Month: November 2006

Place	Angler	Teemburra	Faust	Tinaroo	Awoonga NC	Awoonga	Monduran	Total	Best 4
1	Kerrin Taylor	82	100	100	79	99	80	540	381
2	Cy Taylor	82	99	99	86	89	82	537	373
3	Scott McAuley	97	93	82	80	100	61	513	372
4	Matt Coleman	82	97		48	72	97	396	348
5	Trevor Burgess	93	76		73	79	95	416	343
6	Danny Anderson		76	93	84	87		340	340
7	Jason Wilhelm	96	91		91	59		337	337
8	Gavin Dunne	100			48	36	61	245	245

Team	Teemburra	Faust	Tinaroo	Awoonga NC	Awoonga	Monduran	Total	Best 4
Millerods/Shimano	86	100	100	94	99	89	568	393
Mundi	98	93		96	85	91	463	378
Fatman and Ribbon			84	97	96	82	359	359
Squidgy	97	94		89	79		359	359
Ando’s Sportsfishers		81	95	88	88		352	352
Team Ecogear	100			85	73	71	329	329

Lake Monduran, the vast body of water scattered with timber, just North of Bundaberg, was the final venue for the 2006 Daiwa BARRA Tour.
Lake Monduran, the vast body of water scattered with timber, just North of Bundaberg, was the final venue for the 2006 Daiwa BARRA Tour.

And it was the newly crowned ‘Barra Vampire’, in John Schofield that took out the Champion Angler Title with 6/10, 548cm. With the assistance of his partner in crime ‘Lord’ Peter Morgan scoring a couple of fish himself on Day 2, the pair was also successful in taking out the Champion Team Title for Nitro Tournament Rods.

Schofield fished the creek, adjacent to the dam wall, opposite the concrete boat ramp, targeting areas tight on the bank with a lot of brush timber. His hotspot for the weekend was a shelf, off a point in 10-12 feet of water that went for approximately 30-40 yards.

Equipped with a Nitro Extreme Tournament Barra Rod matched to a Shimano Chronarch spooled with 50pd Scientific Angler ultra thin fly line backing and finished with a length of twisted 80pd Black Magic leader. Schofield worked various Jonesy’s lures in the Nifty and Rhino range, finding the Rhino’s acquainting for more fish as they are a deeper diving lure. The colours of choice being brown and white and grey and white.

“I would give the lure 10 winds to get it down, then general twitches punctuated with pauses. Finding the fish would hit on the pause” he explained.

Second place went to Les Reibelt with 6/10, 490cm, Third (Steve Kanowski, 5/10, 411cm), Fourth (Matt Coleman, 4/10, 295cm) and Fifth (Stephen Cheng, 3/10, 240cm).

Reibelt, a Process Operator from Beerwah has been fishing Monduran for three years. He used an Egrell B58 rod matched to a Daiwa CVZ 203 reel spooled with 60pd Fins braid and 150pd doubled Penn Power Pro braid as leader. Using the same Arafura barra lure for the whole weekend was the key to Reibelt’s success.

“It was more a confidence thing”, he explained. “At one stage, a barra snapped the 60pd braid and stole the lure. Then I found it rising to the surface. I replaced the back treble, put on two split rings, and continued to catch fish on it” he said.

The Go-So Big Barra and Berkley Bonus went to John Schwerin with a 114cm horse caught on day 2 on a Big B52 lure.

“It didn’t fight much. It went for a run then I got it next to the boat; the young fella was holding the net up in the air expecting the barra to jump in! We eventually netted it and it sorted the men out from the boys” he joked.

A $200 stocking donation was made to M.A.S.A for the continued stocking of barramundi into Lake Monduran. Over the weekend 60 fish were photographed and released at an average size of 81.86cm.

With the final event now completed, the Southern and Overall Barra AOY winners were announced. Jason Medcalf narrowly beat his partner Nigel Webster for the Individual Southern Angler of the Year Title with the guys taking out the Southern Team Championship for Team Halco/Berkley. With the Northern AOY already under his belt, the young Barra gun in Kerrin Taylor narrowly beat his twin brother Cy by one point for the Overall Daiwa BARRA Tour AOY Champion. The boys also taking out the Overall Team AOY Trophy for team Millerods-Shimano.

