The 90 Mile Beach Surfcasting Club emerged from winter hibernation mode to hold its opening field day for the summer season on September 15. A report from the club noted snapper were generally not seen over this period but because the winter had not been as cold as previous years, some reasonable snapper were caught by local surfcasters throughout the months from June to September.
Back at the opening field day, the 21 club members and two visitors taking part weighed in seven snapper, eight trevally and 28 kahawai.
The heaviest snapper of the day honours went to Miko Rogers with a 3.98kg number caught off the Waipapakauri Ramp, while the heaviest trevally was Dan Lloyd's 4.74kg fish, Lloyd also winning the haggle for the trevally closest to 3.05kg.
The heaviest kahawai was by Rod Alan 2.38kg, while the remaining placings went to Milton Arnold 3.26kg snapper 4, Phil Kake from Whangarei 4.53kg trevally 5, Mike Moses 21.6kg kahawai 6, Dave Hallett 3.20kg snapper 7, Steve Maisey 4.33kg trevally 8, (new member) Mike Grylls 1.58kg kahawai 9, Ken Tyler 2.71kg snapper 10, while the special junior prize went to Quaylan Wikitera.
Coming up this Saturday is the Keith Smith Memorial Trophy for the heaviest kahawai. Fishing in the event will take place from 7am to 1pm over a 8.30am low tide with weigh-in, prizegiving and barbecue to be held at the club caravan afterwards.
