Upcoming Events
DATE:
Kings Birthday weekend 1st & 2nd June
WHERE:
Sandspit Yacht Club
RULES:
Warkworth Hunting & Fishing 10KG Fishing Competition
Kings Birthday weekend 1st & 2nd June
Tickets Senior $75, Junior $30 available from:
- Hunting & Fishing Warkworth,
- Daniel in the SYC Kitchen & Bar
- Mahurangi Marine
- Matakana Marine
or by bank deposit to 03-0481-0064792-00, name and 10KG as a reference and send email with details
Early bird closes 5pm Tuesday 21 May
Sales close 5pm Friday 31 May
DATE:
17th February – 24th February
WHERE:
RULES:
2024 NZSFC Nationals
Tickets NZSFC Nationals $25 Nationals link.
NZSFC annual year book digital copy nationals rules and entry form page 58 onwards
You can enter by:
- online deposit bank account 03 0481 0064792 00 email warkworthgamefish@gmail.comthe entry details
- at the One Base briefing night
- SYC office (entry forms page 58 in the NZSFC annual book)
- Hunting & Fishing (entry forms page 58 in the NZSFC annual book)
- Mahurangi Marine (entry forms page 58 in the NZSFC annual book)
- Matakana Marine (entry forms page 58 in the NZSFC annual book)
Nationals Recorder:
Terry Creagh – 021 644 686 terry@autowatchinterlock.co.nz
NZ Sport Fishing annual books are also available from 58 Hill Street Warkworth
DATE:
Saturday 17th February – Monday 19th February
WHERE:
Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier Island
RULES:
TBA
2024 ONE BASE
This year any fish you catch can also be entered into the NZ Sport fishing Nationals.
All competitors have to be members of a club affiliated to NZSFC.
Tickets One Base early bird closes 5pm Monday 5th February $100
Tickets One Base after 5pm Monday 5th February $120
Tickets purchased from
- Hunting & Fishing Warkworth
- Sandspit Yacht Club office
- Matakana Marine
- Mahurangi Marine
- online deposit to bank account 03 0481 0064792 00 email warkworthgamefish@gmail.com with details – fill in attached ticket
- at the briefing night
DATE:
6am Saturday 3rd June – 4pm Sunday 4th June 2023
WHERE:
SYC/WGFC Clubrooms, Sandspit
RULES:
2023 10kg Tournament
Adult Tickets limited to 120 so get in quick!
THE longest running line weight restricted tournament in the Gulf!
KINGS Birthday Weekend
EARLY BIRD TICKET SALES END 5.30pm Friday 19th May!!!
Hunting & Fishing Warkworth are also offering 10KG line reel spools for $5!!
DATE:
18 to 25 February 2023
WHERE:
RULES:
2023 Nationals
Please pay entries to:
WWGFC bank account: 03-0481-0064792-00 surname as reference, email entry form to warkworthgamefish@gmail.com
or pay in person at the Sandspit Yacht Club office
link to entry forms and result pages
NZSFC Nationals 2023 – New Zealand Sport Fishing Council (nzsportfishing.co.nz)
link to the NZSFC year book
2023 Yearbook – New Zealand Sport Fishing Council (nzsportfishing.co.nz)
Nationals recorder to be advised
DATE:
2nd – 4th March 2023
WHERE:
Fitzroy Boating Club
Great Barrier Island
RULES:
2023 One Base
Tickets on sale from 3/2/2023 and can be purchased from:
– Sandspit Yacht Club office and the restaurant upstairs
– Online WWGFC bank account: 03-0481-0064792-00 surname as reference, email entry form or details to warkworthgamefish@gmail.com
– Hunting & Fishing Warkworth
– Matakana Marine
– Tackle & Outdoor Warkworth
– Mahurangi Marine
Correction to the Poster – Early Bird Tickets Are Now Closed.
$100 early bird price, offer closes Friday 5pm 17th Feb. Early bird prize $1000 is drawn at the briefing
Price after 17 Feb $120 – Dinner is included in the ticket
Sweepstake per boat $50
Extras on board the boat who are not entering the comp, but coming to the dinner, can purchase a dinner ticket for $30, see Louise or committee member on the night.
Compulsory Briefing night, (please contact Louise if no one in your team can make it) Sandspit Yacht Club Tuesday 28 Feb, bar open 5.30pm onwards, briefing at 7pm
Tickets and memberships can be purchased on the night.
Bring cash for a raffle on the night!
