Snapper bonanza: Sellout crowd, good forecast and rampant fish bode well
15 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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The Ngāi Takoto 90 Mile Beach Snapper Bonanza is the biggest surfcasting contest in New Zealand, if not the world. Photo / File
Peter de Graaf is a reporter for the Northern Advocatepeter.degraaf@northernadvocate.co.nznorthernadvocat
A sellout 1000-strong crowd and forecast fine weather for the Snapper Bonanza kicking off on Ninety Mile Beach today promise the 2021 event could be the best in years.
While the 2020 contest also sold out, level 2 Covid restrictions meant some aspects of the contest such as the daily prizegivings had to be changed.
Snapper bonanza: Sellout crowd, good forecast and rampant fish bode well
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