First / Late Post

[campr]

Hi Raiders.

I have read posts for a long time and thought it was time I contributed, however had trouble attaching photos, so post is awful late, but may still interest some.

I am a member of St George sportfishing Club and love competing in ANSA competitions using 1kg pretested lines. I have specialised in catching flathead for these comps and have a 1200mm long tank built in the front of my boat so I can release these big girls after weighing them in back at convention centre. My best effort to date was a 4.86kg flathead, which was the NSW record on 1kg line for a few years until bettered last year.

This years Sydney convention on weekend around 1/4/2011 was difficult due to strong winds and I could only fish short periods as I had done my back in.

Friday I managed one 72cm flatty 2.55kg on 1kg (released) and 6 from 49mm to 58mm kept for a feed.

Saturday was a shocker for strong winds. I got one 74cm flatty 2.72kg on 1kg (released) and a 750mm Jew (Mulloway) on 1kg line which at 3.49kg was good enough to win the Estuary Division of the comp. This was my first Jewie on 1kg line and I was absolutely stoked! I also got a 69mm Kingie (on 10kg line) which was my 1st legal out of Port Hacking, but couldn't tease one into taking a fly.

Hopefully photos attached:

2.55kg FLATHEAD

2.72 FLATHEAD

2.72 FLATHEAD IN MY FLATTY BOX

3.49 JEWFISH

3.49 JEWFISH AND NEW RAIDER

[sinbad66]

nice catches there

suggest an edit on your post though

unless your 75mm jew was 2 and a half feet wide lol

good fishing

[rockfisherman]

Great photos bud...

[JET01]

Is that 1kg all the way through? Or are you allowed to have a leader of say 10lb flouro to help with the flatties abrasive teeth?

Very interested in this form of competition.

[campr]

ANSA Rules permit 1.5 x rod length of leader, which can comprise any combo of double/leader/trace, of any breaking strain.

So yes, you can have heavy leader to hook for chafing purposes.

To combat loss of membership due to people wanting to use braid, the rules now allow a system similar to flyfishing. You can use braid main line with the same rules as above, however you must include a break-away section of at least 500mm of the line class line. This has good and bad points, espeshally with 1kg, as you have little stretch and it's easyer to pop the 1 kg section.

I use both metods, flaties were caught with all mono and Jew with 2lb fireline with 1kg pretest breakaway and 12lb vanish leader to hook.

By the way, lines used are all pre-tested (like Platypus Pretest) to break under the rated strength.

R-C

[ifonly]

Nice work mate what outfit do you use to work with the line class. Are these comps lures only or is bait fishing allowed also

cheers

[robeebee]

great work mate

congrats on the win with the Jewie

[campr]

ANSA Rules allow all legal methods, so both bait and lures allowed, (except fly Division of course).

For 1kg class I use a number of 2-4 kg rods from 7ft plastics type rods up to 9ft nibble-tips, depending on where I fish.

I find real more important as it has to have smooth drags. Currently using 3 Daiwa 2000 Excellers with worked-over drags.

There are seperate ANSA NSW and Australian Records kept for sportfishing (all methods), lurecasting, fly fishing game fishing etc, as well as length records.

Interestingly if you join ANSA you also get the rights to claim Australian and World IGFA (International Game Fishing Association) Records.

[jewgaffer]

Nice effort on the flathead and jewfish R-C and thank you for adding me as a friend Much appreciated! Am I reading this right ? as it looks like you and I will be teaming up with Cungee George in the not so distant future and having a few jewfish sessions in the lower Georges and Botany Bay

Keep touch mate

Cheers

jewgaffer

[Josh88]

Nice fish, I lost a big Jew on 4lb Braid last week in the harbour had it on for about 10min didn't make a great deal of line back but it was slowly coming, the 12lb vanish leader i was using was chafed the whole way up so must of been rubbing against the side of its body when it took line and must of been a fairly long fish as well as it was about 6 foot of leader chafed nearly to the mainline connection, eventually wore through down lower.