WARKWORTH GAMEFISH CLUB INC.

2012 GRUMPYS ONE BASE

The weather yet again dominated our tournament, but at least it wasnt a cyclone this time! 84 anglers on 24 boats had a great time and caught some good fish. And the trip home was mint. All three days (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) saw some of the fleet head out wide and the remainder hiding somewhere generally around the back of Gt Barrier. For some of us it was the most time wed ever spent on the east side of Gt Barrier and that was a worthwhile experience on its own. Over the 3 days there were 4 marlin dropped and two kept. Brian Colville on Assassin caught and weighed his first marlin, a good effort in those conditions and it will smoke up nicely but wasnt quite up to the 90kg minimum. The only qualifying marlin weighed was Brodie Campbells 117.5kg Stripey on Violator. A bitter disappointment for Kim and the crew on Femme Fatale was having the line break in the effort to recover a big Blue Marlin they had hooked in almost 500m. Sounds like it was an absolute horse, better luck next time. No significant tuna were caught, but many boats ran into plagues of Skippies, so the food is there for marlin. There was a bit of snapper bait harvesting going on, it would be good to find a reliable method and recipe for bottling Skippies like canned onesyum. A large Bronze Whaler at 130kg by Josh on the new boat Much More won the shark section and took out the sweepstake for the heaviest weighed gamefish. Snappers were chunky again this year, with Trevor Bogue and Boyd Jones (Swansong), and Craig McNaught (Seagers) taking out the top 3. The top 3 Kingfish were by Chris Ridley (X-Calibre), Grant Hamilton (Elusive), and Barry Plumpton (XCalibre). The radio quizzes were a little difficult because of reception, but bottles of rum (thanks Jerry at Matakana House) went to the boats Doris, Mahina, and [of course] Assassin. The Saturday get together at Smokehouse was another goodie, and went on til the early hours for some. We drew 5 entrants out to go in the travel draw, and ran a couple of raffles, with the proceeds going straight back into the prize pool. Well have to all try getting into the beach a bit quicker in future so we dont run out of light next time. When Kerry from Bloodshot started messing around on the

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FITZROY, GREAT BARRIER ISLAND, FRIDAY 27thSUNDAY 29th JANUARY 2012

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dodgy tree swing I thought we would see the Westpac helicopter for sure. Our last night and prizegiving was hosted by Kim Pickard at the Barrier Hiltonthanks so much Kim, it was awesome. The new wharf and gantry is classy. The great meal was put on by Mick and helpers, and the initial leftovers were grazed by those that stayed late. At the prizegiving a raffle was held for Great Barrier Radio for a magnum bottle of rum (thanks Wolfie at Super Liquor Warkworth) and we raised $685 for Emmy and her team. The winning ticket was held by Bevan Wech on the boat Nicarla. Lucky it was the last night, because his crew could have been a lot of trouble with that much rum. The final results look a bit like this: Grumpys One Base Trophy, Heaviest Shark, and Sweepstake: Josh on the Richard Spencer skippered boat Much More, 130kg Bronze Whaler shark Presidents Challenge, Heaviest Marlin: Brodie Campbell on Violator, 117.5kg Striped Marlin Snapper: 1st Trevor Bogue 8.96kg 2nd Boyd Jones 7.92kg 3rd Craig McNaught 7.05kg Kingfish: 1st Chris Ridley 12.74kg 2nd Grant Hamilton 11.12kg 3rd Barry Plumpton 10.00kg Trophies: ENL Trophy for vessel giving the most support: Femme Fatale, for coming back early for weighing and hosting duties. Grumpys Hard Luck Trophy: Femme Fatale, for missing out on their undoubtedly monster Blue Marlin. The Lady Doreen Biggest Cockup Trophy: Always hotly contested for, but Aaron on Dirty Berty was the winner for starting to gas the boat up through the rod holder. Which is a bit rough since Aaron (Matakana Marine) gave us a new 2.5hp outboard as a prize! The outboard was won by local man Brian Bell, who was also in the travel prize draw. Oodles of spot prizes and some great vouchers and product meant almost everyone took something home besides great memories. We drew the other 5 contenders for the tropical holiday prize for two people. We eliminated them in a draw one by one, until we were left with. Greg Jones (Laser Plumbing, Warkworth). Congratulations Greg, he gets to work out a destination and

Thanks Wayne & Glennis

sponsors of the Barrier Radio rum raffle, $685 raised this yearawesome!
Thanks Boyd

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Boyd picks up $300 cash for 2nd place snapper

Thanks Brian & Helen

CARTERS Warkworthsponsors of the Hitachi sabre saw raffled and won by Steve Taylor on Estasitin arse!

