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Challenge Your Skills With New Free App on Apple and Android Mobile Devices GoFree – the provider of digital content and services and part of the Navico family of marine electronics brands including Lowrance, Simrad and B&G – announced today the release of its new fishing app – GoFree HOOKEDTM. The GoFree HOOKED app is […]

Lowrance is proud to be the marine electronics platform of choice for Australian tourism operator Outback Spirit Tours, which recently deployed HDS Gen3 fishfinder/chartplotters across the fishing fleet at its Arnhem Land Barramundi Lodge. Outback Spirit Tours purchased the lodge in September 2015 and has since conducted extensive refurbishment throughout the property. The lodge now […]

My local waterway of Moreton Bay becomes home to a variety of tuna from the end of summer through till winter. These fish are awesome fun to target as they are big and put up a great battle. They can also be extremely frustrating to chase, which makes it all the more rewarding when you […]

Pre-fishing is an art and needs to be practiced and sharpened. There are many items that we use to attempt to nut things out but I’ll try break things down to 5 main points to help you with a successful pre-fish. Tip 1: First and foremost is do not sting the fish! Too many times […]

We all tend to use our sounders in different ways to find fish and save our favourite fishing spots. These are features on my Lowrance that I use to help me prefish for competitions and work out new systems. Insight Genesis social maps – Many of you may not be aware of this fantastic product. […]

Flathead are a species that are found all the way around the Eastern Australian coast. They are a great sports fish target and great fun for all the family to catch. Flathead are readily available as they inhibit the shallower estuary systems in water depths from 1ft to 20m. They are an ambush predator and […]

For a long time prior to the introduction of the Insight Genesis (IG) mapping system I was in search of topographical information for a number of the inland dams that I regularly fished and competed on. Mapping detail for the coastal waterways was readily available via a number of means eg Navionics cards etc however […]

Team Simrad attended the Newcastle and Port Stephens Game Fishing Clubs inaugural “Cash Shoot Out” which was held on the 20th and 21st of February. Without a doubt, this is one of the premier events on the New South Wales Game Fishing Calendar. Over 130 Boats attended and around 1,000 Anglers! This year, the fishing […]

StructureScan has been a pivotal instrument in helping me locate bass since its inception; there are two simple reasons as to why it is so effective for me. Firstly I utilise the left right view to scout wide of the boats standard sonar in search of various structure, bait schools and on some part schooling […]

Navico, the world’s largest manufacturer of marine electronics and parent company to the Lowrance, Simrad and B&G brands, has announced the release of the Precision-9 Compass, which delivers heading and rate-of-turn information with an enhanced level of accuracy to Simrad, Lowrance and B&G autopilots, radars and navigational systems over an NMEA 2000® connection. The Precision-9 […]