Archive for November, 2007

Team Berkley’s Mark “Mango” Mangold has topped off another successful year of tournament fishing by finishing 3rd in the ABT’S angler rankings. A win in the Aus open teams event and a 2nd in the Derwent Tasmania round and a 3rd in the Sydney ABT round boulsterd points for a solid performance for the year. …

Team Berkley’s Scott Towner has finished 2007 on a high by taking out 3rd place in this years ABT grand final as well as the ABT’s number 1 angler ranking. The ever consistent Towner fished against, Cameron Wittam, Stephen Wheeler and Ben Godfrey in a one session shootout contested in four identical Quintrex Hornets, after …

Kiwi’s were recently introduced to the world of catch and release tournament style fishing in the form of the Berkley Soft Bait Challenge. The tournament was run out of the picturesque water side hamlet of Warkworth, situated around an hours drive north of Auckland. This was basically a trial run for a much bigger event …

There’s nothing I love better than catching snapper and kings on Gulp, during a recent trip to New Zealand’s Coromandel peninsula I jumped onto one of Rob Fort’s kayaks for a bit of a paddle and a cast around some of the spectacular inshore islands. It didn’t take long for the action start, its quite …

Team Berkley’s Michael Guest recently won the Dave Irvine snapper Tournament held on the magnificent off shore waters of Coffs Harbor. Guesty used a combination of 5 and 7 inch Gulp Jerk Shads to land the biggest fish of the event ( 87 cm ) and also took out the overall champion angler trophy. This …