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I have Black Pete 16ft they have a strong base, (Not Relax actually Black Pete), while traveling in big sea i store riggers down side of boat full lenght and strap to bow rail and rear tie off cleat , this saves stressing the bases and pole mounts, i have cracked and broken fitting at end of both poles while traveling with riggers up, And that goes for all riggers especially 16ft or up, their is too much strain on all items traveling while up. They are a great set up for a realistic price.

Gino's "Angie 2"

I was out there today and spoke to the skipper on radio during the fight, the fish was on 37kg and was fought for a full 4.5 hours before coming up dead, Skipper said it was too big to get in boat, now i know why 361kg what a beast, hope to see pics.

That is a Black marlin and in photo i have only estimated your height at 1.8m and if so fish is 2.2m from lower jaw to fork of tail and should of weighed at around 100kgs. Blacks are much heavier in length than a stripe as you will see in the girth behind head. Anyway well done on the catch. Cheers dave

Team OFFTAP will be there, hopfully Tagging a few. Weather looking good. Good luck to everyone fishing the Tournie . Cheers Dave

Hey Buddy im still waiting on that breakfast buddy LOL, Mate just decided today on fishing Botany Bill Heyward this weekend, then Jess Sams Ulladulla The week after then im off to port stephans a week afetr that then later the Interclub 2 weeks after, pretty hecktic scedule. How about you guys, whats your plans.

Oh i forgot to add, biggest Game fish went to a junior angler and was a 154kg Blue Marlin .UNREAL, caught in 20.4 deg water i believe. How mad is that.

Fished the tournie with Caige and Chris on OFFTAP, went 3-3-3 for the weekend, Raised and Tagged a stripe friday to Chris, then early Saturday Tagged another one to Caige then almost on the buzzer to stop fishing on saturday Raised another nice fish and Tagged with me on this time. Great Tournie, well run event, Great bunch of guys and Gals, Most Tag and Release marlin by boat was 6 over the weekend to Ultimate, Congratulations Boys. . Cheers Dave

Hi Ross, It was amazing to see all the rest of the boats pull up lines and head south after the radio chatter, leaving only OnSite , me and one other boat to the productive water our selves,. The scatterd bait and small markings early in morning turned into nice bait balls later with Beakies being marked pestering the school. This was a 1 day trip for us (Long Day) so unfortunatley had to end fishing early for head home to Penrith and get cleaned up for New Years festivities. It was a great site for the newbys i had with me to watch Glenn backing down on the fish. Hoping to get back up soon, but will definately catch up at Interclub and a couple of weeks before. Cheers Dave

Great work by Glenn, i fished next to him new years eve (Yesterday) on the Trench, how amazing is it that it fired for 2 days straight then yesterday, when i get there the Car Park boys also have an absolute blinder, I heard there were something like 40 boats there, with an absolute heap of fish caught even till late arvo. Thats why you got to love Port 2 great well fished spots to choose from and the trip between is often worth the short run. We did get 2 fish up and fought an absolute demon Black around 100kg that wouldnt play ball, chaffing through leader after 45 min, with spectacular jumps through out the chase. Another virgin beakie angler on my boat so i didnt call for the drag lever to go to full , but in the end we payed for it. Cheers and will see you and Glenn on water in Feb if not before. Dave

Actually I believe there was a Stripe Marlin hooked and dropped off JB that sunday. Things usually pick up soon . Good luck

Team OFFTAP will be there for our first Interclub, representing JBGFC, see you all there.

Shocking Sea conditions 20-25kn Southerly all day, picked up Rat Albies and YFT west of browns, still a good day out in the end. Cheers Dave

Mate no Problem anyone can give us a yell, gladly pass on any info while on water. Be good to catch up. Be sure to log on with Coastal Patrol or Coast Gaurd Sydney though for peace of mind. Cheers Dave

Great Work Ross once again, Beakie this early is unreal, i heard about it earlier today, news like that travels fast, Got the crew on some good fish there, hope tommorrow is just as good for u and Glen, see u out there Cheers Dave

Decided on trip out wide from Botany in morning got 4 crew all keen with good reports coming in be on VHF 21 "OFFTAP". Give us a yell. Oh Yeh dont forget Daylight Savings kicks in tonight contrary to most peoples calenders, dont get caught out 1 hour forward.

