Club members take on the 2012 Gamakatsu Series

Club members were out in force competing in the first round of the 2012 Gamakatsu Team Bream Series. The local Gold Coast round saw a field of 47 boats take to the water. Hot on the back of a very gloomy few days a very nice morning greeted anglers on the Sunday morning and this was to hold out for most of the day however the weather did turn for the worse over the last hour and there wasn’t a dry person left at the weigh in. Seasoned tournament angler and long time club member Roderick Walmsley was the best of our members placing 5th with his team mate Peter Herbst the pairing weighed in a 2.36 kg bag. This just pipped last year’s Team of the Year Tracey Mammen and Darren Borg who are competing as Team TT/Lowrance the pairing weighed in at 2.31kg the team rolled the dice and decided to fish the northern bay islands in chase of the bigger fish. Also finishing in the top 10 was Steve ‘Wizard’ Wilson in Team Lowrance finishing in 9^th place. Steve is well known on the bream circuit but has had some time off fishing comps over the last 12 months to focus on a few work projects. Finishing a respectable 11^th was club member Dan Folley, Dan has recently secured Austackle sponsorship and was proudly competing as a member of Team Austackle Gold with Jamie McKeown. I am sure Mike Cole owner of Austackle who also happens to be a club member was very happy with this result from the new pairing. Shaune Pallent another club member finished17^th as part of Team Dobyns Rods. Rounding out the members was Joel Madam in team Quintrex who finished 21^st. So all up 6 members fished the event great stuff and well done we wish all our members competing in the 2012 Gamakatsu Bream Series the best of luck. There are a number of people looking for partners for the next round at Bribie Island keep an eye out on our facebook group page for postings.