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My All Rounder Rod would be something in the 2-5 kg rating

Prawn also just scuttle along the bottom along the sand hence the slow retrieve. Tip for squidin, if you don't get snagged often you are not allowing the jig to sink enough. Sent from my C6903 using Tapatalk

Stradics love to travel in style

LOL yeah, The Ci4 got a bit frisky with the 2500FJ and gave birth to a 1000 Ci4, she is still in her baby capsule but will join her parents when she is dressed in Power Pro 4lb Blood red braid

Yep the Stradic....sexy reel...thank god they brought it back in white Got the 2500FJ Ci4 4000 4000FI

Sexy looking reel, looks exactly like mine!! Mine sports a Suffix 832 ghost braid and is married to a Sahara rod also. A year and a half old and has not let me down.

Yeah the tide at Windang is a pain in the butt. For high Tide add on 15 minutes to the expected high. For Low add on 1 hour and 45 minutes. Which means an bloody long run out tide or a lengthy high tide....whichever way you wanna look at it.

Congrats on the bonito, As for hill 60, bonito showed up there also today, got a few on small metal spinners before the crowd rocked up at 7am. The place smells like rotten fish though so if you going to head there block your nose till you get past the car park. Sent from my C6903 using Tapatalk

Mate, were you born in the year of the snake under a full moon or something? You been having the worse luck this past chinese calander year.

You first need to get a key with a fob, can get these on the e Bay, then you need to get it cut and programmed, locksmith will do it for 200-450. To program the fob so it works with your car, instructions can be found on google or you tube, or locksmith can do it for you for you. If you are lucky you have not reached the maximum number of fobs allowed for your car so all should be sweet. Toyota quoted 2500 which is a total reset of the fob code and extra set of keys, it's the standard cost for stolen/lost keys as the missing key could turn up one day and used to whisk off your car. If you are not concerned about some ruffian finding and miss using your key, tell Toyota that you only want a spare set made and they'll quote you somewhere under 1000. Sent from my C6903 using Tapatalk

Hmm if ground coffee beans made good burley then this could take off.

LOL sponsor plug, classic. Sent from my C6903 using Tapatalk

Just hook the nipper through the tail end and they should stay on.

Great dinner there. Smile on that Kingie....Priceless. + 1 for the Black Magics.

Yeah that's the idea. No, this rig is also designed to get the bait to the bottom, how fast it goes down depends on your sinker and the current. Test both rigs and see which you prefer as it comes down to preferences. Myself i save the Paternoster for boat fishing where you let the rig drop to the bottom, give it a few cranks to get it off the floor to prevent snags as the boat drifts. Keeps the bait in the zone but away from snags. Also beach fishing with a star sinker to keep the bait in the gutter and the second hook attachment is a surf popper. Everything else i use the Running Rig or the Free Fall Rig (my name for a swivel and hook only rig) Any rig will catch fish, it really just comes down to how comfortable you are with it.

Man did i miss out on the fishing when i went over there a year ago. The missus relos in Texas said they'd take me fishing....we went to a pier to catch sardines Seeing your pics i might give it another go when next i head over...this time it will be purely fishing and no family mumbo jumbo. Thanks for the inspiration.

Hard Bodies are probably the easiest to start with, poppers/surface or shallow/deep diver to begin with, preferably the diver as it will get down to the spot where your target fish are but won't sink to the bottom like the blades. Or a small metal spinner, good for tailor if you have them in your fishing spot, you can spot them pretty easily as they pop pop the water on a run out tide.

Rig 1 with 1 hook is a Running Rig When you say "Calm Waters" do you mean no waves? The Rig is meant to move so the bait travels with the current and finds a fish, if you find the current too strong and your rig ends up right angles to you then try a heavier sinker. If landbased and fishing for whiting try on a rising tide, this is when they come onto the sand flats to forage for food. Probably why the whiting kits have small to medium sinkers.

Think he was asking what water conditions Beach, Estuary, Sand Flats etc The tear drop sinkers are fine, if i recall they have a swivel attachment that helps it slide along the line and i would class them as medium to small. The 2 hook Rig is generally used on the beaches where you want the bait to stay in the gutter and not washed back onto shore but you can use it wherever you choose if you have the time to rig it up. I'd rather have my line in the water than in my hands so hooking on just 1 bait on a running rig is much more efficient.

heh a useless cupholder.....i thought they only made them in Cheap Cars

Your rig should be based on your fishing location. I fish in shallow water 1m or so where i wade out and the current is weak so i rig up with just a swivel and a hook and let the bait drift, the weight of the swivel and bait will usually do the trick of sinking the bait down for the foraging whiting to take. In medium currents i add on a small splitshot sinker to assist in the drop. In Strong currents i add on medium sized ball sinker, reason why i use ball sinkers is because it lets the bait move along with the current which makes it look more natural. Use as light line as possible, black swivels that do not reflect sunlight, and either red tubing or red beads to attract (not proven to work). Whiting and Bream both will eat from the floor and will also hit the surface so you don't have to worry so much whether to fish bottom or top water. Have a burley trail to keep the fish interested as they move on if there is nothing to keep them there. They are forages after all Experiment with the area you are fishing and you'll figure out what rig to use and when. Good luck out there.

LOL you talking about those dark purple/brown crabs you see scurrying around eating left over scraps and bird poopings? Yeah you can eat them, but they don't taste that great and are crap bait also

#6 hooks i find a bit small but they will do the job. As for rig, it depends where you are fishing, but general get up is a standard running rig i.e Sinker above swivel then swivel to hook. My preference when targeting Whiting and Bream are #1 circle hooks. Drag i set as light possible as i like to have fun while fishing.

So you don't really need a "Lean Bar" just support to stand? Wouldn't raised handles do a better job than a bar? *edit* Just took a look at your yak, you have a cupholder that you can use for a T bar made of PVC plumbing pipes that can be leashed and thrown into the drink once you are up and standing. Will cost you about 20 bucks all up to make if you use DWV pipes bought from your hardware store.

Depends on your rig, Standard hooks, a short sharp jerk to set the hook when you feel a bite.....if you can ignore the tiny nibbles and jerk on the heavier bites you'll catch more Then reel in steadily keeping the rod tip up and tension on the line. The front drag knob is used so that when the fish runs it relieves the tension on the line so it does not snap, so set it to a setting where it allows line out when you pull it when a bit of force. Tighten it if you just want to skull drag the fish in Circle Hooks, lift the rod tip up to apply tension so the hook sets and then copy the same retrieval procedure above, making sure that the line never goes slack as hooks can dislodge when the fish shakes it's head or rubs up on something.