Success for the club who put a huge effort in to get this comp up and running for the people of Hawke's Bay every year. Yes.

Success for the anglers. I guess so. Congratulations to the prize winners. Easy money if you only have to put a tiddler on the scales. Great prizes too.

Hard luck to the young fellow who I yelled out to as his rod bent over twice with a nice kahawai looking bend. He was ten metres away, yakking to his mate. By the time he got there, the fish was gone. Hard lesson learned there I think.

Spectacular fishing. No, in fact very poor.
Approx one fish weighed per 20 fishermen. Median weight of kahawai about 600 grams ie about 30 to 35cm in length. Only one person caught a fish over 2kg. Only two people weighed a fish over a kilo. Sea was ok, weather good, but decent sized kahawai were very sparse.

From my perspective as a quad rider, who spoke to pretty much every fisho on the bottom half of the boundary. Most fish caught were small, although it was nice to hear of a few stray albeit under size snapper, trevs being caught and returned. Not one gurnard as far as I am aware. Yet another snapshot of the state of the HB fishery? You be the judge.....