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Skeeter Bream Classic Championship Final Results & Story
#312 - 0--bream--Skeeter Bream Classic Championship Final Results & Story--2007-11-10 15:47:16
#The Skeeter ABT National BREAM Classic Championship at Port Macquarie November 10-11 was a culmination of the year's Classic events - held in all six states of Australia. 73 teams braved the torrential rain and dirty water conditions, all trying to take home the Skeeter SX170 with Evinrude motor on offer for the winner. -
Day one tested the resolve of many and all that had wet weather gear were glad they had packed it. Team Squidgy consisting of Shimano work mates Chris Cleaver and Zac Crombie weighed in the five heaviest fish of the day (5/5, 2.87kg) and were content to go to bed early with a 430 gram lead on the Saturday night.
With the weather fining up, but the brown fresh water taking over the river, they had to be on their game to win. Port Macquarie Tackle weighed in early and set Squidgy the mark of 2.42kg to win. The boys knew they had a cracking bag, but was it enough?
Handing their limit over to the weigh master, the scales tipped 3kg and the celebration began. Their winning weight a 10/10, 5.94kg effort.
Crombie used a Finesse Bream Raider rod matched to a Shimano Sustain 1000 reel spooled with 4lb Nitlon braid and 6lb Basic FC leader. Choosing the same line class, Cleaver used a Custom Hastings rod with a Shimano Stella 100FB reel.
Borrowing the wrapped Squidgies boat from Brett Wilson, the boys traveled upriver to fish mangrove banks, drains and underwater snags.
"We could see the fish hugging the mangrove roots far up the back," Crombie explained.
Using a Koolabung Fizzer with a double fizz, pause retrieve the teammates extracted several bronze backed bream. Missed hits were followed up with either a Squidgy Stealth Prawn (wasabi) or the new Pro Range Lobby (wasabi) to tempt those inquisitive followers.
Runners up - and taking home an Engel fridge/freezer each - were Chris Blanch and Nathan Johns of Team Port Macquarie TackleThese guys found their first-day fish against the rockwalls at the mouth of the river using Berkley Gulp Sandworms on 2lb straight through fluorocarbon. They then then moved to the racks in Limeburners Creek on Sunday. Here they choose Bassday Kangoku Shads and shallow diving Jackall Chubbies in ghost ayu and wagasaki to extract their bream from the oyster encrusted racks.
Blanch choose to use a G.Loomis Bronzeback rod and Daiwa Sol 2000 spooled with 4lb Fins braid and 10 FC Rock fluorocarbon. Johns used a GL2 DSR820 matched to a Daiwa Certate 1500,Sunline Super PE braid in 8lb and the same leader.
The big bream of the weekend was a hotly contested affair with the Bassday prize pack finally going to the crew from Team Blackfish, weighinga cracking 1.25kg specimen.
A total of 351 fish were weighed in for 159.5kg, the average bream weighing a healthy 450 grams.
The sun made its way out to the presentation on Sunday and this brought out the Port Macquarie crowds. With the Shimano team mates - who live together - winning the Skeeter, it was like a dream come true for the pair. The ready-to-fish package will definitely get used at some of at the ABT Classic events in 2008.
