Yarrawonga - Dash for Cash - Feb 21st 2009

We entered the Yarrawonga Dash for Cash, which was a comp limited to 100 boats, 3 heats, shot gun start and lure fishing only...

Sat Morning Heat - 0 fish, Sat Afternoon heat - 0 fish, 'it's OK' we told ourselves we were just saving the big one for the Sunday morning heat when the prize money was better anyway, sure enough at 9am Sunday morning I caught a 64cm Cod, we raced that baby to the weighing station and entered our first fish, this scored us the $500 3rd prize for the Sunday heat.


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We ended up with 4 fish in the boat on Sunday, but the other 3 were all undersize. Friends that were there with us caught a nice 65cm cod sunday afternoon amongst others (reddies and undersize cod), just such a pity it wasnt in Comp time.

There are quite a few pics from this weekend, which all in all was a great weekend and also the celebrations for Kristians B'day :)


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December 2008 - The Purchase and the biggest fish :)

Brendan had been talking about upgrading the boat for a little while, wanting a "Family Boat" (code for bigger and better) :) So when he came across this one at Bendigo Marine that was for sale as ex demo stock he jumped at the chance, in fact I dont think I could have stopped him even if I had of wanted!

The first outing for the aptly named Bumble Bee was on the Family Christmas holiday at Echuca, We were on a house boat for the week and the boys did enjoy some fishing!

With Brendans PB being caught just upstream of the East Boat ramp, a 89cm 21p Monster Murray Cod, Well it was a monster for us, and hell he was happy as a pig in... you know.






And so it begins.......