That wraps up Craftys FW 4 – Points for the weekend and total points for the season so far are attached.

16 fishers braved the elements for FW 4 with once again the FW curse bringing in the rain for the weekend. Although sea conditions were decent, from all accounts fish had to be worked hard for once again.

25 Kahawai were caught
1 Barracouta
9 Redcod with 6 of these weighed in from Justin the redcod guru Carroll
3 Moki
27 Snapper
SSH 3
Gurnard 7

Heaviest Snapper 1.8kg a Porongahau special by Hamish
Heaviest Gurnard a pin of 1.02 from Justin also at Porongahau
Average Kahawai went to Kane
Best Other went to Sue K for a pin moki of 3.34kg with Hamish also catching a pin moki – both from napier side.

Fishing was a bit more spread out this weekend with some clubbies venturing up towards Mahia for Friday night and Saturday, this did see an increase of snapper numbers at weigh in but in general size was quite small with the average

snapper being around the 600g mark with Pete K being the exception of catching a couple of 1kg+ fish at Whakaki.

Standout bag this weekend was Kane , managing to bag his snapper and kahawai and 4 gurnard. Pete K , George and Justin not too far behind with a nice mixture of fish. This was a challenge weekend . 300 bonus points awarded for

anyone catching 7+ fish made up of a minimum of 3 species. Pete K , Justin, Kane and George all managing to bank the extra points in a challenging weather weekend . Great Stuff

1/3 of the season done and dusted sees a change at the top of the leaderboard with Kane overtaking George into 1st place, only a mere 200 points separation. James B , Justin and Pete K rounding out the top 5.

FW 5 is our Hams weekend kicking off Dec 1st which as per normal is $10 per rod ( $20 for those that fish with 2 rods). This will need to be paid before the FW. For those looking to pay online bank account details are :

Pania Surfcasting Club Inc
SBS Bank
03 1355 0774659 00

Note that there won’t be a normal meeting before the Hams so online could be your best bet.

Put your name as a Reference. Any queries contact myself or Mel .

Hopefully the long range weather improves for Dec 1st and for those looking to dust off their rods and have a FW fish, the hams is always a good one to have a crack .

Looks like a good weekend coming to top up the tackle boxes, tick off all your house jobs off the list and get ready for the following fishing weekend. More info to come next week.

Cheers Karim Brown Club Captain

FW4 – 17th, 18th & 19th November