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Berkley Classic series TT / Zman Round 1 Results Detailed
Berkley WA Bream Classic TT / Z-Man Round 1
The 2015 BERKLEY WA Bream Classic Series kicked off with the Tackle Tactics/ZMan Round 1 Classic held in Mandurah. Teams were greeted with near perfect weather conditions with temperatures predicted to hit 40 degrees by the time they returned for the weigh in at 2pm, making it crucial to not only find the fish but to keep the fluid levels up for the day. Most teams took advantage of the arena spreading themselves between the town canals and the Murray and Serpentine Rivers, while a few teams ventured into the South Yunderup canals in search of the big bluenose bream known to frequent the area. With a quality field of 42 boats heading into battle, there were stories of good fish lost by nearly every team. But it was Team 13 Fishing with Chris Pfrunder and Callum Dowell limiting their losses and finding their way to the front of the pack with a 4 fish limit of 2.975kgs and carry away over $2000 of cash and products. When asked how the day went, a beaming Callum Dowell replied “We started at the top of the Serpentine River and our first six or so casts of the day resulted in a full bag, and although not big the confidence was pumping, we fished snags we have worked hundreds of times over the years and were constantly upgrading fish”. Disaster is only ever one look in the livewell away though and after losing the smallest of their bag they headed straight to a snag they were confident would produce for them and after 15 minutes Team 13 Fishing had a replacement in the net, and back into upgrade mode they went. With Callum providing a crucial 35 fork upgrade on a Damiki D Grub in killer tomato. “Then with a dozen or so boats littered through some of our more successful snags, Chris made a call to fish an area near the mouth that we had not fished before however had probably not seen a lure all day”. In what was probably the winning call of the day, Chris managed to wrestle a 40cm fish from hard against a nasty dead tree, having to hold the spool for the majority of the fight before Callum netted what was to be their anchor fish for the day. With pressure at the weigh in building Chris and Callum opted for a spot on the beach away from the live weigh in and it wasn’t until the very end they knew they had gotten up by a mere 55grams. Callum thanked his sponsor Tom Slater from 13 Fishing for providing what he calls an epic rod that gets the results. Callum fished with a EBS610ML Envy Black rod from 13 Fishing whilst Chris utilized his Duff rod with precision. Team 13 Fishing used Daiwa Exist and Certate reels, 8lb Linesystems Frog and 8lb Unitika for main line, whilst both used Yamatoyo leader in 4lb and 6lb. Thier lures of choice were Zman Grubz, Zman Streakz, ZMan Crusteaz and Damiki D-Grub, rigged on a range of TT jig heads. Chris finished off mentioning that two 32 fork fish in the dying minutes in 39 degrees is one of the most satisfying angling experiences he has had. In second place was team Pontoon 21/Damiki which saw Cody Clements team up with Carey Nolan to weigh in a four fish limit of 2.925kg and take the $1000 that was up for grabs for 2nd place. Carey also managed to boat the Round 1 Big Bream at 1.2kg and claim the $1000 Watersnake Big Bream prize money. Setting off from town their plan was to fish the lower Murray hoping it would be untouched by the majority of the other 41 boats, when asked how the day went Carey explained “we have had success in the lower reaches of the Murray before but had not pre-fished the area but Cody was confident we could get a couple early, and five casts later it started with us both getting two fish each within a couple of spots. Thinking we had a modest 2kg bag by 8.30am had us chuffed, but we knew there was work to do to upgrade the smaller fish and also to find that elusive anchor fish”. With a limit in the well, the move was made to hit a favourite set of snags in the Serpentine River with Carey commenting “the 10 other boats we found fishing the area certainly added to the pressure so I tied on my rat-bait Zman motor oil Slim Swimz