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    Jew on Lures

    in Saltwater Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Don't know why I PMd this, I'll put it in here as well:

    "I haven't caught one myself, but I've done plenty of research and fished with people who consistently get 10kg + fish on plastics.

    People use a pretty broad tackle range to target these fish on plastics; I reckon the ideal is a 2-5 or 3-6kg 6'6"-7'6" graphite rod matched to a 2500-3000 sized spin reel spooled with 10lb braid, and 12-20lb leader. This is best for plastics under 5 inch with ~1/4 ounce and under jigheads, although some people prefer to use 1/2 ounce and heavier jigheads with larger 7 inch plastics, with heavier outfits like 6-10kg rods, 4000 size reels with 20lb braid.

    I think basically the lighter outfit for most stuff, but if you're often fishing deeper holes with decent current it may be better to upsize the gear.

    Plastics that I've heard and seen good things about-

    5inch + 7inch Gulp Jerkshads

    100mm Squidgy fish silver fox and gary glitter colours

    3 and 4 inch gulp pogys

    100mm Squidgy shad white lightning

    100mm and 120mm Squidgy wrigglers, bloodworm and silver fox

    Jigheads:

    9 gram squidgy fish shaped heads (my usual with shads and fish)

    1/4oz Nitros with a 2/0 hook for the 5inch jerkshads

    3/8th TT heads for the Pogys

    1/2oz-1oz with 4/0-5/0 hook for the 7inch jerkshads

    Recommended outfits- light- Shimano Stradic FJ 2500, Daiwa Freams 2500, 10lb Power Pro, 10lb Daiwa Shinobi, 12lb Nanofil, Pflueger Trion 3-6, Shimano Raider Soft Plastics 3-6.

    Heavier Outfits- 10-20lb Shimano Terez, Basically any lightish snapper rod, with 4000 Stradic FJ, Freams, Stradic Ci4, whatever, 20lb Power Pro etc.

    If I was going jewie fishing on the Hawkesbury right now I would take- Trion 3-6. Stradic 2500. 10lb braid. 9Gram fish shaped jigheads. 100mm silver fox fish. 12lb fluro leader. I would fish them with a pretty solid rip rip then sink to the bottom.

    Hope some of that made sense.

    Good luck!"

    The reel/rod recommendations were really just to provide an idea of the sort of thing, there's obviously plenty of cheaper/more expensive equivalents.

    Line evolution?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    There was a series of different material used in the early days, I found you this link on the internet, and hopefully it will provide some sort of a guidline.

    Fishing Line History

    Thanks, I actually opened that tab a few hours ago but missed it when I was reading... They say that nylon was not invented until 1954, whereas the DuPont site says 1939 :wacko: I might just have to choose one site and follow its version.

    Line evolution?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Hey everyone

    I'm doing this project on lines, and I've got all my results, but still got the hard bit to go... I was wondering if any of you could help me out by providing me with some information about the history/evolution of lines? Nylon monos were introduced in 1939 apparently, but what was used before then? Some sites say Dacron, but other sites say Dacron wasn't invented until the '50s... If anyone has some info or links or anything it would be great.

    Thanks

    Hamish

    how many lb braid for flathead do you use?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    i have also been following with interest as i have a new 2500 reel coming in soon...

    my Q - if spooling on with 6lb braid, 150yd wont cover the spool,

    so what sort of backing should be used?

    and how do you know how much you should put on?

    cheers,

    Get some cheap mono probably 6-10lb. The process is much easier if you have a spare spool for your reel. Tie the braid loosely to the first spool of your reel and wind it all on. Then attach your backing with an albright, double uni whatever, and wind that on until it's at the perfect level. Then simply take that spool off your reel, put the other spool on, attach the backing to the fresh spool, and wind it all on. This method gets it perfect, but if you dont have a spare spool you can do it slightly differently; begin by winding all your braid and then the perfect amount of backing on, and then wind all this onto an old reel that's bigger than your 2500 (or anything else, although it's much slower to wind by hand). Then you will have the braid on top with backing underneath, and you need to flip it again, so wind it all off onto another reel (or spool, or rubber tube, or phone, or whatever you have). Then you will have the backing ontop again, and you can wind it on to your new reel.

