Last weekends PGFC Tournament update
Submitted by Perth Gamefishi... on Wed, 2016-02-24 21:28
***Update for those who were asking how we went at the trench on the weekend***
Over the weekend of the 20/21st of Febuary PGFC held its Bluewater Tackle Marlin Cup in the waters of the Rottnest Trench.
The weather over the weekend really played ball and gave us much better conditions than we expected. With 20 boats ranging from 19-60ft arriving at Thomson Bay for the 8:00am shotgun start being greeted greeted with slightly overcast skies and a reasonable easterly wind expectations were high. The roundup of boats followed last year’s winner saluting the President before forming up for the starting signal. The shotgun start had all boats heading out on the north side of the island chasing points in this marlin only competition.
Highlights of the start were the number of new boats and new members competing with most boats regaled in flags and other decorations.
Saturday’s calmer than expected conditions resulted in excellent fishing conditions. The first hookup occured at around 10:00am with a nice blue which unfortunately jumped off. It didnt take much longer and it was just 11:40 when a radio call comes in for a tagged fish. A blue Marlin. A number of other boats raised and hooked up fish for the day but no more fish were tagged. Totals for the day were 6,4,1.
After a long day at sea crews gathered at the Rottnest Hotel for a sundowner before dispersing for a meal and rest before tackling the next day. All boats were optimistic about getting a shot at a marlin now.
Sunday broke with cloud and the threat of an early sea breeze, however conditions remained excellent throughout the day. The first radio call came through with a hook up just before 9am resulting in a tagged Striped Marlin. Throughtout the day a number of fish were raised but the next tag was not placed until just after 1pm. Another Striped Marlin. Totals for day 2 were 8,7,2.
Totals for the weekend were 14,11,3 which is a great result for a weekend in Perth waters and shows what can happen when you get a group of boats on the water together with a single focus.
Fish raised were also pretty evenly split between Striped and Blue Marlin.
For those interested we are always on the lookout for new members to join us and welcome members of other WAGFA affiliated clubs to join in club activities.
Regards
Tim
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Congrats
Also congrats to FW member Mattyb84 whose boat got the 1st Marlin for the comp which was also the clubs first local Marlin for the season
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just spent a fare chunk of
just spent a fare chunk of the evening speaking to mattyb84 on the phone
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bloody congrats bud, reward for effort i say.
trailer boats all the way
Tim
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ahaahaha yup
Scotte
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Cheers Tim for posting
Cheers Tim for posting results.sounds like a pretty good weekend for metro
uncle
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Good doogs
Thanks for the info
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Mattyb84
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Cheers for the write up Tim,
Cheers for the write up Tim, Brad needed a bath he started to smell abit haha. Looking forward to having a few beers with everyone on Tuesday night
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meglodon
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Good write up thank you
Thanks for the informative write up, good local results.
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On ya Mattysmall boat hey?
On ya Matty
small boat hey? Nice maaate
terboz123
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will be re joining in the
will be re joining in the next month or 2 PGFC as i have new a boat...with a bit more keeness to get involved with PGFC after experieincing fishing clubs in the NZ, the last few years.
Watch out for a 24 foot sailfish rolling the 7 seas.
a hard days fishing still beats work
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Welcome
Hope to see you on the water?
Tim
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Winners
Presentation night was last night with the eventual winners announced.
Congrats to all the winners and those who entered.
As a qualifying event for the Offshore World Championships the team from Champion Boat "Cougar" have now qualified to fish in Costa Rica in 2017 http://www.offshoreworldchampionship.com/
Mattyb84
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Once again Tim awesome
Once again Tim awesome weekend big thanks to Shane and yourself now bring on Jurien
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share
Thanks for the share Tim, good to know whats happening in the south.
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Good