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Coffs Harbour Bluewater Classic 2013
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Author:  Doc [ 27 Jan 2013, 15:24 ]
Post subject:  Coffs Harbour Bluewater Classic 2013
The dates are for the 15-17th march this year.

Spanish are just starting to be shot lately and wahoo are here.


Hope to see some Viccos there.

Bring a boat if you can.

email bluewaterclassic@hotmail.com and register interest for a full information pack.

Cheers

Christian
Author:  Doc [ 04 Mar 2013, 21:16 ]
Post subject:  Re: Coffs Harbour Bluewater Classic 2013
Message from the convenor

and dont forget to email bluewaterclassic@hotmail.com for full information pack



PLEASE REGISTER ASAP. We are willing to extend the Early bird price of registration ($195 Open) until Friday March 8 after which it will be $225.

· Competitors MUST be CURRENT members of the AUF or the USFA.

· ALL divers must dive with a float AND flag on competition days.

· Attendance at the registration briefing is COMPULSORY for ALL divers. Please be at the Woolgoolga RSL Club at 3.00pm Friday March 15.
Author:  Cdog [ 05 Mar 2013, 13:26 ]
Post subject:  Re: Coffs Harbour Bluewater Classic 2013
Hi Doc,

I really wanted to come up and do this comp this year but our club calender is very busy with Vic Titles 9,10,11th the a spare on the 17th followed by our inargural Newhaven boat comp on either the 23/24th. My other issue is I have a leak in my underfloor tank and dont have the range for any offshore fun... :cry:

There is alway next year for me!!

I hope there is a good sign on and some awesome fish come in!
Author:  Doc [ 10 Mar 2013, 22:22 ]
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C Dog

Good luck with the titles and the rest of the comps down there. Whack a maggie for me! I am sure there will be another next year. Will post up some photos and results.

Doc
Author:  Doc [ 16 Mar 2013, 21:30 ]
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Wish it was mine but alas I did assist

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Author:  Rhino [ 16 Mar 2013, 22:48 ]
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That's fucken sick mate, nice work! You know better than to post a pic like that without the story tho! And..........
Author:  nas01 [ 17 Mar 2013, 00:26 ]
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can someone post the pic up here dont no how to view it.
Author:  Doc [ 17 Mar 2013, 05:02 ]
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We still had about 2+ hours of the comp to go
I was swimming around trying to find a lump that comes up which I had seen mackeral on. 400m away was Trevor. I had been swimming around for 15 minutes and then cracked it and jumped into the boat to sound. Tevor yells out and looks like he is struggling with a fish. We all agreed in the boat--"looks like he's got a fish". Then his float left him and headed north at a steady pace. We got up next to Trev and the look on his face was priceless. "shot a marlin, its massive, at least 80-kgs" he says. He go into the boat and off we went following the float for the next 10-20 minutes. Put Trev in front of it but it just kept going to fast to swim to. It just kept going steadily. At this stage it has a 8-10 litre float attached only. Trev clipped my 12 litre float on as well. This made us feel a bit better.

It just kept swimming. Trev started to clip line off little bit at a time. At this stage we still had time to land it and get back to the weigh in. I jumped in with a reel gun to see if it had any cobia on it.....It sped up then. At about the hour mark it went deep and took both floats. It dissapeared for 10-20 minutes with all attached. I looked at my watch and we had just enough time to make the weigh. I had a cobia, amberjack and kingfish.

A whitecap in the distance looked like a float so we sped to it--nothing. Then on return we just idle around and then she popped up 400 metres away and just bobbed. We knew that the comp was out now and trev just wanted the fish aboard. Didn't think it would have been a record and he wanted help. I swam down to it at around 18 metres and put another shot into the flank. It was huge!. Immediately the first shot then fell out! Put another shot into it and then hauled it up. Rope through the gills and over the transom. Got back 40 mins late to a stern police officer and a very worried wife (should have called in late). Crowd just swarmed the boat. Smiles everywhere. Fish donated to the auction.

It was weighed chopped into chunks on small 50kg scales--total was 165kg--15kg over the USFA record.
obviously it cannot be claimed but was great to be a part of anyway.
Author:  Rhino [ 17 Mar 2013, 07:37 ]
Post subject:  Re: Coffs Harbour Bluewater Classic 2013
Did you weigh your fish in anyway? How would you have gone if you hadn't been such an awesome bloke?
Author:  Doc [ 17 Mar 2013, 09:48 ]
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I didn't weigh any fish
found out that if we had of rang in to say we were fighting a big fish then I could of weighed mine--DOh!

I would have been around 4th to 5th in the runnings

Comp cancelled today as a strong and gale force wind is forecast
Author:  Andrewv [ 17 Mar 2013, 11:51 ]
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Great write up doc love the story. Just what the forum is for
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