marshie

As swordfisherman said - I am also more than happy to hang a dead frigate out when LBG fishing, the shine off their flanks will often get kings going even if dead. Your other alternative is to keep on practicing the bridle - you can try pushing a small cable tie through the edge of the eye socket and zipping the hook off. Should be very quick to do. I'll see if I can google up a pic for you

2nd Captain Spanner...great reel mate you'll love it

Stevefish it depends on where you want the balance point to be - I like my index finger on the foregrip. You can try taping a $2 or a couple of $1 coins to the butt to change up the balance point

Cracker fish there mate!

I would go with the daiwa or the pflueger based on them having Fuji guides. If possible I would try and hold both in the hand and see which you like better. Like Mitchie I haven't fished a wicked weasel but I have fished other gen blacks and they are v v nice for the price.

Sounds like a huge bummer.....personally I would stay with the freams and line if you were stoked with that, and have a look at matching it to a daiwa rod - not because it is the same brand but generally you get better bang for your buck with the blank and guides when you go daiwa for rods. I would look at their generation black range - very good rods for roughly the same price as your tcurve

Oldsalty is spot on - early bird gets the worm. Many do well with a livebait down deep for bigger bull mahi mahi I've caught them in a burley trail of pilchard cubes, by drifting a pillie tail down unweighted on 20lb fluoro and a 1/0 hook

Looks great mate but are your wettie pants really 8mm? If the fishing is slow you could heat up soup in those! Definitely a no no for the waders off the rocks.

As an addendum - there are some websites online that independently test line. A simple google search for 'braided line test results' should help.

Hey Beau Steele, Hope I can help a little in this regard - the listed breaking strains on a lot of braids are not reliable. Manufacturers in the early days of braid would under rate their breaking strains to counteract the poor knots that people coming from monofilament would tie. This was to stop the impression that some would say "I'm never fishing braid again! The knot keeps slipping!" In turn it ended up with people saying "Wow braid is so much stronger than mono! My 4lb braid could pull a truck out!" So where does this leave us? The amount of strands in a braid, for the most part, help to keep it circular in nature, like a hose. 8 strand braid is generally very round, and as a result casts well and costs more. A 4 strand braid in turn will be more 'tape like', and cheaper to produce. In summary - the cheaper braids are more likely to be of fewer strands, and rated low for its breaking strain (ie 10lb test marketed as 4lb). The more expensive braids will be thinner, rounder and more accurately rated. For your purposes, I would pick a 4lb braid from ANY manufacturer - even the thickest will be more than suitable for starting out.

Platypus lo-stretch is good, and I also really like Yo-zuri Hybrid Schneider is guaranteed good stuff

Yeah Prince of Wales Drive off Yarra Bay - I would be so stoked to see someone connect standing on the breakwall! What's the chance of it hanging around? admittedly pretty low

Stick fake grass on top of whatever you lay down as a floor. Hoseable, non slip matting you can take off anytime. All you need is a pair of scissors to cut into the exact shape of your deck

Cut the top off with a cheap steak knife and scoop out the purple part - that's the bait. When collecting cunjevoi you'll notice they are in clumped packs - try to take only one or two per 'school' or clump. This combined with leaving the base on the rocks will help regeneration and regrowth. Check your regs too - I take about five per session. Bag limit is 20 in total posession

Hey Peter, The gomoku would not be a great choice as the length is a little restrictive for casting across big sand flats. Of the two you mentioned, I would go for the Loomis. A much better blank. A rod I own does this job remarkably - it's a Daiwa TDX 762ULFS - cork grips, fuji k guides, 2 piece, 7'6" and made especially for whiting poppers. You can pick it up for under 150 schmackos. Food for thought

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What brand of braid did you run on it? These days a lot of braids are advertised a lot lower than actual breaking strain - you could easily get 65lb out of some 30 or 40lb lines. As for beach jew you really don't need too much more than 20lb unless you're pulling them away from structure (beach corners) or the shore dump is particularly harsh.

30lb mono is more than enough. Do you have a rod powerful enough to snap 30lb mono? Once you do it's time to step up to bigger gear

From the rocks the usual method is to pin a 5/0 or 6/0 through the anal fin (read bum haha), fish as light a trace as you dare to get away with, and the same again for float size. They invariably swim close to the surface with the hook beneath them and most attempts to lower them with a sinker will kill them. They are quite fragile live so the key is to give them their space - have seen many kings become undone by this method but no jewies, maybe if they were fished in the moonlight for a bit of silhouette? Stu

Stab in the dark here, 'Lazy Gekkabijin 5S'? It's a tiny little bream lure

Sorry to keep buzzing, but what kind of rods are you guys running the HSS overheads off? I'm having trouble finding relatively cheap ones (ie under 300) that can clear the ledges i fish 10ft+ ? Cheers, Stu

Thanks tons for posting this mate, watched it a hundred times on VHS before one day the player tore all the tape out of the cassette It's always so hard to explain to my mates who don't fish what rock fishing is really like - to them it's just 'standing on rocks fishing'. Great footage and surely had my heart in my mouth a few times with blokes in jeans battling backwash up to their knees! Cheers again

Cheers for the replies everyone, much appreciated. Yup the rod angles/drag would make a big difference, though sometimes im as high as 15-20m off the water and therefore forced to have a semi high line angle. I guess at the end of the day I just want to improve my angling skills (read 'buy more tackle' haha) and think there would be a great deal of satisfaction in learning to use a casting overhead. I'm kinda in two minds about non-stretch line like gelspun and braid - they definetly get more distance but the trade-off is less abrasion resistance and stretch, which i think is sometimes beneficial when trying to 'drop back' the lure after a missed strike. Will definately have a play with those daiwas, had a look online and am impressed with reports of toughness. Stu

It all depends on your clearance when washing the fish up to land it - in some spots when the ledge slopes gradually in you can get away with 15lb mono. I mostly use 25lb Schneider hard mono as trace and that handles bonito, tailor, salmon and kings to around 80cm, but as suggested if your likely to get onto any solid fish or you have any submersed drop-offs/lifting to do then around 40 - 60 pound fluoro is your best bet. Cheers, Stu

Gday guys, I spin from the rocks a lot and normally use a 4000 sized eggbeater matched to a 10ft graphite stick. Using 14lb fireline, I find that this set-up works great casting wise but in some circumstances often has the tendency to pull hooks from leaping mouths - even when lures are rigged with singles. Was thinking if it was possible, even for shits & giggles, to have a legitimate casting overhead that could throw 40g lures with something like 15lb penn 10x? Was under the impression that most casting overheads throw 80g and 60g lures better... Cheers, Marshie p.s (realise the common-sense solution is to spool the threadline with mono, but humour me haha)