Hervey Bay Classic

[Bruce the Postie]

G'day All,

Just spent last weekend in Hervey Bay for their annual classic tounament, so i thought i better bung up a bit of a report.

Flew in on thursday 12.40 and straight to the Boat Club for briefing, then onto my mates boat and off to the top of Fraser Island (off the lighthouse ) for the night ready to head over the bar for a 7 am start.

Well friday's weather forcast was good and it just got better from there. Not being very experienced at this game fishing caper i was hopefull that it would be more sucessful than my last few attempts and i wasn't dissapointed.

The 13 mile crossing was very user friendly and within a short time we had our first strike and hook up and this action continued at a fairly hectic pace. All in all the Friday session proved to be a right pisser with probably a dozen hook ups , unfortunatly we lost most of these but it was still a blast .

Over the 3 days the the fleet must have tagged dozens of small Black Marlin , Sailfish, Wahoo, Cobia, Dolphinfish and Tuna, It was going off !. I think i might just go again next November.

Friday Evening

Backing down on a fish

Me ready on the tag pole

Conditions on Sunday

Cheers,

Bruce

[Jewhunter]

Woohooooo!!

Great stuff mate. That sounds like a load of fun.

I've fished up there a few times & never seen it so calm!!

Top piccies.

Cheers,

Grant.

[Bruce the Postie]

Yeah, your not wrong mate. I've been up there a dozen times and it always seems to be blowing 40 bastards from any given direction, but it is a beautiful part of the world and catching up with mates is always a good thing (and the fishing isn't half bad either ).

Bruce.

[xtosea]

Very nice report and pics, good to see the run of Baby Blacks happening this year! Hopefully they make it down here this year!

[sanger]

Very jealous! Looks like great fun!

[abiasin]

awsome report mate, here hopeing that the weather turns around and is like that for the whitesands this weekend (but i doubt it very much)