Daiwa Lake Awoonga Night Championships Results

The Awoonga Night Championship kicked off the Daiwa BARRA tour southern leg on Sat 24 November. To fish from 4pm through the night till 8am is a great test of endurance and mental fatigue especially if the prized barra are illusive. But for the young seasoned pro Cy Tyler it proved to be another great result scoring 5/5 for 508cm.

- The technique involved slowly moving around the weedy banks. The moon was bright and it allowed the Taylor boys to see and target features along the weed like gaps in the weedbed, broken weedbed and anything that stood out from the normal contour of the weed edge.



Knowing that the Awoonga barra usually hold in these spots and wait for bait to pass by, Cy chose to use the new 110cm Squidgy Slick Rid lights in the evil minnow and green grunter colours. Casting the new Pro Range plastics close to these areas and using a jig, jig, jig, sink retrieve, he was able to land 4 over a metre and one 85cm specimen to fill his bag and convincingly take first place.



The gear used to heave these beasts into the yellow Millerods tinny was a Millerod Salty Barra Camoufish Long Cast with a Shimano Chronarch 50MG reel spooled with 25lb Super Lunker orange braid and 80lb Black Magic leader.



“A nice light outfit that is easy to continually cast throughout the night when the arms are tiring,” Cy said.



To compel the problems of getting metre plus barra into the boat, come 1am the Taylor boys were standing in water that had filled up over the floorboards from a small leak in the boat.



“We would take turns in bailing water out as the other fished,” Cy explained.



Fishing with AFC Pro Harry Watson was Heath Craven and managing to pip him on the scorecards by a centimeter landing 5/5 for 487cm.



Craven used a G.Loomis Crankbait 756 and Daiwa Crazy Cranker spooled with 40lb Stren braid and 80lb Jinkai leader.



Choosing to throw a combination of Squidgy Slick Rigs Pro Range 110cm in the drop bear colour and Berkley 5” Mullet in the holographic gold colour fitted with a custom treble rig under the plastic for extra security.



“I fished the submerged weed in the main basin, swimming the plastics as slow as possible,” Craven said.



“I scored 7 fish from 7 hits, two hitting the lure four feet from the boat. A lesson learnt never to give up on the retrieve until the lure is in the boat,” he continued.



Big Barra for the event was a tied effort of 118cm. Kerrin Taylor was not to be outshined by his twin scoring some accolades using the Slick Rig technique between taking his turn at bailing.



Steve Morgan scored the other beast, his new PB. Fishing a weedy point at the mouth of the Riverston Arm the fish enhaled a 110cm Squidgy Slick Rig in drop bear colour at 11.30pm.



With two more events on the Southern leg it was a great start to the Taylor boys reign over the Barra Tour. One that has now seen them become accomplished AFC winners.