    Otherwise you really just have to guess, it's easier if you use more than you think you'll need to start with, and then if there's too much just go back and cut some off.

    Hope this made a bit of sense :thumbup:

    how many lb braid for flathead do you use?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    castaway is 10lb and basically has a 4lbpound diameter so will it perform like a 4lb pound braid but stronger and if i end up using 10lb castaway is that too heavy even though it has a 4lb diameter?

    Not at all. Go the castaway out of those two (the Sensor its actually pretty thick) or Power Pro in 3 or 4 lb.

    Anti catfish jew rig?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    also, please be careful when handling catfish.

    dorsal spike is killer dude, ruin your day

    Yeah I've managed to avoid them so far. Freaked out on the weekend though because I thought one had got me on the knee... Turned out it was just the hook. :yahoo:

    Anti catfish jew rig?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Maybe make a longer leader. The catfish will be less of a problem if the bait is a little off the bottom. Having said that, i have had one eat a mullet which was fished with a 1.5m leader! If i could erase something from the earth IT WOULD BE THEM! Squid still isn't safe from them. Often i fish a whole large squid and end up hooking a catty every 5 mins!!

    That is not much fun when you can't catch them yourself so buy them at 18.50/500grams... In my mind the bottom of the river is 89% catfish; sometimes they'll hit it as soon as it reaches the bottom :ranting2: Maybe I'll put more effort into getting livies.

    Anti catfish jew rig?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    I would use live bait then mate.

    The catfish wont eat a live yakka (atleast i hope not)

    if your fishing land based you can pick up yakkas from the boat ramp at brooklyn using small bits of pillie on a bait jig berley hard.

    Hope this helps : )

    Yeah the aim is usually to get livies and the catfish and eels leave them alone, and the squid is always a pretty good backup. I might give the rig a go with squid. Missed out on the big trip but had a livie crushed by a good fish yesterday evening... never have any problem hooking them on squid but it's a bit harder with livies :thumbdown:

    Thanks for the help.

    Anti catfish jew rig?

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Well yesterday I fished the hawkesbury for a few hours and had a lot of trouble with the catfish. I was trying a slightly modified rig to get the bait off the bottom, I don't think it really worked though.

    I usually just have: braid---leader--------running ball or snapper sinker----swivel----leader----hooks

    But I replaced the sinker with a sliding swivel tied to some lighter line then to my sinker, aiming to get the bait off the bottom a bit, as well as only losing the sinker if it gets snagged.

    I didn't get snagged so I couldn't test that but I still caught plenty of catfish. What I'm wondering is would it work if I included a small fixed float between the last swivel and the hooks? So the whole thing sinks, then the float pulls the bait leader up away from the bottom until a stopper hits the sinker's swivel.

    Braid--leader--stopper-----sliding swivel with sinker attached---swivel---fixed float----hooks

    Would it work??? :unsure:

    Fish handling techniques

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted

    Yet there's some shows on tv that don't mind grabbing a jewie (that they intend to release) by the gills, swinging it around etc etc. Or are too busy talking about the fish to think about the fact that it needs to breathe.

    Survey - Please Help

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted · Edited by Flatboy

    Diameter (mm) Breaking Strain (lb)

    0.125 6.6 No stretch

    0.138 10.3 No Stretch

    0.093 6.2 No Stretch

    0.232 6.8 Stretch

    0.196 5.9 Stretch

    0.16 4 Stretch

    0.159 3.5 Stretch

    0.172 4.3 Stretch

    0.091 6.3 No Stretch

    0.149 13.1 No Stretch

    0.128 5.6 No Stretch

    0.203 4.2 Stretch

    0.102 11 No Stretch

    Anyone wanna guess which is which though??

    EDIT: formatting didn't quite work out.

    Survey - Please Help

    in Fishing Chat

    Posted · Edited by Flatboy

    Woohoo thanks everyone, I now have the minimum necessary amount (But more is even better :biggrin2: )

    Done some analysis, and you actually all rated them almost exactly based on UTS (ultimate tensile strength)! That is very good for my results.

    I've had a few questions about which line is which; I can't say yet but SOON. I will probably be closing the survey off on Sunday, so that is when all of my initial results can be revealed.

    Like I said, the more results the better, but I've reached the minimum.

    Thankyou everyone who responded :thumbup:

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