The weekend of March 15/16 saw a tornado of tournament boats take over the sleepy township of Mallacoota as a Vic Bream Classic record of 60 teams fought it out for the Yamaha East Gippsland Bream Classic.
Being Round One of the 2008 Humminbird Vic Bream Classic Series, everyone was keen to get off to a good start and make their way into the grand final, scheduled for October 2008. With some big names in the field and some quality fishing on offer, it was sure to be a highly competitive weekend.
The huge field on Saturday got off to the perfect start thanks to the East Gippsland Shire upgrading the launching facilities at Karbethong, which had the field in the water in no time. From the start it was clear that a large portion of the field were heading towards the Goodwin Sands area to fish, unlike previous years where the race was to Gipsy Point.
Team Compleat Angler’s Ben Scullin and Karina Pierotti decided to head up past the Goodwin Sands and fish the Fairhaven area. Using a combination of extremely light line and lightly weighted jig-heads with Berkley Gulp Fry in the Camo colour (and Karina’s dominating form according to Ben), they had no trouble winning Saturday’s Berkley Best Bag Prize. When Karina weighed in Team Compleat Anglers bag of five bream for 5.38kg, they had hit the front and set the challenge for the rest of the massive field.
The talk amongst the anglers on Saturday afternoon soon turned towards the odds on favourites, Team Stiffy Lures’ Kaj Busch and Chris Wright. After weighing in a respectable 4.6kg, they were sitting fourth and everyone knew they would finish hard on Sunday - which as it turned out was exactly what they did.
Team Stiffy Lures headed out on the Sunday determined to reel in Team Compleat Angler and take out the tournament. The strategy that Buschy and Wright implemented was to fish the edges in the bottom lake, casting to structure and sight fishing to big bream using a combination of Shimano rods, Shimano 1000 Stella reels and Shimano Stiffy hard-bodied lures in the Brown Snake colour. This had them a good bag early on the Sunday. Looking for some more upgrades they then headed to fish the Goodwin Sands area, and called on the ever-reliable 100mm Squidgy Wriggler in the bloodworm colour on a 2g Squidgy jig-head to complete what turned out to be a tournament winning bag.
When Team Compleat Angler’s Ben Scullin and Karina Pierotti managed to weigh in five bream for a modest 3.82kg on Sunday, the tournament was wide open to be won. Then up came Chris Wright with a bag that looked way too full for only five bream. When the scales pulled down to a whopping 6.18kg, Team Stiffy Lures had not only taken out the Sunday Berkley Best Bag Prize, but more importantly had won the 2008 Yamaha East Gippsland Bream Classic with 10/10 bream for a magical 10.78kg. Snatching second place from the hands of Team Compleat Angler by 14g was Team Nitro’s Matt Campbell and Tuan Huynu, who weighed in 5/5 bream for 4.82kg which included the Ecogear Big Bream, a cracking yellowfin that weighed 1.7kg and smashed the previous 1.52kg Big Bream mark set on the Saturday.
Mallacoota proved itself yet again to be a world class bream fishery producing another 10kg plus winning bag. Over the two days competition, 452 bream were weighed in totalling 318.8kg for an average weight of 705g per bream illustrating just how healthy this system is. Round Two of the Humminbird Vic Bream Classic Series heads to Warrnambool on May 3/4, where the Hopkins River will play host to the Hooked On Rods’n’Reels Bream Classic. For details call Bill Hartshorne 0409 823 070 or visit www.vicbreamclassics.com.au
Facts
RESULTS
| Team | Anglers | Day 1 (fish/kg) | Day 2 (fish/kg) | Total (fish/kg) |
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| Stiffy Lures | Chris Wright, Kaj Busch | 5/4.6 | 5/6.18 | 10/10.78 |
| Team Nitro | Matt Campbell, Thuan Huynu | 5/4.52 | 5/4.82 | 10/9.34 |
| Compleat Angler | Karina Pierotti, Ben Scullin | 5/5.38 | 5/3.82 | 10/9.2 |
| MRB Communications | Bill Boyton, Stuart Hindson | 5/4.44 | 5/4.72 | 10/9.16 |
| Humminbird | Steve Steer, Wayne Friebe | 5/3.6 | 5/5.18 | 10/8.78 |
| Gulp Alive | Jarrod Healey, Adam Royter | 5/4.4 | 5/4.16 | 10/8.56 |
| Fish-A-Fare | Shane Barling, Trent Stephenson | 5/4.66 | 5/3.5 | 10/8.16 |
| Ampol | Brodie Palmer, Rodney Palmer | 5/4.64 | 4/3.4 | 9/8.04 |
| Team SOC | Graeme Taylor, Chris Burbidge | 5/4.4 | 5/3.48 | 10/7.88 |
| Balls Deep | Stuart Buckingham, Steve Joy | 5/3.22 | 5/4.34 | 10/7.56 |
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Compleat Angler’s Ben Scullin and Karin Pierotti tell the crowd how they took out Saturday’s Berkley Best Bag Prize.
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Matt Campbell from Team Nitro displays the 1.7kg Ecogear Big Bream he landed to rocket his team into second place.
Team Stiffy Lures’ Chris Wright and Kaj Busch display their Champions trophies after taking a well-earned victory.
