discount fishing comp

After 3 and a half months we finally reached the end of the contest, Our winter wasn't the best, with only a few good days for fishing, most of them during the week meaning most of the 50 boats entered failing to get out or getting only one or two days fishing. Gazebo was one of them. I managed to get 13 days fishing on Tzer. I don't get sea sick but most of the days I felt woozy, with one day dry reaching all morning while winding up fish from the deep, such was the conditions must of the time I wouldn't even consider taking Gazebo out. We fished mainly the deep up to 500 meters with electrics or in my case manual reels, We had mixed results from nothing to excellent catches. One of the new places we fished was the Hockey stick, which is a 3 hour steam from port up the coast to the back of the Tolaga Bay reef, 70km from port and 40 km offshore in depths ranging from 200 - 500 mtrs. We managed to get 13 fish on the prize list with 6 going to me.
Gemfish 2.595kg 2nd
Trumpeter 9.510kg 1st
Trumpeter 6.020kg 3rd
Blue Nose 6.655kg 2nd
John Dory 2.000kg 2nd
Electric reel Gemfish 5.200kg 1st

Being a sport fishing club the use of Electric fishing reels in competitions has been contentious so we came with the idea of having a separate competition within the main competition for only electric reels, which was well received by most, but there were a few that were very anti, but you can't please everyone. I now have a 2 week break before the Young Nicks Charity contest (raising money for child cancer) - more later.