The `No Nuts' all woman team will be back to avenge its title and compete for a share of the $80,000 worth of prizes in the Polaris Big Four hunting and fishing competition run by the Quarry Community Sports Club in June.

One of the event organisers Ken Griffin says the win gave the women the right to enter this year and their success has spurred on other women to take part too.

Rachael Blackie, Tauranga; Stacey Rust, Whakatane; Bryar Bakalich, Opotiki; and Paula Roberts, Whakatane; more than held their own at the Polaris Big Four competition in June.

'We think there will be at least four or five women's teams this time,” he says.
The No Nuts team of Rachael Blackie, manager, Stacey Rust, vet nurse, Bryar Bakalich, accountant and Paula Roberts, hotel manager, gained national and international attention when they beat off 77 other teams to win a $16,000 Polaris Ranger 500 by achieving the closest to average weight across the stag, boar, cock pheasant and trout they entered.

This year they will be up against as many as 99 other teams in the contest which runs from Tuesday June 25 to Saturday June 29.
'Once people have registered and attended the briefing they can go hunting and fishing where ever they chose, so long as they are back by weigh-in time.

'It's a great event for people of all ages and a number of teams include children who can fish for a trout,” says Ken.
The aim for each team is to bag a stag, boar, trout and pheasant, with team prizes based on average and individual prizes for the heaviest animals and fish and the best trout, best antlers and tusks, and best pheasant.

The annual event is growing in popularity and this year Australian teams are also expected to take part. The Discovery Channel will be filming competitors, and former All Black Richard Loe will MC the prize giving at the Top Shot Pub at Te Puna.

The $80,000 in prizes include a Polaris Ranger 500, a free 12 month lease of a new Toyota Hilux, and a 2001 4X4 Mazda Bounty donated by Pacific Toyota as a spot prize for all entrants present at the weigh-in. The weigh-in is popular with spectators numbering 800 to 1000 people, including competitors, expected to watch the prize giving.