2017 Tableland Hardware Tinaroo Barra Bash – Winners -Catch and Release
Total Nominations: (399 Adults, 157 Junior, 52 Smallfry)
Photo Entries Submitted: ( Barra, Sooty Grunter, Sleepy Cod and a heap of Catfish from the Smallfry’s)
Total Funds Raised: (roughly $15,000) was raised at the 2017 Tableland Hardware Tinaroo Barra Bash. These funds will be used by the Tableland Fish Stocking Society to purchase and raise Barramundi for restocking and to maintain the Barrier Net, which is used in times of high rainfall as it provides a guard from losing fish over the dam’s wall.
Photos by Ian Leighton
Tableland Hardware $10,000 Cash Adult Nomination Draw –
Adam Bucknell (Yungaburra)
Bransfords Discount Tackle Champion Angler –
Ben Tunsted (Atherton); 13 fish ranging from 72-103cm. Total 11.615 metres
Tableland Tilt Truck-Longest Barra Mens –
John Wilkinson: (Atherton) 127cm
Precedence Internet Marketing Longest Barra Ladies –
Deanne Masters: 118.5cm
Mareeba Mazda Mystery Length –
Jason Masters
Atherton Supa IGA Longest Barra Junior Girl –
Charlotte Moller: 98cm
Cairns to Cape 4X4 Longest Barra Junior Boy –
William Cupitt-101cm
Nesa Nu-Edge Solutions-Longest Sooty Grunter Senior –
Noah Bradford-
Neil Lee Long Memorial Trophy-Overall Longest Sooty Grunter
Bones Knob Butchery-Longest Sooty Grunter Junior –
Trent DeLai-47cm
John Cole Toyota/ Ryan Moody Fishing/Conceptual Design
Smallfry (under 6) Encouragement Award –
Ryleigh Peaty (Tolga), Ashton Rosenfeldt (Mareeba),
Tait Welding/BJS Plumbing/Lake Tinaroo Holiday Park/Sunwater
Tableland Family Day Care/ Cairns Marque & Party Hire/Far North Office Choice
Connor Porta (Cairns), Emily Leighton (Mareeba),
Harley Sweeper (Mareeba) Jordan Paul (Tolga)
Jill Piggott Memorial Encouragement Award RFDS Near & Far Auxillary –
Tahlia Thompson-80cm Barramundi
Local Search Most Tilapia Junior & Smallfry –
Holly Henricks (Yungaburra) 123 fish
Arthur Gallagher Insurance Sleepy Cod Junior–
Tariq Tunsted- 32cm
DJ Feel the Music- Heaviest Redclaw Junior –
Trent Delai (Tolga);
Atherton Bait & Tackle 6&Under Nomination Draw–
Ashton Rosenfeldt (Mareeba)
Bono’s Excavations- Junior Nomination Draw –
Tyler McLaren (Tolga)
Cairns to Cape 4X4 Family Aggregate Barramundi/Sooty Grunter–
Wilkinson Family
Dunnrite Metal Buildings Family Aggregate Most Caught Tilapia–
Hendricks Family -461 Tilapia
A Huge Thank you to all our community for supporting Lake Tinaroo and Tableland Fish Stocking Society.