2008 Hawkesbury Classic

Hi Guys,

Just dropping a quick note today to chat about the 2008 Hawkesbury Classic. I enetr this tournament/competition every year and ahve been bridesmaid too many times to mention.

I have missed out on the podium by a couple hundred grams a few times and it just might be the year im promoted from bridesmaid to bride. I fish the comp with my uncle Andy, a prolific jew catcher in the local waterway. But this hasnt meant a podium finish, far from it. While we catch our fair share of jewies in the Hawkesbury it just doenst seem to happen on the first weekend in November. Bugger!

The comp is an all species gut and gill comp, which i have a slight issue with. In this age of ecologically friendly practices surely they can devise a system where fish are photographed and released instead of donked on the back of the head and dispatched. This is especially so for flathead where the bigger specimens are breeders. Makes no sense really.

The comp has different sectors, a heaviest fish section, then heaviest species section, bream, flathead, whiting and jew. Usually the heaviest fish is a jewfish but any fish other than sharks and rays can qualify.

So the gameplan is to fish live baits at night for jewies and during the day flick big 6 & 7" plastix around for either jew or flatties. That was the plan last year and we nearly done it. Hope this year the gods are smiling on us!

I'll keep you posted on the results.