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    Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 8:38pm
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Bugger just forgot his name Doh!!
But Carrot was 1.292kg
 
2nd place a very happy lady with a 1.270kg
 
3rd went to a junior girl a tad smaller...
 
Some of F.nets crew were there too picking up prizes. Wefakins, Smudge, Skidoggg
 
Skoti was there too, but he thought it was a snapper compShocked
 
Total fish weighed in was about 347kg, fish guy takes the lot, money goe's to the Welfare section of the RSAThumbs Up
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Did you get on the board John.
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Yeh what happened to the snapper section of this gurnard only competition ?
Really weird that LOL
What a good idea the spare day was and what a day it was , cheers weather Clap
But man was it cold Shocked
I wore 2 pairs of pants , 2 sweaters , a jersey , a jacket , overalls , a home-invasion style balaclava (apologies to that bloke at the ramp who freaked out when I snuck up behind him and said g'day Embarrassed )
2 pairs of thermal socks and a pair of gumboots that leak and soaked my socks .
Cold , numb feet all day but the rest of me was snug Ouch
I think most F-netters won a prize except me Ouch
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Originally posted by Muzzfishing Muzzfishing wrote:

Did you get on the board John.
Nah, was gonna head around to Big bay, but due to time of tide, frozen truck, hopped back in bed, frakl thatLOL Did have a throw off the shore this side (Rewa) but zip...
 
The ones that ventured out after midnight, seriously not that keen!!!
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The ones that ventured out after midnight, seriously not that keen!!!
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That fairly keen for this time of the year, it was -4 degC in the Waikato this morning, lucky comps up in sunny Maunkau. Sounds like Skotti needs new gumboots before next year.LOL
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Good stuff...what is 1.292kg (lengthwise)
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Beautiful day, great comp but man the fishing was hard. Moggy, Ski and me gave it death all day - even using special weapons and tactics. In the end we had about 12 gurnard between the three of us with the 2 biggest coming out of a desperate last minute I've never fished here before spot X. We fished almost til 2.00pm leaving precious little time to get back to the Hillbilly Mansion in Te Toro and drive the 45 mins to Manurewa. We made it with 4 minutes to spare.  Thanks Ski & Moggy was a great day out. Big smile

Here's a raggedy pic of a raggedy lot ... all fishing.netters. I think Barrie got heaviest of us lot with Wefaknis a close second. Good work doing all the weighing John....apologies for not getting you in the pic.



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1.29 is probably about 48cm for a well conditioned fish. John Moran caught an almost identical weight fish last weekend and it was 48. At 1.08 mine was 46cm. At 50cm they are getting up around 1.5kg.
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what primo conditions but fish were not exactly on the chew,thanx smudge and moggy and good to catch up with the other . netters at the weigh in ,got some pics will post em tonight...
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Thanks for the report John. Top effort guys. 1.3kg gerbil, even I could get a decent fillet off that! Clap
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Holy hell, Blind Barry is there
 
 
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Good to see you barrie, and meet you John, well done on the comp mate..... Ski Your a Bad man...
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