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Speaker 1: It's been a big weekend out in Rakaia Shire, the

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Speaker 1: return of the fishing competition. Although as featured on seven

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Speaker 1: Sharp and we've talked about it a bit on the show.

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Speaker 1: Here for the first time without a weigh in, without

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Speaker 1: any needs to actually go fishing. Chris Agnew was the

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Speaker 1: president of Rakaire Fishing Promotions, was keen to ask how

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Speaker 1: it all went.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it was fantastic. It's just an absolutely awesome weekend.

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Speaker 2: All was pretty full with the marquee. Everybody seemed to

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Speaker 2: enjoy themselves immensely. I haven't had any bad feedback yet.

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Speaker 2: So numbers did you have? We're eighty seven kids and

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Speaker 2: three hundred and thirty five adults.

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Speaker 1: It's a good crew. Did you hear that? Were people

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Speaker 1: still getting out doing some fishing?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know there's plenty of people out and about.

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Speaker 2: We fish down there all down the mouth Friday. It

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Speaker 2: was a bit quiet down there. I went up to

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Speaker 2: like Corridge on Saturday and there was a massive amount

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Speaker 2: of boats up there.

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Speaker 1: Oh and any catches that you heard of?

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Speaker 2: I heard of a couple of samding call. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: been nice. Yeah, that's nice.

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Speaker 1: Not just salmon though, right? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Not the salmon no no up collage. Are plenty of

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Speaker 2: trout in.

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Speaker 1: Court brilliant and plenty of prizes to be one too.

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Speaker 1: So as I understand it, it was sort of like

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Speaker 1: a mammoth raffle that ran every night from Thursday.

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Speaker 2: It's certainly good. We have super doors that run every

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Speaker 2: hour or every half hour. Sorry, Thursday night was five

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Speaker 2: Thursday night, six on Friday night and six on Saturday night.

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Speaker 2: Every one of thoses one thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Each geez in about sixty grand all up in prizes.

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Speaker 1: Incredible support from you know, those those generous businesses and

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Speaker 1: groups that get behind this. But the burning question, who

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Speaker 1: won the bike?

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Speaker 2: Chris so, Jodie, Finn Jen Finn sorry won the bike?

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Speaker 2: Did you say finn Jen Flynn?

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Speaker 1: Oh Flynn. I thought that would be an extra fitting name, Flynn.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good too. Oh yeah, she's a mid Kent

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Speaker 1: tab local. Yeah yeah, yeah, are brilliant, oh need So

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Speaker 1: all in all, a great weekend.

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Speaker 2: Head, fantastic weekend mate. We couldn't deal with out all

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Speaker 2: our fantastic sponsors as volunteers and committee. You know, without

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Speaker 2: those people, it just wouldn't happen. And I am so

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Speaker 2: deeply grateful to them all sponsors that I talked to.

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Speaker 2: All teens come back next year, a little bit more money,

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Speaker 2: so a few of them, so that'll be great. And

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Speaker 2: there's some new ones coming on, so you're going to

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Speaker 2: be at the next year.

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Speaker 1: Love it, and I've been loving all the memories coming

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Speaker 1: through on your Facebook page as well. Reeling in the memories,

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Speaker 1: I think is what you called it. And some of

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Speaker 1: the historic catchers, some of them, surely those fish are

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Speaker 1: being how closer to the camera lens than they're meant

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Speaker 1: to be?

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Speaker 2: Oh, some of them might be, but there's a pretty

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Speaker 2: big squshi in there too. That's how it used to be.