Local monthly comp 23rd August 2008

Competition Report

The river section fished very well again this month with a variety of species weighed in.

Gary Ivey had 2 bream, Cheryl Eley had 3 and Di Stewart showed us 4 live bream but were

not good enough to beat Brett Bain who doubled everyone else’s points with his bag of

8 fish which included 4 live bream and 2 tailor and 2 whiting. No juniors this month
 

The beach section had good mulloway and snapper with Lou Palamara’s snapper weighing

in at 2.75kg together with his whiting that won the Mystery Fish for the day!

Karen Hartig’s big 4.1kg snapper was commendable from the beach, while Ashley

Van Versen won the section with a couple of very respectable mulloway.
 

Craig Gibson went south down the cliffs in his under 7.5m boat “Jojo” scoring a great catch of

5 fish including this big baldchin weighing in at 4.55kg to be the biggest for the year so far as well as the biggest skippy for the year at 1.55kgs.

 
Craig’s 4.55kg baldie

   New member Graeme Black was out with Paul Maindok aboard his 6.5m “Southwind”.

Fishing a long way north in perfect conditions scored double headers of cobia,

snapper, red-throat emperor and a very nice red emperor for Paul.

It may look all Paul’s way but Graeme won the under 7.5m boat section with his 7 fish

for a total weight of 21.8kgs. An impressive catch Graeme.

  
Paul’s cobia and red emperor. The red emperor won Paul the RSL Meritorious award.

Only one boat in the over 7.5m section, and scoring for the first time in the over 7.5m section, was

Laurie Malton aboard his new boat “Bamba Zonke 2”. With son Jared back from school,

Sue back from the mines and Murray Rantal aboard they took advantage of the good

weather, joining “Southwind” up north of Kalbarri.

Fishing in close to shore before the strong easterly died, they had a lot of fun with

samson fish in the shallow water, with the fish getting bigger each time! Moving offshore

when the wind dropped, Sue, Murray and Laurie landed some baldchin, snapper, and dhufish,

 only Jared being unlucky not to pick up one of the big ones, but still winning the junior section

 with his bag of 5 fish which included a small dhuie and sambo.

Laurie had the biggest snapper for the year so far, a 5.2kg fish.

  
Sue had a great day, landing 4 fish

     
Jared with part of his catch and samson fish

   
Part of Laurie’s catch with his biggest for the year 5.2kg snapper.

       
Murray’s 8.15kg dhuie and 14.2kg samson fish. The sambo is also the biggest for the year.

Murray’s catch of 3 fish was good enough to win him the section.       

“Mug of the Day” went to Garry Ivey for hooking and landing a large spoon

while fishing in the river?

Laurie Malton won the restaurant draw and Sandy Smith picked up the

$50.00 worth of scratchies.

Next event is a monthly comp on the 20th September, followed by the very popular

Kids Whiting Competition on both Thursdays of the school holidays 2^nd & 9^th October.

Laurie Malton

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Some fish you can expect to catch in Kalbarri

Rock Beach Fishing  ,  Tailor , Mulloway , Herring , Pink Snapper , Whiting , Samson Fish , Flathead , Flounder , Mangrove Jack , Black Bream , Tarwine , Shark , Rays , Spanish Mackerel  , Dhufish , Red Throat Snapper , Baldchin Grouper , Cod , Blue Lined Emperor , Skippy and the usual Rock Reef Fish

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