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Two and a few hours to get you tickets @csfc.co.nz
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358 entries! Not too bad at all. Good luck to all the fishers.
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Another one bites the dust, so cool to have so many turn (358 entries) up to an event that you've started up yourself and to be the front man. It's very humbling and the event has been supported by you guys very well over the last 14 years. My last year at the helm and I have mixed feelings about that for sure, I'm already regretting that decision. Anyway! Here are the results:




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What was the winning Weight "smudge"   Next year hopefully, too much going at the moment. Fallen in love with the motorcycle,but it will pass!


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Good to see Arron Parker feature given the conditions he had to endure LOL What about his snapper no consolation prize.

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The winning fish was 1.27kg, the average weight was 0.77kg from memory. Arrons snapper went 4.96kg, pretty good for this time in the year in the shallows, the other snappers he got were 62cm and 45cm which we didn't weigh. No prizes for any species other than gurnard
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Nice catch Arron. A really enjoyable event. I was knackered yesterday.

Hopefully the weather is settled this weekend. I’ll head out again and try catch some more gurnard.
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Congrats for running another awesome GH competition Smudge. No prize winners on my boat this year but we had a good haul of carrots. It must feel bitter / sweet to host your final GH competition. But at the end of the day you have left an amazing legacy that you can be very proud of.
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Originally posted by Hookski Hookski wrote:

Congrats for running another awesome GH competition Smudge. No prize winners on my boat this year but we had a good haul of carrots. It must feel bitter / sweet to host your final GH competition. But at the end of the day you have left an amazing legacy that you can be very proud of.

 
Next year then Hookski!

Yeah it was as soon as the prizegiving was over that I was questioning my decision to hand the event over. I'll miss the build up but then its a whole lot easier for me to not have to worry about the hundreds of things that could go wrong. In 14 years we've never had to cancel nor had a bad event during the comp.

I'm sure the GH will continue to improve. Thanks for your kind words.
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