ABT would like to acknowledge the work and contribution of all of ABT’s BREAM Classic organisers and sponsors in 2007, and would like to thank Skeeter Boats for their support and sponsorship of the inaugural BREAM Classic Championship.
For more information and images visit www.bream.com.au.
| Place | Team | F1 | W1 | F2 | W2 | TF | TW | Payout |
| 1 | SQUIDGY: Chris Cleaver & Zachias Crombie | 5 | 2.89 | 5 | 3.05 | 10 | 5.94 | Skeeter SX170, 115hp E-Tec, Minn Kota, Humminbird package |
| 2 | PORT MACQUARIE TACKLE: Chris Blanch & Nathan Johns | 5 | 2.46 | 5 | 2.85 | 10 | 5.31 | |
| 3 | WHITEHEAD TIMBER SALES: Dean Truman & Shane Hill | 5 | 2.48 | 5 | 2.59 | 10 | 5.07 | |
| 4 | PFLUEGER: Darren Borg & Gregg Flett | 5 | 2.18 | 5 | 2.39 | 10 | 4.57 | |
| 5 | BLACKFISH: David Blackman & Mitchell Fischer | 3 | 1.44 | 5 | 2.81 | 8 | 4.25 | |
| 6 | CULBURRA BAIT N TACKLE: Grant Kime & Scott Brown | 5 | 2.12 | 5 | 1.95 | 10 | 4.07 | |
| 7 | BERKLEY: Scott Towner & Mark Mangold | 5 | 1.73 | 5 | 2.32 | 10 | 4.05 | |
| 8 | WOODSTOCK BOURBON AND COLA 2: David Welfare & Nicholas Reay | 5 | 1.82 | 5 | 2.12 | 10 | 3.94 | |
| 9 | BUSHNBEACH/BERKLEY/4BC: Chris Britton & Ben Collins | 3 | 1.48 | 4 | 2.44 | 7 | 3.92 | |
| 10 | BIAS BOATING: Gary Fooks & Elliot Fooks | 3 | 1.27 | 5 | 2.59 | 8 | 3.86 | |
| 11 | SPORTSFISH TASMANIA: Patrick Sullivan & Steve Steer | 3 | 1.34 | 5 | 2.52 | 8 | 3.86 | |
| 12 | SKEETER/EVINRUDE: Neil Foley & Andrew Homann | 4 | 1.7 | 5 | 2.12 | 9 | 3.82 | |
| 13 | BUDDS/BUSHNBEACH/4BC: Robert Kwiatkowski & Anthony Wishey | 5 | 2.13 | 5 | 1.64 | 10 | 3.77 | |
| 14 | EVINRUDE/LOWRANCE: Stephen Wilson & Sean Hanrahan | 1 | 0.71 | 5 | 2.66 | 6 | 3.37 | |
| 15 | SMITH LTD: Roderick Walmsley & Kelvin Williams | 5 | 2.22 | 3 | 1.11 | 8 | 3.33 | |
| 16 | RIVER CITY MARINE: Craig Simmons & Kerry Symes | 4 | 2.05 | 3 | 1.18 | 7 | 3.23 | |
| 17 | BERKLEY/HUNTS MARINE: Scott Lear & Vicki Winter | 5 | 2.23 | 2 | 0.98 | 7 | 3.21 | |
| 18 | PERTH ROOFING/GLADIATOR TACKLE: David Beer & Graham Green | 1 | 0.42 | 5 | 2.64 | 6 | 3.06 | |
| 19 | EVINRUDE ETEC: Adam Ward & Martin Richardson | 5 | 2.31 | 2 | 0.72 | 7 | 3.03 | |
| 20 | GLOOMIS/SUNLINE: Michael Horn & William Horn | 2 | 0.82 | 4 | 2.2 | 6 | 3.02 | |
| 21 | ENGEL: Richard Fitzgerald & David Tims | 1 | 0.43 | 5 | 2.55 | 6 | 2.98 | |
| 22 | BATTERY TRADERS: Steve Eldred & Warwick Lyndon | 2 | 0.79 | 5 | 2.09 | 7 | 2.88 | |
| 23 | UNREEL: Mark Healey & Karen Scully | 3 | 1.51 | 3 | 1.36 | 6 | 2.87 | |
| 24 | CD RODS/BASSDAY: David McKenzie & Tristan Taylor | 4 | 1.51 | 4 | 1.3 | 8 | 2.81 | |
| 25 | BREAM IT ON WSBB: David Currey & Mark McGregor | 5 | 2.78 | 5 | 2.78 | |||
| 26 | MINN KOTA: Jarrod Healey & Dean Granger | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0.71 | 7 | 2.71 | |
| 27 | TANCAM: Tan Trieu & Cameron Whittam | 3 | 1.51 | 3 | 1.11 | 6 | 2.62 | |
| 28 | BASSDAY/MEGABASS: Michael Starkey & Dean Silvester | 2 | 0.89 | 4 | 1.72 | 6 | 2.61 | |
| 29 | FISHBRAIN: Liam Fitzpatrick & Artie Rienstra | 2 | 1.01 | 3 | 1.6 | 5 | 2.61 | |
| 30 | HINTERLAND ATTACK: Drew Griffith & David Whyte | 5 | 2.22 | 1 | 0.33 | 6 | 2.55 | |
| 31 | ELIXA ENERGY DRINK: Ben Godfrey & Julian Godfrey | 3 | 1.41 | 2 | 1.05 | 5 | 2.46 | |
| 32 | NITRO MARINE: Darrin Crowley & Tyson Robertson | 5 | 2.44 | 5 | 2.44 | |||
| 33 | LOWRANCE: Phillip Smallman & Sing Ling | 5 | 2.05 | 1 | 0.32 | 6 | 2.37 | |
