Australian Record Sailfish Tagged and Released

Kylie Piddick's Australian record sailfish

While fishing the 2009 Airnorth Ladies Fishing Tournament aboard Serenity, Team “Serenity’s Sirens of the Sea” – Kylee Piddick, Trish Van Bergen and Tracy Groom, sponsored by Gove Tidy Bags, were disheartened after the first day with not being able to find a billfish let alone tag one for points in the tightly contest tournament. However, the second day proved to be a completely different affair.

The day’s fishing began at 7.00am with a screaming fan belt rather than a screaming fishing reel, and with Serenity only being able to travel at 4 knots, the crew decided to throw a couple of mackerel lures out while the skipper searched for calmer waters behind Little Bromby Islet and carry out motor repairs.

2009 Airnorth Ladies Fishing Classic

The 2009 Airnorth Ladies Fishing Classic was held last weekend in near perfect conditions with many outstanding and impressive results achieved. Officially, 35 teams entered this years event with many embracing the festivities with fantastic team costumes and clever if not daring team names.

All fishing categories were contested with anglers competing in the Game Fishing (line class), Reef Fishing, Estuary Fishing and Land Based Fishing sections. Fishing over 2 days, last Saturday and Sunday, teams travelled to many of the popular fishing grounds off the East Arnhem Region coastline, resulting in the largest ever haul on record at the end of day weigh stations. 5 tagged Billfish were amongst the weekends great fishing effort by the girls and the overall mixed bag of fish would be the envoy of any recreational angler.

Thank You

Congratulations to all the anglers and the event winners of the 2009 Airnorth Ladies Fishing Classic.

All participants and the members of the NRSFC would like to sincerely acknowledge and thank event sponsors Airnorth, AFANT, Foster’s Group, Guys of Gove, Maui Jim,

Gove Tackle & Outdoor and the Walkabout Lodge.

The AFANT Ladies Fishing Clinic

Ladies Briefing

The AFANT Ladies Fishing Clinic was held last weekend and despite the wet weather, the afternoon at the Walkabout Lodge last Sunday was very well attended. Over 100 ladies turned out for the afternoon and participated in practical skill sessions included casting with 3 different rod and reel combinations, lessons on several terminal tackle knots for various fishing styles and tackle advise on what , how and when to rig up lines to catch the big ones this weekend. Many teams previewed their fancy dress costumes prior to this weekend’s event, and it was clear that Gove is in for another big weekend. PS watch out for pirate ships on the high seas and party boats at anchor this weekend !!!!!