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.
Tournament organiser Neil Grose expects a highly competitive field for the first round: “2009 ABT qualifier winner Steve Steer will be fishing in a team, and I expect they will be very competitive, particularly as the bream fishing in Georges Bay is at its best this time of year.
“Last years tournament came right down to the final round, with the winning team finishing seventh in the round however emerging victorious in the overall tournament by less than 10 points, which has really set the precedent for this years competition.”
The fiercely contested 2009 Classic saw team sportsfishtasmania.com taking line honours. “There are a lot of new teams this year so the competition will be red hot, and we’ll have our work cut for us” said sportsfishtasmania.com team member Leigh McKenzie.
“Georges Bay is quickly becoming one of Australia’s premier Bream fisheries, and I think that will help even out the playing field, so it will be interesting to see which team will come out on top this year” said McKenzie.
Bream fishing is fast growing sport in Australia and tournament organiser Neil Grose expects this trend to continue “Bream fishing as a sport has an emerging profile in Australia and it’s great to see more people get behind it and participate in Tasmania”
“What’s great about the classic is it caters for a wide variety of people, there are no restrictions on age or gender, anyone is welcome to participate” says Grose.
“This year we’ve received entries from south Australia and Victoria as well as the local Tasmanian anglers which is a testament to the quality of fishing here in Tasmania.
“Furthermore anglers will be fishing from high speed fishing boats designed to get the teams to the best spots first, so that on top of the big live bream tank at the weigh in area, the Georges bay event will also be great for spectator viewing.”
The first round of the Bream Classic begins Saturday, February 13 with anglers launching boats at 7am from the St Helens foreshore, and returning for weigh-in of a five fish maximum bag at 2pm where caught bream will be held in a tank for spectators to view prior to release. Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 14 at the conclusion of the day tw- weigh in.
Winners will receive prizes from event sponsors Daiwa, Spirit of Tasmania, Shimano, Pure Fishing, Ecogear, Howler custom rods and Takle Us Kingston.
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