After three months of sledging and talking ourselves up, the time came to portray our finely tuned 4wding, fishing, crabbing and camping skills. It took the boys two and a half hours in the 4wd and 1hr and 50minutes in the fully loaded tinnies to reach ‘Aynel Cove’ camp. The trip started woefully with Ryan Jamieson forgetting the tent. This meant ‘B’, ‘Jemo’ and ‘Jimbo’ slept on the ground with the forecast of torrential rain. Team Square Hooks [Kirk and Cronin] decided to spread out and slept comfortably in their boutique tent facility.
With the camp fully set up at ‘Aynel Cove’, the boys decided to drive up to ‘Aynel Point’ in the tinnies for a look only to find a group of naked men walking the bank. Although ‘B’ said he was tempted to ‘knock the back out of one’ we convinced him to have a fish instead. Team ‘Longrod ‘ [been to Pancake Creek numerous times] took out day one honours with a few travelly, cod and an impressive 600mm Coral Trout caught on lure. Hands down this is the highest quality fish caught in the 10 years of ABFT existence. Unfortunately the fish could not be accounted for due to new rules and regulations insisting that no electric motors can be attached to boats. Team Square Hooks managed to net a few undersized cod and whiting while the ‘Lone Ranger’ Brendan jagged a whiting before bed.
The night was highlighted by numerous events including the presentation of the ‘Malcolm Douglas’ formally known as the ‘Murray Award’ going to ‘Kirky’ for catching a dinosaur of a mud crab with his bare hands while swimming at night. This was also the night that Brendan Grey earned himself the ‘DOG Award’ [Drunkest on Ground] with a carton of beer drunk in only a matter of a few hours while positioning himself at ‘Aynel Cove’.
It was also decided that the first night of a ABFT trip will be the ‘Gala night’ whereby it is compulsory for all members to tuck their shirts in for the duration of the night or a one beer penalty will be enforced.
The boys were woken up during the night with a 4 hour downpour but this had little impact on the spacious tent Square Hooks were inhabiting.
Day two started early with all teams eager to catch bulk fish. Most teams were bitterly disappointed except for the resilience of Team Square Hooks who brought home a bucket of exotic and premium reef species. Square Hooks even bagged out on one of the species. Team Longrod managed to scrape a few cod for the table and Team ‘SNAG’ didn’t trouble the scorers…………once again.
With the Fisheries Patrol setting up camp nearby, the boys decided to ‘take it easy’ and not cause any dramas. This was also the night that the generator and boom box shat itself. Torrential rain persisted to tamper with our plans of catching bulk fish.
Day three started off poorly with rain on the horizon. An executive decision was made by the board members to piss off home before the 4wd track was impassable. In what should have taken us three hours, took the boys 6 hours to get home because of morons getting bogged on the Middle Creek track….and a flat tyre on Team Squarehooks behalf. All boys were relieved to get home safe and sound, although the damage bill was the highest in ABFT History with mutilated boat trailers, chipped boat skegs, damaged utes, rooted generator, rooted boom box, rooted IPOD and tyres to be repaired.
Congrats Jemo and Team Square Hooks on your Coral Trout and bucket of ‘reefies’, a new benchmark has been set!
Regards
CEO/Safety Officer - Kirky
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