A little more than 100 anglers headed out to sea in an attempt to bag the biggest catch as part of Wish4Fish's second annual fishing competition.

Tauranga Sports Fishing Club manager Grant Holley and Wish4Fish founder Bryce Dinneen.

This year's competition blew last year's one out of the water with 102 anglers signing up for the event.

'Conditions were pretty rough early on but settled down in the afternoon with everyone fishing from beach, wharf and boats both in the harbour and outside,” says Wish4Fish founder Bryce Dinneen.

A total of 54 anglers registered for the competition last year – and Bryce says this year there were almost double the number of entrants who registered for the inaugural in 2013.

A prize giving at the end of the competition saw more than 100 fishermen and women pack into Tauranga Sport Fishing Club at Sulphur Point Marine to see who had the biggest catch.

Bryce started Wish4Fish in the hopes of encouraging and aiding salt water activities, including fishing for the mentally and physically challenged. He has been chair-bound since suffering severe spinal injuries in 2007.

Results are:

Kahawai

1st: Rowan Meredith 3.140 kg

2nd: Josh Ramsden 2.655 kg

3rd: Lee Stacy 2.475kg

Snapper

1st: Mark Sheaff 2.805

2nd: Cade Burton 2.505

3rd Mark Gordon 2.435kg

Kingfish (no kingfish weighed in with a minimum 100cm required for weigh in)

Trevally

1st Jess Lowe 1.555kg

2nd Ray Lowe 1.295

Jess Lowe 1.250 kg

Tarakihi

1st Ray Lowe 0.980

2nd Ash Weenink .825

3rd Danielle Fong 0.685

Gurnard

1st Alistair Blair .500kg

2nd Emma Fairweather .500kg

Average Weight Prize kahawai A. Shaw 1.938kg

Average Weight Prize Snapper Josh Ramsden 1.233kg