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Top: e team on El Torito won the prize for the best photo of the tournament – this shot of the team posed in front of the aptly named Marlin Hotel in Whangaroa
Above left: Craig Stokes (left) picks up his prize for the heaviest bill sh from Isuzu NZ’s David Ballantyne
Above right: Russell Bill led a big tournament for the Pyramid Trucking team on Anchorage. Here he receives the prize for the best tag and release bill sh from Cummins NZ’s Daniel Gallagher
Day two saw several more marlin hooked up, with some escaping and a couple tagged and released.
Three more marlin were tagged and released on day three – and two more were brought in to be weighed.
The Pyramid Trucking team on Anchorage tagged two marlin on the last day to take the overall top team points and team-member Russell Bill also claimed the top angler honours. Anchorage’s Dennis and Dean Pollock also
won the Best Skipper and Best Deckie awards respectively.
Jonathon Fulton took the prize for the heaviest snapper with an 8.2kg fish and was first and third in the contest for the largest measure and release snapper (with 77cm and 71cm fish)... while son Shine was second in the measure and release with a 75cm snapper.
Don Wilson won the heaviest kingfish prize with a 22.34kg fish – and backed that up by winning the largest measure and release kingfish honours with a 110cm fish. Shine Fulton (108cm fish) was second and Doug Wilson (102cm fish) was third.
Craig Stokes’ 213.2kg blue marlin won the
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