Chch woman leads with 15kg salmon
A 15.33 kg salmon caught by a Christchurch woman, Mrs Betty Weastell, heads the salmon section of the annual Tuckers’ Fishing Competition in Ashburton. Local fishermen, Brian Halkett (14.91 kg and Barry Toneycliffe (14.79 kg fill second and third place. Toneycliffe’s catch, made at the Ashburton River last month, has won him the Hotel Ashburton’s monthly prize for the biggest fish entered in the competition. Other winners of the hotel’s competition are Paul McKenzie (Ashburton) with a 4.33 kg brown trout and K. Nuttridge (Christchurch) with a 3.62 kg rainbow trout. In the rest of the Tuckers’ competition Colin Tipper (Christchurch) heads the best three salmon section with a collective weight of 36.99 kg. Rodney McDowell (36.91 kg and Brian Halkett (36.23 kg are next. > lan Loach (4.76 kg has caught the best brown trout, followed by Paul McKenzie (4.33 kg and Kevin Frazier (4.08 kg John Rickard has the best three (9.18 kg followed by Bert Arthur (9.lkg). Nuttridge’s 3.62 kg trout has put him in the lead of the Tuckers’ competition, more than a kilogram in front of Murray Johnson (2.40 kg and Gerald Wragg (2.32 kg
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Press, 11 January 1984, Page 6
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