With the suspense now building for that trip of a lifetime aboard the Eclipse Charter boat in Weipa, all entries into the Daiwa BARRA tour were shuffled. To his disbelief it was Gary Leather that had his named drawn out and is now still coming down to earth with the good fortune that has bestowed him.

From the staff at ABT we would like to thank all anglers, sponsors and people involved with the venues for making the 2006 Daiwa BARRA tour a most memorable adventure and look forward to catching up with everyone at another ABT Tournament in the near future.

Place	Team	Angler	F1	L1	F2	L2	TF	TL
1	Nitro Tournament Rods	John Schofield	3	267	3	281	6	548
2	McBarra	Les Reibelt	1	106	5	384	6	490
3	Team Tennessee	Steve Kanowski			5	411	5	411
4	The Assassins	Matt Coleman	2	158	2	137	4	295
5	Tropic Angler	Stephen Cheng	3	240			3	240
6	Mundi	Trevor Burgess			3	231	3	231
7	Team Berkley	Jason Medcalf			2	194	2	194
8	Far Kens	Ken Best	2	116	1	74	3	190
9	QFM	Dave Robinson	2	184			2	184
10	Nitro Tournament Rods	Pete Morgan			2	178	2	178
11	QFM	Steve Morgan			2	174	2	174
12	Tackle World Bundaberg	Gary Leather	1	87	1	87	2	174
13	Tackle World Bundaberg	Chris Galligan	2	173			2	173
14	Slick Rigs	Tony Zantiotas	1	88	1	72	2	160
15	The Assassins	Aaron Mogg	1	88	1	69	2	157
16	FCM	John Schwerin			1	114	1	114
17	Team Berkley	Nigel Webster	1	90			1	90
18	The Tackle Warehouse	Gordon McDonald			1	86	1	86
19	Millerods-Shimano	Cy Taylor			1	84	1	84
20	Bundy Barra Bandits	Les Barber			1	74	1	74
21	Millerods-Shimano	Kerrin Taylor	1	73			1	73
22	G.Loomis	Josh Batterson			1	72	1	72
23	Evakool-Squidgies	Matthew Mott	1	69			1	69
24	Team Tassie	Meg Estreich			1	69	1	69
25	Far Kens	Ken Berry	1	68			1	68
26	Fatman & Ribbon	Scott Bromley			1	68	1	68
27	G.Loomis	Mike Connolly	1	67			1	67
28	Bundy Barra Bandits	Shane Anderson			1	66	1	66
29	Lethal Leaders	Doug Kampf			1	66	1	66
30	Evakool-Squidgies	Kerry Symes	1	47			1	47
31	Amen Brother	Andrew Duffy					0	0
31	Amen Brother	Daniel Buckley					0	0
31	Ecogear	David Young					0	0
31	Ecogear	Gavin Dunne					0	0
31	Fatman & Ribbon	Scott McAuley					0	0
31	FCM	Jake Schwerin					0	0
31	Gudgeon	Alf Gudgeon					0	0
31	Gudgeon	Ben Gudgeon					0	0
31	Jet One	Neil Campbell					0	0
31	Jet One	Trevor Cassidy					0	0
31	Lethal Leaders	Adrian Kampf					0	0
31	McBarra	Tania Reibelt					0	0
31	Mundi	Greg Wipp					0	0
31	Pop Guns	Brendan Jones					0	0
31	Pop Guns	Jesse Buckley					0	0
31	Slick Rigs	Craig Simmons					0	0
31	Team Tassie	Chris Estreich					0	0
31	Team Tennessee	John Brider					0	0
31	The Tackle Warehouse	Ben Currell					0	0
31	Tin of Gold	Justin Fisher					0	0
31	Tin of Gold	Trevor Nye					0	0
31	Tropic Angler	Paul Probert					0	0
			24	1921	37	2991	61	4912
			Avg	80.04166667	Avg	80.83783784	Avg	80.52459016

