BRC 2009 Highs and lows

[Gazza]

First off Many thanks to Gus and Johny and all the sponsors another well run comp and congratts to all the winners and given the conditions well done all who braved the wind :woohoo:

Day 1

Well I think Rummy and myself would have to agree what a disaster

We decided that livies were the go BUT neither of us bought servo bait as confidence was high

Wrong We took my boat and straight away had steering probs again after a bit of bush mechanics we got that sorted and off we went

We easily managed the sloppy conditions complimenting our decision to take the bigger boat how wrong we were :S trying to hold close to the poo shoot was near on impossible in the wind we tried for over 2 hrs to get livies for nothin so day 1 was called a non event

A strange thing did happen when retrieving the boat as I drove on to the trailer it popped off the tow bar on closer inspection the hitch had been lifted to release (it was down when we left home ????) anyways

Day 2 We took Rummy's boat stink bait on board this time off in search of Livies again :silly:

We did get a few but not as many as we would have liked but lets see what happens anchored up @ a known Thready spot and deployed our livies

Rummy got first blood with a ray (tail cut off grr)

Then for one of the Highs Rummys son 3 yr old son Damon who comes out with us a fair bit is on with a bit of help from dad to get set up

the battle starts

The little tacker get's into it

and to his credit lands a small but tough ray

he then went on to catch 3 scat and a tiny tailor :woohoo: :woohoo:

Well done young fella

I down sized a rod to see what was cleaning up our bait and scats were the culprit

Bait was low the wind was high and even the scats buggered off so back to the ramp more bait and a feed of prawns and out we go again :woohoo: checked the crab pots but only a undersized buck and a big Gennie

As a Last ditched effort we hit a drop off we found and woohoo a nice little 42cm cod by yours truely

Ian had some fun with a bigger Ray

and both caught catties, rays but no more keepers

Again Well Done young Damon

and thanks to Ian another Adventure enjoyed

Cheers Gaz thanks for reading

Ps Elli aka Brian yeah another Noosa type trip might be in order lol

[Keen-as-fisho]

A big high for me was my 2nd place flatty :woohoo: but the definate low for me and I presume everyone was the bloody wind, if it wasn't for the BRC I wouldve been off the water after the first hour Another low was having to listen to my old man sulk about it every 10 minutes, its windy dad GET OVER IT! I do feel for him however, he didn't get a single fish in the boat all weekend

[straddiebrad]

i only had a low point ,it was about 9-30 i had to leave for a birthday bbq.

[rumrunner]

great report Gazzman! couldnt have done better myself!

Damon is still talking about it now! we both had a blast!

i think the juniors should watch out for him next year!

cheers Ian

[mick fillet]

Well it was good to meet so many people. stayed out for the whole duration of the comp.Cant say I can remember any lows only the highs well I suppose when ya got a deckie like Malcolm there was never and I mean never a dull moment. loved saterday night rafted up with the boats of Tugger/mooky,noname(go the haines),Ellicat (and the force), travis and myself/ Malcolm 5 boats rafted together up at breaky creek.Loved the idea of pizza rob ,thanks again travis for going and getting them.

Malcolm in fine form fishing "apparently"

[Malcolm]

Yeh the only low for me was the autodunnie with no paper and no one had cleaned the stinking thing since it was built :X

apart from that it was an awsome weekend with a top skipper in Mickfillet thanks again mate and I love that boat :woohoo: