Another 10kg done and dusted.

Almost a sell out and some absolute stonker fish put over the measure mats.

Huge thanks to our generous sponsors Hunting & Fishing New Zealand Warkworth Matakana Marine and Mahurangi Marine LTD . Thanks also to Dan Kitchen and Bar Sandspit Yacht Club and the team for the epic food and cold drinks and to Carol Brown for filling in at the measure in.

Here’s a summary of the top fish for the tournament.

SNAPPER

1st-Noah Beesley 88cm

2nd- Dan Wood 86cm

3rd- Dawson Galloway

82cm 4th- Oliver Adams

81cm 5th- Dean Ellis 77cm

6th- Tom Hatfull 76cm

7th- Andrew Voigt 76cm

8th- Lu Rathe 74.5cm

9th- Ben Wyatt 73cm

10th- Storm Lee 73cm

KINGFISH

1st- William Hurst 113cm

2nd- Dean Ellis 108cm

3rd- Brendon Dickey 106cm

TREVALLY

1st-Dean Ellis 48.5cm

2nd- Dean Harrison 44.5cm

3rd- Gray Davis 44cm

KAHAWAI

1st- Andrew Voigt 58cm

2nd- Chase 56cm

3rd- Matt Fahey 56cm

AVERAGE LENGTH

Steve Adkins 59cm

There was almost exactly the same excellent turn out for the 10kg tournament 2022 as last year, and again the face of an untidy forecast. But Saturday arvo was a good reminder of why we do this — the wind dropped, fish were biting, the sun was hot, and drinks were cold.

94 seniors and 3 juniors entered the 2022 Hunting & Fishing 10kg and again proved
conclusively that there’s plenty of good fish to be had at this time of year.

2022 One Base Report

In the last decade of WwGFC One Bases we’ve had
cyclones, a tsunami, loads of rubbish weather, a bit of
good stuff, and a pandemic. It would be careless to say
we’ve seen it all, because that would just be asking for
trouble next year!

Our 2020 AGM was held on Saturday 1st August.

Good attendance thank you and we got underway on time.
Reports from our Records Officer Cam, NZSFC rep Terry, and President Dave were presented.
We also had the pleasure of Steve the new NZSFC CEO addressing our Club and being around for questions and comments.
The subsequent prizegiving really filled the place up. Lots of toddlers again this year, so good to see the youngsters in the mix.
There’s AGM minutes available for anyone interested. In brief though: membership numbers are steady at around 300, good tournament results, and pretty much the same exec committee.
Membership fees were resolved to remain the same for another season.
Catering was prepared by Daniel & Renee and appreciated by the crowd.
All in all we’re a strong club with established successful events, and we look forward to another year of sharing these with you.
Keep an eye on our Facebook page for updates on the Sunday Snapper Slap and the jackpotting membership draw on those Sundays. Yes, the regular monthly longest snapper competition continues as well.
Check out some pics from the night here:

6am Saturday 30th to text measure-in by 4pm Sunday 31st May
(Queens Birthday wkend).

You know the story with the 10kg, anything less than 25knots is a bonus. Saturday it was good to be alive. Sunday was just a matter of staying alive.
Not even a global pandemic thrown in for good measure could prevent the 10kg from rolling. THANK YOU to the 59 anglers that joined us for this long-running event. Seems a bit strange not having our traditional prizegiving, meal, and catch up— but the rules around gatherings changed the day before the comp! The quality of fish was up this year. Keeping the average sized fish for food and releasing the biggies means this quality could be easier to maintain.

To the results:

Snapper:
1st- Ryan Lazenby 85cm $1000
2nd- Paul Mitchell 80cm $470
3rd- Jono Ridley 78cm $220
4th- Nathan Kelly 77.5cm $115
5th- Jimi Plumpton 77cm $60

Kingfish
1st- Ally Blank 121cm $400

Trevally
1st – Wayne Brown 62.5cm $150
2nd- Paul Mitchell 53cm $100
3rd- Craig McNaught 43.5cm $50

Kahawai
1st – Dave Adams 57.5cm $150
2nd- Steve Hunt 56cm $100
3rd- Alby Peterson 56cm $50

Mystery Length over 50cm= 55cm $500:
Bradley Bowmar 55cm on the dot!

Junior Section:
Snapper- Quinn Taylor- 37cm $25
Trevally- Quinn Taylor- 30cm $25

10kg Trophy (members only) –
Jono Ridley with his 78cm Snapper (by .006 points from Wayne Browns trevally!)

