Presenting our Show & Tail 2024/25 Season Winners!
To kick things off, a massive thanks to all members who joined us in-person and online at the club's AGM on Saturday. It was awesome to catch up with fellow spearos, meet new members, and celebrate the efforts of club members last season.
Secondly we offer huge thanks to last season's sponsors, Wettie, Victory Knives, Kiwi Custom Spearguns, Mogeo, and Fabrication & General Engineering Ltd. Go buy their stuff and use their services! The people behind these companies are passionate about our sport and put their money where their mouth is to give us such a fantastic competition.
If you've not competed in the Show & Tail comp, in a nutshell it's a season long comp where you spear fish off a set list, take a picture of the fish on the Show & Tail Comp mat which shows the length (and the names of our sponsors) and share it on the club's Facebook page. At the end of the season, the length each competitors longest fish of each species is added together, and the winner of the overall comp is the diver with the longest combined length. There are also 2nd and 3rd places, as well as prizes for the longest of each species, the 'average' of each species, seafloor cleanup, and best video and photo. With over 30 prize categories and traditionally only 100 competitors (though that may be exceeded this season at the rate the entries are coming in!) there's a good shot at scoring one or multiple prizes! The best thing is you can compete from anywhere across the South Island, entering fish as and when you come across them. No worry, no hurry! If this has get you frothing then simply use the 'register' button at the top right of this page to get yourself in the comp for this season. Too easy.
After the AGM had concluded it was on to the awards, announced and presented by our newly voted-in club president, Karl Eastmond, pictured here presenting a prize to one of our super-stoked junior members.
In all we awarded over $7000 worth of knives, dive gear, wetsuits and spearguns, which for the size of the club is a fantastic way to give value back to our members.
So, on the the winners! Take a look at what these folks took home, and huge props to the Open Mens Winner Anthony Davis who scored a huge 703cms of fish to take out the top spot. Compare this to the very first season won by Callum Milne with 220cms and you can see how far the competion has come.
Our congratulations to our winners, and we look forward to seeing how you get on in this season's comp!
2025 PRIZEGIVING AWARDS
Club Open Champion – Anthony Davis 703cm!! - Wettie Roller Gun
2nd - Karl Eastmond - Wettie Hunter Suit
3rd - Guyon Jansson – Wettie Beast Float Line
Womans Club Champion – Alisha Lewis – Wettie Roller Gun
Junior Club Champion – Abe Lawry – Wettie Roller Gun
2nd - Coen Ross – Wettie Hunter Suit
3rd - Max Hutchinson – Wettie Beast Float Line
Sponsors Photo – Blake Smith – Wettie Roller Conversion Head
Best Ocean Clean – Brandon Goeller – Wettie Roller Conversion Head
Sponsors Video – Kadin Willis – Large Mahi Float
Biggest Kingfish – Guyon Jansson 122cm – Kiwi Custom Roller Gun
Biggest Blue Moki – Anthony Davis 67cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Greenbone – Karl Bottema 57cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Flatfish – Anthony Davis 50cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Gurnard – Anthony Davis 41cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Monkfish – Anthony Davis 48cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Terakihi – Karl Eastmond 45cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Kahawai – Albert Chan 57cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Snapper – Ryan Roach 49cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Goatfish – Anthony Davis 35cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Trevally – Guyon Jansson 54cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Trumpeter – Petr Poboril 46cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Crayfish – Ryan Carlton 49cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Paua – Phoenix Shaw 18cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
Biggest Blue Cod – Charlie Barker 47cm – Wettie Mask and Snorkel
MOST AVERAGE CATAGORY – Victory Knives Awarded
Dave Packman – Blue Moki
Jack Brittenden – Greenbone
Dave Packman – Flatfish
Monkfish – Karl Eastmond
Terakihi – Dave Packman
Kahawai – Dave Packman
Goatfish – Guyon Jansson
Trevally – Albert Chan
Trumpeter – Ryan Carlton
Crayfish – Tony Gowans
Paua – Blake Smith
Blue Cod – Blake McKnight
