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Win a Fishing Trip to Great Barrier Island

Mental — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:38:15 +0000

Win a long weekend away on “RedQuarters” at Great Barrier Island – Jan 29th to Feb 1st – with a group of other KayakFishingNZ.com kayak fishers – valued at $300.00

The owners of the Lara Star MV (Redquarters) have offered up a prize to KayakFishingNZ.com for one of the forum members to come along for free on our next Great Barrier trip, to enter for a chance to win this prize you need to enter a fish into our regular monthly online fishing competition, all entries over the month will then be judged by the Lara Star Skipper, Red, the angler who caught the fish he deems to be the best will be selected as the winner!

Simple as that, catch a fish in December, post it up in the competition thread, and you could be heading to the Barrier for free in January!

Any questions feel free to ask, terms and conditions are all below but basically the prize is the trip only, all other costs such as getting too and from the boat, your kayak, food & drink, fishing tackle, etc are your responsibility.

To see more about how our last trip went, have a read through the trip reports here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1286

If you wish to come along on our next trip you need to be quick as places are filling fast – see here for the current trip planning thread: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1376

Find out more about the Lara Star here: http://www.redquarters.co.nz/

Good luck guys!!!

Cheers, Mental

UPDATE Hairy Little Dwarf won the competition for his almighty Tope, and he has chosen to pass the prize on to Spraty

July 2009 – Hairy Little Dwarf

Mental — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:05:26 +0000

Quote:

Hairy Little Dwarf wrote:
Spotties still allowed?

Quote:

Mental replied
With only 2 votes in June I’d strongly suggest something different – one of those “big northern fish” might be the go…

Fish Type: Snapper (Chrysophrys auratus)
Length: 68cm (27″ – Tad shorter than the Prowler well, and longer than a baby)
Weight: Heavier than a baby 13lb gutted
Date/Time of Capture: 1000Hrs 17/07/09
Location of Capture: Spot X, somewhere north of Whangarei
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pillie cube
Comments (optional): It was cold and miserable, but I had to get the new yak wet.

Here comes the rain, again.

July 2009 – NakiMan

Mental — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:47:32 +0000

Name / Username of Angler: Naki man
Fish Type: Snapper
Length: – 47cms
Date/Time of Capture: 11/07/09
Location of Capture: White Cliffs – Taranaki.
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pillchard
Comments: Water temp 11.6 – wind chill factor Antartic.

Name / Username of Angler: Naki man
Fish Type: John Dory
Length: – 42cms (Where do you measure these)
Date/Time of Capture: 11/07/09
Location of Capture: White Cliffs – Taranaki.
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pillchard
Comments: Water temp 11.6 – wind chill factor Antartic.

July 2009 – Ambo364

Mental — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:38:55 +0000

Name / Username of Angler: Ambo364
Fish Type: Snapper
Length: 50+cm
Date/Time of Capture: 3 July 2009, 1100am
Location of Capture: St Leonards, Shore
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pink Shine Gulp
Comments: Good scrapper took about 10mins on the 4kg noodlestick. His bigger bro about 8-10 Lb was involuntarily released at the yak though…

July 2009 – PhotoCol

Mental — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:26:08 +0000

Name / Username of Angler: Colin/Photocol
Fish Type: Snapper
Length: 39cm
Date/Time of Capture: 8th July 4.30pm
Location of Capture: East side of Flat Island off Sunkist bay
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pillies
Comments: Was caught on the new rod, An Alvey (as per the picture)

July 2009 – Sean

Mental — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:36 +0000

Name / Username of Angler: sean
Fish Type: Snapper
Length: Slightly longer than a baby – 57cms
Date/Time of Capture: saturday 4thJuly 2009 – approximately 09hoo.
Location of Capture: eastern beach-black beacon point
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pillchard
Comments: last cast before returning to the beach “or changing into an ice lolly”

cheers sean

the larger of 3 snaps cayght for tea this frosty morning.
No monsters……….. but at a healthy 57 cm off Eastern beach ………not too shabby.

July 2009 – NSAKLNZ

Mental — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:53:09 +0000

Name / Username of Angler: Chay – NSAKLNZ
Fish Type: Snapper
Length: Slightly longer than a baby – 53cms
Date/Time of Capture: Friday 3rd July 2009 – 1200pm
Location of Capture: The marker post, Narrow Neck Beach.
Type of Lure/Bait used: Pillchard
Comments: Caught within the first minute of dropping a bait.

1kg Pillchards – 7$, burley bomb 8$ – using a newborn baby as a measuring device in a fishing competition – Shameless!

Today was the first fishing trip since the birth of my baby daugher, Charlotte. I thought it would be fitting to include her in the picture and she also adds some scale. I’m not sure of her length but she weighs in at about 3.7kg now!

After I had picked a couple of scales off her, placed her back in her bassinet, I used a M-fish rule and found the length to be 53cm.

June 2009 – Chip’n

Mental — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:16:17 +0000

Caught this JD this morning.
Name: chip’n
Fish Type: John Dory
Length: Approx 440mm, (no vee in the tail, where do you measure from?)
Date/Time: 21/06/09 approx 0830
Location: Papamoa
Type Of Lure: Gulp chartreuse
Weight: 1.2 kg

June 2009 – Hairy Little Dwarf

Mental — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:50:03 +0000

Just for laughs, or until I can get something better

Name / Hairy Little Dwarf
Fish Type: Pseudolabrus celidotus
Length:About 25cm
Date/Time of Capture: 06/06/09 0946Hrs
Location of Capture: Kerikeri Inlet
Type of Lure/Bait used: Well chewed Pink Shine on 1/4oz head
Comments: Exposure Time: 1/200th sec. ISO Speed Rating: 80

Tagged and Released

June 2009 – Danfili

Mental — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:42:38 +0000

Name / Danfili
Fish Type: Gurnard
Length:47cm
Date/Time of Capture: 07.06.09 3pm
Location of Capture: Plimmerton
Type of Lure/Bait used:Kahawai