Posted by Phill on 8/10/2012, 7:41 pm Tackle Tactics
Papamoa Regional Casting day on this coming Sunday 14th at the Gordon Spratt Park Start time 10.00am Thanks to the Western Bays club for organising the grounds All are welcome you don't need to belong to a club to participate . Some of NZs best casters will be there, check out how they cast 200mts plus. The casting will use the new casting rules for next years NZACA Nats. Coaching and casting tuition also. Hope to see you there.
Wish I could but I will be supporting our club at the Pania Sheild Challenge at Tahaenui.The snapper don't know where the car park is! Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive.
I hope you all have an awesome weekend! May the wind be with you!The snapper don't know where the car park is! Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive.
Thanks Gary it looks like there will be wind,raining down here at the moment but no wind to speak of. Looks like it could get rough for your sheild challenge. PS:Happy Birthday
On behalf of the Western Bay Surfcasting Club, I would like to say thanks to Jock for helping us get this orginasied, to Phill for coming up and helping out and letting us try some of your rods and to all those who came along, in some pretty averagae conditions, and made today something for our club to look forward to more of in the future. A great time was had by us all and those of us that needed help with the basic are now on the right track with how to improve. So thanks once again and look forward to meeting up with uses all again in the future
Just got home thanks to Jock and Phill for running this event. A big thanks to the Western Bays Club for helping with the red tape through the Tauranga City Council.And Trish says a huge thanks for the bacon and egg sammies for breakfast.
The trip north looked like turning into an adventure with trees down across the road and enough wind to stop the big Nissan in its tracks. Neil had a free ride from one side of the road to the other and followed a guy in a van towing a trailer with rafts on it stunt driving on one wheel across the desert road. As for the casting I would like to thank Grant and Leslie from Western Bays Surfcasting Club for their hard work making the day happen. Jock for giving up his casting to run the day. Gary W for carting his measuring gear around and sorting out our accommodation and Karen for taking a million photos standing out in the weather and putting up with my driving going to these things . There were 17 casters competing with Pete, Paul and Grant coming down from the far north. Neil, Gary, Jock and myself from down this way. The rest were Western Bays, I believe they have gained a new member Robo the Alvey man. The wind was blowing on an angle from our right which meant you had to cast into it and let the wind blow you weight to the left dragging about another 100mtrs of line out. We were casting 100gm and 125gm which is lighter than most would cast. Some very impressive distances were achieved . Neil set a new NewZealand record for 100gm at 226.327mtrs. Pete's new record for 125gm of 216.08mtrs. For me as Neil said I achieved a personal best of 203mtrs with a 100gm. This was achieved using a Abu Veritas a Tica Dolphin reel .28 Duraflex and a Ultima 15/50 tapered leader with an OTG cast . The use of flash rods wasn't an option this time around but that's another story. Thanks to all those who had a go , I believe everyone had fun.
Great way to spend an arvo and thanks to everyone that organised this event. And for all those novices out there I highly recommend having a go if you get the chance, learnt heaps and a modest 121m gives me something to better next time.
Glad you enjoyed yourself that's what these days are all about , we try to keep them low key with a mix of fun and seriousness . We all learn something . Ups to you for taking the plunge and you did really well with that funny looking reel of yours.
on 8/10/2012, 7:41 pm
