The tour then moved onto Teemburra
Dam for Round 2.
Just about all the anglers said
Teemburra was a tougher bite than
Kinchant, and so it proved with the
final fish weights being significantly
lower than the weights at Kinchant.
This didn’t mean big barra weren’t
caught by the anglers as the biggest
fish of the round was a 126cm
behemoth, just that the average fish
were significantly smaller.
event with this event requiring
anglers to back up in the second
session to secure their fish. After
the first session Team Venom was
in the lead and being chased hard by
the other teams, but a tougher bite
in the second session saw the team
drop down to sixth overall.
Our boys worked hard for few results
with missed opportunities and some
game plans thrown out the window
because of the slow bite.
All our teams chopped and changed
their lures and locations and
were generally not very settled as
Teemburra proved a fickle mistress
and its barra proved tough to tame.
After Teemburra, the teams were
all looking forward to locking horns
with the barra at Peter Faust, with
the final two rounds to decide the
eventual champions.
Round 3 was the Peter Faust 2-day
10
The bright note for the event was
Dicko taking out the Big Barra
prize with a 119cm barra caught on
a Zerek 110mm Fish Trap in baby
barra colour (black and white). The
lure was fished on the newly released
Bone Voyage spin rod (4-piece
BVS704XH) matched to the ATC
Vigour 5000 reel spooled with 30lb
Zerek Hy-Braid topped with 40lb
Wilson fluorocarbon leader. The lure
was attached with a loop knot and
the Fish Trap was fished vertically
in 20ft of water to treetops on the
windward side of the lake.
And with the penultimate event out of
the way, the final round drew closer
– the Peter Faust All Night Event!