Tristram Marine Open 2020
The club would like to extend its thanks and appreciation to Tristram Marine and all the other tournament sponsors.
Some reasonably good fishing in our area and a weather forecast that promised plenty of fishing days was enough to entice a good number of entries to the Tristram Marine Open which ran in conjunction with the Nationals. We had 182 anglers fishing on 57 boats, an increase of about 24% on last year’s numbers.
Sol-E-Mar was off to a good start with a couple of early tagged marlin and came home strong with another tagged marlin and some impressive mahi mahi however, when vessel Fyssher tagged their fourth billfish on Friday to go with the one they’d already weighed, they were always going to be hard to beat.
Although Sol-E-Mar was unable to claim the overall points prize in the Tristram Marine Open, their mahi mahi catch was easily enough to win the Dennis Davey Trophy (Team Champion) and the Maui Jim Trophy (Interclub) in the Nationals.
See below for the overall results, congratulations to all the winners
| OPEN SECTION | |||||
| Blue Marlin | |||||
| 1st | Karl Murray | Shadow | 197.8kgs | ||
| Striped Marlin | |||||
| 1st | Jason Walden | Kilvay | 101.4kgs | ||
| Tag and Release Billfish | |||||
| 4 Billfish | Ben Sullivan | Fyssher | |||
| Steve Angus | |||||
| Tom Johanson x 2 | |||||
| 3 Billfish | Scott Evans x 2 | Sol-E-Mar | |||
| Darryl Williams | |||||
| 1 Billfish | Nicholas McEntee | Carpe Diem | |||
| Mark Franklin | PayBack | ||||
| Penny Murray | Goin’ Deep | ||||
| Paul Chapman | Basecamp | ||||
| Yellow fin Tuna | |||||
| 1st | Bryan Medcalf | Zambucca | 19.02kgs | ||
| Mahimahi | |||||
| 1st | Darryl Williams | Sol-E-Mar | 11.7kgs | ||
| 2nd | Scott Evans | Sol-E-Mar | 11.28kgs | ||
| 3rd | Jamie Carruthers | Limitless/Rifraf | 9.89kgs | ||
| Skipjack Tuna | |||||
| 1st | Louis Wright | Highline Express | 6.35kgs | ||
| 2nd | Joseph Brandt | Highline Express | 6.26kgs | ||
| 3rd | Karl Murray | Shadow | 6.03kgs | ||
| Albacore Tuna | |||||
| 1st | Amy Horscroft | Impulse | 3.22kgs | ||
| 2nd | Andrew Horscroft | Impulse | 2.61kgs | ||
| 3rd | Nathan Flowerday | Kyca Kola Zero | 2.55kgs | ||
| Kingfish | |||||
| 1st | Brook Evans | I C Red | 14.26kgs | ||
| 2nd | Jarrad Hill | Sirius | 13.26kgs | ||
| 3rd | Karl McDonald | Sirius | 12.82kgs | ||
| Snapper | |||||
| 1st | Jim Nicholson | Out A Here | 9.44kgs | ||
| 2nd | Mark Mitchell | Strike III | 9.33kgs | ||
| 3rd | Michael Nicholson | Out A Here | 8.44kgs | ||
| Kahawai | |||||
| 1st | Laurie Monrad | Shadow | 3.17kgs | ||
| 2nd | Bryn Jones | Jet Black | 2.72kgs | ||
| 3rd | Ben Hibbert | Gin Club | 2.68kgs | ||
| Trevally | |||||
| 1st | Jonathan Frankham | Salty Nuts | 2.72kgs | ||
| 2nd | Pat Galbraith | Rampant Charters | 2.51kgs | ||
| 3rd | Graeme Bee | Rampant Charters | 2.32kgs | ||
| LIGHT TACKLE SECTION (points) | |||||
| Tuna | |||||
| 1st | Mike Taylor | Infinity | 120pts | ||
| 2nd | Jonathan Frankham | Salty Nuts | 115pts | ||
| Snapper | |||||
| 1st | Jim Nicholson | Out A Here | 236pts | ||
| 2nd | Michael Nicholson | Out A Here | 211pts | ||
| Kahawai | |||||
| 1st | Michael Nicholson | Out A Here | 65pts | ||
| 2nd | Jim Nicholson | Out A Here | 61pts | ||
| Trevally | |||||
| 1st | Shane Hartstone | Basecamp | 58pts | ||
| 2nd | Geoff Smith | Rampant Charters | 55pts | ||
| ULTRA LIGHT TACKLE SECTION (points) | |||||
| Trevally | |||||
| 1st | Pat Galbraith | Rampant Charters | 126pts | ||
| 2nd | Graeme Bee | Rampant Charters | 116pts | ||
| Kahawai | |||||
| 1st | Michael Nicholson | Out A Here | 246kgs | ||
| 2nd | Jeremy Waterer | Mercy | 234pts | ||
| Snapper | |||||
| 1st | Jeremy Waterer | Mercy | 325pts | ||
| 2nd | Shane Hartstone | Basecamp | 195pts | ||
| Tuna | |||||
| 1st | Jeremy Waterer | Mercy | 223pts | ||
| 2nd | Shane Hartstone | Basecamp | 205pts | ||
| TEAM PRIZES | |||||
| Open section | |||||
| 1st | Fyssher | 2236pts | |||
| 2nd | Sol-E-Mar | 1399pts | |||
| 3rd | Basecamp | 1035pts | |||
| Light Tackle section | |||||
| 1st | Mercy | 782pts | |||
| 2nd | Basecamp | 585pts | |||
| 3rd | Out A Here | 551pts | |||
