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    Mono Line Woes

    in Tackle Talk

    Posted

    Been having a lot of problems with my line recently. For some reason, my blood knots keep slipping, which has never, ever happened before. It's almost as though someone has greased my lines when I haven't been looking. I'll tie a blood knot as usual, and when you pull on the hook and the main line, the tail of the knot just pulls right through.

    I've varied the number of twists in the knot, made sure the knot is nice and tight, double looped it round the hook, tried every damn thing. The line isn't cheap rubbish, either, it's Daiwa branded stuff.

    Anyone had this problem before?

    What knots do you reckon might work, now that the blood knot has failed me? I don't want to bite the bullet yet and buy new line and respool. Maybe it's god telling me that it's time to move to braid.

    Thanks!

    You must be missing the final hitch in the Blood knot, the knot will clench tight when done properly.

    Doubling your line through the eye is a must IMO.

    You'll be tying you hook to mono or fluoro carbon as a leader anyway, so that won't solve your problem.

    PB Wild Bass

    in Freshwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    cracker fish mick theres ganna be some big girls around now

    Thank you. I reckon you're right, BIG fish in the next month.

    Hey Mick, great fish. I've been trying all season to pull a fish like that out of the upper Nepean and haven't even come close. Well done.

    Thanks mate. Big fish happen like that when you least expect it, going for Bream... got smashed by a Big Bass, go figure. Keep trying in the Nepean, it holds crackers.

    PB Wild Bass

    in Freshwater Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by iMick

    That is one cracker bass! Congrats!

    I often stay at my girlfriends place (that's next to the water) and never really though about fishing that area thinking it was mainly filled with mullet.

    Might have to polish the kayak and go for a fish after work sometime?

    Thanks for the report and photos

    Thanks mate, it's a great system, sadly one of the first places to cool down, and shut down in the middle of winter, so get out there and enjoy it while it lasts.

    Congrats Mick, great fish.

    Just curious how the new reel performed?

    Thanks mate. I couldnt be happier with the reel, eats my Jap made Sustain 1000. The drag is so smooth, such a gradual application of pressure with no drag pressure spike or stickiness.

    I've fished with a Stella 1000, which was lovely to use, but I'd be just as, if not happier using this Certate. Love the shallow spool.

    That drag is what helped land me that Bass, just the right amount of pressure. I would buy one again, and do recommend them.

    Gun bream reel.

    Mick

    PB Wild Bass

    in Freshwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    DAMN thats a good bass, if theres one thing i am missing at the moment its catching bass. they sure do strip line! Good to see such a healthy fish from the georges river :thumbup: thats a great fish for COTM.

    Thanks mate, she made my week. After donuts in the Dams of late, i needed a good one. I still can't believe how much drag pressure she pulled.

    Mick

    PB Wild Bass

    in Freshwater Fishing Reports

    Posted

    Mick, I had written off the upper Georges for the next couple of weeks due to the amount of rain and the colour of the water (still very brown around Kelso Beach & Voyager Point)....how wrong was I :wacko: ..... I expect to get a pm from Bassboy expressing his frustration at not trying the upper Georges or Wonny for Bass & EP last weekend, as he is desperate to catch an urban bass. We might need to get both of our Stessco Basstrackers out into the upper Georges and work the Bass and EPs in the near future.

    cheers Paul

    PS - I reckon you will have a good crack at COTM with that fish.

    Any time mate, I'm off work weekends and keen to fish. There are EP schooling there too, I caught two to 32cm on Saturday.

    You and Bassboy will love it up there, there is chance of a 50+ Bass there, and you can go for a Jew too on the tide change, I got a 50cm soapie a couple of months ago there.

    I got lucky hooking her in the side of the mouth, it allowed me to turn her left as she bolted for the tree.

    I hope I'm a chance for the COTM fingers crossed.

    Mick

    PB Wild Bass

    in Freshwater Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by iMick

    Great bass makes even slow days worth it

    Thanks, all it takes is one good one to have a good session.