Thanks Dave & Wendy Moore

Thanks Mike

page 3 of 7 timing that suits him. The canon ended the prizegiving (thanks Con), but most people stayed around because it was such a great venue and atmosphere. Were already looking forward to next year, and Kim is keen to have us back. Theres already new sponsors jumping on board for next year, like Ken from Floating Dock Services in Westhaven (ph 09 379 0934) offering two free lift and cleans. Next year we might also take Kim up on the offer of his shed as the radio base, instead of upsetting Wombats radio act by being out of range. Thanks Wombat for your work. Thanks to the Warkworth Gamefish Club committee for their efforts, these things take a TEAM and we have a good one. Please remember to tell our sponsors what a great time you had. We got an excellent response from sponsors to subsidizing the meal which meant more cash could go straight back in to the prize poolthankyou. From here well let the pictures do the talking, see you next year! Dave.

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Thanks Andrew & Jane Rob gets serious on Southern Belle

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Chris Ridley 1st kingfish

Photo: Kim Pickard

Presidents Challenge, Heaviest Marlin:

Brodie Campbell on Violator, 117.5kg Striped Marlin

Breakfree & X-Calibre rafted up, trouble trouble trouble

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Grumpys One Base Trophy, Heaviest Shark, and Sweepstake: Josh on the Richard Spencer skippered boat Much More, 130kg Bronze Whaler

Trevor Bogue 0274980836 We like to have a close relationship with the supporters The brand new 40 Spectrum of the Club..Whooooa! Not Much More built that close! by Richard Spencer

The Sweepstake and Shark section winners from the recently launched Much More

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Brian Colville on Assassin caught and weighed his first marlin, a good effort in those conditions and it will smoke up nicely but wasnt quite up to the 90kg minimum.

Boyd & Trevor with 2nd & 1st snappers

Jeff Smith and Brian Colville on Assassin

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Brian, Milton, and Kim with the Grumpys Hard Luck Trophy for their lost Bluethat trophy just doesnt get any prettier with age!

THANKYOU TO OUR AWESOME SPONSORS: HUNTING & FISHING WW MASON CONTRACTORS SOUTHEYS BULK & LIQUID THE FLIGHT CENTRE WW GUBBS MOTORS COMPAS TYRES SUPER LIQUOR WARKWORTH CARTERS BLDG SUPPLIES WW D & W MOOREWILD FISH MATAKANA MARINE LEES BOATBUILDERS

Swansong above (Rod Jones skipper) and Snow on the left doing a runner with some of the great spot prizes

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We were honoured (and inspired) to have 3 of our 4 Life Members Fishing the comp: Rod Jones, Bun Matheson, and Al Mason

MAHURANGI MARINE WW AUTO ELECTRICAL DIXON MARINE PRODUCTS + MARINE EXPRESS GULL, MATAKANA MUSTANGS GENTLEMANS CLUB

Pay day for Trevor Bogue, (top) Grant Hamilton (above) and Barry Plumpton (right)
Thanks Jerry, you made Matakana House a great place, good luck for the future

MATAKANA HOUSE RAY WHITE REAL ESTATE SIGNMASTERS TRADE XTRA HALLETT ENTERPRISES INTIMATE APPAREL W. JONES CONSTRUCTION FEMME FATALE LASER PLUMBING
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Dont drink it all at once! Thanks for your hospitality Kim

Travel prize elimination time

Greg Jones, travel prize winner

Wainui and Dirty Berty

The good news Aaron is that Im told you cant win this twice! Thanks for the outboard. Matakana Marine Ph 4227822

Dont ask Ron what hes doing with this marlin and you wont be told any lies..

Bruce (Keg) is chuffed with $400 antifoul from Lees Boatbuilders

Brodie Campbell accepts $1500 cash from Rob Southey for the heaviest Marlin. Footsteps are being followed in for sure

The Femme Fatale crew with the ENL Trophy for vessel giving the most support during the tournamentthanks.
The weather on the way home was of course.PERFECT! Ah well, theres always next year, have a great season.

Karl and Rod aboard Charissa, the smallest boat in the fleet at 7m, unusual not to see these guys in the snapper prizes

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