2022 Kids Fishing Event
WGFC/SYC Kids Fishing Event is on Sunday 11th December. Daniel & Renee will have coffees available from around 10:30 and probs some muffins too. Their lunch service kicks off from pretty much the end of the kids fishing, a cold lager and something off the menu sounds like a good idea aye
DATE:
6am -3pm Saturday 12th November 2022
WHERE:
SYC/WGFC Clubrooms, Sandspit
RULES:
2022 Ladies Fishing Event
Our comp in 2021 fell victim to Covid, so Ladies grab your gangster skippers and get flappin out on the water!
This is a measure only event!
Tickets
Adult Prize Pool – $60 (includes dinner)
Junior Prize Pool – $30 (includes dinner)
Tickets available at SYC office, Mahurangi Marine, Hunting&Fishing Warkworth & Matakana Marine.
Contact Louise 027 4257224 or Dave 021886289 for any Event queries.
DATE:
6am Saturday 4th June to measure-in by 4pm Sunday 5th June
WHERE:
SYC/WGFC Clubrooms, Sandspit
RULES:
2022 10kg Tournament
THE longest running line weight restricted tournament in the Gulf!
Queens Birthday Weekend
Tickets available now at WW Hunting & Fishing, Matakana Marine, Mahurangi Marine and Outdoor & Tackle. Ticket includes Sunday prizegiving dinner!
EARLY BIRD TICKET SALES END 5pm Friday 27th May!!! (typo on the poster sorry)
DATE:
Thursday 10th March – Saturday 12th March 2022
WHERE:
Fitzroy Boating Club, Great Barrier Island
RULES:
2022 One Base – NEW DATES!!
The weather forecast for the weekend of the One Base isn’t flash. So the committee have made the decision to postpone it until the following weekend – 10TH – 12TH March 2022.
Briefing is now on the Tuesday 8th March
at the Sandspit Yacht Club for at least ONE of your anglers.
This gives you an extra week to get your tickets! If you have already purchased tickets and can’t make the new date, please get in touch.
DATE:
Saturday 13th November 2021
6am – 3pm Fishing
WHERE:
SYC/WGFC Clubrooms, Sandspit
RULES:
Women fishing only! It’s the men’s turn to put the rods down and pass the nibbles plate around!
2021 Ladies Comp – CANCELLED due to COVID
Plans are underway to get our ladies out of lockdown,
lei’d up and on the water!
Theme: Hawaiian
Tickets: $60 (includes dinner)
Species: Snapper, Kahawai, Kingfish
Measure only! Measure-in at SYC 3-4pm.
Tickets available from SYC office, Mahurangi Marine, Hunting & Fishing Warkworth, Matakana Marine.
DATE:
6am Saturday 5th June to measure-in by 5pm Sunday 6th June
WHERE:
SYC/WGFC Clubrooms, Sandspit
RULES:
2021 10kg Tournament
THE longest running line weight restricted tournament in the Gulf!
Queens Birthday Weekend
Tickets available at:
- WW Hunting & Fishing,
- Matakana Marine,
- Mahurangi Marine,
- Tackle & Outdoor
- or by bank deposit & hitting ‘contact us’ above.
Click on poster for more details.
DATE:
Thursday 4th – Saturday 6th March 2021
WHERE:
Fitzroy Boating Club,
Great Barrier Island
RULES: (Crews will receive an A3 waterproof copy of rules and grid at Tuesday briefing)
NEW DATE:
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 LEVEL 3 RESTRICTIONS
2021 One Base
We regret to inform everyone that due to the current Covid-19 alert levels, we will be unable to run our Onebase tournament at Great Barrier this weekend. The committee have decided not to postpone but to cancel as due to other tournament clashes in the coming month, we are unable to fit it in this season. We will offer full refunds for all entries. Refunds will be electronically deposited into each skippers account for them to pay back to crew members. If the club has not contacted your boat within a week then please contact the club via email warkworthgamefish@gmail.com. Fingers crossed we have a handle on this virus for next year.
DATE & TIME
As advised on this website and our Facebook page, changes monthly
WHERE
SYC/WGFC Clubrooms, Sandspit.
Sunday Snapper Slap (Currently on hold as at November due to low turn out)
Just Been:
DATE: Saturday 7th November 2020
WHERE: Sandspit Yacht Club
Saturday 7th November
from dawn ’til mid arvo
2020 Ladies Event
Details out soon – but the usual shinannigans – snapper/kahawai/kingfish length categories, average or random length main prize. Now the good stuff, the after party is WILD WEST theme yeeeeehaw!