with a 1/28 HWS jig. The action felt a bit flat but I just wanted something different to the million grubs these fish had probably seen already. It was two casts later and slowly working the bottom when the Duffrod buckled over and the Certate screamed. With the Yamatoyo Harris Fighter in 6lb creaking as it rubbed against the nasty barnacle encrusted snag, Cody was onto it, backing us out into mid river and allowed me to fight the fish. After a few lunges and dives the beast was netted, and I just sat down shaking, staring at 1.2kg and 42cm of Black Bream, the rest of the day is a blur apart from a trademark Mike Iaconelli man-hug”. The 1.2kg Watersnake Big Bream probably turned a 2kg bag into 2.925kg and would have jumped the team up around 10 places. Carey wanted to thank the event sponsors, Berkley, Engel, Zman, Ecogear and finally Watersnake for the amazing $1000 cash prize for Big Bream. Carey also wanted to thank his sponsor JML Anglers Alliance (Ecogear/Yamatoyo – which performed admirably on several occasions) and Cody’s sponsors of Pontoon21/Damiki. In third place were Tim Stuart and Rod Pickering from Team Flowrite/Engel who managed another cracking 4 fish limit of 2.810kg and only being one good upgrade or bust-off from top spot. Total Fish weighed in 118 For a total of 57.335kg Fish average of 486g FINISH ORDER TEAM SKIPPER CO-ANGLER FISH CAUGHT WEIGHT CHECKED IN 1 13 Fishing Chris Pfrunder Callum Dowell 4 2.975 0.880 2 Pontoon21 / Damiki Cody Clements Carey Nolan 4 2.925 1.200 3 Flowrite / Engel Tim Stuart Rod Pickering 4 2.810 0.930 4 Team Lucky Cast Michael Hull Jesse Choy 4 2.510 0.690 5 Perth Motorcycle Training Brett Dowsett Sean Higgins 4 2.430 0.970 6 DJILBA Nigel Kelley Stephen Dimmer 4 2.395 0.795 7 Dark Horses Colin Peasey Suzzanne Siranovic 4 2.320 0.815 8 Bream Whisperers Barry Brownrigg Scott Browning 4 2.260 9 Trailblazers Charlie Saikao David Bennett 4 2.125 10 Team CRC Dave O'Reilly Dominic Vassallo 4 1.995 0.820 11 Warthogs Darren Ogley Brent Maas 4 1.995 0.650 12 Urban Property Conveyancing Peter DeGroot Ollie Sear 4 1.775 13 Fishtec Solutions Murray Jeffrey Anthony Sexton 4 1.685 13 Breammaster Geoff Spadaccini Nathan Jones 4 1.685 15 Grab A Granny Andrew Manson Steve Yarwood 4 1.645 0.570 16 Lowrance / Bluewater Alex Greisdorf Luke Ryan 4 1.635 17 Team in the Savage Szarn Tink Graeme Kovacevich 4 1.610 18 Tackle World Mandurah Thys McCarthy Joe Franco 4 1.590 19 Getaway Outdoors Midland Phil Cockshutt Blair Paisley-Kerr 4 1.575 20 Javelin Effect Paul McCullough Graham Green 4 1.570 21 Team Fitzy Richard Fitzgerald Michael Fitzgerald 4 1.490 22 T.B.A Chris Hill James Jeffrey 4 1.470 22 Prime Time Josh McAlindon Dominique Cera 4 1.470 24 Smackem Kim McIntyre Ben Scott 3 1.365 25 Gladiator / Tackle HQ Shane Owens Steven Owens 3 1.305 26 Blue Nose Bros Oliver Stevenson Joseph Gardner 3 1.160 27 Unlucky Ryan Garth David Bailey 2 1.070 28 Grumpy Old Men Gary Cope Tony Ireland 3 1.060 29 Blue Lippers Tom Harders Ryan Ng 2 0.845 30 Purple Ducks Leigh Barrett Brendan Harkness 2 0.820 31 Hurricane Tim Stylianou Andy Mitchell 1 0.715 0.715 32 Dunkin for Donuts Rob Davies Shane Klompmaker 1 0.625 33 Chitora / Pontoon 21 Daniel Coughlan Mathew Burt 1 0.550 34 Team Renegade Ryan Abbott Paul Abbott 1 0.430 35 Black Nitro Richard Williams Terrie Williams 1 0.410 36 Team Yellaterra John Osborne Barak Carder 1 0.400 37 Bream and Tonic Ryan Wainright Dean Wainwright 1 0.345 38 Team Zipbaits Dion Robinson Jeff Jasinski 1 0.295 39 TnSP Toby Patemen Simon Pateman 0 0.000 40 Keen As Shardi Biaghi Paul Furlong 0 0.000 41 Aussie Pride Brett Waylen Joe Heal 0 0.000 42 Pflueger Jarrod Stevens Jarrad Wilson 0 0.000 Images can be found here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...7378988&type=1 Last edited by Richo; 10-02-2015 at 10:20 AM. 
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10-02-2015, 09:23 AM
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I thought I had changed it but obviously not on this one...(thanks Richo)
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10-02-2015, 10:18 AM
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Who is the Paisley bloke that fished with Susie ?
