Ngataringa Tennis Club junior championships

Ngataringa’a Under-15 Boys Singles champ William

Under-11 Girls Singles: Ellie Cumberland. Plate: Mia Vermeulen. Under-13 Girls Singles. Zara Travers; R/U Alisa Tikalenko. Plate: Ellie Cumberland; R/U Rebecca Young. Under-15 Girls Singles: Calliope Bower; R/U Claudia Pearce. Plate: Mia Ohlin; R/U Maxine Williams. Under-15 Girls Doubles: Claudia Pearce and Millie Oxley; R/U Calliope Bower and Imogen Chaddock; Plate: Mia Ohlin and Maxine Williams; R/U Emily Young and Chloe Conroy.

Under-11 Boys Singles: Aleksei Tikalenko. Under-13 Boys Singles: Quinn McAlpine; R/U Lennox Maiava. Plate: Alex McCoubrey. Under-15 Boys Singles: William Robson; R/U Alex Ness. Plate: Jamie King; R/U George Spooner. Under-15 Boys Doubles: William Robson and Michael MacDonald; R/U Jamie King and Harry Prinsep. Under-18 Boys Singles: Gage Volykhine.

Winning Interclub Teams. 16-18 Girls B – Pre-Xmas: Grace Collier, Matisse Irving, Abby Jenkins, Mia Tinkler-Brown, Alice Beale, Lucy Chaddock, Mia Travers. Under-12 Boys B – Pre-Xmas: Zenon Nicholas, Quinn McAlpine, Teo Besier, Leo Zollner, Alex Fielding, Alex McCoubrey, George Edgar, Sam Stewart. Under-15 Boys C – Pre-Xmas: Max Zollner, Alex Ness, George Gaskin, Hayden Steele, George Spooner. Under-15 Boys B – Post-Xmas R/U: Max Zollner, Alex Ness, George Gaskin, Hayden Steele, George Spooner. Boys Prem 1 – Post-Xmas R/U: Gage Volykine, William Robson, Michael MacDonald.

Special Awards. Most Improved Girl: Calliope Bower. Most Improved Boy: Aleksei Tikalenko. Von Huben Cup for Excellence – Girl: Millie Oxley. De Gouy Cup for Excellence – Boy: Benjamin Grenfell. Best Attitude: Mia Ohlin. Outstanding Contribution: Matthew Blair.

Fishing Report for July ’23

Who doesn’t love fishing during these winter months? Whilst the weather hasn’t been playing ball, surely there are some better conditions coming….let’s hope so. When you get those beautiful clear and calm days it is a prime time to be out targeting snapper. At this time of the year, they are all in prime condition, fat and perfect for the table. The fish can be a little slow on the bite so enticing them to bite can be challenging, but using smaller-sized baits and a good berley trail will do the trick. Chunking up some old bait and adding to the berley trail is a good idea also, as it seems to spark up a bite. Once you have set up with the current and wind in the same direction, you need to have patience and fish through the tide – you never know what will turn up.

Close to home there are fish in and around the northern side of Rangi, Billy Goat Point on Motutapu and, even closer, it would be worth throwing some baits around the reefs just off Takapuna Grammar. The reefy rocks between Takapuna and Milford also will have snapper in about 10m of water and often there are some moochers in there too.

Out wide, the reports of work-ups are coming in from places like West of Anchorite Rock and the fingers that are bit further north, (you will see them on your chart). The fingers are a broad area of reef that can really produce at this time of year. Also the Craddock Channel between Little Barrier and Great Barrier is also firing. The workups are still going just off Fantail Bay over by Coromandel.

Trev and I had five days fishing out of Rangiputa in the Far North. What an amazing place with accommodation right on the beach and an abundance of fish. We caught large snapper, kingfish and trevally….it was unreal and we are already planning on another trip. Keep an eye out in-store as we are going to be adding to our fishing range with some products from Berkley, Penn and Plano. We are also going to have more freezer space soon for more salt ice and more bait options….let us know what you need so you don’t need to travel up through the traffic.

Cheers

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