Manning Point Fishing Classic Blog

After a big night at the bowlo, day two kicks off quietly and late.
Teams Green and Blue both land a few flatties. Team Red gets one too.
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Captain Bluering and Mangrove are excited about meeting Big Mal Coad....

Fishing Phil spills beers just before raffle time at the bowlo. Is ashamed.
Tickets should be lucky.
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All teams successfully arrived . Mangrove hooks many, drops many.
barnacle hooks octopus.
Captain Bluering takes the day with a nice flattie.

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Fishing phil kicks off the opening ceremony....

With ElNino over and wild storms predicted for the 2007 classic Barnacle has been practising his storm fishing technique.  The attached photo shows Barnacle's limpet technique aboard the Selkirk Settler.  Captain Sinkem, who took the photo, was heard to say before going under for the third time "The man's unshakeable!"

Barnacle

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On Christmas Eve when all was quite, nothing was stirring,l not even a mouse. Except for Ganghook Gibbo and Fishing Phil who stirred up some excitment off Newcastle in practice for the acclaimed Manning Point Fishing Classic. Local papparizzi snapped this photo of Fishing Phil with a 3.25 kg Mangrove Jack.

 

Fishing Phil

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It appears that Manning Point Fishing Classic co-coordinator extraordinaire Marcus Copperi has been searching the world over to select the best caterers for next years Classic. There were rumours abound of Rick Stein, Gordon (Fu^%$%kin' ) Ramsey, Jamie Oliver and even the revered BBQ Bill. But as these photographs illustrate, it seems that Marcus is ...

Mangrove Mike, Fishin Phil, Big Jig Geoff, Barnacle Barry and a few interested supporters had a great days fishing off an undisclosed port south of Manning Point.
They all mostly got among the fish, the photo below shows Mangrove with a nice Aussie Salmon. Fishing Phil hooked quite a few, Big Jig and crew caught some similar fish (obviously
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Despite warnings from the 'Poissons et Boissons Extreme' ruling body, young fishermen are already warming up for the 2019 Manning Point Fishing Classic.

Worry about 'burn-out' by the junior anglers has always been a concern, especially after the incident with a cod and the future King of Denmark.(details suppressed. ed)

However,

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