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Well done to your mate , deffinatley a memorable catch there

ehehe ceph its not always balmoral Thanks guys:)

Hmmm, i have decided to scrap the idea of a heavy landbased outfit as i will be spending more time on the boat this year. I have narrowed my reel preferances down to 3 choices Daiwa Sol - 2500 or 3000 shimano twinpower - 2500 daiwa caldia kix - 2500 These 3 are similarly priced and have good reputations from what i have heard. Does anyone have any pros or cons for any of these 3. This reel will be to replace my current symetre 2500 which i absolutley flogged over summer, will be using it for everything from bream to kings to frigates. Also , i saw an ad in a recent fishing mag for daiwa sol rods, are they availible anywhere and if so how much $$ am i looking at here? Thanks Rob

Nice catch MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM flattie fillets

Well done Pete , looking forward to the next 1000 and beyond!

Thats the best paint job on a boat ive seen! Mean looking machine for sure!, dont think you would have any seal troubles in that thing

Well we were going to go out on the boat yesterday morning , but dad pulled out because of the suprising amount of rain!. Decided to go landbased anyway as i was up at 3.30am and didnt wanna sleep Went to balmoral with my mate and started flicking plastics around. A few casts in and i feel a weight and then nothing , i bring it in and there is a nice V cut into the body of the plastic. did any one say squid? Tied on a squid jig , first cast , got him , nice southern. Then we saw a few boils on the surface , i thought they were sambos, and they were. Few casts around the place and a nice fat 55cm sambo is landed. After that the weather just got worse , more rain , more wind and less fish so we left. Id take that over sleeping anyday

F*** , i forgot this week What did i miss?

Stunning pics!!

Hopefully out on the harbour on sunday. i wanna chase some salmon!

Great fish Something about kingys in winter is plain special

Wow, nice yakka! ive caught them upto about 35cms but never seen one that big Wow, nice yakka! ive caught them upto about 35cms but never seen one that big

I agree the lunker city sluggo's are awsome both in 7 and 9inch ,all colours. Last season i also had quite a bit of success using squidgy shads about 100mm long.

I can actually imagine that happening

At least you didnt come home empty handed ey

Hey caine i also went out today, it was pretty windy when i was out. Shame the bigg something reef'd you though if you dont mind me asking what area were you catching the slimies? havn't caught one for years!

Nice one Ryan Shame yours swam into reef though!

Holy sh*t - the true meaning of carpark!

Nice one, they pull hard thats for sure!

I rekon , good on the old bloke, been there every time i have! , and thats ALOT Ceph, i have caught arrows , southerns and cuttles off the wharf. So many people try in summer it can become a bit of a chore, but the cuttles are always ready to take jigs

very true jewgaffer , just wondering if you have any of the new spinfishers , was put off them when they moved production out of the US. Dan - it will be used for livebaiting and heavier baitfishing. I have another outfit for lures

Yes..yes i do Jewgaffer - i havnt thought of the banax range. Im a bit of a shimano person ,cant resist a big shiny reel

Ah yeah , there up, just dont have the money at the moment. Im thinking in paring it up with a T-curve king mack 10-15kg

Nice rigs!!, 2nd one is my fav!

Well, last season i got blasted away more times than i can remember fishing landbased around the harbour. Using my symetre 4000/snapper raider and a few times on my BR 4500 . This season im looking to upgrade a little in stregnth. I have my eye on the daiwa capricorn 4500j , or the shimano spheros 12000 or even a 14000. These reels seem to have alot more stopping power and matched with a decent rod could provide alot of pull. id Ideally go a salgita, but at this stage its just to exspensive. So what do u guys think? Rob