Place	Team	TF	TL
1	Nitro Tournament Rods	8	726
2	McBarra	6	490
3	The Assassins	6	452
4	Team Tennessee	5	411
5	QFM	4	358
6	Tackle World Bundaberg	4	347
7	Team Berkley	3	284
8	Far Kens	4	258
9	Tropic Angler	3	240
10	Mundi	3	231
11	Slick Rigs	2	160
12	Millerods-Shimano	2	157
13	Bundy Barra Bandits	2	140
14	G.Loomis	2	139
15	Evakool-Squidgies	2	116
16	FCM	1	114
17	The Tackle Warehouse	1	86
18	Team Tassie	1	69
19	Fatman & Ribbon	1	68
20	Lethal Leaders	1	66
21	Amen Brother	0	0
22	Ecogear	0	0
23	Gudgeon	0	0
24	Jet One	0	0
25	Pop Guns	0	0
26	Tin of Gold	0	0

Final Southern AOY Points

Place	Angler	Teemburra	Faust	Tinaroo	Awoonga NC	Awoonga	Monduran	Total	Sth
1	Jason Medcalf				92	92	94	278	278
2	Nigel Webster				98	94	84	276	276
3	Steve Morgan				93	85	90	268	268
4	Kerry Symes				95	96	71	262	262
5	Kerrin Taylor	82	100	100	79	99	80	540	258
5	Matthew Mott				96	84	78	258	258
7	Cy Taylor	82	99	99	86	89	82	537	257
8	John Schwerin				90	77	85	252	252
9	Steve Kanowski				78	74	98	250	250
10	Trevor Burgess	93	76		73	79	95	416	247
11	Scott McAuley	97	93	82	80	100	61	513	241
11	Ken Best				68	80	93	241	241
13	Dave Robinson				69	78	92	239	239
14	Pete Morgan				71	75	91	237	237
15	Tony Zantiotas				89	50	87	226	226
16	Matt Coleman	82	97		48	72	97	396	217
17	Craig Simmons				72	83	61	216	216
17	Jake Schwerin				100	55	61	216	216
17	John Schofield				48	68	100	216	216
20	Josh Batterson				64	69	79	212	212
21	Aaron Mogg				48	76	86	210	210
22	Mike Connolly				48	86	74	208	208
23	Gary Leather				70	47	90	207	207
24	David Young				87	57	61	205	205
25	Trevor Cassidy				48	90	61	199	199
26	Simon Barkhuizen				94	98		192	192
27	Daniel Buckley				48	82	61	191	191
28	Ken Berry				48	60	76	184	184
29	Jason Bird				85	95		180	180
30	Glyn Barkhuizen				82	93		175	175
31	Peter Price		92		83	91		266	174
31	Justin Fisher				48	65	61	174	174
33	Danny Anderson		76	93	84	87		340	171
34	Neil Campbell				48	50	61	159	159
34	Brad O’Sullivan				97	62		159	159
36	Adrian Lindsay				76	81		157	157
37	Jason Wilhelm	96	91		91	59		337	150
38	David Hodge				59	88		147	147
39	Gavin Dunne	100			48	36	61	245	145
39	Brendan Jones				48	36	61	145	145
39	Jesse Buckley				48	36	61	145	145
39	John Bridar				48	36	61	145	145
43	Scott Bromley					61	76	137	137
44	Chris Galligan				48		88	136	136
45	Stephen Brodie				81	53		134	134
46	Andrew Orley				61	67		128	128
47	Alf Gudgeon				64		61	125	125
48	Adam Meredith				64	58		122	122
48	Tim Carter				58	64		122	122
50	Colin Slade		76		68	52		196	120
51	Garry Fitzgerald				48	71		119	119
52	Justin Nye				48	70		118	118
53	Dale Sinclair				65	51		116	116
54	Steve Starling				48	66		114	114
55	Rod Sealy				77	36		113	113
56	Trent Brown				74	36		110	110
57	Ben Gudgeon				48		61	109	109
58	Rod Watt				68	36		104	104
59	Les Reibelt						99	99	99
59	Ben Platten				99			99	99
61	Andrew Duffy					36	61	97	97
61	Harry Watson					97		97	97
63	Arthur Lovern		89		60	36		185	96
63	Stephen Cheng						96	96	96
65	Corey Tarr				48	46		94	94
66	Karl Rembacher				88			88	88
67	Mark Daley				48	36		84	84
68	Gordon McDonald						83	83	83
69	Les Barber						81	81	81
70	Meg Estreich						78	78	78
71	Darren Pegg				76			76	76
72	Doug Kamph						73	73	73
72	Shane Anderson						73	73	73
72	Trent Short					73		73	73
75	Gabrielle McAuley					63		63	63
76	Adrian Kamph						61	61	61
76	Ben Currell						61	61	61
76	Chris Estreich						61	61	61
76	Greg Wipp						61	61	61
76	Paul Probert						61	61	61
76	Tania Reibelt						61	61	61
76	Trevor Nye						61	61	61
83	Ken Leisemann					57		57	57
84	Dean Davis					54		54	54
85	Barb Bromley					50		50	50
86	Andrew Rooney				48			48	48
86	Anthony Pegg				48			48	48
86	Frank Ohl				48			48	48
86	Gary Wode				48			48	48
86	Jason Sizeland				48			48	48
86	Julian Gascoine				48			48	48
86	Lee Hutchinson				48			48	48
86	Mick Shore				48			48	48
86	Peter Gray				48			48	48

