Fishing Monthly Competition

I went fishing in the Kalbarri Offshore and Angling Club monthly competition, the competition started at 5:00pm Friday and ended at 4:00pm Saturday. After school I got all my fishing gear ready and then I went down to Marina Home and Leisure (Post Office) to get my bait and extra tackle.

I walked down to the Penn and set up. Robbie, Phet and Harry were down there fishing. None of us caught any fish that night but there were a few big runs but none of them were landed.

When I woke up, Dad drove me down to the Penn to have another fish.  Robbie, Phet and Harry camped overnight there. Robbie caught 1 Mangrove Jack early in the morningThere was a few bream being caught but nothing big.

A few hours went by and nothing competition worthy and Terry came down to take his boat out and the noise of the boat made the fish come out to investigate so I cast behind the boat and hooked up to a big bream.  It didn’t fight, it was just a solid weight and then I saw the bream and I told Phet to get the net and he scooped him up in a single scoop.  I was thrilled.  I measured it and he was all of 41cm and he didn’t fit in my esky so I put him in Robbie’s esky with his mangrove jack and smaller bream.

After my ‘nanny nap’ I went down to the weigh-in to get a ticket and then I saw my competitor’s fish and what they caught.   I was feeling lucky.

When they weighed my bream it was 1.32kg, I was stoked with a new PB bream and I won the Junior River and Meritorious prize.

Kalbarri fishing classic

On the March long weekend just gone the Kalbarri Fishing Classic was held and my dad, Davo, and I fished in our boat. On day one and two the weather was very bad which meant we didn’t catch any thing. But we knew the weather would get a bit better and on the third day the weather was good but…… still no fish. Anyway we tried hard and persisted and at about 12oclock there was a break in the wind and we hooked up to a really good fish while trolling with Halco lures. I got it to the boat after about 15mins. It was an 8.23kg mackerel on 3kg line, which made 274 points.

Later that night at the wind up fellow NextGen team mate Robbie Leck cleaned up in the river section, I got two prizes which were highest point scoring mackerel and highest point scoring game fish, so all up we did pretty good – two prizes which were highest point scoring mackerel and highest point scoring game fish, so all up we did pretty good.image-22