Guys for those of you who are wondering why your team is sliding down the entry list and not maintaining their original start position, it is because we have only received your rego form and not your payment as yet.Those of you that have filled in your rego forms and made your payment will be listed in front of those that havn’t. We feel that this is only fair to those of you that have committed fully to fish that round.
Registrations and payments can of course be made on the Friday evening prior to the briefing or by Paypal on this site or by sending us a cheque.
We don’t care when payment is made just as long as you are all aware of the procedure.
Thanks
- Photo courtesy of ABT
NSW Bassin’s very own Matt Anderson secured second place in the Pro Division at last weekends ABT event at Boondooma Dam in Queensland.
Matty led the field going into the last day by 900 grams over his good mate Carl Jocumsen, but couldn’t continue his good form through, not landing a legal size bass in the last session. But that was the way Boondooma was fishing .The fish were there but the bite got tougher as the event went on, with the fish shutting down due to the large field of anglers and the fishing pressure on those schooled up fish took its toll.
‘‘Hopping a Mask Vibe soft jackal for bottom holding fish and slow rolling TT blades through suspended fish seemed to be the answer. The larger bass can’t seem to resist chewing on a well presented softy’’ Matt said. He finished with a total limit of 3 fish for 4.3kg. Matt is only new to the bass tournament scene but seems to be making all the right moves
The event was eventually won by long time ABT bass competitor and all round nice guy, Mike Creighton, with a total limit of 4 fish for 4.83kg. Mike has been fishing ABT events since their inception 10 years ago and finally cracked it for a win.
For the full results, story and photos from last weekends ABT event at Boondooma go to www.australianbass.com.au
Carl has decided to head south from Toowoomba to compete in our R3 event at Lake St Clair next month the 9-10th May.
As a lot of you guys are aware Carl is ranked as Australia’s No1 bass angler. Last year Carl won both the ABT Angler of the year and also the 2008 ABT Grand Final, the first guy to do both in the one year. By winning the 2008 Grand Final he has earn’t himself a place back into next years Australian Fishing Championships. He also has numerous AFC and ABT wins to his credit along with many appearances as a TV presenter on many fishing programs.
Carl will be fishing the event with Bassin and ABT regular Matt “ The Captain “ Anderson in his new Fish ‘N’ Bits Skeeter, doing a presentation at Friday nights briefing and generally will be there to say hello and help you out during the tournament with any questions you have. So don’t be shy come up and say G’Day. But keep your daughters away; he thinks he is pretty good with the girls. But in saying that though why is he still single????
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Available now at the following link: www.bassin.com.au/xl/R2-2009.xls
Round #2
As the 65 teams started out on Saturday morning no one would have dreamt how tough their weekends fishing was going to be.
In what was arguably one of the toughest comps ever held on Lake Glenbawn not one of the teams managed to catch their 12 fish limit and only 103 out of a possible 780 fish were brought to the weigh station.
Secret Creek Lures #1′s, Greg Flett & Shayne Broderick managed to tough out the constantly changing weather conditions to finish first with a 9 from 12 limit for 7.550kgs . Greg and Shayne secured the bag by fishing mainly deep and jigging Berkely gulp minnows from 60′ to 120′ of water, with the fish only just tapping at the lures. The use of high quality and sensitive rods and a light 2lb leader and 1/8 jig head was the order of the day. Following in second place by Team M & M’s comprising of Armidale based anglers Mark Lennox & Mark Fitzgerald with 9 from 12 fish for 6.900kgs also getting their fish in the deep.Rounding out the top 3 was last rounds winners Bugger Me Bass’s Dave Lane & Steve Newman with 10 from 12 fish for 5.640kgs.
The EvaKool Big Bass was shared between Secret Creek #1’s Shayne Broderick & Secret Creek #2’s young gun Sam Dykes with a fish of 1.300kgs each.Both anglers received an EvaKool 45ltr ice box for their efforts.
The junior division was taken out by Walter (Waza) Schifleet with his 3 from 3 fish limit weighing in at 2.900kgs.
Round #3 will be held at Lake St Clair on the 9th & 10th May where hopefully a more co-operative bite will greet the anglers.
