Just looked on the manurewa rsa web site and found out that due to poor ticket sales in the last few years it not going ahead this year. That sucks

Counties sport fishing club are having a gurnard only comp on the 9th of June .
It's open to everyone .

I hate comps. like this, held on a Sunday. I have to have my son back from access close to the time posted for weigh in on a Sunday, so therefore we have no chance to enter. Bring on any comp that is friendly to fathers that have limited access that want to enter these sorts of things, with only Saturdays without restrictrive timings, there must be more people than me out there with the same problem.   

No worries Smudge. Fully understand that not everyone can be accomadated. Big ups to you for the organising of evnts like this anyway. As per the pic I sent you of my young bloke with his big gurnard you can see he loves fishing for them, and out does a lot of regulars on the Kaipara with his catches of gurnard, he is almost a carrot whisperer like you and has caught several more nearly as big as the one in the photo. Cheers and one day we might strike it lucky and get a comp to enter that is on when I have him for school holidays.