Andy McCarthy of Team Spirit of Tasmania with two of his five fish on day two
A very tough tournament on the Derwent for Round Three in the Spirit of Tasmania Bream Classic really opened the championship up.
With a very subdued Calcutta on the Howler Custom Rods pre fish briefing, most teams were talking about where they hadn’t caught fish, rather than where they had.
Young gun Isaac Harris scored the Howler Custom Rods $350 voucher, making his weekend a winner before the comp had even started.
A large crowd turned up to see the very tight weigh in
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Team Tackle Us, Jon Lister and Andrew Wells – Swan River round champions
Cool, calm and cloudy conditions greeted the 26 teams for the first day of round two in the Spirit of Tasmania Bream Classic.
The Howler Custom Rods pre-fish briefing went off very well, with interstate raider Terry ‘Turtle’ Howe picking up the fantastic Howler Custom rod.
Greg Woods with a 1.45kg example of the fine bream that this system offers. Photo courtesy Jason Robins
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South Australian competitor Tom Deer with some of the marvellous St Helens bream
Marvellous conditions greeted the 25 starting teams in round one of the 2010 Spirit of Tasmania Bream Classic series.
After a fun filled Howler Custom Rods briefing, where Tim Colgrave won the Howler Custom rod, valued at around $300.00, teams soon filed off to their respective dens.
In cool and overcast conditions and light winds, the teams snaked their way slowly to the end of the 5knot limit before dispersing to all corners of Georges Bay.
With tides suiting the flats style angler, many teams headed for shallow water to fill their five fish limit.
During weigh in it soon became apparent that this was going to be great day, with 18 out of 25 teams recording a five fish limit, and only one team bringing donuts to the scale.
Some quite large bream were weighed in, with several contenders for the Tackle Us Big Bream amongst them.
Weights include the bream bags, so all weights are 495grams heavier than actual weight.
Second placed Plinio Taurian and Tim Hodge from Team Ecogear/Nitro at the presentation
Day One
Tim Farrell held the Tackle Us big bream lead with a cracker at 1.93kg (including bag).
Team Roz Homes and Construction won the Strike Pro encouragement award for Day One, which includes some hand picked Strike Pro Reaction Baits and some Strike Pro hardbodied lures.
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Team/total fish/total weight (includes bream bag)
- www.tasfish.com – Bigfin 10/11.27
- Ecogear/Nitro 10/10.57
- www.sportsfishtasmania.com 10/9.97
- Cranka Pro 10/9.31
- Tasfish.com 10/9.18
- Bream It On 10/9.07
- Club Marine 10/9.00
- Unique Breaming 10/8.97
- Lyndcraft Boats 10/8.90
- Strike Pro 10/8.79
- Bigfin 9/8.39
- St Helens Bait & Tackle 8/8.32
- Butcheri 10/8.09
- Tasmanian Fishing and Boating News 10/8.03
- Pellow Saws & Mowers/3BNF 10/7.91
- Tackle Us 10/7.01
- Rejects 10/6.94
- Sitting Ducks 8/6.58
- Launceston Powdercoating 7/6.50
- Spirit of Tasmania 7/6.32
- Spot On 7/5.93
- Breams ‘R’ Us 7/5.91
- Impact Painting 6/5.01
- Justin Breambalake 3/3.32
- Roz Homes and Constructions 1/0.96
2009 winners Leigh McKenzie and Patrick Sullivan of team sportsfishtasmania.com
Saturday will see the beginning of the first round of the 2010 Spirit of Tasmania Bream Classic Championship to be held at Georges Bay, St Helens.
The Bream classic championship is held over three rounds, the first in St Helens and corresponding rounds on the Swan River at Swansea in April and the final round on the Derwent River in May.
For the first round, a record 26 teams have registered to take part, each vying for maximum points to increase their standing in taking out the overall Bream classic championship.
Anglers will use soft plastic and hard body lures to tempt the bream, and the team to finish with the heaviest bag of 10 fish at the end of the two day event will be named winner of the round. The team with the most accumulated points after round will be crowned 2010 Sprit of Tasmania Bream Classic champions.
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Patrick Sullivan with one of Team Spirit of Tasmania’s 21 fish winning tally.
By NEIL GROSE | The first round of the 2009 Spirit of Tasmania Trout Classic was held on Great Lake in terrible conditions, with wind averaging 25knots and gust exceeding 40 knots.
However the wind was from a reasonably favourable direction, allowing all teams to find productive water in safety.
All 18 teams were on the water early, so by 6:50am there were rooster tails heading out of Swan Bay below the Great Lake Hotel and out into the main body of the lake.
Team Bigfin Sportsfishing with one of their 12 fish
All teams managed to find the fish early as the trout were obviously looking to feed hard before the brunt of the expected cold front hit.
Sure enough, most teams struggled to land fish after 10:30am with the exception of Team Spirit of Tasmania and fourth placed Team Juicy Isle.
Team Juicy Isle stayed in Swan Bay owing to their small boat size, and managed to tally up 10 trout totalling 514cm.
Third placed Bigfin Sportsfishing used the rough water capacity of their large boat to head north into Elizabeth Bay, which delivered them 10 fish before retreating to the shelter of Swan Bay where they notched another 2 nice trout.
Team BridgesBros fished the windswept shores to finish in second place.
Second placed team Bridges Brothers also erred on the side of caution, and after an initial foray around the Bee Hives decided to head back into relative calm water inside Swan Bay, where they completed their 12 fish haul.
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By NEIL GROSE | An unprecedented heat wave greeted anglers on the pre-fish of he second round of the Spirit of Tasmania Bream Classic on the picturesque Swan River — with temperatures soaring above 40°C.
As a result day one catches were down on expectations, although the top half of the field managed to get a four or five fish bag.
Sportsfishtasmania.com were the leading team on day one, but only by the narrowest of margins to Riverside Quality Meats and Bream Brothers — 25g separating the top three teams. Day one saw 57 bream weighed in with an average weight of around 0.8kg.
Day Two started a lot cooler and promised much, with most teams heading downstream to fish the flats and racks. Team Sportsfishtasmania.com continued their day one form (where they caught over 30 bream) and pulled a great five fish bag, upgrading many times through the day.
Bream Brothers weighed in early with a cracking bag and team Zipbaits with a Tackle Us Big Bag of 5.62kg (the biggest of day two) followed through from day one with a trouble free session to nearly pull back the deficit from day one.
Day two saw 77 bream weighed in for a lower average weight of 0.77kg, but they did look rather nice swimming around in the ‘Super Mini Tank’.
Saturday, January 31 2009 will see round two of Spirit of Tasmania’s Classic Bream competition on the challenging Swan River, Tasmania’s premier East Coast bream water.
Twenty-two teams in specialist bream tournament boats are competing for the chance to attend the National Bream Championship which attracts major prizes. These tournaments are part of the National ABT series held throughout Australia.
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