Thanks Bob and the Wollongong committee for a well run enjoyable event, we will definately be back but hopefully landing a couple instead of losing them at the boat. Cheers from the OFFTAP crew.

Hi Bob thanks for all your help, i have booked a cabin at Windang , me and the boys will catch up to everyone at the briefing Friday. Cheers Dave

Hi guys ,been flat out chasing work lately, sadly i will be missing yet another Social, as i wont be in NSW that weekend. Hairtail weekends have been high on the list for the OffTap crew. Cheers and hope all do well and keep it safe. Dave

Mate had the sea anchor out back, worked well.

Yep just a little Noreast

Thanks Buddy we decided to have a breakaway 24kg mono about 3m long before rig this time but didnt help, should have given way long before 37kg braid especially due to mono knott on swivel reducing the strength at that point. Even had 15kg mono 1m long to sinker after rig

Hi guys hit browns yesterday, beautiful day out Caige and Joe as crew bottom bashed for one Blue Eye before snagging bottom and losing 600m of braid for second trip in a row. Next troll around and look for some water change but didnt happen , pulled up wide and started a Cube trail 3 hours later one of the 15s goes for a run , before Joe locks up on it and the line cuts the water like a train before going deep, 30 minutes and colour, looked good definate YFT, another run the 5 minutes later a nice YFT was gaffed and dragged over side. It went 43.4kg bleed on the electronic scales at home. Biggest YFT to boat to date and PB for Joe.

Your in trouble now Matt Ray got his first fish last week , and im sure youll hear about it, Remind me to show you the video, Rays Sea legs in the rough water, like a statue, they build em strong were he comes from. .

Our Second Tournament. And how we went. Briefing Thursday night at rear of Greenwell Point bowling club in tournament tent, met all the boys run down on rules and boat pack given to all skippers. Friday bit choppy but calmned off nicely later, we trolled North of JB Canyons and hooked up to little Stripe around 60kg Caige (My young Bloke"Outdodad") Junior member JBGFC was first on and i tagged within 35 minutes on 24kg. Next was Ray (On Edge) on my boat to hook up on a livie between JB Canyons and Kink to a nice 90kg model his first fish, Tagged in 43 minutes on 24kg, raised another fish later but no luck. Started first day great, but Blue Alabi had it up on us with 5 Tagged Beakies, we had a lot of catching up to do. Great work by the team on Blue Alabi. Saturday saw a much better run out from Crooky, headed south East again early hook up north of the kink and the junior up again to try and improve the young blokes points, another little stripe on a livie, short fight around 20 minutes Tagged and released to live another day. Drifted some bait schools and jigged some baits to raise a nice size 100 plus stripe, threw in a livie and away she went, i was next up and with Tiagra 50W on Sunset took 50 minutes to subdue before tag deployed and beast released. Nice big fish. Saturday night dinner at Tournie Tent was relaxing with a great feed, a few prizes raffled off with plenty of stories all round. Blue Alabi was now on 7 fish T&R and we were equal second T&R points Boat with Johnie Casper also doing well on 4 . Sunday was even a better run out , trolled south along to kink and hooked another little stripe on shotty Joe's on this time and a few short runs Tag was in in under 20 minutes, first fish T&R before 7.45am last day, looking good, raised a good fish not long after but failed to take our livie, buy this time we were south east of kink 10am and rigger livie gets smashed, good fish this time and Ray was back on for his second ever fish, fought it on almost full drag with time ticking away and 42ks from crooky heads, most stubborn fish for us this season had her just out of tag pole reach twice before she went deep, 50 minutes and she won her freedom with main line broken through. Tally for us 9-6-5 for the weekend. Caige took out Junior T&R points score and was awarded a TLD25 and 15kg Beastmaster Rod Combo with a nice plaque to hang. We were Runner up T&R Boat with 50,000 points . Lucky door prise went to the most luckiest person of the weekend Me, Great Furuno FCV585 sounder. Cheers and thanks to the Shoalhaven Game fishing club for a well organised and run event, Bruce from Port Kembla Coast Gaurd who did an outstanding job with the running of Scheds. Third Pic Below , you can see a circle hook in corner of mouth, Stainless Hook from previous hook up, I removed this before releasing, so fish was better off after we caught it.