Houhora One Base

02/02/2025

For all up-to-date information on the upcoming Houhora Big Reel Fishing Competiton please head to https://www.facebook.com/onebasenz

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29/11/2024

🎣 **Registrations for the Reel Bigfish Comp are NOW OPEN!** 🎣

Don't miss your chance to be part of this epic 3-day fishing competition hosted by the Houhora Big Game & Sports Fishing Club from 20th - 22nd February 2025.

📍 Head over to https://www.houhorafishingclub.co.nz/2024-25-season-competitions/reel-bigfish-comp-formerly-houhora-one-base/registration to register now.
Tag your fishing mates and get ready to reel in the big one! 🐟

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12/11/2024

🌊🎣 Introducing the Reel Bigfish Comp – formerly known as the Houhora One Base! 🎣🌊

We’re excited to bring you a fresh new look and name for 2025! Since we’re moving away from a traditional "one base" format, Reel Bigfish Comp reflects the exciting changes we’ve made to help more of you get amongst it.

This year, the comp will run over 3 days from Thursday, Feb 20th - Saturday, Feb 22nd, with the briefing on Wednesday, Feb 19th. We've reworked our prize categories and added an epic Team Prize, so grab your mates and get ready for a legendary experience! 🏆👥

Tickets go on sale next week, with Early Bird entries open until midnight on January 12th. Secure yours early to enter the draw for a $1,000 cash prize! 💵

Stay tuned for updates on prizes and ticket sales, and get set for the Reel Bigfish Comp – where SIZE DOES MATTER!

05/03/2024

Final round up for the 2024 Houhora One Base!

We just want to do one last massive shoutout to all the sponsors and people involved in making this happen. Please support our sponsors that made this tournament possible!

Thank you to the following businesses who either sponsored cash, gave us spot prizes and lucky angler draws or gave us discounted products:
Shimano Fishing New Zealand, Burnsco, Icey-Tek NZ, Huski, Far North Solar Systems, Houhora Wharf Four Square, Wiltons Marine, Folders, Zeropak, The Office Lady, Kaitaia Tractors Ltd, Archibald Cars, Icey Camel, Clever By Nature - Blue Pacific Minerals (Magic Mud), Kauri Construction, Masters Melons, Prolan, PAKn’SAVE Kaitaia, Northland Electrical, Riders Sports, Ray White Kaitaia & Amanda Bell.

A special thank you to the following business & supporters who also played a massive part in this being a successful comp:
*Dan from Kaitaia taxis service who made sure all our anglers got to and from the club safely
* Lisa Lilly, Murray Braithwaite, Shorty Williams & Debbie Bunn for taking care of the weigh station
* Debbie Bunn for not only being part of the weigh team but also taking all our weigh station photos
* Tracey Mold and the kitchen & bar staff for making sure everyone was fed & watered
* The HBGSFC committee for the support and help with the organising
* Annette Hall FN-Radio Sea-Rescue for her listening watch through out the tournament
* Lisa Slaughter Relentless Photography for the prizegiving photography
* The volunteers who gave their time - whether it was in the bar, kitchen, registration desk, helping Laura with the setup - you all know who you are
* Steve & Maude from Hoki Smoki for travelling up here to pick up the fish to be smoked (and it is absolutely delicious!) and throwing in some lucky spot prizes as well
* and last but definitely not least - the biggest thank you goes to you our anglers; whether you've fished it before of were a first time angler - we appreciate you showing up and hope you all had a blast!

To check out the full results head over to our website https://www.houhorafishingclub.co.nz/2023-24-season-competitions-1/houhora-one-base/results

Thats me signing off for 2024.. hope to see you again next year!

Laura - 2024 Tournament Organiser

25/02/2024

Final wrap on One Base 2024! Congratulations to everyone that took home prizes, caught or tagged their first fish and we hope you all had an epic 4 days fishing the Houhora One Base!

Overall winners for the comp:

Heaviest Striped Marlin $5,000 Winner:
Kane Attwood fishing with team Maverick landed a 111.3KG Striped Marlin on day one of the tournament - Congratulations Kane and team Maverick - you guys certainly had an awesome week!

Heaviest Broadbill Swordfish $5,000 WinnerL
Jacob Burton fishing with team She's Gonna Sell me landed a 149.6KG Broadbill Swordfish on day 3 of the comp! This was Jakes first broadbill landed. These guys had an absolutely epic week also tagging a stripey.

