How Did This Happen ( D’Urville Island Fishing Competition)

I got a few mates together to compete
on my Stabicraft in the D'Urville
Island Wilderness Resort fishing competition. It had
been postponed a couple times but this was fully worth the wait as the weather really
turned it on along with the fishing. Day 1 we caught and released a few Snapper all over
12 pound including the bigg
est coming in at 17 pound. Chris also landed a very
respectable Trevelly coming in at 8.24 pound. After filling the bin with 7 Snaps we then
went on to target Kingfish and Ryan hooked up on the very first drop with his brand new
Shimano Fishing New Zealand
Ocea Jigger 4000 to what was a respectable king coming
in at 24.96 pound. After the kings it was time to fire up the Weber Baby Q and cook up
some lunch while Ryan had a few casts with the soft bait. He then managed to land a
nice Tarakihi. At this stage
we were starting to believe that we might be in with a shot to
enter the 7 species category. After lunch we then went and targeted some Blue Cod for
the comp but also the dinner plate with Chris and Brayden showing us how it was done
landing some nice fish
around 45cm mark. After a good quick session on the Cod we
made our way back to Catherine Cove where we fired up the bbq to cook up some fresh
fish for dinner. It turned out to be a bit of a late night on the brews which meant we were
all a little bit dus
ty the following morning. First up was to try and land a couple of
Kahawai one for the comp and one for Puka bait where Ryan was really in his element
and landed a couple of nice fish. We then only had 1 of 2 species to get so we thought
let’s go deep and
see if we can land a Puka which after 20 or so minutes and a few bites
we finally had landed a 13 pound Puka and the celebration on board says it all. We had
landed all 7 species and it wasn’t even lunch time on Saturday. By mid afternoon we
decided to hea
d in early to have a clean up and get our species all gutted and weighed
in. Honestly we knew we had done well catching all the species but didn’t really believe
we had any fish worth a prize but boy were we wrong. It was now time for prize giving
where we
were stocked for everyone who got a prize especially Matt for winning
heaviest snapper coming in at 22 pound. Up came the biggest trevelly and Nauti Buoy
was the winner. Heck what a surprise this was, we had won our first ever fishing prize.
After a coupl
e more species read out it was now time for the biggest Puka and Nauti
Buoy was read out again. We all looked at each other in shock we had won another prize,
I was just fizzing. We also won Average Kingfish. Then up came the species category
and once again Nauti Buoy was read out. Wholly heck what had just happened we had
won the fishing competition. We were all pumped up and in shock so we made sure we
celebrated our success with a few brews and shared around a couple of our prizes.
What an awesome trip with the lads and one we will all remember for a long time. We
would all like to thank everyone involved along with all of the sponsors for the
competition. The lads all picked what prizes they wanted to keep and we have decided
as team that we will do a give away. All you have to do is subscribe to my channel and
comment below your greatest fishing experience with your mates and we will pick the
winner from there.
Winner announced Sunday 19th of February

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