Our biggest comp of the year....... and it is always a great turn out - even when we have a year where the weather is not very nice to us. Well this happened to be one of those years but plenty of the seasoned fishos braved the poor weather to compete for their respective teams and after all, it is just bloody water -just ask our weigh masters Colin Mulholland and Pete McMullen who stood there in the rain to weigh all the fish!
With no Rob Mace helping out the pub point score this year, it was the perfect opportunity for the Tooli Hounds to snatch back a win. Numbers were down for the pub crew and word was out that they had to round up several sub juniors just to notch up the 10 bags needed to be competitive. The Tooli Hounds were off to a great start with the McInnes's and Wilson's bagging over 150 fish! The pub was not going to go down without a fight and the two Cronin boats put in plenty of time over friday night and all day saturday to chalk up about the same. It was clear it was all going to come down to what happened on Sunday morning. After plenty of persuading, Mitch Cronin finally got convinced both pub crews to head back out wide into the rain, wind and sloppy southerly swell to chase some dolphin fish. It was a risky move but it paid off big time with the two boats bringing home 40 dolphin fish and tipping the scales in the pub direction to win the the comp! The weight was the big factor in the 2,0888pts vs 1,513pts win, remarkably the difference in numbers of total fish for each side was just 16! (228 vs 212).
The overall winner of the comp was Mitch Cronin with 54 fish for 532.5pts. The runner up was Jason Stalgis also with 54 fish but 469pts. Best bag for the Tooli Hounds was Mitch McInnes with 40 fish for 273.2pts.
With plenty of rain on the sunday, we didn't get many turn up for the fish auction but luckily the catches of dolphin fish were popular so we still managed to sell off $720 worth of fish. Mr & Mrs Wishart generously donated $500 to the cause so the day was a great success for the asthma foundation. Thanks also go out to the local businesses that donated prizes on the day - Mountain Ridge wines, Crooked River wines, A Taste of Asia, First National Real Estate, Siang Bali Shop, Gerringong Bowlo,Coco Chai and Noys Thia - just to mention a few!
A great day was had by all and club members had quite a few beers with all of Derek's mates - we are all looking forward to next year already! Thanks to all who pitched in to give a hand.
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