| 34 | WOODSTOCK BOURBON AND COLA 1: Alan Loftus & Ross Cannizzaro | 1 | 0.57 | 5 | 1.8 | 6 | 2.37 | |
| 35 | BERKLEY B: Shane Dyason & Andrew Axon | 5 | 1.9 | 1 | 0.35 | 6 | 2.25 | |
| 36 | WEBBER CUSTOM RODS: Wal Balzan & Jason Kemp | 2 | 0.79 | 2 | 1.3 | 4 | 2.09 | |
| 37 | BIGFIN SPORTSFISHING: Leroy Tirant & Greg Woods | 2 | 0.95 | 3 | 1.11 | 5 | 2.06 | |
| 38 | MANNING VALLEY TACKLE: Daniel Brown & Gregory Brown | 3 | 1.22 | 1 | 0.82 | 4 | 2.04 | |
| 39 | HUMMINBIRD: Shaun Clancy & Wayne Friebe | 4 | 1.6 | 1 | 0.42 | 5 | 2.02 | |
| 40 | COMPLETE ANGLER: Peter Macor & Rod Riley | 5 | 2.01 | 5 | 2.01 | |||
| 41 | YOUNG GUNS: Brett Young & Todd Young | 4 | 1.99 | 4 | 1.99 | |||
| 42 | HOOKED ON: Barry Thomas & Graemeross Taylor | 4 | 1.65 | 1 | 0.28 | 5 | 1.93 | |
| 43 | PORT MACQUARIE TACKLE/MIDCOAST MARINE: David Poulton & Wayne Bale | 2 | 0.8 | 3 | 1.12 | 5 | 1.92 | |
| 44 | GREEN MACHINE: Paul Gillespie & Jay Gillespie | 1 | 0.44 | 4 | 1.43 | 5 | 1.87 | |
| 45 | OBSESSION: David O'Reilly & Andrew Herden | 3 | 1.35 | 1 | 0.39 | 4 | 1.74 | |
| 46 | LEAVE IT UP 2 US: Mark McCreadie & Paul Whale | 1 | 0.49 | 2 | 1.12 | 3 | 1.61 | |
| 47 | SX: Ron Ashman & Scott Bilton | 3 | 1.48 | 3 | 1.48 | |||
| 48 | SHAW'S KITCHEN: Karl Shaw & Tate Shaw | 3 | 1.47 | 3 | 1.47 | |||
| 49 | VIC BREAM CLASSICS: Bill Hartshorne & Andrewrichard Smith | 2 | 0.83 | 2 | 0.64 | 4 | 1.47 | |
| 50 | DOMA: Damien Domagala & Zig Domagala | 3 | 1.1 | 1 | 0.35 | 4 | 1.45 | |
| 51 | CAMDEN HAVEN MARINE: Steve Yarwood & Andrew Manson | 1 | 0.61 | 2 | 0.79 | 3 | 1.4 | |
| 52 | TICA/STRIKEPRO: Stephen Duff & Rick Massie | 1 | 0.55 | 2 | 0.71 | 3 | 1.26 | |
| 53 | HINTERLAND MARINE GREEN TEAM: Nick Whyte & Richard Lucker | 2 | 0.86 | 1 | 0.37 | 3 | 1.23 | |
| 54 | SLAUGHTER: Robert Irons & Sean Reynolds | 2 | 1.17 | 2 | 1.17 | |||
| 55 | BLACK NITRO: Richard Williams & Shea Williams | 1 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.39 | 2 | 1.09 | |
| 56 | THAT’S FISHING - THE GRUBS: Stephen Theodore & Ken McCoombe | 2 | 1.03 | 2 | 1.03 | |||
| 57 | HODGEY'S HEROES: Don Johnston & Szarn Tink | 2 | 1.02 | 2 | 1.02 | |||
| 58 | MUDEYE: Michael Hazilias & Tim Kontis | 2 | 0.82 | 2 | 0.82 | |||
| 59 | PRO NITRO: Chris Elliot & Leon Bettson | 2 | 0.76 | 2 | 0.76 | |||
| 61 | UK-LYPTUS: Clyde Hulme & Ralph Norman | 1 | 0.38 | 1 | 0.38 | 2 | 0.76 | |
| 62 | ATOMIC: Robert March & Aaron Sharp | 2 | 0.73 | 2 | 0.73 | |||
| 63 | BRAY'S BOYS: Daniel Bray & Mark Heffernan | 1 | 0.67 | 1 | 0.67 | |||
| 64 | IMPACT JIGHEADS: Chris Dudeck & Scott Lane | 1 | 0.63 | 1 | 0.63 | |||
| 65 | DEAD DUCKS: Darryl Baird & Bradley Lestrange | 1 | 0.55 | 1 | 0.55 | |||
| 66 | AFN: Nick Martin & Daniel Clifton | 1 | 0.44 | 1 | 0.44 | |||
| 66 | VERY VERY ORDINARY FISHERMEN: Luke McKew & Ash Bradnam | 1 | 0.44 | 1 | 0.44 | |||
| 68 | BREAM IT ON: Nigel Harris & Steve Bond | 1 | 0.36 | 1 | 0.36 | |||
| 69 | NATIVE: Anthony Duff & Cameron Watts | |||||||
| 69 | MERCURY: Stuart Buckingham & Steve Joy | |||||||
| 69 | TACKLE EXPRESS: Stephen Vail & Jodie Baillie | |||||||
| 69 | RAY AND ANNE'S TACKLE: Tom Deer & Murray Jeffery | |||||||
| 69 | QFM: Steve Morgan & Gary Boyd | |||||||
| 69 | GABE'S BOATING AND FISHING: Steven Pietraszkiewicz & Stewart Parke | |||||||
| 293 | 130.29 |
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