Feb Fishing Comp - WINNERS ANNOUNCED

[polylureosis]

Name of Angler: Ash / polylureosis
Date Caught: 13.02.2010
State and Location Fish Caught In: QLD - Caloundra
Species Legal Length: 30cm
Type and Size/Weight of Fish: Grassy Sweetlip 42cm
Tackle/Line/Lure Used: 2-4kg Shimano rod, okuma 20, Fireline crystal 8lb, 110mm flickbait 'pilly', Basspro darter jighead

Species Legal Length: ???
Type and Size/Weight of Fish: Mac Tuna, 80cm
Tackle/Line/Lure Used: Shimano t-curve saltwater Rod, Sol 3000 (a bit worse for wear after the encounter), 15lb powerpro, 20gm raider
Other Comments (optional): Amongst a bust up of all bust up with green backed rockets showering baitfish in all directions. Only one landed out of 3 hookups.

[leftieant]

Hoping to score up tomorrow night. Get your entries in!

[keza]

Name of Angler: Kerry/Keza
Date Caught: 13/2/10
State and Location Fish Caught In: NSW Balmoral
Species Legal Length: NA
Type and Size/Weight of Fish: Bonito 40cm
Tackle/Line/Lure Used: halco twisty, used as a jig
Conditions: grey but fishy after rain

No pic because SBD dropped it over the side as he was putting it in his esky.
But i have his sworn statement confirming that it was 40cm

[sbd]

No pic because SBD dropped it over the side as he was putting it in his esky.

Yep I am a butterfingers, and yep, that was (past tense) a 40cm bonnie.

[BIGKEV]

Name of Angler: Kevin - BIGKEV
Date Caught: Saturday 13 Feb 2010
State and Location Fish Caught In: QLD- Scarborough canals (newport waters)
Species Legal Length: 23cm
Type and Size/Weight of Fish: Bream 28cm
Tackle/Line/Lure Used: 1-3kg rod 1000 size reel 4pd line 4pd leader, gulp shrimp 1/40th hws jig head
Conditions (optional): 15 - 20 knts NE arvo seabreeze Other Comments
(optional): found shelter in amongst the canals to get the kids some fish

[Cid]

Name of Angler: Cid
Date Caught: Saturday 13-2-10
State and Location Fish Caught In: NSW - Towra Point
Species Legal Length: 25cm
Type and Size/Weight of Fish: Bream 37cm
Tackle/Line/Lure Used: 4pound braid, 4poundd leader, Jackall shallow Chubby (pink)
Conditions (optional): Overcast
(optional): Mine is the top fish. Andrew caught the bigger one! Just...

[worleybird]

Name of Angler: worleybird/Stephen
Date Caught: Saturday 13-2-10
State and Location Caught: NSW - Coffs base
Species Legal Length:50cm
Type and Size/Weight of Fish: Homo sapien - 51cm (just legal, phew!!) - 3.8kg
Common names: James Stephen Worley
Tackle/Line/Lure Used: Stacks (13hours) of the wifes abdominal muscles and heaps of Nitrogen Oxide, then surgical scalpel and a highly skilled obstetrician!!!
Conditions (optional): Warm, LOUD!!!! and continuous storm fronts.
(optional): A personal best and first for me. HOF??

[Cid]

Certainly a HOF there, Stephen. Congrats to you and mum.

cheers,
Cid

[MrX]

Tale of Woe:
Weekend 6/7 Feb: High winds, high waves and deluge. Set alarm for 4am Sat & Sun, looked outside, and scurried off to bed.
Weekend 13/14 Feb: Even bigger deluge, but went out anyway. Hooked up to 3 monster kings, and was smoked each time.

(BTW: Great entry Stephen, conrats, but I think you cheated on the brag mat. Rules: “Measurement will be from the tip of the head to the tip of the tail, with the fish in a natural position.” You have obviously stretched the tail to get that extra cm.)

[ned]

Great news, Steve! I haven't been accessing AKFF lately, but a proud grandmother (your mum) sent me the post. Congratulations to you and Mel. Dennis

[leftieant]

Drum roll please!

Thanks to Viking Kayaks (our major prize sponsor) - it's time to announce the results from the February Fishing Comp.

As always, we've had some great fish entered, and the competition is shaping up to be extremely tight. Entries of note include YakN00b's 1.2 metre GT, a 75.5cm QLD snapper from AWTY, and Gatesy bursting onto the blocks with a phat 56.5cm salmon from his own stomping grounds.

The scoring is still giving me heart palpatations.. but the numbers are interesting - enough to give an accountant a warm and fuzzy feeling somewhere where there shouldn't be one!

So, without further ado, the Top 5 fish for the month were:

YakN00b 179 points - Giant Trevally
AWTY 148 points - Snapper
Stitcho 130 points - Grassy Sweetlip
Swamp 111 points - Shark
Gatesy 110 points - Salmon

Mystery Prize Winners for the month are: AJD, Ronston and TopGunPete. Congrats folks - usual drill, PM me your full name and address, and we'll send you something out of Davey's Krap Korner.

Thanks all - see you next month!

Full monthly results:

YakN00b 179
Are-we-there-yet 148
Stitcho 130
Swamp 111
Gatesy 110
SBD 109
Cid 108
Granpop 106
Polylureosis 105
Grinner 105
AJD 101
Kraley 100
PaulB 100
Ronston 94
Solatree 94
Hatters 90
Garmac 86
TopGunPete 86
BigKev 82
Sunshiner 82
Feral 82
Keza 81
Eth93 65
Rob316 65
MrX 50
Greenhornet 50

Full YTD Results:

Granpop 246
AJD 235
Are-we-there-yet 230
TopGunPete 230
Cid 222
Hatters 220
Solatree 216
SBD 214
Ronston 194
Garmac 188
YakN00b 179
Keza 172
BigKev 155
MrX 142
Stitcho 130
SAYaka 124
Swamp 111
Gatesy 110
Polylureosis 105
RedPhoenix 105
Grinner 105
Kraley 100
mtfisho 100
DanH124 100
Greenhornet 100
PaulB 100
Wigg 91
Davey G 88
JustCruisin 88
Sunshiner 82
Feral 82
Physhopath 80
WayneD 74
LazyBugger 73
Eth93 65
Rob316 65
Patwah 50
Worleybird 50

[Gatesy]

Well done Lefti

Hahaha in your face Ken Kraley Raley. My Sambo kicked your Kingies arse

Power to the Sambo

cheers

Gatesy

[kraley]

I should be whinging about the unfairness of putting a 50cm trashfish (salmon) over a 77cm harbour caught kingie (gatesy, go home and brag to the czechs about catching the aussie equivalent of a lamprey!), but in reality I think the new scoring system really works.

First of all, when have we had such amazing closeness despite all of the different species caught?

Second, strategy. I had a 35cm bream this month that would have sligthly increased my points, but I am pretty sure I'll catch more bream later in the season than kingfish.

Of course, Gatesy will be reduced to catching a nasty northern european cold by then - so I have that going for me.

Good job Lefty - congratulations to the winners!

[greenhornet]

congrats to all the lucky fishos who posted a pic ,hopefully i can catch a fish next month, at least I'm staying in touch with two tale of woes. Thank you kindly for last months mystery prize it will come in handy. cheers mark