 7 Dark Horses Colin Paisley Suzzanne Siranovic
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11-02-2015, 01:10 AM
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Well I thought I'd put this up here, some of which has been posted but my recollection of how Cody and my day turned out
 Sewelly/Richo feel free to remove the pic if it's not OK up here........The journey began as any other comp weekend; painting up about 30 jig heads in various flavours- of which I would eventually use 3 - at Cody's the night before. On the trip down from Perth I made a joke that I'd been the net boy for around 4 big bream winners in the recent past and had never landed a 40 of my own in a comp. Ha! Little did I know that record would soon be broken... We got to Mandurah with plenty of time to go, game plan ready, so got to sit back, have a chat with Ian doing the livewell checks, enjoy some coffee and bacon and egg roll (Thanks Dror!) and lamingtons (thanks Yardi!) while catching up with a few keen anglers in the 42 boat strong field. What a turnout! So we set off from town, spirits high, game face on, staggering through the 5/8/12 knot zones before reaching the Peel where we could punch into the waves, right to the lower Murray River, which we had a feeling would be relatively untouched by the majority of the 41 other boats for the morning. We've had success here in the past and hadn't included it in our prefish but were confident we could get a couple early (well, Cody was anyway). 5 casts into the day and he was on, a short fight and our first fish of 28cm fork length in the boat. A happy start and shortly followed by a quick scoot up to the next target. My turn. Casting my plastic next to a small boat seemed to entice a bite which I was able to extract from little cover. 32cm in the well and we'd been fishing 20 minutes, and even better - now we both had some confidence. One more move, a few 25.5 tip fish later (man they are a small fish!) and we nosed into an area to hit the back of a jetty. "I'm on!" Cody yelled as he backed us (and his fish) out to throw a 30cm fish in the well. While he was dallying about with his fish, I got up front, nosed in again and cast bang into the same area. Tick tick tick tick ON! rinse repeat and a little 28cm fish joined the others to complement a small, maybe modest 2kg bag by 8:30am. We were chuffed, but there was work to do: upgrade those 20s and get the kicker. With this in mind we turned to slowing down our drift and hit some canals. We found a few more small fish amongst them, but nothing huge. I got smoked by a good fish and bad boat position. Earlier in the day we discussed if we should hit up our favourite row of snags in the Serp even though we knew it'd be getting hammered, but we had a bag so thought it was worth the punt. We knew we'd have to fish slow and patiently to have any hope. Initially I threw my Ecogear SX48 in matte colours and the CK407F that's I've had good success on in the past here - even if it was to get a reaction bite - while Cody was working plastics deeper. He landed a 28cm fish slightly fatter than one in the well so there was one upgrade. Conditions were still, hot, crowded - not at all ideal! But we were all served the same so it's what you can make of it really. It felt as though we were fishing about 10 boats worth of dirty water. We got the odd tickle but couldn't get any legals to stick, so after losing a CK407 to a snag I changed it up to fish very light, tieing on my 'rat bait' Zman motor oil slim swimz with a 1/28 HWS jig. The action felt a bit flat on free fall but I just wanted something different to the million grubs that these fish have probably seen all day. After passing team Trailblazers who had turned around on their drift to fish the opposite bank, Dave kindly offered to provide us free cold drinks in exchange for a 40cm fish. We checked the well. Bugger! no 40's, so we had to reluctantly pass him up on the offer. 2 casts later I threw the slim swimz into yet another barnacle encrusted snag, hopping slowly along the bottom when BOOM! This girl must've known we were thirsty. The Duffrod buckled over, certate buzzing as I lifted high and pulled her out, the Yamatoyo harris fighter 6lb creaking as it rubbed against that nasty structure. Luckily Cody was onto it amidst his screaming, backing us out mid water and allowing me to fight the fish. After a few runs and more lunges at the boat I yelled as I tried to lift the fish to the surface to race him to the net. He was waiting and for once the roles were reversed. She was in. We had our kicker. I just sat, hands shaking, staring down at 1.2kg, 42cm of black bream. We were that pumped I don't even remember what happened after that apart from a trademark Mike Iaconelli man-hug. We gathered ourselves and got out there again, fishing the rest of the snags for not a great deal of inquiries. Once stop heading back down had me come up solid on another decent fish, but this one was just too far into the woodwork for me to extract him with any force. Oh well - time to head into town, where we spent the last hour performing fish management just to keep the big girl alive - she wasn't in a great way - as seemed the case with many Serpy bream on the day. Thankfully Cody's Flowrite did the job well. She survived to the weigh in and release. It turned a 2kg bag into a 2.925 and at the end of it all jumped us around 10 places, 50g behind Chris and Dowelly. We were absolutely stoked and was our best finish yet. The next biggest bream was 970g so a nice 230g lead secured my first ever big bream trophy. A huge thanks to my boater Cody, all the WAFM crew, competitors, to the event sponsors Berkley and Engel, round sponsors Zman/TT, Ecogear and finally Water Snake for the amazing $1000 cash prize of Big Bream! And to my sponsor JML Anglers Alliance (Ecogear/Yamatoyo - which performed admirably on several occasions) and Cody's Pontoon 21/Damiki. 
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