Place	Team	Teemburra	Faust	Tinaroo	Awoonga NC	Awoonga	Monduran	Total	Sth
1	Team Halco-Berkley				98	98	94	290	290
2	Evacool-Squidgies				100	97	86	283	283
3	Millerods/Shimano	86	100	100	94	99	89	568	282
4	QFM-Evinrude				92	93	96	281	281
5	Fatman and Ribbon			84	97	96	82	359	275
6	Mundi	98	93		96	85	91	463	272
7	Slick Rigs				93	86	90	269	269
8	FCM				99	81	85	265	265
9	Nitro Tournament Rods				79	83	100	262	262
10	Far Kens				76	87	93	256	256
10	Team Tennessee				84	75	97	256	256
12	G.Loomis-Siglon				73	92	87	252	252
13	The Tackle Warehouse				83	78	84	245	245
14	The Assassins				62	84	98	244	244
15	Team Ecogear	100			85	73	71	329	229
16	Jet One				62	89	71	222	222
17	Tin of Gold				62	82	71	215	215
18	Charltons				95	100		195	195
19	Spotters Sunglasses				91	95		186	186
20	Ando’s Sportsfishers		81	95	88	88		352	176
20	One of These Days		96		86	90		272	176
22	Tackle World Bundaberg				78		95	173	173
22	Team Halco				82	91		173	173
24	Squidgy	97	94		89	79		359	168
25	Just Hafta Fish				90	72		162	162
26	Amen Brother					80	71	151	151
26	Sweetwater Fishing				74	77		151	151
28	Logan River Marine				76	71		147	147
29	Gudgeon				73		71	144	144
30	Team Hellfish				80	61		141	141
31	Pop Guns					61	71	1	132
32	McBarra						99	99	99
33	Jackall					94		94	94
34	Tropic Angler						92	92	92
35	Bundy Barra Bandits						88	88	88
36	Torment				87			87	87
37	Team Tassie						83	83	83
38	Lethal Leaders						81	81	81
38	Heavy Equipment Maintenance				81			81	81
40	Vindaloo				77			77	77
41	Broms					76		76	76
42	Team Rovex					75		75	75
43	2 Blokes in a Tinnie				62			62	62
44	All Torque				62			62	62
44	Brother in Arms				62			62	62
44	Scales & Skin				62			62	62

Lake Awoonga lived up to its name of being one of Australia’s premier impoundment barramundi fisheries for the two days of the Halco Evening BARRA Event with further records broken.
Lake Awoonga lived up to its name of being one of Australia’s premier impoundment barramundi fisheries for the two days of the Halco Evening BARRA Event with further records broken.

The Champion Angler Title was claimed by local veterinarian Scott McAuley with a new record 9/10, 856cm limit. Second was consistent performer Kerrin Taylor (8/10, 773cm) while Simon Barkhuizen (7/10, 706cm), Harry Watson (7/10, 643cm) and Kerry Symes, 8/10, 641cm completed the top five places.

