Hooley spondooley \u2013 just when we thought it may never get bigger, we have broken records for numbers of anglers registered and a huge crowd of supporters who enjoyed the weekend! All told, we had 111 hit the water to fish \u2013 an even split of adults and juniors which bodes really well for the future of the comp.<\/p>\n
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We were relatively lucky with the weather \u2013 a blowy day on Friday wedged between two lovely days on the water \u2013 and boy were there some fish around! There were 155 fish registered and 254 released across nine different species (including a Stargazer and lots of stingrays!) A big shout out to Katie and the crew at the Gipsy Point Lodge who were once again willing to host us for registrations and the final Presentation afternoon. It really is so great to open and close the comp overlooking the Genoa!<\/p>\n
FUNDRAISING<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the new fundraising features this year was a huge hit and created some awesome theatre on the night of the Presentation. The \u2018reverse-draw\u2019 Mega River Raffle saw an excited crowd gathered around the bingo roller as the balls were drawn out, eliminating a punter with each extraction. In the end it came down to two excited (nervous!) lads in the room \u2013 Harrison Lipscombe and Dave Peters ultimately deciding to split the $2,500 pot between them. Both very excited and deserving winners who were immensely grateful for the windfall.<\/p>\n The regular raffle was again a success – the community once again came through with some amazing prizes! The items generously donated for the auction were all snapped up with some hot bidding on the night. Thanks to everyone for your donations – we can’t do this without you! With the additional funds received via a grant from Fire to Flourish for which we are so grateful, we were able to raise more than $2,500 while also doubling the prize money and sponsoring the Presentation dinner for the community.<\/p>\n PRIZE WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n With so many fish being caught, the main prize was always going to be hotly contested \u2013 and patience paid off for many!<\/p>\n Longest Bream<\/strong><\/p>\n Mitch Stothers 44cm<\/p>\n Reid Johnson 42cm<\/p>\n Scotty Panton 40cm<\/p>\n Longest Flathead<\/strong><\/p>\n Dennis Brownlie 73cm<\/p>\n Tanya De Geus 64cm<\/p>\n Jack Resson 64cm<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Prize<\/strong> (donated by Sally Foster for the longest overall ‘bag’ of fish)<\/p>\n Anna Harcourt<\/p>\n John Wood Memorial Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n Eddie Eade (who released 46 fish!)<\/p>\n Paul Davis Memorial (Junior) Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n Reid Johnson \u2013 42cm Bream<\/p>\n Jack Ressom \u2013 64cm Flathead<\/p>\n U\/14 Nellie Brownlie \u2013 62cm Flathead<\/p>\n U\/10 \u2013 Tom Brownlie \u2013 63cm Flathead<\/p>\n We look forward to seeing you all back again next year \u2013 I have already updated the website with dates for 2027 \u2013 lock 1st-3rd APRIL in your diaries! Always looking to simplify to make everything as easy as possible \u2013 please send any feedback you have! If you need to update your details or add anyone\u2019s email to the list, please just shoot me an email to lucy.gilfillan@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n I look forward to seeing you on the river soon!<\/p>\n Tight lines!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hooley spondooley \u2013 just when we thought it may never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gipsy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gipsypoint.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}