PICTURED: Harper Duffin with her major prizes that she won at the Back To Pedder trout fishing competition
The 2024 “Back To Pedder” trout fishing competition held recently by the Lake Pedder Anglers Club on Lake Pedder was a success even though the weather was horrendous for the majority of the competition.
Forty-nine members had a crack and a massive 491 trout were caught over the four days of fishing.
Here’s the results:
The heaviest trout for the competition was won by Sharon Groves with a fish weighing 0.850kg cleaned, the heaviest trout for a small fry/junior – Lottie Waddell 0.698kg, heaviest trout, junior -Dean Stonehouse 0.652kg, Heaviest Trout, Adul t- Trent Mallinson 0.820 kg, Heaviest Trout, Veteran – Gundars Simpson 0.733kg and the heaviest trout caught by a land-based angler was won by John Freeman with a fish weighing 0.532kg. The biggest bag of five trout was won by Peter Glowacki 3.406kg.
The team “Old Crankas” of Laurie and Mandy Harrison, Martin Exel and Matthew Mallinson caught the most trout tallying 124 over the four days of fishing.
Encouragement Awards: Female – Danielle Duffin, Male – Daniel Smith.
Major Prize winners: 1st Place (fishing kayak & electric trolling motor) went to six-year-old Harper Duffin, 2nd Lottie Waddell, 3rd Claire Harrison, 4th Danielle Duffin.
Mystery Weight Awards: Gary Loh, Troy Stonehouse, James Tassell, Giovanna Stonehouse, Darren Oates.
Bill Groves Memorial Award: Dean Stonehouse. Peter Chew Memorial Award: Lottie Waddell.
It was worth noting that 1st place winner Harper Duffin was the competition’s youngest competitor and 2nd place winner Lottie Waddell was also the 2nd youngest competitor.
Congratulations to all winners and everyone who braved the conditions for the competition.
Well done also to the LPAC and all the sponsors for making the event possible and everyone who went along had a great time even if the conditions weren’t ideal.
The New Norfolk Licensed Anglers Association resumes competition fishing this weekend at Wayatinah Lagoon in the Dave Gasson Memorial Trout Fishing Competition held by the Wayatinah Sports & Social Club.
The event is always popular and it’s open to the public and in the past an Inland Fishing Licence wasn’t required to enter but as of this year all competitors must have a current licence to compete and they must adhere to all IFS rules and regulations.
Fishing starts on Friday, February 16 at 6pm, finishing on Sunday at 12 pm with a final weigh, barbecue and presentation at the Wayatinah Tavern.
Entry fees are adults $10 and juniors 5-17 years of age $5 and to enter you need to register which can be done from 4pm-7pm Friday or 8am-10.30am Saturday.
Again a tagged Atlantic salmon will be released into the lagoon which will win one lucky angler a special prize but it won’t be eligible for the heaviest fish award as it’s a separate category especially for the competition.
As always there will be some great prizes on offer across a broad range of categories and the Wayatinah Social Club always go above and beyond for this event every year.
For more information including other weigh-in times check the Wayatinah Social Club and NNLAA Facebook pages as there are fishing boundaries and specific rules everyone needs to know as well for the event.
The results from round four of the State Fly Fishing championships on the Tyenna River recently were encouraging especially for Tasmanian anglers who filled nine of the top 10 placings.
In total 675 trout were caught and released over four sessions by 21 competitors.
Finishing in first position was Joshua Flowers from Tasmania who had a 3 ranking point buffer over Stewart Dick, also from Tasmania, and finishing in third position was young gun Finn McDowell a further three points behind.
Julien Thiriet and John Hardy rounded out the top five for a Tasmanian clean sweep.
Round five of the Tasmanian State Championships will be held on Lake King William on the weekend of February 24-25.
The 10th Derwent River Flathead Classic was run last Saturday by the Sportsfishing Club Of Tasmania and from reports it was a great day.
The kids had a ball and all of them left with a rod and reel to keep on catching fish.
Justin Stevens caught the biggest flathead in the competitions history landing a big bluespot that was 61 cm in length.
Special mention to all the sponsors for their support and well done to all involved in organising the day and a shout out to Kelly Hunt and the late Adrian”Mozza” Morrisby who was the initial brainchild in regards to starting the competition.
Tip Of The Week: Cable or zip ties can come in handy for lots of things in life and fishing.
Some examples of uses are fixing landing nets, attaching a split ring to a rod for a hook keeper, securing reels to rods, securing and safeguarding trailer/boat wiring and registration plates, fixing and securing skirt lures and baits, depth marking on anchor chains, attaching floats to keys and replacing lost zipper tabs to clothing and bags.