The Champion Team Title went to the Barkhuizen brothers fishing for Team Charltons with 14/20 fish for 1238cm.

McAuley used a variety of arsenal to land his fish. For flicking Squidgy soft plastics he uses a G.Loomis 7ft GLX matched to a Daiwa HRF reel for long casting. For his timber work he uses a G.Loomis 756 matched to a Daiwa Blue Backer reel with 50 pound Jigman braid. Finally for taming those large impoundment barra he uses a 50 pound Live Fibre rod matched to a Daiwa Black Sheep reel and 30 pound twisted leaders.

Fishing the timber in the Ivoreagh arm McAuley chose to throw RMG Scorpions with sticky lead attached between the trees where he would wind them down then stop and pause, twitching the lure occasionally.

Catching four fish there on the first day he chose to return on the second day to find that the water temperature had dropped and there were no active fish. Deciding to move he checked Bath Tub Bay but continued to Tree bay with a few boats already working this area.

With the wind making conditions a little rougher McAuley moved once again to Riverstone Creek where he found bait jumping in the warmer water.

After having his favourite RMG Scorpion destroyed by a large fish, he swapped to a 14cm Rapala X-Rap on the heavy outfit.

“I basically poled the next seven fish in the boat over the hour, including the 108cm fish at 9.30pm” he said. “I then decided to leave them biting to get back in time” he continued.

Kerrin Taylor the Northern Tour BARRA Angler of the Year once again proved the goods with a second place finish. Working the Ian Miller Camofish Barra rods and Shimano Digital Calais reels he choose to upgrade to 50 pound Rapala Beast Master braid and 60 pound coated wire for this event.

The Millerods/Shimano team scored their 10/10 fish on the first day by sounding a steep weed edge where they anchored and cast their famous modified Squidgy Slick Rigs to the weed face.

Returning to the same spot on the second day only returned one fish before they decided to move to the weed points of the main basin. Here the Taylors found roaming barra on the sounder in 4 metres of water.

Kerrin explained, “We would gets hits for 10 minutes then have a 20 minute period of nothing before the fish returned again.”

The Go-So Big Barra prize was awarded to Mike Connolly for a 119cm fish caught on a 100mm Squidgy Slick Rig in black/gold colour. Mike explained that he likes to use them straight out of the pack fishing weed flats in 4-6 feet of water.

“I was ripping them through the weeds then letting them drop, where the barramundi would inhale them and result in good hookups” he said.

A new record 198 barramundi were caught, photographed and released, with the average size just over 80cm for the two days.

The final event moves to Lake Monduran for the Berkley Morning BARRA Event where the AOY points will be finalised.

If you would like to join in the fun for either the remainder of the 2006 Daiwa BARRA Tour or want to start planning for next year, check out all the info at www.australianbarra.com.au.

