The season begins..........

Posted by Tim Duncombe  on February 4th, 2010

The albacore have arrived at St Helens much to the delight of many after lean times last year. Hopefully this is an indication of things to come with some good Yellowfin hopefully on the way. At present the crew on Pipe Dream are lapping it up at Port Stephens and having quite a lot of success with 6 tagged Marlin across the 3 species, an excellent effort especially as they have copped a few days on the bank due to the rough weather conditions up there at present, they still have a few days up there sleeve so no doubt there are plenty more tags to come yet. If anyone has any fishing reports they want to share then e-mail them into the club at gamefish.north@gmail.com and we will post them up ARCHIVES

Early Bird 1000 wrap

Posted by Tim Duncombe  on January 15th, 2010

On the 9th of January in near perfect conditions 45 boats put the hammer down in the race out the Mersey in what looks to be the final Early Bird competition in search of that winning Mako Shark.

Early Reports indicated plenty of Mako about with several big versions breaking tackle and this was reflected at the weigh in at the Mersey Yacht Club. Plenty of sharks caught but down in size from previous years and plenty of hard luck stories indicating the big ones were there but too good on the day.

The winning Mako was caught by Shane Smith on board GP Glass weighing in at 74.7 Kilos and taking out the thousand dollars cash proudly donated by Domestic Insulation. Second heaviest Mako was caught by Nathan Wells on Mustang not far behind at 72.9 Kilos.

Tag and Release section once again proving popular, with competitors tagging 19 Makos and 1 Blue Shark, to help science with its ongoing studies on the habits of the Mako species. This was taken out by Daniell Paull on Terminator with 5 Mako tagged, second place was a tie between between Glenn Bellchambers on Cruiseabout 2 and Stuart Smith on Runadu 2 with 4 tagged Mako each

All in All a successful day hopefully enjoyed by all. Many thanks to our Sponsors, Domestic Insulation, Mountain Designs, Big Bargain Bottleshops, Bob Jane T mart Devonport and The Mersey Yacht Club.

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