Our first official outing in Blah Blah.

Well Satisfaction is truly done and dusted! So Lyndon in his boating wisdom has purchased half shares in a local boat "Blah Blah" yep the garden gnome from the NZ High Comm compound. A little 4.8m half cabin fibre glass boat. Jodie's faith was short lived as the trailer only made it 1km to the ramp for her first launch before snapping in half!!! because two Tongan boys jumped on it for a lift out of the water. Lyndon thought he may have gotten a few more trips before he had to build a new trailer - but obviously not!!!

Grand plans he says! Get it running and then enter it in as many fishing comps as possible! Build a strong reputation for when we need to sell our share. The Quirke's first sea trial was 6.5hrs out in the open ocean, actually it was for three separate 6.5hr days for the first Tongan International Game Fishing Association - Billfish classic. Well Lyndon forgot to mention he wouldn't be around for all three days so Jodie and Dyl had to hold up the fishing fort with our trusted skipper John standing in as Lyndon's stunt double for the last two days!

Not as roomy as Satisfaction has been Jodie's catch cry!

The Skipper and Mary Ann! (John knows the boat hence the life jacket!)


The worlds saddest weigh in board. It remained so for the first two days! Zippo from 7 boats and 20 odd fishermen.

Dyl is still the mad fisherman and kept going even back at the club house, with a well dressed bait lady I may add.

After the first days outing we had a calcutta draw for the boats and BBQ. Building team spirits and to see who would actually back themselves after the slowest of starts?

Blah Blah was snatched up by Karen for the bargain basement price of $130. Now that's good faith by the neighbours! Best she performs!

The weather was fine and the sunsets at the bar made for a relaxing afternoon to talk about next time out!

Day 3 saw little Dyl haul in two monsters this Tuna and a nice Wahoo that released it's self once it was on the side of the boat! Tears all round I heard!

Dyl's weigh board.

After three days of fishing and five days of meeting at the club house and Billfish bar for separate events it was award giving time!

Dylan won the juniors section with his Tuna and the hard luck story for his wahoo. Also Blah Blah came in third as two other fish were caught on other boats. Two years in a row Eva takes out the top prizes with her 22.5kg Mahi Mahi which meant Tony's boat won nearly everything else on the night. In all not a bad start for Blah Blah, no breakdowns and she produced fish, a first in many years we've been told! We look forward to Blogging about even more great adventures over the next 12 months!