Place	Team	Angler	F1	L1	F2	L2	TF	TL
1	Fatman & Ribbon	Scott McAuley	4	386	5	470	9	856
2	Millerods-Shimano	Kerrin Taylor	5	496	3	277	8	773
3	Charltons	Simon Barkhuizan	3	295	4	411	7	706
4	Jackall	Harry Watson	2	178	5	465	7	643
5	Evakool-Squidgies	Kerry Symes	3	238	5	403	8	641
6	Spotters Sunglasses	Jason Bird	5	504	1	76	6	580
7	Team Halco 2	Nigel Webster	1	106	5	452	6	558
8	Charltons	Glyn Barkhuizen	3	219	4	313	7	532
9	Team Halco 2	Jason Medcalf	2	198	4	320	6	518
10	One of Those Days	Peter Price	3	220	3	294	6	514
11	Jet One	Trevor Cassidy	4	260	3	216	7	476
12	Millerods-Shimano	Cy Taylor	5	453			5	453
13	Team Halco	David Hodge	3	225	3	215	6	440
14	Ando Sportfish	Danny Anderson	3	241	2	190	5	431
15	G.Loomis	Mike Connolly	5	430			5	430
16	QFM	Steve Morgan	1	75	5	346	6	421
17	Evakool-Squidgies	Matthew Mott	5	337	1	74	6	411
18	Slick Rigs	Craig Simmons	2	169	3	224	5	393
19	Amen Brother	Daniel Buckley	5	323	1	63	6	386
20	Spotters Sunglasses	Adrian Lindsay	2	172	2	175	4	347
21	Far Kens	Ken Best	1	109	3	237	4	346
22	Mundi	Trevor Burgess	3	256	1	44	4	300
23	QFM	Dave Robinson	1	46	3	224	4	270
24	FCM	John Schwerin	2	145	1	100	3	245
25	The Assassins	Aaron Mogg			3	243	3	243
26	Nitro Tournament Rods	Pete Morgan	3	242			3	242
27	Team Tennessee	Steve Kanowski	2	211	5		7	211
28	Jackall	Trent Short			2	210	2	210
29	The Assassins	Matt Coleman	2	138	1	62	3	200
30	Sweetwater Fishing	Garry Fitzgerald	1	111	1	80	2	191
31	Tin of Gold	Justin Nye	2	189			2	189
32	G.Loomis	Josh Batterson	1	81	1	105	2	186
33	Nitro Tournament Rods	John Schofield			2	185	2	185
34	The Tackle Warehouse	Andrew Orley	1	99	1	82	2	181
35	Squidgy-Lowrance	Steve Starling			2	175	2	175
36	Tin of Gold	Justin Fisher	2	168			2	168
37	Team Halco	Tim Carter	2	167			2	167
38	Fatman & Ribbon	Gabrielle McAuley			2	162	2	162
39	Mundi	Brad O’Sullivan	2	161			2	161
40	Broms	Scott Bromley			2	155	2	155
41	Far Kens	Ken Berry	1	76	1	77	2	153
42	Squidgy-Lowrance	Jason Wilhelm	2	148			2	148
43	The Tackle Warehouse	Adam Meredith	1	114			1	114
44	Ecogear	David Young	1	110			1	110
45	Team Rovex	Ken Leisemann	1	110			1	110
46	FCM	Jake Schwerin			1	103	1	103
47	One of these days	Dean Davis			1	82	1	82
48	Just Hafta Fish	Stephen Brodie			1	81	1	81
49	Ando Sportfish	Colin Slade	1	80			1	80
50	Sweetwater Fishing	Dale Sinclair	1	73			1	73
51	Slick Rigs	Tony Zantiotas	1	72			1	72
52	Jet One	Neil Campbell	1	72			1	72
53	Broms	Barb Bromley			1	72	1	72
54	Team Rovex	Gary Leather			1	70	1	70
55	Logan River Marine	Corey Tarr			1	67	1	67
56	Team Tennessee	John Brider			1		1	0
56	Logan River Marine	Rod Watt					0	0
56	One of Those Days	Arthur Lovern					0	0
56	Team Hellfish	Trent Brown					0	0
56	Team Hellfish	Mark Daley					0	0
56	Ecogear	Gavin Dunne					0	0
56	Just Hafta Fish	Rod Sealy					0	0
63	Pop Guns	Brendan Jones		-20			0	-20
63	Pop Guns	Jesse Buckley		-20			0	-20
65	Amen Brother	Andrew Duffy		-40			0	-40
			101	8423	97	7600	198	16023
			Avg	83.3960396	Avg	78.35051546	Avg	80.92424242

Place	Team	TF	TL
1	Charltons	14	1238
2	Millerods-Shimano	13	1226
3	Team Halco 2	12	1076
4	Evakool-Squidgies	14	1052
5	Fatman & Ribbon	11	1018
6	Spotters Sunglasses	10	927
7	Jackall	9	853
8	QFM	10	691
9	G.Loomis	7	616
10	Team Halco	8	607
11	One of these days	7	596
12	Jet One	8	548
13	Ando Sportfish	6	511
14	Far Kens	6	499
15	Slick Rigs	6	465
16	Mundi	6	461
17	The Assassins	6	443
18	Nitro Tournament Rods	5	427
19	Tin of Gold	4	357
20	FCM	4	348
21	Amen Brother	6	346
22	Squidgy-Lowrance	4	323
23	The Tackle Warehouse	3	295
24	Sweetwater Fishing	3	264
25	Broms	3	227
26	Team Tennessee	2	211
27	Team Rovex	2	180
28	Ecogear	1	110
29	Just Hafta Fish	1	81
30	Logan River Marine	1	67
31	Team Hellfish	0	0
32	Pop Guns	0	-40

It was perfect conditions for a record breaking weekend at Lake Awoonga for the first Event of the Daiwa BARRA Tour Southern Leg.
It was perfect conditions for a record breaking weekend at Lake Awoonga for the first Event of the Daiwa BARRA Tour Southern Leg.

