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Awesome, great fun aren't they. Were the breaking the surface or just down below. I was out acouple of km's past jibion and saw the S'thly come up from Wollongong, we ended up with a few snapper, nanigye (SP) and Sweep.

1cm is nothing never the less they are both great fish that take great skill, or great luck, i mean how hard is it to land a king of that size around structure? You brave taking that combo up, i have used mine around Airlie and struggled to get some smaller fish round there...

Yea looks to be bled just wondering how come it looks like that, when i bleed fish there is normally one small cut but?

I have heard otherwise. But we will find out how it goes. Not bad coming from the Shire, whatever happened to its head?

Same as yours expect mine was 71cm, on a SP, LB in a place you'd never expect and on a 1000 stradic.

T-Curve tournament is great, i have the 2008 one but, matched with a 1000 stradic.

Over the past year using my stradic i have landed the following; 64cm Salmon 71cm Kingfish 80cm Flathead All good fish in which the 1000 stradic handled very easily.

Nice, personally i dont touch them but... Keep fishing that area there are plenty of fish to be had there.

Awesome they are next on my list... Great catch look forward to reading more reports from out that way..

Thats right, i mean there are plenty of deep holes. When you think of Sydney you think of like all other waterways not PH, that is the only waterway i fish and the only one i know so i cant really comment but there are great fish to had. Thanks everyone for their kind words, i have finally got my mojo back! Two PBs in one week.

Thanks, surprisingly pretty far up.

Here it is

Great post, ill look into doing that this evening.thanks alot.

Can someone please tell me how to prepare a king fish for sushimi? I have cleaned it and scaled it now it sits in the freezer to chill rapidly. Thanks

Went out today fishing LB fishing some flats around the Hacking as the tide fell, landed my new PB on bait and lure that was a 71cm king. Impressive effort from me considering there was structure around, anyway the king fell to a 5inch jerk shad in camo on the 1000 Stradic loaded with 4lb and a 6lb fluro trace.

Ah ok Im leaning toward the Tierra but will consider all advice, i think there are less reviews on the tierra mainly because they havent been around for as long. Anyway its good Red let me know he sold the reel after i had sent all those PM's

Just a quick report. Went out this afternoon around 3pm wind was still but there was a strong wind warning and it was a real gamble to go out. Decided to go towards the heads, toss some plastics around, second cast got me a new PB trevally on SP's that went 56cm, after he destroyed that plastic that was it and i decided to head in. Decided to fish some flats around Maianbar and got into a nice flattie aprox 50cm and a useless pike. This was good enough for me and i called it a day. Pics to follow...

Great effort , did that one fight much? or did it just sit on the bottom, the reason i ask is cause the bigger ones i have caught just sit there after a run. Good job on the release, any fish that big and that old should be released.

But when it comes down to your purchase rest assured that whatever you will get will be quality. FTR i have a Shimano Stradic 1000, landed salmon to 65cm on it and flathead to 80cm on it so it can handle big fish, I have had it for a year and there is only one issue, the handle has some play nothing performance wise just a niggling problem that is more annoying than anything else.

Sounds good, Id get the Tierra, im going to pick up a 2500 this week.

Hi, How much was the rod and where did you pick it up from?

Yep thats what i was getting at but anyway, here is my best Nothing on yours but!

Doesn't say that the fish was killed, but surely holding it like that wouldn't do it any good.

G'day, Im after a new Combo for the summer mainly used for targeting, Jews, flatties and smaller Pelagics on plastics. Currently i own reels in the following sizes, 1000, 1500 and 4000. Now what should the next one be? I have looked at the 2500 sizes and that seems about right for the job. Id most likely spool it up with 12lb Braid i think... Now the two reels i have been looking at the Shimano stradic and the Diawa Tierra. Alot of people say that Diawa are the go in the smaller sizes and Shimano are the go in the bigger sizes. Now which one should i get considering they are in the same price range. And i don't want this to turn into another one of the 'Shimano V Daiwa' Threads. What im looking for is, the quality of the reel, drag, weight, the way the reel lays line on the spool and how resistant they are to corrosion. Thanks alot.