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Yep, know some blokes that do use them for snapper. Reckon they soak them in some Tuna oil before the trip. We have those mirror things here in Vic. Funnily some places carp thrive here and others they dont. Guess some places suit them more than others. They seem to be more abundant in the murkier water places. Still get them elsewhere but not like the murky areas. That's just my experience anyway down here.

4lb leader? A big lizard has some serious fangs. I'd never contemplate going that light on the leader. Ive had 10lb look like it just made it on ones that had swallowed the lot and changed it just after the 1 fish. I think I'd probably have lost half my good ones that woofed it all down with something that light. Only way I could see surviving that would be fishing with ultra light drag, even then id be hoping it didn't shake it's head! Small flatties ok, but the big lizards you'll loose more than you land for sure. Me I wouldnt go below 8.

They work. 😁 That one I saw had in the info section for it "only for fish under 1 kg" Imagine rocking up next to some guys fishing and pulling that out of your shirt pocket 😂

Yeah, guessed it was a bit light. Ordered some larger soft plastics and 1/2 oz jigheads. Should put me in the right range. Hopefully.

Found this on the internet today. Thought it was a joke but is reel.

Hi mate. I've never fished before for Murray Cod so am hoping to have a go at them with this and my other setup, the Abu c4 with a Penn Ultimate rod 10kg. The Abu id use for bait fishing the other lures. I get down to the beach a couple of times a year, go for flatties, salmon whatever as long as it swims, I'm easily pleased. When I was younger I liked night fishing for mulloway, pike snapper, I think iv gone a bit soft in that department since hitting 50 and now would prefer to be at home at night watching footy or a good movie. Have not managed to get away this year yet, will though, soon I hope. Where I am I fish mostly for trout and redfin, with the odd yellow here and there. I wont knock back a go at a good sized carp for a fight but you couldn't pay me enough to eat one. I took the new set up for a go today though. First try using one. Think my jig heads were a bit light for it. Got a few birds nests but managed to thankfully untangle them. Jig heads were 1/6 oz with a softie guess total weight was 7 to 8 gram. Felt it should have been a bit more. Set mag cast to 20, was casting just 5 meters, tried on zero but thats when I got the tangles, so settled on 4 which seemed ok. Was managing in the end I guess 15 meter casts when I could. No sign of fish though. I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do with a more appropriately weighted lure. Oh yeah, the line is Berkley X9, super limp, like string limp. There's a picture I put up several days ago in the brag board section of my best trout. Got that on a Sedona reel, kairiki braid, 1/8 jighead with a T tail minnow. Was hoping for a hookup like that today but was quite.

Ok mate, thanks for that. I'm a newbie in this department of baitcasters. This is what I've done anyway, but it seems to just go one way or another. Painstakingly took all the line off directly onto a reel spool so as to cause no line twist, took 35 mins to do. Then as precise as I could adjusted the spool end play knob and wound it back on. Same thing happened. Only this time I watched and treated it like my old Penn Jig Master with no line guide and as soon as I saw it go south finger touched it at each end to keep it even. If I had not, it would have wound on the same way, so the end play adjustment did little to nothing to effect the end result. This time it just raised a little, maybe a ml, on the right end or side, at the very end of the spooling, but with an even drop if you get what I mean. I can live with that. The other way worried me. Ha, my luck I'll never get a fish to see if it ever would have mattered. Nice feeling to know that if I ever do though that I have potentially lessened the impact. Thanks mate for putting my mind at rest that it is a common thing more or less with these. I guess the high end bigger buck jobs are all even as. Cheers mate.

Hi again guys. Today just spooled up my new, secret reel misses wise, Daiwa Fuego with some braid. Berkley X9. Anyway, this is my first low profile type of reel like this. Have had an Abu c4 for years and others like that, but not this type. All my others spooling up, use an old reel to put the line on then reel it onto the new one under a bit of drag pressure so I dont get line cut when fighting a fish. Ok, so this is what I saw/have. First say 25 mtrs on and its ok, but next 40 to 50 it's laying more in the centre 75% of the reel with less on either side, so now there are fall offs each side by a couple of mil. Im thinking what's going on here. I contemplated at each side lay purposely by finger tip, knocking the line over the side of it. But didnt, filled the spool to see what happens and the last 75 mtrs evened up nicely. It now looks correctly spooled. Thing is if I fish, say cast out hook up 20 or so meters out, it takes 30, 40, mts then I'm now at the spot that the line with any further runs out will be clipping up over those drop points each side as the drag runs out. Id have to be concious of backing the drag off as soon as I felt that happen for sure. Has anybody else seen this when spooling up? It's strange that it did it for the first half but balanced off for the last.

Sounds good. Never been there before. Been from Point Lonsdale down to Apollo Bay and in between over the years but not there. Looking forward to it. Cheers mate.

Yeah, agree. You can get some good and bad in all things. I'm tending to agree, it did sound like there was something missing. Anyway, I took it back today to a shop and even they looked like "what the" when I showed them. I put a bit of line on it so they could try the drag and see I wasn't making it up and just changed my mind. No probs with a refund. But just across from them is a a shop store. So armed with a few online prices with free frieght on the Fuego, went for the Fuego as I found out it has a solid al frame and saw the Aird is graphite and can flex. Watched a vid of the reel seat being easily flexed and some comments that under load you can feel it do so now and then. That turned me off. The Manager tried to weasel out of the a shop price match guarantee, got a bit rude when I pressed and proved the other lower prices, dont know why as I was being polite about it all and thats their policy they advertise, but got it eventually. Nice little reel. Just have to catch a fish on it now.

