BenE

No mate, all standard settings except gain. We had a lot of "interference" for the top 5-10mts through the day, I thought it was muck in the water as it came and went a bit. The -587 has been amazing, we've only had it for a few months and it kills! And yes they were, we got one of them to take a lure (second pic), but it came in on the short corner which had dirty great hooks in it, so we never really had a chance of staying connected. The fish that we fought for a half hour was on the long 'rigger and was light gauge hooks (PM me if you want some more info on 'em mate). EDIT: the marlin that came in on the SC was only about 20-30kg, which is why I didn't think we'd keep him connected with such big hooks.

Just thought I'd update those who care on the weekend. We fished Sunday and Monday. Huge amounts of bait strait in line between Marlin Reef and Seal Rocks on Sunday, marked a few fish herding them up but couldn't make any feed. We found two little black strait out the front of Port in 50 fathoms, both threw their hooks. Got another (60-70kg) black out the front of Broughton in the same depth. Line parted after 35min. Nothing doing on Sunday, most of the action seemed to be to the south of Swansea. We trolled from Seal Rocks down to the Carpark for 0's and no bait. Like, nothing at all at the carpark. There wasn't much current. Tight lines ya'll

Cheers mate, appreciate the tip. We we're going to head out the front and tow plastic till we found bait. If you're out callsign is "Aileen" on 80. Tight lines!

Ah good on ya mate, I gather the stripe was close in? We're heading out tomorrow and Monday, was going to head to the carpark but I was speaking to a local bloke who said most of the stripes had been caught in close. Will let ya'll know how we get on.