Cairns Nemrod, 1st November, 2008

Cairns Nemrod, 1 November, 2008

It was a choppy rugged bash across the cow paddock to Arlington Reef on Saturday morning. The great local boats made available by Bruce Mortley, Sid Caswell, Barry Wilson, Keith Seekee and Gerry Hill made the rough going a pleasure. More so for the fourteen Townsville participants who won the day

 

Cairns Nemrod, 1 November, 2008

It was a choppy rugged bash across the cow paddock to Arlington Reef on Saturday morning. The great local boats made available by Bruce Mortley, Sid Caswell, Barry Wilson, Keith Seekee and Gerry Hill made the rough going a pleasure. More so for the fourteen Townsville participants who won the day. The team of Dave Welch, Craig Buckingham, Andreas Severati and Ryan Ellery managed 3505 points to out score the Cairns locals Sid Caswell, Marc Richards, Kevin Ranger and Keith Seekee by just 180 points.

The milky green water was productive for some with people typically landing a common coral trout and black spot tuskfish for the day among others. Several quality black spot tuskfish up to 7.5 kg were landed and crayfish to 3.5 kgs. In total 18 species were landed including a passionfruit trout, red emperor and a black wrasse. Sid Caswell took out the meritorious fish award with his 7 kg mangrove jack. Great work Sid and congratulations!

Dave Welch from Townsville took out the honours on the day being a clear leader with 11 species and 1340 points. Next closest was Sid Caswell with 1040 and 8 species using his local knowledge to his advantage as did Marc Richards scoring third place. Larnie Linton took out the female division with 265 points. The complete table of points shown below. Well done to everyone who competed and thanks to Aaron for acting as safety diver / driver for the day.

Place

Name

Score

# Species

Club

1st

David Welch

1340

11

TSC

2nd

Sid Caswell

1040

8

CUA

3rd

Marc Richards

990

8

CUA

4th

Craig Buckingham

840

7

TSC

5th

Andreas Severati

720

6

TSC

6th

Kevin Ranger

690

6

CUA

7th

Ryan Ellery

605

5

TSC

7th

Keith Seekee

605

5

CUA

8th

Matt Anscomb

595

5

TSC

9th

David Williams

580

5

TSC

10th

Warren Faithfull

500

4

CUA

10th

Bruce Mortley

500

4

CUA

11th

Barry Wilson

480

4

CUA

12th

Chris Ray

470

4

CUA

13th

Brendan Meale

415

3

TSC

14th

Gerry Hill

400

4

CUA

15th

Danny Boas

365

3

CUA

16th

Paul Liotis

355

3

TSC

17th

Larnie Linton

265

2

CUA

18th

Mick Keeping

250

2

TSC

19th

Warren Hughes

242

2

CUA

20th

Scott Heilbronn

240

2

TSC

20th

Chad Lunow

240

2

CUA

21st

Jason Coe

235

2

TSC

22nd

Hugh Shepherd

230

2

CUA

23rd

Stephan Mezies

120

1

TSC

24th

Daniel Tarasivk

  

TSC

 

* Aaron Odell from Spearanddive acted as Safety Diver. * TSC = Townsville Skindiving Club (www.skindiving.org) * CUA = Cairns Underwater Association

Around $2000 worth of prizes were up for grabs and some great awards were won including many gift vouchers from local companies such as Spear and Dive "Spearfishing specialists" and Airsure as well as Aquasports & Dive Townsville. Marc Richards donated a Great Australian Shark Count Torelli soft cell wet suit worth $465. A $150.00 Spear and Dive gift certificate was donated generously by Viridian glass who has been a regular supporter of the Cairns Nemrod for many years. A further thank you goes to Bransfords Discount Tackle for their contribution and a much appreciated thanks to the AUFQ Spearfishing Commission for their generous donation of a $100.00 gift certificate.

A big thank you to all the participants for making the day such a success. To Marc Richards, Aaron Odell, Keith Seekee, Barry Wilson and all the others for organising the event. Thanks also to the boat owners that made the day possible and to Sid for the use of his beautiful house for the weigh in and presentation. Thanks to all those who filleted and donated their fish to the meals on wheels. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year!!

Aaron Odell www.spearanddive.com.au "Spearfishing Specialists"

Chad Lunow - "Cairns Underwater Association" and "Education and Communication Officer" for the AUFQ spear fishing commission.

The Cairns Underwater Association can be contacted through the president Marc Richards (0438552293) or sporting Chairman Kevin Ranger (0419188308) or drop in and see Aaron at spearanddive.
 
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