PETEY O' TAKES SHEEP STATION.

What a great response to the Non- comp comp (Fishing trip) you could not move in Sand Palms on Friday night, we spilled out onto the veranda.  The whole idea of the Bynoe Sheep Station Stakes (named by Dion) was as a result of people in the past saying that we were not playing for sheep stations,  so some thought it would be a good idea to put a sheep station up as the stakes just for fun and here it is complete with faithful sheep dog.

Lord Jim devised a system for the stakes, so that a draw of five species was made from a large pool of fish species, before each fishing day.  With a limit of only five of each of the selected species counted on a per cm basis and then the total from that is multiplied by the number of species caught.  This total is then added to the total of all other fish (only five of each allowed) which are counted on a per cm basis to give a final score.  It may sound complicated but it worked out really well and it does what Jim designed it for, it gives everyone a reasonable chance at winning the sheep station and cup of 'glory'.

Pete O'Sullivan (The Rubber man) now has the original sheep station after taking out the stakes.

Pete with his cup of 'glory' to add to the sheep station.

Pete won the coveted prize, (I mean we've all wanted to win a sheep station), after a big run on the second day of the non-comp comp.  He got three of the five species selected for day one and four of the five selected for day two.

Kate came in just a few points behind Pete O' and well in front of Dion 

It is a bit of a worry for NSW coming up to the next State of Origin, because the top of the winners list read like this if you were working on state or place of origin.  Here they are....

First............................................Pete O...................Victoria
Second........................................Kate ....................Queensland
Third...........................................Dion....................South Australia
Fourth..........................................Lord Jim................UK
Fifth.............................................Roxley .................Tasmania
Sixth.............................................Cathie .................Victoria
Seventh.........................................Bill ....................West Australia
and finally a New South Welshman.....thank you Carol
Eighth...........................................Carol ..................NSW
Ninth............................................ Marty ..................Germany
Tenth............................................ Matty ...................South Australia
Eleventh....................................... Jus ........................UK
Twelfth........................................  Roggie...................NSW 
Thirteen.......................................  Hags.......................UK
Fourteen......................................  Ash......................... South Australia
Fifteen........................................... Dottie................... South Africa
Sixteen...........................................Graeme..................NSW
Seventeenth......................................Steve..................... USA
Eighteen..........................................Lenny.....................Italy
Nineteenth.......................................Cliff.......................NSW
Twentieth....................................... Gary.....................  UK
Twenty First...................................Les .......................  NSW
Twenty second................................Irene.....................  NSW
Twenty third....................................Phil......................  NT
Twenty Fourth..................................Pat........................  NSW
Twenty Fifth................................... Connor.................  NSW
Twenty Sixth...................................Justin..................... NSW
Twenty Seventh...............................Julie...................... NSW
Twenty Eighth..................................Donna................... NT
Twenty Ninth...................................Jacob.................... NSW
Thirtieth..........................................Tommy..................NSW

There were a few more that we handed sheets out to as well who were fishing with the guides but I have forgotten their names, and a lot more were there to support the mob.

 The gang at Sand Palms have named the 'Social Mob', the 'outCASTS' which looks like sticking.  Sounds better than 'mobster'!!!

  Anyway back to the fishing....

Pete with more 'Gold'

Pete and Jim struck the jackpot around Knife Island.  While they were into the mackerel, Jim noticed what he thought was a barra come up at the same time.  He mentioned it to Pete and the next thing both were pulling barra out from under the mackerel on one of everyones favorite corners of Knife Island.

Jus and Marty  (The Brokenflagens)

Jus and Marty really got into it too.  Jus got four species for the first time on fly, and Marty was the only one who could manage to catch threadies.  He doesn't like the 20lb leaders though, because the mackerel kept cutting him off,  plus he had a big!!! barra on and it managed to gill rake the leader...no more barra.

A 'Mid' day barra.

The wind wasn't too bad at all, and the water was clear.  Saw plenty of barra and salmon but they were not drawn out for the species in the stakes, so we had to try and give them a miss.  Not really!   Graeme and Dottie fished with Steve Huff, and Dottie got a monster queenie and a thumper of a golden trevally.

Steve filled us in on the fishing in Florida, he was very generous with his information and I think some are already booked with him.

The ' Outcasts' from Insight.

A cap from Michelle at Palmerston Embroidery was presented to Steve to show off in the US.

Wind????what wind.  

Special thanks to Julie and Tommy at Sand Palms.  Huge, outstanding meals, great accommodation and atmosphere because of all the wonderful people out there.

Also a special thank you to Kevin at C.U.B. for the great support for our fledgling mob of 'outcasts', and wasn't it great as you returned to the ramp, to find Julie and Donna there with a complimentary ice cold Carlton 'mid'.  Paradise!!!

The wonderful, Julie and Tommy.