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Individual Results

Place	Angler	TF	TL	Payout
1	Cy Taylor	5	508	$1000 + Blue Acres b/c rod, Shimano Cruxis reel
2	Heath Craven	5	487	$700 + Team Daiwa b/c rod, Daiwa Team Advantage reel
3	Harry Watson	5	486	$500 + Angler Stealth DCX, , Shimano Cruxis reel
4	Kerrin Taylor	4	436	$300 + Angler Stealth DCX, Tica reel
5	Kerry Ehrlich	4	364	$200 + Shimano Raider rod, Ugly fish sunglasses
6	Peter Price	4	339	$200 + Shimano Catana rod, Ugly fish sunglasses
7	Mike Connolly	4	336	$100 + Ugly fish sunglasses
8	Alan McNamara	4	328	Lure tray
9	Jason Sizeland	4	327	Lure tray
10	Arthur Lovern	3	306	TT pack
11	Peter Swanson	3	267	Cooler pack
12	Phil Strader (USA)	3	258
13	Simon Barkhuizen	3	257
14	Chris Byrnes	3	251
15	Aaron Mogg	3	240
16	Glyn Barkhuizen	3	234
17	Craig Simmons	2	210
18	Jack Schwerin	3	204
19	Trevor Burgess	3	203
20	Matthew Mott	2	165
21	Jason Wilhelm	2	162
22	Karl Rembacher	2	157
23	Jason Ehrlich	2	136
24	Steve Morgan	1	118
25	Lyndon Anlezark	1	112
26	Tim Carter	1	105
27	John Brider	1	102
28	Scott McAuley	1	101
29	Dale Smith	1	93
30	Stephen Town	1	93
31	Brett Court	1	90
32	Katie Sanderson	1	87
33	Stephen Kanowski	1	87
34	Gary Leather	1	86
35	Ken Berry	1	85
36	Dave Robinson	1	81
37	Elaine Sanderson	1	80
38	Gary Boyd (USA)	1	77
39	Dave Hislop	1	75
40	Gerry Weir	1	74
41	Trevor Nye	1	72
42	Peter Morgan	1	71
43	Ken Best	1	69
44	Nigel Webster	1	65
45	Mick Geary	1	56
46	Aaron Mackay	0	0
46	Adam Meredith	0	0
46	Colin Slade	0	0
46	Corey Tarr	0	0
46	Craig Griffiths	0	0
46	Daniel Molloy	0	0
46	Danny Anderson	0	0
46	David Reynolds	0	0
46	David Whyman	0	0
46	Edwina Ad*****	0	0
46	Gavin Simpson	0	0
46	Greg Angel	0	0
46	Gregg Chapman	0	0
46	Jami Kanowski	0	0
46	Jason Medcalf	0	0
46	Jason Simpson	0	0
46	Jim Schaefer	0	0
46	John Meiers	0	0
46	John Schwerin	0	0
46	Jules Tyson	0	0
46	Justin Fischer	0	0
46	Justin Nye	0	0
46	Kerry Symes	0	0
46	Les Barber	0	0
46	Les Reibelt	0	0
46	Matt Coleman	0	0
46	Matt Fraser	0	0
46	Naoya Hiramura (Japan)	0	0
46	Neil Hart	0	0
46	Norm Crouch	0	0
46	Paul McKay	0	0
46	Robert Tombs	0	0
46	Rod Sealy	0	0
46	Rod Watt	0	0
46	Ryan Humphreys	0	0
46	Scott Rooney	0	0
46	Shane Anderson	0	0
46	Steve Brodie	0	0
46	Steve Oster	0	0
46	Steve Thornehill	0	0
46	Steven Bechly	0	0
46	Stuart Ad*****	0	0
46	Tony Zantiotas	0	0

Teams Results

Place	Team	TF	TL
1	Jackall	10	973
2	Millerods/Shimano	9	944
3	Reidys Lures	7	645
4	Evinrude HO	7	594
5	Berkley	6	500
6	Team Charltons	6	491
7	Torment	6	484
8	Shimano/Squidgies	4	372
9	Team Halco	4	372
10	Active Angler	4	328
11	Mundi	4	304
12	Team Anaconda	3	251
13	McBarra	3	240
14	Fish Catching Machines	3	204
15	QLD Fishing Monthly A	2	195
16	Team Tennesee	2	189
17	Tackle World Bundaberg	2	179
18	Tackle Warehouse Ladies	2	167
19	Squidgy/Evacool	2	165
20	Farkens	2	154
21	Grump Old Men	2	152
22	Barra Magic	1	112
23	Team Steve	1	93
24	Team Drifter	1	90
25	Ridgeback Lures	1	75
26	Egrell Rod Designz	1	74
27	Bio-Hazard	1	72
37	Halco/Berkley	1	65
28	ABT International	1	56
29	Berkley Nitro	0	0
30	Bundy Barra Bandits	0	0
31	Chapatack	0	0
32	Creek 2 Coast	0	0
33	Dorko	0	0
34	Dropbear	0	0
35	Faber Toolboxes	0	0
36	G.Loomis	0	0
38	Just Hafta Fish	0	0
39	Leathal Weapons	0	0
40	Logan River Marine	0	0
41	Polewog	0	0
42	RCE	0	0
43	The Tackle Warehouse	0	0
44	Wheatman	0	0

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