilliant tactical comp & tried to break away early on day two knocking off some of the solid efforts & leads from the day one efforts with him looking to wrap up the the overall.

Chasing down the double pointers set the pace but some couldn't back it up with the other species, Toby with a cracker of a dhuie, one of a pigeon pair I believe

Busso boys Clint & Ray (members here) the SW Ferals were hanging in there, as was other Busso lad Patto & his team. Nizzy from the Seaquest Team was also having a blinder but was getting pipped by some big fish.

Clint with biggest dhu of the day

Backing it up with a double header of pinks

He came close landing this Breaksea Cod with not all that many caught on the day but had to settle for 2nd place in Offshore, well done mate Seakem's young lad did very well also in the junior offshore section coming in at 2nd place & Max from the young guns on here smashing it!

The junior division belonged to Chanel becoming 'Princess of the Cape', well done to her

It was a nail biting finish & despite his gallant efforts in Offshore, Toby got done by the hard working Richie toiling away quietly inshore accumulating points with other species on the second day after setting himself a platform to work off on that first day.

Looking forward to KOTC 2014, cheers for sticking it out to read

Great to see some pics up, I just grabbed a small selection on the ones sent through on the phone. Some of these pics have non members, any issues from them or others & I will be happy to remove