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anyone know the dates of the gove comp and is thee anyone from gove who is fishing the comp on this forum
send me a PM and i will give you a call and have a talk to you to find out some info i know it is in november some time
is the groote billfish comp at a similar time of the year???
cheers doug

I'll be fishin it

the date are the same for gove and groote. I'm fishing the groote comp for 3rd time. The date are the 19 to 26/11/11.It's going to be a cracker. The boys are having fat time good blacks already

Nogood wrote:the date are the same for gove and groote. I'm fishing the groote comp for 3rd time. The date are the 19 to 26/11/11.It's going to be a cracker. The boys are having fat time good blacks already

oh your kidding was hoping they would be close together but thats a pain being on the same dates
do you think they will allow you to enter both comps and fish them both hahahahahah
freight on the barge to gove is apparently going to cost a fortune so now looking at boating around from the roper to gove
about 500km each way see how work is and the weather for the comp dates i guess

Gove dates are 24th to 27th of November

Nogood wrote:the date are the same for gove and groote. I'm fishing the groote comp for 3rd time. The date are the 19 to 26/11/11.It's going to be a cracker. The boys are having fat time good blacks already

is the groote comp a week long comp is it ????

The Groote comp goes for 8 days to cover both sides of the residential 4x4 roster.

hobbsy wrote:The Groote comp goes for 8 days to cover both sides of the residential 4x4 roster.

do you nominate you days you wanna fish or fish all eight how does it work may make a detour on the way to gove

nominate your 3 days.

G'day Doug/All

Here are some Groote Eylandt weigh points to give you a starting point if you fish the comp, all close proximity to South Point, give us a yell if you want to have a yak about the area/or what we found out about the area, hopefully the Groote Club willl also provide a map with weigh points they have identified as holding Billies, cheers Balls.

S 14 23 641 E 136 20 962 Sailfish-100 foot-Southern grounds

S 14 24 441 E 136 20 505 Sailfish-100 foot-Southern grounds

S 14 24 400 E 136 21 400 Sailfish-100 foot-Southern grounds

S 14 19 772 E 136 24 675 Sailfish-60/70 foot contour-62 majority fish

S 14 18 001 E 136 23 982 Sailfish-60/70 foot contour-62 majority fish

S 14 18 636 E 136 22 772 Sailfish-60/70 foot contour-62 majority fish

S 14 18 045 E 136 21 094 Sailfish-60/70 foot contour-62 majority fish

S 14 21 040 E 136 23 620 Sailfish-60/70 foot-Eastern end

S 14 17 105 E 136 20 586 Sailfish-60/70 foot-Western end

S 14 18 080 E 136 22 880 Marlin/Sailfish-60/70 foot-Middle area
Good starting point-find birds-approximately (9x3 km billfish grounds)

S 14 16 111 E 136 19 640 Marlin-50 foot-generally to many Macks-work deeper unless birds & bait schools in vicinity

we will be fishing the last three day of the comp. The best day last year was the last. I was lucky. I got to catch the biggest fish for the comp.
A nise fish about 150+kg we will be team belly up and fishing out the boat called R.D.O

cheers balls will catch up with you and have a chat
you fished the groote comp have you done the gove comp at all???
cheers for that no good have they got an entry form or a number for the club in groote
last time we went to groote law fawcett was helping us out is he still around ???
he come to darwin to catch his first sail at fenton hahahah

give me a ring on 0427835282

Will do cheers mate

By recent reports the Billys have been thick recently. I haven't tried lately but those that have, have been rewarded. Hope they keep up for the Groote comp.