A record field of 72 anglers gathered for the Ecogear Night Championship Event and 15 year old Jake Schwerin showed exactly how to do it. Blitzing the record Go-So Big Barra landing a 125cm brute and a new record 5 fish bag of 514cm.

The Toowoomba Grammar student has taken a week off to fish the Tour with his father in team FCM. Fishing Futter Creek, Schwerin landed 14 barramundi in the boat throughout the night. For his efforts, he takes home $1000, a Millerods Camofish Barra Boof Stik, Shimano Cruxis reel and various other prizes.

Followed in second place winning $500, a Daiwa Team Advantage rod, Daiwa Millionaire SW203 reel and TD sensor braid was Ben Platten with 5/5, 485cm. Third (Nigel Webster, 5/5, 459cm), fourth (Brad O’Sullivan, 5/5, 455cm), fifth (Matthew Mott, 5/5, 423cm) taking out the remaining places winning cash and prizes including Angler DCX and Ian Miller Raider Barra Mauler rods.

With the previous ABT Big Barra record mark set at 118cm, Schwerin caught 2 fish of 120cm and 125cm on slow rolled Squidgy Slick Rigs.

His father John, as proud as punch commented, “Getting those two big ones was unbelievable! The biggest I’ve seen! It blew me out of the boat! Magic!”

“I tried to follow the contour of the weed whilst slow rolling the lure” Jake explained.

His rod of choice was a G.Loomis GL3 matched to a Daiwa CVZ spooled with 50pd Whiplash braid and 80pd Penn 10X leader. Tying a double in the braid to a single length of leader attached to a 130mm Slick Rig with a Gamakatsu stinger hook.

Second placed and local Tackle World Gladstone worker Ben Platten used a hard body approach to score his 5 fish. Catching two fish early in the timber of the Ivoreagh arm on a Rapala Barra Magnum, he later changed to shallower suspending baits such as the Rapala X-Rap and Owner Rippin Minnow for fishing at night in the weedbeds in the main basin.

The Champion Team went to Evakool-Squidgies with Matthew Mott and Kerry Symes scoring the only 10 fish limit for a total length of 830cm.

A record 105 barramundi were caught and released during the Ecogear Night Championship with an average of 81.95cm per fish.

With all anglers getting a much needed sleep, the next event is the Halco Lake Awoonga Evening Event commencing 3pm Monday November 6.

If you would like to join in the fun for either the remainder of the 2006 Daiwa BARRA Tour or want to start planning for next year, check out all the info at www.australianbarra.com.au.

