Above: Team Mateshane — Two shortbill spearfish were tagged and released by Kevin Fitzpatrick and Daniela Carlston. ning to witness and photograph “a good fish” caught by Team Cabrito. I was greeted by team captain Bok van Blerk and an even more excited former Springbok rugby player, Dean Greyling, who had a magnificent giant trevally on board. We all knew it was going to weigh “big” when the giant Springbok prop struggled to hold it up while posing for photographs. On the scales it officially weighed 34.20kg, setting the GT benchmark for the remainder of the competition. Team Cabrito then endured a nail biting two days before the closing of the scales on the final day when they knew that Dean’s fish would be the winning fish at the 20th Anniversary Guinjata Bonanza Competition and would take home the Yamaha-powered Seacat 520. A number of good gamefish were caught over the remaining two days, with the teams that were able to target a number of different gamefish species under trying conditions migrating up the leaderboard. Consistency certainly was the key this year.
All the anglers who released billfish during Guinjata 2016.
TOP FIVE FISH 1. 34.2kg Giant Kingfish, Dean Greyling on Cabrito 2. 21kg Amberjack, Gary Hall on Tequila Sheila 3. 19.1kg Dorado, Stephan du Plessis on Club Marine 4. 17.2kg Dorado, Johnny Hipkin on Pacman 5. 17kg king mackerel, Chris Westerhof on Dr Sangoma
TOP FIVE ANGLERS 1. Johnny Hipkin, Pacman 2. Tinus Coetzee, Amberjack 3 3. Russel Duvenhage, Club Marine 4. Andre Erasmus, Footloose 5. Chris Frazer, Dr Sangoma
97.2 points 80.0 points 80.0 points 78.9 points 67.5 points
TOP TEN BOATS 1. Uli Buli 2. Dr Sangoma 3. Blesbok 4. Wolfie 5. Club Marine 6. Isifonya II 7. Maestro 8. Durban Yamaha 9. Cabrito 10. Footloose
TOP LADY ANGLER 1. Marita Barnard, Equinox
47.8 points
TOP JUNIOR ANGLERS 1. Wiarnie Mew, C-Mew
12.2 points
369.50 points 262.00 points 244.30 points 235.70 points 200.60 points 180.80 points 160.60 points 147.90 points 135.10 points 121.70 points
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