Soft Bait Masters

Any one else fishing this comp this week end?

Tauranga, Run by Decoro.

Hey everone here are the details from last weekend,
Decoro Soft Bait Masters 2011
Basically the weather was pretty tough, Easterly 15knots plus, 1mtr swell and some rain for good measure!
To be fair no's were down I guess mainly due to the weather.
We had 81 hardy souls fish the weekend and catch good fish from Coromandal through the bay and right out to Taranaki! (well done Pete & Matt).
The bigger Snapper came from Coro with the Kahawai, Trevally and John Dory mainly coming from the Bay.
For the first time we had three teams get in the running for the Masters trophy.

Right then,
Saturdays prize giving:
1st Snapper, 600mm Kayak Michael Brown
2nd Snapper, 515mm Kayak Mark Nijssen
3rd equal Snapper, 490mm Boat Peter Royds and Kayak Michael Brown

1st equal Kahawai, 550mm Boat Marty Jepsen and Boat Andrew Melvin
2nd Kahawai, 545mm Boat Stu Marshall
3rd Kahawai, 535mm Boat Pete Townhill

1st Trevally, 465mm Boat Nathan Nuku
2nd Trevally, 455mm Boat Mathew Ward
3rd Trevally, 450mm Boat Mike Nuku

1st equal John Dory, 375mm Boat Nathan Nuku and Boat Brent Maclead
2nd and 3rd John Dory, Spot Prize

Sundays Prize Giving,

1st Snapper, 710mm Kayak Bran Auld
2nd Snapper, 660mm Kayak Andrew Temara
3rd Snapper, 610mm Boat Kev Power

1st Kahawai, 560mm Kayak Ash Rawson
2nd Kahawai, 660mm Kayak Matt Smith
3rd Kahawai, 535mm Boat Gavin Ward

1st Trevally, 615mm Boat Pete Townhill
2nd Trevally, 460mm Boat Andrew Melvin
3rd Trevally, 420mm Boat Gavin Ward

1st John Dory, 480mm Kayak Andrew Temara
2nd and 3rd John Dory, Spot Prize

Ok, Now for the big ones,

Longest Snapper out of Kayak,
710mm Bran Auld

Longest Snapper out of a boat,
610mm Kev Power


And the Decoro Soft Bait Masters for 2011 are team,
Team Cowboy with a combined length of 2000mm

Well done to teams Softbaiting Solutions with a very close 1990mm and team Mac5 with 1795mm

Thank you to all our sponsors in particular,
Decoro Fishing Supplies
Berkley
Anglers Lodge
Canoe & Kayak
The Rock Radio
Tauranga Game Fishing Club
Bay Fisher Mag

Also my wife Gina for the work she puts in in the back ground.
And a big thanks to all of you that entered our comp hope you had as much fun fishing it as we did running it.
This was the fourth year for our comp with many more to come.
Hope to see you all next year!!

Softbait Solutions, Mac5 and Team Cowboy













P.s does any one have anything to say about maybe holding it in Sept?

Sunlive link

http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/19338-good-catches-expected.html