    :1yikes: That's awesome Mick. That Bass looks like she has been in a good paddock.....I can't believe the bass get that big in the upper Georges.

    Thanks, I got lucky she bolted about 3 meters away from a submerged tree and made a left turn, she would have done me over if she wanted to, for about 30 seconds she was in control. I've been done over there before, it burns for weeks, but today was my day.

    PB Wild Bass

    in Freshwater Fishing Reports

    Posted · Edited by iMick

    I didn't know they still swam the horses from Warwick Farm in the river, one just couldn't resist taking a bite at my Peanut Butter and Jelly 2" PowerBait Grub.

    All jokes aside, this specimen of a Bass stripped some line off my little Certate 1003 with 6lb Sunline with brute force, she hit the lure like it was her last feed.

    I was being punished.....punished for fishing light tackle for Black Bream in very Bassy looking water. Nick, with net in hand ready, seen some Bronze and called it for a monster flatty, moments would pass while I bridled this mare to the boat, and her true identity would become known.... a cracking wild Bass.

    At a whopping 48cm, this girl made my day. Photos just don't do it justice, it looked like a football. Fishing was very slow, water still very murky.

    Mick

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    Slow Trolling Livies for Jewies

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted · Edited by iMick

    I down rigged a big bully mullet all through the hacking in my kayak, there is no reason why it wouldn't get smashed, but my mullet didn't get touched.

    I'd much prefer casting large lures for them, if you've got an electric

    Mick

    Considering a new car to tow my boat

    in Boating

    Posted · Edited by iMick

    Look at a Holden Colorado (Isuzu built) 3l Turbo Diesel in Auto, or Isuzu Dmax (Same as Colorado)

    My mate Che and I have both got one, and they are tough as nails.

    Mine has half of ARB bolted on with lockers, compressor, snorkel, suspension lift, canopy, steel winch bull bar with driving lights and fog lights, steel side rail sidesteps, steel rear step tow bar, Rhino roofracks, and 3mm steel underbody protection.

    $39000 for the car, $18000 ARB = $57000, that's what I call a deal.

    My car allows me to have my boat on the back, a kayak on the roof, two labradors in the back, baby on the back seat, Mrs in passenger seat, and a kangaroo on the front bar... all at the same time.

    It's the most versatile car I've ever owned, and I love it, I wanna scream it from the top of a mountain.

    Mick

    stick or grub?

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

    Posted · Edited by iMick

    IMO, nothing beats finesse fishing my favourite soft plastic ever: the Powerbait 2" grub

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    Bream love them, and we've had a 93cm jewie landed on one of these.

    Mick

    Coincidentally, the high 30's Bream in my Avatar has one hanging out of it's mouth.

    S-Factor, Gold Flash, Rattle, and Vibration

    in Freshwater Fishing Chat

    Posted · Edited by iMick

    find feeder creeks? may hold fish, deep water you will find fish, but generally they will be less active than fish in the shallows due to oxygen levels. The good ol'jackall, spinnerbaits with gulp/sfactored trailers and possiply try a chatterbait... otherwise cast cast cast and cast some more.... Good luck and hopefully there are some good yella's about :thumbup:

    We won't resist rolling a Jackall through a feeder creek. I read an article the other day regarding fishing after the floods in QLD, same should apply in NSW.

    I've got all senses covered with a S Factored Jackall: Smell, Taste, Feel, Sight and Sound

    Mick

    S-Factor, Gold Flash, Rattle, and Vibration

    in Freshwater Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Will that be enough to entice the Yella and Cod at a 103% iced coffee coloured Burrinjuck dam?

    We're going on Sunday for an early pre-fish to the comp in April.

    Anyone done well in dams after the big rain?

    First plan is to go to spots to where we know holds good fish, then try the shallows, then the deep, then the timber, and then a troll.

    Can't wait

    Mick

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