Place	Team	Angler	F1	L1
1	FCM	Jake Schwerin	5	514
2	Fatman and Ribbon	Ben Platten	5	485
3	Team Halco 2	Nigel Webster	5	459
4	Mundi	Brad O’Sullivan	5	455
5	Evacool-Squidgies	Matthew Mott	5	423
6	Evacool-Squidgies	Kerry Symes	5	407
7	Charltons	Simon Barkhuizen	5	372
8	QFM-Evinrude	Steve Morgan	5	359
9	Team Halco 2	Jason Medcalf	4	330
10	Squidgy-Lowrance	Jason Wilhelm	4	309
11	FCM	John Schwerin	4	295
12	Slick Rigs	Tony Zantiotas	4	269
13	Torment	Karl Rembacher	3	265
14	Team Ecogear	David Young	4	237
15	Millerods-Shimano	Cy Taylor	3	235
16	Spotters Sunglasses	Jason Bird	2	205
17	Ando Sportfish	Danny Anderson	2	194
18	One of These Days	Peter Price	2	184
19	Charltons	Glyn Barkhuizen	2	168
20	Just Hafta Fish	Stephen Brodie	2	165
21	Fatman and Ribbon	Scott McAuley	2	163
22	Millerods-Shimano	Kerrin Taylor	2	162
23	Team Tennessee	Steve Kanowski	2	158
24	Just Hafta Fish	Rod Sealy	2	148
25	Heavy Equipment Maintenance	Darren Pegg	2	114
26	Spotters Sunglasses	Adrian Lindsay	1	114
27	Team Hellfish	Trent Brown	1	112
28	Mundi	Trevor Burgess	1	110
29	Slick Rigs	Craig Simmons	2	109
30	Nitro Tournament Rods	Pete Morgan	1	100
31	Tackle World Bundaberg	Gary Leather	1	99
32	Vindaloo	Dave Robinson	1	81
33	Logan River Marine	Rod Watt	1	80
34	Far Kens	Ken Best	1	80
35	Ando Sportfish	Colin Slade	1	80
36	Sweetwater Fishing	Dale Sinclair	1	78
37	The Tackle Warehouse	Adam Meredith	1	75
38	G.Loomis-Siglon	Josh Batterson	1	75
39	Gudgeon	Alf Gudgeon	1	75
40	The Tackle Warehouse	Andrew Orley	1	73
41	One of These Days	Arthur Lovern	1	70
42	Team Halco	David Hodge	1	66
43	Team Halco	Tim Carter	1	53
44	Logan River Marine	Corey Tarr
44	QFM-Evinrude	Julian Gascoine
44	Heavy Equipment Maintenance	Anthony Pegg
44	Far Kens	Ken Berry
44	The Assassins	Aaron Mogg
44	The Assassins	Matt Coleman
44	2 Blokes in a Tinnie	Lee Hutchinson
44	2 Blokes in a Tinnie	Mick Shore
44	Team Hellfish	Mark Daley
44	Nitro Tournament Rods	John Schofield
44	Team Ecogear	Gavin Dunne
44	All Torque	Frank Ohl
44	All Torque	Peter Gray
44	Torment	Jason Sizeland
44	G.Loomis-Siglon	Mike Connolly
44	Vindaloo	Brendan Jones
44	Brother in Arms	Jesse Buckley
44	Brother in Arms	Daniel Buckley
44	Squidgy-Lowrance	Steve Starling
44	Team Tennessee	John Bridar
44	Jet One	Trevor Cassidy
44	Jet One	Neil Campbell
44	Tackle World Bundaberg	Chris Galligan
44	Tin of Gold	Justin Fisher
44	Tin of Gold	Justin Nye
44	Gudgeon	Ben Gudgeon
44	Scales & Skin	Gary Wode
44	Scales & Skin	Andrew Rooney
44	Sweetwater Fishing	Garry Fitzgerald
			105	8605
			Avg	81.95238095

Place	Team	TF	TL
1	Evacool-Squidgies	10	830
2	FCM	9	809
3	Team Halco 2	9	789
4	Fatman and Ribbon	7	648
5	Mundi	6	565
6	Charltons	7	540
7	Millerods-Shimano	5	397
8	Slick Rigs	6	378
9	QFM-Evinrude	5	359
10	Spotters Sunglasses	3	319
11	Just Hafta Fish	4	313
12	Squidgy-Lowrance	4	309
13	Ando Sportfish	3	274
14	Torment	3	265
15	One of These Days	3	254
16	Team Ecogear	4	237
17	Team Tennessee	2	158
18	The Tackle Warehouse	2	148
19	Team Halco	2	119
20	Heavy Equipment Maintenance	2	114
21	Team Hellfish	1	112
22	Nitro Tournament Rods	1	100
23	Tackle World Bundaberg	1	99
24	Vindaloo	1	81
25	Logan River Marine	1	80
26	Far Kens	1	80
27	Sweetwater Fishing	1	78
28	G.Loomis-Siglon	1	75
29	Gudgeon	1	75
30	The Assassins		0
30	2 Blokes in a Tinnie		0
30	All Torque		0
30	Brother in Arms		0
30	Jet One		0
30	Tin of Gold		0
30	Scales & Skin		0