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Not sure if this is possible but maybe take your boat to a dealer who has the antennas your talking about. They might let you hook it up to your unit to check that that is the problem before purchasing the antenna. I was able to do this with my antenna but i returned the boat to the dealer it was bought from. Good luck

Good on ya Gary, good to see you amongst the fish mate

Well done fella's, sounds like a very memorable day for both good and bad reasons

Well done Steve, you've got this squidding down pat now Hope they turn into some big kings for you.

Happy birthday guys

Awesome day mate, well done

Was out there for a couple of days early in the week. Got a good mixed bag off West head, including snapper, bream and trevally for the table. Also caught pike eels, hammerhead sharks, a couple of squid and an undersized jew Riders - Saw you at the boat ramp on Wednesday, i was in the other quintrex getting ready to go back home

Top stuff Steve, congratulations

Top stuff guys, you deserved it after that effort. Bloody work, wish i could have come for the trip, oh well, next time. Iain youll have to go back to landing them on the other side of the boat to even up the paint work

Well done mate, and some great pics

Hope you get better soon Pete

Nice couple of fish from the stones mate, well done

Thanks for all the kind words guys, it sure was a great experience and i cant wait to have another crack. Steve (outwide) - best fight i have had so far, craps on the 30kg yellow fin from earlier this year

Great fish mate, congrats

The weekend just gone saw 4 of us (myself, Ian "Reel Addiction", Brad and Phil go south to fish the game fishing tournament. Day 1: Saw us head North East to the shelf. Water temp was 22-22.8. Being the only billfish virgin on the boat the guys gave me first strike. The long rigger wnet off on the tide change and i landed a 16 kg yellow fin Listening to the chatter on the radio we heard of beakies out in the deep, so we headed out wider and in 200 fathoms the long corner goes off with a blistering run. We saw the fish jump and knew it was a marlin so the guys genrously gave me the rod again. After a 45 min battle we had a 2.25 metre approx 110kg Black marlin next to the boat. No more fish after that for the day. Day2: Saw us heading out real wide where the water peaked at 25.2 degrees. There were heaps of birds and large schools of flying fish but no predators. The day was saved when on the way in we landed another yellow fin. Day 3: With reports from other boats of striped marlin up north around the shelf we decided to head that way again. In about 2 kms the water went from 22 - 24.5. We could see other boats out wider so we moved on from the temp break to see what else was around. Water temp got to 25.1 and we could see birds, first to go off was the shot gun witha nice yellow fin. Then the long corner went off and another yellow fin. We swapped the lures to tuna lures and enjoyed an hour off fin after fin going 10/8/7 on tag and realse yellowfin with a few multiple hookups. The school went quiet so we decided to move to another flock off birds we could see a few km's away. Half way there the rigger goes off and we are hooked up to a nice strpped marlin. Iain was on the rod and worked the fish back to the boat. Then comes the bad part, through a lack of experience on my part the tag was not put in before the leader was grabbed and the fish changed direction and threw the hooks with no tag and no points for the boat. Pretty sure if we had got it we would have taken out the trailer boat section of the tournament. You live and learn i suppose We didnt hang around for the presentation as we knew we hadnt won, another boat had 20000 points for 2 marlin and we had 18000 for 1 marlin and 8 yellow fin tag and release, but im not sure if an other trailer boats came in later with big points. Biggest capture went to a Blue marlin of 149kg and a yellow fin of 40kg was weighed. Anyway it was the most successfull fishing trip i have been on and had the time of my life, thanks heaps guys for giving me the opportunity to catch my first marlin, it was great.

Thank your lucky stars hey.

Well done mate, top report and great pics, got to love it when it goes your way

Bad luck Dave, at least you got one, whens the warm water going to come in close off Sydney?

Ill be out doing the same thing njsconst. Give us a call on VHF 16 or ill see you on the water.

Good on ya mate, a great fish on an 8lb handline

When was that Sammy, I'm planning a trip in the near future. Cheers

Botany Bay Wide FAD

Was out on Monday, got 8 ranging from 45-70cms on pillies. Water was a nice 23.3 C Dollies came on and went off the bite pretty quick FAD wasnt under water but still plenty of current

Top stuff mate, well deserved, lets go and get some more

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