The prizepool was made up from all entrants ticket money, plus $500 from WwGFC towards 1st place
snapper.
Thanks again you awesome anglers that made the event possible, and a little more rewarding for some!
Next year we’ll be back with the same great format but all going well a decent hoolie afterwards.

GREAT BARRIER ONE BASE 2020

Superb weather and enough fish to keep things interesting made for an excellent 2020 One Base.

The first stripie (2nd place Billfish Points) was tagged at the very northern edge of the grid by Nick Whittaker on Barry Plumptons rocket ship Xcellerate (Harbourview Farms cash prize—new sponsor, thank you Roger). This earnt them the Presidents Challenge. Sea conditions were the best for years, and have been the same all the following week! Are we even in the same country anymore?
Quite a few boats started up north, but the spread of captures was pretty much all over the grid. The 3rd Billfish Points prize went to Brenda L for a broadbill (GT Trailers cash prize), then Kevin Brown fishing solo on Game Time for a stripie (Gubbs prize), and Mark Postlewaight for a stripie on Armani (Gubbs prize).

The One Base Billfish Points system is modelled on well established tournament principles eg Whangaroa and it favours tagging, capturing fish early in the event, and still accounts for larger fish if they’re being put in the boot.
The heaviest weighed gamefish went to Tom Stewart for a 165.4kg blue marlin caught on Karakia. This fish took 1st place Billfish Points (HarbourView cash prize) and the One Base trophy. Tom has been doing the One Base for 9 years and brings most of the pre-prepared dinners for the crew. In recent years he could be forgiven for wondering if he was jinxed, so its great to finally have that monkey off his back. Tom’s blue also took out the Matakana ITM Makita drop saw and bench for heaviest blue/black/sword. That’s an awesome prize thanks James & Shane.
No mahimahi this year, but there’s no complaints because yellowfin tuna made an appearance after a long absence. Skippies were only located in small, isolated pockets. Nothing to do with the spotter plane and seiner out the back of Arid of course. Albacore of various sizes were fairly numerous and converted appreciably into delicious fresh sashimi and pan fried goodness.

Back to the Advanced Concrete Pumping sponsored YFT section, it was very close for the top placings. Aaron Stenbeck on Dirty Berty secured 1st place at 17kg, and because he backed himself in the Sweep-stake it was a double pay day. Daniel Otte (all the way from Wellington) was 2nd at 16.8kg, and Mark Postlewaight on Armani 3rd with a 15.4kg ‘fin.
Special thanks to Clive for running the weighstation and being Fire Warden on prizegiving night. Helluva nice guy and an asset to our event, thanks mate.
The Mason Contractors Snapper section went like this: 1st Doron Anderson on Xcellerate 76.5cm, Jess Pe-tersen 2nd at 75cm on Luna-Sea, and Michael Leggoe 3rd at 69.5cm on Kaella. Good snappers to be sure, but the great weather out wide meant less competi-tion for those targeting them. And they saved lots of fuel!
Tim Baldwin on Armani grabbed the kingfish prize at 104.5cm, and also on Armani Mark Postlewaight wrapped up the tagged shark section with a bronzie.

The Earlybird section was well subscribed, thanks for your upfront support anglers. Unbelievably Tom Hatfull was drawn again. That’s three 3.3hp Mercury engines in recent years to Tom. Maybe we should just take his name out of the next draw, he wont know. Being the GB that he is, Tom elected to have the EarlyBird prize redrawn and Reid Lyons all the way from Aussie and fishing on Rampage won it. Nope wewon’t be posting it out, looks like Rampage has a new dinghy motor. Aaron & Matt at Matakana Marine have provided this sought after prize consistently, thank you fellas.
It’s a bit random with reception vaguaries, but it seems the Radio Quizzes remain a highlight. We are starting to appreciate the research that some crews carry out—like knowing all the grid sponsors starting with respective letters, all the grids with respective coloured labels, the deliberately misnamed features, sponsors on specific lats and longs, etc. It was an eye opener to us as to how serious it’s getting! Not sure that Emmy would be happy with an hourly quiz, but maybe we could sneak an extra one into the daily schedule. Tackle & Outdoor, Beaure-paires, and Gubbs make the radio quizzes worth competing for. The boat packs made up for the briefing night were fattened up with products from Hunting & Fishing Wark-worth (thanks Colin) and motor products sponsored by Gubbs Motors, thank you Kevin. The Briefing night is a good opportunity to catch up and make plans. Hunting & Fishing gear and Gubbs products made up the bulk of the spot prizes on Sunday night too.