Tuna (Yellowfin, Big Eye, Bluefin) sponsored by Ray White Kaitaia
1st: 65.7KG - Jack Potter
2nd: 64.1KG - Murray Irvine
3rd: 57.8KG - Blake Buchanan

Shortbill Spearfish - Sponsored by Houhora Liquor Centre & The Office Lady - None caught so these all went to Lucky Angler Draw
1st: Brandon Lilly
2nd: Karl Watson
3rd: Cornelius Scheepers

Mahimahi - Sponsored by Far North Solar Systems again none landed so lucky anglers were:

1st: Terry Lovich
2nd: Joshua Savill
3rd: Nick Licence

Kingfish - Sponsored by Masters Melons
1st: 14.8KG - Mathew Evans
2nd: 12.66KG - Brian Herdman
3rd: 12.34KG - Cherie Savill

Snapper - Sponsored by Amanda Bell
1st: 6.72KG - Joshua Savill
2nd: 5.62KG - Mathew Evans
3rd: 4.74KG - Cherie Savill

Points Winners - sponsored by Northland Electrical

Top angler most T&R Points: Jolene Gravatt - Jolene had a mint week Tagging x2 stripeys & landing a nice yellowfin scoring herself 600 points.

Top Angler Most Points overall: Jolene Gravatt

Top Team Most Points: She's Gonna Sell me with an incredible 748.8 points!

We also had our elimination draw to win the Bradley 6 Rack Digital Limited Edition Smoker - we had 20 anglers in the draw and it came down to Callum Critchley being the last man standing - congrats Callum!

We had lots of other giveaways for our final night but special mention to Brian Herdman who on the last day of the comp gave up his fishing time to help out another vessel (not fishing our comp) who were having boat issues. Brian and the crew on Phinda towed the vessel back in until they met up with Coastguard who took over. We awarded Brian with the good bastard award and he took home a Makaira Game Rod for his efforts!

Junior members Kaydee Attwood & Olly MacKenzie also got some special awards for being the only 2 juniors fishing the comp - Olly even tagged his first stripey on board GST with dad Ken Mackenzie (who is also a huge sponsor of the recent roof work that has been taking place at the club) and crew!
Kaydee and Olly both took home shamino Rod & reel set!

Again congratulations to all our prize winners, to anyone who had a "first" moment out there on the water and a massive thank you to everyone who helped make this tournament such a bloody good time!

25/02/2024

Day four prizegiving - Prizes Sponsored by Shimano Fishing New Zealand and Icey Camel.

Heaviest Black/Blue Marlin - Leighton Matthews (Lucky Draw)
Heaviest Striped Marlin - Mark Oliver (Lucky Draw)
Heaviest Broadbill Swordfish - 149.6KG - Jacob Burton
Heaviest Tuna (Y/Fin) - 65.7KG Jack Potter
Heaviest Shortbill Spearfish - Callum Critchley (Lucky Draw)
Heaviest Mahimahi - Chris Roberts (Lucky Draw)
Heaviest Kingfish - 12.66KG - Brian Herdman
Heaviest Snapper - 5.62KG - Mathew Evans
T&R Billfsh - Jolene Gravatt (x2 Striped Marlin)
Lucky Angler Draw: Lance Panther, Ryan Wood, Trisha Bower, Paul Thompson.

Special shoutout to Relentless Photography - Lisa Slaughter for coming down to take these photos each night to share with you all!

24/02/2024

Final day photos.

24/02/2024

Wharf Uber service 🤣

23/02/2024

Houhora club members Jake Burton, Ethan Mills & Nick Licence had a great day today in the Houhora One Base, with Nick Licence tagging a striped marlin and Jacob Burton landing the 1st Broadbill for the Houhora club this season.
The 'She's Gonna Sell Me 2' team were targeting broadbill and also had a live bait out the back of the boat. The skippy was taken by a striped marlin just after 11am this morning resulting in a tag & release for Nick.
The broadbill was landed late this afternoon and did not arrive at the weighstation until 8.15pm, after the weighstation had closed for the day. This means the fish will go into tomorrows prizegiving.
Unfortunately the two kingfish they caught yesterday didn't make it to the weighstation before 6pm either, and were not accepted for the competition.
Congratulations team, great effort.

23/02/2024

Day 3 Houhora One Base

23/02/2024

Day 2 Thursday 22 Feb Prizes with thanks to the sponsors for the evening Burnsco, Folders and Zeropak !
Heaviest Black/Blue Marlin Lucky Draw Leroy Matthews
Heaviest Striped Marlin Lucky Draw Kane Attwood
Heaviest Broadbill Lucky Draw Fiona Kehely
Heaviest Tuna 64.1kg Y/Fin Murray Irvine
Heaviest Shortbill Spearfish Lucky Draw Logan Masters
Heaviest Mahimahi Lucky Draw Kirk Denison
Heaviest Kingfish 12.34 kg Cherie Savill
Heaviest Snapper 2.88 kg Eddie Rutgers
Tag & Release Billfish Lucky Draw Josh McPherson
Lucky Angler Draws:
Murray Irvine
Kimberley Dow
Grant Foster
Dave Kehely
Bradley Smoker Elimination Draw:
Paul Thompson
Warren McGill
Mark Webber
Mark Oliver
Lisa Lilly won the raffle.
Congratulations and good luck for Day 3 🙂

22/02/2024

Congratulations Olly 😃

One of our junior anglers caught his first marlin yesterday.
Fishing from dads boat 'GST', Olly MacKenzie tagged & released his 1st striped marlin on Day 2 of the Houhora One Base
Nice work Olly :)
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