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good to see you back and pullin em in royce nice fish mate

Royce is it you lost count of the glass rods or you cant count that high sure as hell no i cant and it would take a day to do so.

Im heading to fiji next month and was hoping to flick a few lures around when i get a chance (landbased). I have a 5000 size reel with 20lb braid i will take 30-50lb fluro and a 7 foot ugly stick tiger rated up to 50lb. It is not very reefy where i will be staying, was wondering what lures anyone can reccomend and colours i was going to take some spanyid raider and snipers for long casting but any other ideas would be much appreciated. p.s Im not sure if this should be in takle or here so sorry if i was wrong

oh yes the caravan park pelicans i had one take my luderick about 20 metres away from me after it scooped it up from the shallows i was letting it take the line thinking it would realise and drop it. it sat down and started to try and swallow it, i didnt know what to do so i struck. the fish came out and i ended up getting it in but they hung around the whole session. I dont fish there as much now cause its happend to me a few times now. I know what you mean pete. They look good but i dont like em anymore Oh and there is nothing more anoying than releasing a fish to try and be nice and not to be greedy and then a f*?&n pelican comes on over and takes your groggy fish. but they do look nice.

has anyone used or know anything about these rods im looking at purchasing the BWS2201-2 it is a 7ft 2piece line rating 10 - 50 lb medium action

Kilwell B1742/2 is a nice blackfish rod 2 piece 12 foot i have 2 a 1 and 2 piece great blanks

well done mate nice couple of fish. how did you troll the poddys downrigger or do you weight the rig with sinkers??

got them on the south east side of the bridge mate.

unreal mate sounds like a great day i havnt jigged before but i get a sore arm holding a blackfish rod on the rocks after a couple of hours good stuff and nice lj too

just got back from a short session at the spit heaps of people so i ventured round for about an hour not exactly what i had in mind. found a nice weedy outcrop threw out the float added burley and couldnt even role a smoke (probably not a bad thing) got half a dozen biggest 39cm which isnt bad smallest 29cm rest mid 30s wind picked up i was still getting heaps of downs but the belly in my line was outrageous so i packed it in after losing 2 fish from bad hook up due to wind.

what a weird lookin king well done

haha yea maybe it would help my cause of not getting bricked 2 in 3 times. thanks for the info jewgaffer i dont think the one i ordere is very heavy duty but il have to wait and see. I didnt even think of using more than one leader coming off it that could be interesting especially if you had two rods with two leaders you could have a double double hook up...

jewgaffer to be honest i originally just got it out of curiosity but i was thinking of using it with small live yakas. but i also would like to give it a go with lures it would get the rapala cd lures down an extra metre or two which could be handy. does your mate in the states rate them?

yea id have to agree mate i was thinking the same a hoodlum would snap by the sound of things. did you ever use heavy line with the fishseeker

im definately going to upgrade i was just a bit worried about it effecting the lure action thanks for the advice.

I was actually thinking that when reading about it on the net it sounds like they are more suited to lures or small strip baits the one i have ordered is similar but isnt designed to turn and surface. I am also concerned about the maximum line rating used for them they reccomend something like 10lb-15lb i was thinking 50. the swivel and clip look like they are reasonable though. and if a decent fish gets on i dont wana fight the diver aswell.

I was wondering if anyone has tried or heard about fish seekers or any other divers used instead of a downrigger. I have a couple of things coming from the states and i got one its a luhr jensen jet diver. there are others with release clips was wondering how to go about using them and if they work. if they do work it is obviousley a great way to troll livies without a downrigger

I am using 30lb braid and 20lb braid all of the fish i have lost have broken the trace and not near the knots. I was just thinking if the action of the lure isnt dampened much by the heavier trace i would be better off using it but if im only going to get 50% of what i am hooking now i would rather lose a few lures as im not catching many anyway unfortunately. just when i cant get enough livies. I will upgrade the trace next time i go out thanks for the advice

I have been doing a bit of trolling around middle harbour for kings and have caught a couple but lost a fair few i have been using 20lb fluro trace i only use the cd 9s and lures of similar size. If i was to use 50lb trace does it effect the lures motion much as i am losing a lot of $$$ worth of lures.

middle of the day and i was in my tinny cheers

went to the spit and around seaforth bluff caught 1 just legal king got absolutely smoked by another using 30lb fireline 50lb fluro trace just about spooled till i used my hand to palm it like an alvey i reckon it was a biig king also caught a frigate mack was wondering if anyone can tell me the best way to prep for bait i was gonna salt it any suggestions. All were caught trolling

gday pete as you can tell i am new to this in fact ihave no idea but i thought it is time to target something other than blackfish (not that im getting bored with them) iwill let you know how I go with them.

cheers fellas i have been using cd 9s in blue/red and pilly colours i think i need to keep at it as with anything persistance usually pays off.

I was just wondering if anyone wanted to share some methods they may use when trolling diving lures such as rapala cd and xraps i was thinking of trying for a few kings i was told that you shouldnt have the lure more than 20 meters behind the boat and is fluro the best trace? I have tried a couple of times around middle harbour for zilch any help would be muchly appreciated. cheers

nice squiddies About the undersizer what if you take the head off or even fillet it???