Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - September 2019

bottom ten anglers. Rafael Renzetti led the Brazilians in 23rd with the rest of the team languishing close to the bot- tom. Tim Percy (CAN) received the Lowrance Donut Dough Award to rousing cheers and hugs of jubilation, at the Power-Pole dinner that evening. To the delight of all in the room, the idea of a police officer winning a donut award set off the USA team into raptures. It was a great moment. Once again, the class actswere by theAustralianswith eight in the top ten. Jack Gammie increased his lead from the previous day with another 2.02kg, giving him a leading bag total of 4.18kg. Andrew Death maintained his second place with 1.86kg for 3.94kg overall, 249g behind Gammie. Simon Morley (AUS) moved up into third place knocking Austrian Edi Brader back a position. Morley added 1.97kg for a total of 3.79kg, 150g behind Death, and 399g short of Gammie. 90 fish were caught on the day weighing in at 44.02kg at an average of 489g slightly down on day one. The field was tight at the top and anyone in the top ten could take out the championship if luck went their way. The final day of the Worlds was set to be intense, and full of excitement. When the action started reports keep coming in that Death and Morley were going head to head on the same reef to the north of the event site. Their reels were screaming time after time, and each bagged out around the same time. Then on the turn of the tide they both then began to upgrade fish, after fish, after fish. In the meantime, Edi Brader was one short of a bag and fishing well to the south, under the skyscrapers around Surfers Paradise, where he had been quietly bagging out over the two previous days of competition. The leader on the first two days and the favorite to main- tain his lead, Jack Gammie, also went south, much tfurther than Brader, and was hard to find among the ca- nals along the Nerang River. Then a report came through late in the day that Gammie only had an average size bag. Nobody had sighted Gloria from the USA or Somer- ton from Australia. The weigh-in was going to be insane! At 2:30pm angler after angler walked up on stage to the scales and the lead changed continually. When Gloria got up, he hit the lead with a day three bag weighing 1.77kg and the USA contingent went bananas. Gloria remained on stage at the top of the table, with just three anglers to fol- low Morley, then Death and finally Gammie. Could this be a huge upset?

Tim Percy (CAN) is mobbed by Team USA as he celebrates the Day 2 Donut Award during the Power-Pole Dinner.

Andrew Death (AUS) holds up a beautiful Bream during Weigh-In on Day 2.

Simon Morley (AUS) has a small bream on as he is setup on a reef.

Nate Gloria (USA) holds up another keeper bream caught off a dock.