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Husband Ted, turned her interest to fishing and he encouraged her to get her skippers license and it was not long before she was running the skippers’ courses and becoming proficient as an examiner for SAMSA – as well as lecturing and teaching people to drive boats under the safety portfolio. “” An avid skiboat angler, Lyn has been a member of Nomads Game Fishing Club for the past 30 years and she was the founder member of Guinjata Club and secretary for many years. For 12 years until 2010, Lyn was also the main organiser for the Guinjata Species Bonanza (she is now Honorary Member of Guinjata club). She is the Secretary of Southern Gauteng DSAA and currently Club Manager at East Rand Speedboat Club in Benoni. One can understand why Lyn’s recommendations are respected in boating circles! Not only does she endorse Lowrance products but she uses them as well. Fishing off the Lowrance Demonstrator Skiboat, with boating partner Stefan Du Plessis, she caught the biggest fish of the Guinjata Bonanza in 2014 to win the main prize boat – a dream come true. “It was the Lowrance machine that got us that wahoo of a boat! We have the Lowrance HDS 9 on our boat and it works wonders for us as we have always been placed in the Top 15 - at all the Guinjata Bonanzas! All the Lowrance machines are superb… simply find the unit to suit your type of angling and your Lowrance will teach you tricks every day … all you do is sit and tweek it!” Lyn’s list of accomplishments also includes: * Provincial Colours - Pilot for Inflatable racing and Jet Ski racing. * Jet Ski Safety Officer for five years. * Provincial Colours – Deep Sea Angling, Inflatable Racing, Safety. * Protea Colours - Deep Sea Angling in 2001 and in 2003. In facets of Gamefish and Sailfishing. * SADSAA/SAMSA Theoretical Examiner for SGDSAA for Cat B/C/D/E and R since November 1994. Currently 2008-2017 SAMSA appointed. * Junior SASSSAc Team Manager and promoter of Junior angling…..in 2016, her U16 teams won the U16 Gam efish Nationals, taking a Gold, a Silver and Top Junior Angler. * Skipper for Cat B Surf and Night rated. For advice or information contact: Lyn Adams: 0835880217 [email protected] lowrance south africa 21 21