Another tough day on the Daly River half-way through the 2010 Barra Classic. Only 56 fish were caught with the biggest barra of 98cm, being registered by Andrew Ettingshausen from Club Marine Scurvy Dogs. This brings the total fish caught so far to 208.
 

Day two was a marginally better day than yesterday with 81 barra caught, bringing the Classic total so far to 152.  Catch of the day was a 100cm barra, caught by Glen Schluter from team Full Boar.  The Champion Angler for the day was Tom McCullough from local team Mongrels, who amassed a total of 780 points.
 

Today was a slow start to the Darwin Game Fishing Club’s 29^th Barra Classic. Darwin Game Fishing Club life member, Ron Bochow, fired the cannon and the sailpast commenced at 7.00am.

71 fish were caught with Trevor Robb  from Classic Warlocks tagging the biggest barra of 92cm. Matt West from Mongrels took out the award for Champion Angler with 265  points. Lady Champion Angler of the Day, was Tanya Urvet from Sister Act.

There is a tie at the top of the leader board with local team Mongrels (Tom McCullough, Matt West and Ben Wall) and visiting team Pilbarians (Mark Cottrell, Justin Neil and Justin Leech) both taking line honours on day one with 410 points. In third place is another visiting team Fire, with skipper Jay Wheelock, Damien Bode and Travis Brinkhuis on 335 points. 
 

TOP TEN TEAMS
Mongrels                                                      410 points
Pilbarians                                                     410 points
Fire Fin                                                         335 points
Classic Warlocks                                           270 points
Lucky Strike                                                  255 points
Full Boar                                                       235 points
Humminbird                                                   225 points
Team Ford Rangers                                     155 points
Evinrude ETEC Polar Bears                          145 points
Club Marine ScurvyDogs                               140 points
 

TOP TEN INDIVIDUALS
Matt West                               285 points
Trevor Robb                          270 points
Mark Cottrell                          260 points
Brett Warren                          235 points
Bob Littler                              215 points    
Jay Wheelock                       200 points
Rex Berry                              150 points
Terry Ryan                            150 points
Bert Woodward                     145 points
Justin Leech                         140 points
 

Contact:  Debbie Halprin, Joint Tournament Coordinator,
0412848267
 

This year the Billfish Classic will be held over 1st to 3rd October, more details soon.

7.00pm Tuesday 3 November 2009
Darwin Ski Club, 20 Conacher Street Fannie Bay

Business to be transacted:
• Acceptance of 2008-09 Financial Report
• Election of Office Bearers
o Vice President
o Committee members x 3
• Adoption of revised Constitution

Phone Debbie on 0412 848267 for further information

Any member wishing to serve on the Board of the Club can download a Nomination and fax it to
(08) 8941 3585 by no later than 2 November 2009.

The rules and entry form for the 2009 Billfish Classic can be found here.

Peter Politis, 2008 runner up Barra Classic Champion Angler, took the invitation to go over to Florida and compete in the IGFA World Championships after John Millyard was unable to attend is firmly seated in first place after day one of the Championships.
 

Peter landed three redfish and three Snook for a total of 600pts and in tied first position at the end of the day. Peter’s representing the Barra Classic and Darwin Game Fishing Club so we wish him all the best—get into em!!!
 

To follow Peter’s progress (light tackle anglers) just click on the link below or copy and paste it into your browser.
 
http://www.inshoreworldchampionships.com/index.php

The 2009 Barra Classic finished today with mixed team Wilson Barradise Boys, comprising Jamie Ware, Greg Herdson and Kord Luckus, moving from yesterday’s second placing to get over the line with a great day on the water. They scored 955 points for the day, resulting in a 360 point win over second place team Mongrels, with skipper Tom McCullough, Matt West and Ben Wall, on 3220 points.
 

Yesterday’s leader, visiting team Wrecktem (Paul Simpson, Ralph Gray and Joe Smith) could only manage 390 points today and finished in third place with 3195 points.
 

The Champion Angler for the tournament was Wrecktem’s skipper, Paul Simpson on 1745 points, only 30 points ahead of Evinrude ETEC’s, Peter Politis. Local angler Matt West was third on 1705 points.               .
 

Justin Jones from Classic Nitro Boys took out honours for the Most Meritorious Capture award for the biggest fish, which he caught on the third day of the tournament, at 99cm.
 

The Champion lady angler was Marion Washington from Takin A Punt on 945 points.
 

A total of 1352 barra were tagged and released during the tournament.

FULL RESULTS CHAMPION TEAM:

Wilson Barradise Boys  3580 points

RUNNER UP CHAMPION TEAM – VISITORS:  Wrecktem 3195 points

RUNNER UP CHAMPION TEAM – MIXED – Takin A Punt  3040 points
RUNNER UP CHAMPION TEAM – LOCAL – Mongrels  3220 points
 CHAMPION ANGLER
Paul Simpson   1745 points