King of The Coast Competition

Friday April 26th Dave set up camp with Marty at North Cape for the King of The Coast Fishing Competition, which was a fundraiser for one of the local schools. They land-based fished Saturday and Sunday mostly for snapper, but also a bit for kingfish. The weigh-in was Sunday afternoon in Whangaroa Harbour. After driving north, taking the dingy an hour and a half to the North Cape, then hiking for a couple hours to their spot, then all back again, they were pretty worn out. Jill met them just after weigh in, and they didn't seem overly positive. They had a great time, but they didn't think they had caught a big enough fish. There was an auction of everyone's donated fish to the public for the benefit of the school. Then it was awards time. Lots of raffle prizes were given out to all the participants, then prizes were given to different fishing category winners. Marty won the biggest snapper and Dave won average snapper, which meant they each received $1000.00. WOW!!! Those were the only 2 cash prizes, and our guys won them both. What a great weekend fishing, and a well deserved prize after all their hard work and effort.