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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Thieves! - Jan 2nd 2009

So a week and a day after getting the boat, also the night after our houseboat holiday finished, Brendan and Uncle Dick went for an evening fish at the East boat ramp, returning to the car at around 11pm, Brendan found his (padlocked) trailer GONE!

Fortunately we had insured it and a quick call to the insurance company put us on our way to getting it sorted, The police's comment "You'll never see that again" comforting isn't it!

So to get it out of the water we had to call a tilt tray, and have them dump it on our front lawn... A huge thanks to Bendigo Marine who helped us out a lent us a trailer in the meantime. To the bugger that did this I hope you one day stumble across this and know this "Karma's a Bit@h"

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.......