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FBenefits of a guide
OR the past 25 years or so of my life, I have been
Fishing Tips
by SEAN THOMPSON
Nick can teach you a variety of techniques for  sh including big thread n salmon.
Nick has won three Gold Coast Flathead Classics with  sh like this.
Good sounder knowledge can also put you onto prawns. You can see the cast net about to land on a couple of kilo worth of prawns.
Nick can help you  nd isolated rubble patches and wrecks using your sounder.
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Occasionally, your results are affected by what you’re doing wrong, and you may not realise this until an ex- perienced guide points it out to you.
well and truly bitten by the fishing bug and have tried to learn as much as I can about our great sport.
each time I’m on the water I continue to learn.
head Classic wins.
The great thing about Nick as a guide is his focus on teaching and
This includes sub- scriptions to magazines such as this one, read- ing books, watching videos and, with the advent of social media and subscription TV channels, following the more informed sourc- es and shows through these.
These professionals are on the water for a couple of hundred days a year and often know their local areas like the backs of their hands, so I recommend to anyone who is thinking about hiring a guide, do it, as you will be wiser for it.
not only catching fish. It is well and good to go with a guide or on a charter and catch a bunch of fish, but if you don’t walk away wiser then you have wasted your money in my view. One of the advantages with Nick is that he will take you out in your
But on top of all that, I have benefited from what I regard as the steepest learning curve of the lot – face-to-face education.
own boat.
There are a few ben-
This has included at- tending TAFE fishing courses, specialist fish- ing presentations and – best of all – hired qual- ity fishing guides.
As it turns out, there are a few southeast Queensland-based fish- ing guides who write for this great mag, and I have been out with Se- an Conlon already, who I highly recommend.
you how to read and interpret the sounder on your own boat and make adjustments as necessary.
I regularly see online that quite a few peo- ple seem to think they know enough already and they don’t need to pay for a guide.
My most recent trip was with Nick Whyte from Tech Fishing, and Brad Smith Fishing Charters will be next on my hit list.
This was very valu- able for me and as an example he set me up with a few extra mul- tiple screen views – chart, sonar, down and sidescan – for when I’m travelling, trolling or searching an area for good structure and bait.
That’s fine, each to their own I guess, but the problem is people don’t know what they don’t know.
My area of focus is bay and estuary fish- ing, as I can then put the lessons from this into practice in my own boat.
Nick also walked me through parts of my Lowrance HDS Gen2 menu that I was not familiar with and this meant I was able to add and move more vari- ables around my mixed screen that don’t come as a default.
I have done a lot of fishing over the past couple of decades and
So, let’s get back to my recent trip with Nick Whyte by way of example of the benefits. Tech Fishing and Nick Whyte
efits to this.
First, he will teach
Nick Whyte has been fishing for more than 30 years, socially and in tournaments.
On top of all that, he kindly loaded the latest update onto my device!
His success and knowledge speak for themselves, with mul- tiple tournament wins and top five finishes, including an incredible three Gold Coast Flat-
The other thing Nick offers upfront is to pri- oritise the areas you want to focus on in your session, such as your sounder and interpret- ing it, and fishing tech- niques for the species
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