The Club Forster Blue Water Fishing Club hosted Newcastle Blue Water Fishing Club for another successful instalment of the Rowley Kay Shield fishing competition over the Easter weekend.
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Newcastle took the honours again in 2019, defeating Forster with a point score of 2067.5 to 1659.3.
13 boats took part in total - seven from Newcastle and six from Forster - with 29 participants fishing the waters off Forster Tuncurry.
Newcastle's Jamie Richards caught the largest fish of the competition, a whopping 7.9kg Bar Cod, while Forster's Martyn Barry landed a 3.44kg Dolphin Fish on Good Friday.
In all, 528 fish were caught over the weekend, adding up to a combined weight of 359.98 kilograms - not a bad effort considering conditions were not ideal for fishing.
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Some of the species caught included Flathead, Snapper, Tragalan, Morwong, Leatherjacket, Trevally and Pearl Perch.
Forster Blue Water Fishing Club's publicity officer, Franklin Harshman, said it was a great weekend with good-humoured rivalry between the two clubs.
Miraculously, since its inception in 1988, the competition has never been cancelled due to bad weather.