The Sponsors Draw for dinner and drinks at Sandspit Yacht Club Kitchen & Bar was won by Keith Andrews Fuso Trucks, thank you for your support Curtis and we hope you get to use this voucher soon. There will be pre-dinnerdrinks on Karakia too.

Our Skippers Draw was won by the one and only Logan Campbell on Violator. He picked up vouchers from Tack-le&Outdoor, Gubbs MTA, and a $400 Matakana Mobile Valet voucher from Dylan. Next time you see Violator make sure you’re wearing your sunglasses!

The Hardluck trophy was awarded to Anthony Roberts fishing on HarbourView. They tagged a stripie but it didn’t revive and was under qualifying weight when weighed. So the logical thing is to appreciate the fish by bringing it home to share. There was another hardluck story. Not sure if there was much luck involved, but it would take a lot to out-idiot that one! What happens at sea stays there. But just remember when you open that can of tuna at smoko that getting stuck in a can isn’t the worst thing that can happen to a tuna.

Caterers Kat and Jonquil served up an excellent meal on Sun-day. Whew! It was just like the ‘old days’ with a variety of per-fectly cooked and presented meats, salads, and vegies. Plenty to go around and knocked out bang on time. Thank you to the North Barrier Residents & Ratepayers Assoc for the hireage of the Fitzy Boating Club. And The Store at Fitzroy for use of the wharf chiller and staying open for fuel. We hope Jackson recovers quickly from his trip to hospital.
Logistically this year we had no choice to run b.y.o at the prize-giving. But there were no complaints—people earnt their cold beer at the top of the stairs, prizegving was more cohesive (instead of simultaneously people 3 deep at the bar), and there was more cash left in pockets.

Speaking of, over $500 was again raised in the Great Barrier Marine Radio raffle. Well done you guys. If you’re not a member of GBMR copy the subscription form on the back of this report and become one. So then we get to the Travel Prize. 12 people drawn from entries and then submitted to a reduction draw. When you consider the odds it’s amazing how many people seem to be in the 12 each year. Cam was sorting the consolation prizes when he got drawn as one of the 12. He started telling me how the prizes were ordered but I told him he would be eliminated early on so not to worry about telling me. First name out: Cam! Sorry buddy.

There were vouchers from Warkworth Auto Electri-cal, Gubbs lubes, Hunting & Fishing gear, Beaure-pairies merchandise, vouchers for bottles of rum, and the superb runner-up prize of a weekend with a new Range Rover and spending cash from Archi-bald & Shorter North Shore. And we were left with one man standing —Wayne Brown. Brownie has fished this comp since forever on First Affair and has recently had more than his fair share of busting a leg. A very popular winner.

It was an excellent tournament with great sponsor and angler support. We’re not fortunate enough to have blue water straight out the door so we have to run it a bit different to loosely comparable events. All the systems are in place to do this all over again next year. Dave announced his retirement and is looking forward to being ‘just another angler’. There are thoughts about bringing prizegiving back to the Sandspit Clubrooms and maybe some format tweeks—the WwGFC Committee welcome your thoughts, so just get word to any committee member or even better come along to a monthly meeting.

Have yourselves a trouble-free and fishy season.

Ladies Only Fishing Event 2019

37 Ladies fishing compared to 57 last year – a forecast for frequent rain and 25 knots gusting 30 will do that.

The weather wasn’t hot, but the fishing WAS!

Crews caught and released good sized snapper until they couldn’t do it anymore. One crew was back at
the ramp before 10am!
Awesome sponsor support again this year, thank you for staying with us while we build this event.
The two juniors did well to be out in those conditions, Laticia and Isla Levet picking up prizes.
The kingfish section was won by Charlotte Greenwood with a nice 97cm fish. That’s a good fish on light gear while trying to stay on your feet.

The kahawai section was close at:
3rd Poppy Stenbeck 56.5cm
2nd Lexi Carter 57.0cm
1st Caroline Ridley 57.5cm

But the REALLY close section was snapper, where placings had to be allocated on the time of the measuring card reaching the weighmaster:
5th Stef VanderPutten 70cm
4th Aimee Ridley 70cm
3rd Nicola Rathe 70cm
2nd Charlotte Greenwood 70cm
1st Lexi Carter 78.5cm

Most of these fish were released.