& The NEW GURNARD GURU is........
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Topic: & The NEW GURNARD GURU is........
Posted By: John_Ra
Subject: & The NEW GURNARD GURU is........
Date 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 comp
 Total fish weighed in was about 347kg, fish guy takes the lot, money goe's to the Welfare section of the RSA  ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Muzzfishing
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 8:58pm
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Did you get on the board John. ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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Posted By: Skoti
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 9:02pm
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Yeh what happened to the snapper section of this gurnard only competition ? Really weird that  What a good idea the spare day was and what a day it was , cheers weather  But man was it cold  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  )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  I think most F-netters won a prize except me Smudge has a photo of the F-net winners and if you're wondering what I'm doing in it , I'm just sucking the last of the mullet/squid/bonito bait from under my thumb-nail ------------- COVID is no joke ! One former patient was so brain damaged after , he thought he won an election he lost by 7 million votes . |
Posted By: John_Ra
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 9:18pm
 Did have a throw off the shore this side (Rewa) but zip...
The ones that ventured out after midnight, seriously not that keen!!! ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow">
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Muzzfishing wrote:Posted By: Muzzfishing
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 9:27pm
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The ones that ventured out after midnight, seriously not that keen!!! [/QUOTE]
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. ------------- http://www.legasea.co.nz" rel="nofollow"> A Good Skipper Keeps the water on the outside of the boat.
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Posted By: snap
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 10:04pm
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Good stuff...what is 1.292kg (lengthwise)
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Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 10:09pm
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.  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.  |
Posted By: smudge
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 10:13pm
| 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. |
Posted By: skidoggg
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 7:31am
| 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... |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 9:47am
Thanks for the report John. Top effort guys. 1.3kg gerbil, even I could get a decent fillet off that!  ------------- No half measures! |
Posted By: Bushpig
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 11:24am
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Holy hell, Blind Barry is there
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Posted By: Wefaknis
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2010 at 9:11pm
| Good to see you barrie, and meet you John, well done on the comp mate..... Ski Your a Bad man... |