DATE & TIME
Saturday 22nd – Saturday 29th February
WHERE
Open
NZSFC Nationals 2020
Get into this! Fish a day, a couple of days, or a week!
Awesome spot prizes. Boost your Club’s result by contributing a good snapper on light line, or tag some kingis. Just get out there. And support our highly competent and super motivated parent body, the NZ Sportfishing Council.
DATE & TIME
Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st May 2020
WHERE
Held ‘electronically’ this year – ref Rules and Poster
10kg 2020 notification of the OBJECT THAT MUST APPEAR IN YOU MEASURE PICS:
*** a closed fist***
Download the RULES.
Also, here they are in pics:
Saturday 30th/Sunday 31st May 2020
(Monday is Queens BD holiday)
10kg ’20 ReportWwGFC 10kg Tournament 2020
The weather is looking dodgy az, so please keep this in mind when choosing your destination and travel times.
No fish or prize is worth more than your life.
2:40pm Friday 29th: Notification of the object that must appear in you pics, per below.
See previous years reports and pics for how we roll.
It will be a little different this year because of Covid-19, nothing we can’t deal with, right?
But it’s the same fun with big baits and skinny line.
We run these events on the smell of an oily rag, more entries = more prizes to share around.
Read the Rules to get the most out of your event.
Thank you to our sponsors of previous years. We thought we’d give you a break, since the virus has already given you a financial hiding. This years event is cash in/cash out. Electronically of course.
Get your crew together, break out that mono and the bendy sticks. This event has been running for decades and relies on you being honest with your gear. Join us (at a distance) for the longest running Hauraki Gulf light line tournament, and one of (the?) longest successively held fishing events in the country.
Covid-19 update 26/05: Okay so now gatherings of up to 100 are acceptable. We weren’t to know that while we were organising the event, so there’s still no ‘official’ gathering after the comp. Might be a few pockets of after match good times around the place though, so keep your ear to the ground…
The object that must appear in your measure pics is a CLOSED FIST.
You are advised to text in your measure pics immediately after capture, because in the [likely] event of a tie the first fish sent to us will win that prize.
R E P O R T O U T N O W:
DATE & TIME
Friday 24th, Saturday 25th, Sunday 26th JANUARY 2020.
WHERE
Fitzroy Boating Club on Sunday
This interwebby copy is for reference and another promo for our awesome sponsors.
Friday 24th, Saturday 25th, Sunday 26th JANUARY 2020.
Note: Saturday night is also a stay away night this year.
WwGFC 2020 One Base at Great Barrier
Here we go again!
Auckland Anniversary Weekend (Monday) is 27th January so our comp is Friday – Sunday before.
Note this year Saturday is ALSO a stay away night – so we only catch up on Sunday night. The previous years grid fishing area will still stand, have a look at last years one – basically the Knights to Cuvier. If you can’t catch a fish in that area there’s nothing we can do for you!
The superb mix of stunning sponsorship and generous prizes will be on offer.
We’re working hard on establishing a decent Sunday dinner (like in the olden days) because like you we haven’t been impressed with recent efforts.
It’s an excellent shakedown event for the pending season and Aotea is such a cool place to fish for everything northern waters have to offer.
Tickets, rules, posters, etc will be sorted in due course (we’ve got dayjobs you know!) but if you haven’t fished this comp before check out our previous years reports. If you want some first hand info join us at the Clubrooms for a jar on the last Sunday of each month 5 – 6pm.
DATE & TIME
Sunday 8th December.
330 – 5pm
WHERE
SYC wharf, Sandspit
Sunday 8th December 2019
or as revised by the eventual rules.
WGFC/SYC Kids Fishing Event
A fun rather than competitive outing for the littlies off the main SYC wharf.
Catch and measure for release back into the water or dads (grandads) bait bin.
Prizes sponsored by SYC/GFC/Hunting & Fishing Ww.
The bearded fat guy might turn up too. No no, the one in the red suit.
Daniel & Renee will have the kitchen humming, so grab a lager and a snack and watch the chaos from upstairs!
Open to kids of SYC/GFC relatives, friends. No age restriction and older kids are welcome to help their younger family members even if not fishing.
If it’s raining bring a raincoat. Only extreme weather would see this event postponed.
About
WWGFC forms the Sportfishing Division of the Sandspit Yacht Club. We have a steady core of around 300 members and are based at the SYC Clubrooms, Sandspit, on the east coast 9kms from Warkworth. More...