Great. Thanks for all the replies guys. Yes mine is a Casio Forester Fishing Time watch. Still in good nick too. Ha ha, took me an hour of mucking around with the buttons to find where I set the Lat & Long, but got it figured out, lost the manual for it ages ago. Yeah, shows moon phases, sunset sunrise, peak fishing times and peak/high, low tides. Weather is garbage here in country Vic at present, had severe weather warnings last couple of days. Hanging out so badly to get down to the saltwater at Port Fairy for a week with the misses. Plan to go, rain, storms, big seas, gale force winds. I'll get there eventually. Got the Forester set for down there. Gear all ready,some the misses doesn't even know I've got yet 😁 , just need a good break in the weather.

😁 I'll have to "watch" out for those "clock" fish. Hopefully given "time" ill catch one. Jokes aside, yeah I'll admit they were lame. Hunters swear by the Sol tables too. But there are moon phases that fish bite best on so I do wonder, if it all aligns, moon phases, weather etc if that would equate to peak times. Even heard that, and had been verified, that farmers planting crops so that emerging seedlings/sprouts, dont emerge on full moonlit nights, grow better than those that are planted so they are newly emerged on those nights, reason is that growth is inhibited by weak day night cycles. A strong one is bright day, dark night. But fish ain't plants we know. Im still gonna test it though.

Good stuff. I love leatheries and gars. Not the biggest fish but tasty as.

What a session! Fantastic!

Hi guys. Just yesterday was going through some stuff and came across a fishing time watch my misses gave me years ago. You put the relevant Long & Lat into it and it calculates the Sol Lunar tables for that area. So got a battery for it and set it this arvo. My previous thoughts were this, on days it showed top fishing times, as long as the weather was ok it seemed to have something to it. But if it showed top times but weather was crap it just didnt matter. Medium times, low fishing times the same it seemed weather dependent. By dependent I mean wind, lows, highs etc. So I wonder, was it really just weather dependent and the Sol Lunar had nothing to do with it or does the Sol Lunar really have merit? I could go on an try to explain more of what I mean but I reckon you'll all get where I'm coming from. Thoughts?

Thanks mate. I actually was going to add this bit following in the first post but didn't, but will now to explain why ill pass on Abu. I actually last week just after getting the rod given to me got an Abu Black Max 3. Loaded it up with some Berkley X9 and tested it out in the backyard. The little Okuma seems a lovely little rod, but the reel only gave out about 10 foot of line and now the drag is binding badly. It doesn't even sound like there are drag washers in it, just like a creaking plastic against plastic type of sound is the best I can describe it. It even makes that sound with the drag backed right off to nothing, but with it done up a bit its a shocker. So its going back next week to the shop and im getting something else. I've never had anything like that happen with a reel. Appreciate the reply though. Below is the Max that's going back.

I went shooting once, back, in the 80's. Started raining and was making my way back to the car across a large paddock on the property I was on. Didnt see 1 rabbit. Half way back to the car I see this huge thing slithering along and at first thought "whats a snake doing out on a day like this?" It was a huge eel slithering across the paddock from who knows where. A river was 1 km away, may have come out of a dam and decided to go to the river? Anyway, it was about 4 to 5 foot long. When I got back to the car my dad just looked at me like "what the?" When I showed him the eel. So we had crumbed eel for tea instead of rabbit. So yeah, I caught an eel in a paddock.

Hi guys. Am on a bit of a budget here, but as a gift I was given a little Okuma baitcaster rod. So am wondering about the Daiwa Aird 100HDA and if anyone has one and what their thoughts are? It has 9 bb + 1 roller bearing. Have read a couple of on line reviews but its hard to tell if it's just advertising or not as I dont know who is who in that world. It seems the most bang for your buck from a decent manufacturer. I do have my eye on the Daiwa Fuego as well, its a 4 bb 1 roller bearing. But at the same price. The Aird on paper looks better but there may be a reason the Fuego is that I dont know of. Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks. Was pretty happy. New rod, reel and line and on the last cast. Not a fisherman's last cast which really means ten to twenty more after that but the actual last cast. Reeled 2/3 the way in and thought that'll do. Then a slight tap on the softy, little pull, thought great an ok fish lb maybe 2 to break in the new gear. Then it realised it was hooked and peeled off line like a torpedo.

Hi guys. Thought id put this up and add to the line up. This is my pb trout. 11 lb and caught here in Vic in a lake using a soft plastic. Got it in April this year. What a battle.

Thanks mate. Trout and redfin in the freshwater. I live not far from Ballarat. Am planning a trip within the next month if we get a decent weather break, down to Port Fairy with the misses for several days. I love throwing lures so will go for anything that hits them, not fussy. I'll try later to post a picture of a trout I got at the start of autumn. Apparently the file was to big when I tried and I have to shrink it.

Hi guys. Im just new here and no Jewie expert. But have fished for them and caught them in vic estuaries. Only fished at night personally from advice from those who taught me. We always fished the minimum to medium tides. This is why, not my knowledge but those I learnt from. The Mulloway are more switched on than some think. In a full estuary, big high tides, the water is too spread out and the bait fish they hunt are too scattered so it's too much effort for too little return for them. But real low tide changes, from min to max, means they are more concentrated and take less to minimum effort to find, chase and catch. Over and over I saw it play out. To the point that on the big tides you virtually got donuts in hits and hookups. But the lows to medium were the good to big traffic times. Im convinced what those guys who taught me holds true.

Hi guys. From Victoria. Love my fishing in any way be it freshwater or salt. No boat, just a land based. Cheers to you all.