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oh cmon roberta its sunny nelson last time i went back to visit my family i decided i had gotten pretty used to the warm weather over here now but one day i might go back

its always rewarding when you totally change tactics and it works. Oh i can certainly relate to the rigging up after a couple of beers so much that i once rigged up three rods two of them came apart on the first cast and the third on a small fish always the way..

that was my first thgought cameron but i have now got pieces of a 4144 to sleeve it with but if that doesnt work il be giving it a go. did you find it hard to do??

dont you worry roberta il be puting up several pics of the fish i catch with it when its done im just a bit stretched for time at the moment but im going up to the gold coast in feb (driving) so il be making a few stops on the way hopefully il have plenty to brag about. i better start being extra nice to my better half so i can get as much time fishing as possible. lol oh I have only been blackfishing for about a year now and i very rarely fish for anything else im hooked for sure i always get comments by passers by "thats the old fellas fishing" if only they knew. but im glad they dont.. hehehehe

roberta no sorry its a bf 5144 so its a very thin diameter and bends all the way down to the bottom. i was talking to the old fella at bohms in narrabeen and he said they stopped making the blackfish model. and i spoke to royce at christmas time he hadnt caught a (parore) as yet i think he was finding it hard to steer clear of the reddies. i grew up in nelson at the top of the south island but have plenty of family in tauranga and taupo if only i knew about them then. but i was happy enough with snapper blue cod and gurnard back then.

stewy i would if i measured it but it was more than 24cm thats 20lb mono line under it and it took a raider im not sure what size but i was going for salmon or tailor.. musta been hungry

sorry roberta that is what i meant by putting a reel on and feeding the line through i was just in a bit of a rush.. i dont even understand myself sometimes. the reason i am so interested in fixing it is 1 royce gave the blank to me and i value that greatly 2 they do not make them anymore and its the one i want you may be familiar with the 5144 made by butterworth (i think) which royce has also and i gave it a go and it was peeeerfect for my likings and i just took the measurements off of his to replecate it as he told me the blanks are identical apart from the colour. so i guess its just one of those things. and its just my luck to be a cluts and break it i spent so much time on it aswell. fishguts- time may heal but the amount of time it will take is certainly worth me trying to fix it. just ask my better half she wants me to take it to a store to get it done properly just to shut me up....... what does she know

nice thinking macka sounds like youve had to do it before yourself. when you say at least 30cm would you put it so the break is in the middle of the sleeve or have more in the butt end or more in the upper end??

grows to 24cm does that mean i got a big one..lol

roberta no its not the whole way through im going to cut it through tommorow and give it a go. the split is about 5-7cm long i got my fingers crossed. johnno i think you could be right but im going to attept to fix it and then just test it out by getting a mate to grab some line and il pull back like fighting a fish il do it to what i think is sufficent and if it breaks again it breaks if not happy days i appreciate the imput. so i guess theres no harm in trying do you think i should use a large sleeve or just enough to to keep it together (like 20cm or so) ????? why oh why..

certainly not trying to argue mate but the fins on the bottom (whatever theyre called) look a bi different to my eyes and what about the lower lip?? but im no expert..

caught this spinning off the rocks at freshie apart from the head i thought it might be some type of trevally but i just dont know..

heres the damage...........................

well done peter nice catch. gee those blackies out of the lake at the moment are looking healthy i caught a few smaller ones on wed and one that i kept was full of green weed and fat.

thankyou for the advise roberta and peter. roberta i will post a pic when i get my camera back my beter half is out and has it at the moment. i just measured how far from the but it is it starts from approx 45cm up till around 50cm up have you any other ideas of what to use to sleeve it. i was thinking of somehow putting a couple of sheets of fibre glass over it and then binding over it with cotton cord i used for the grip and then coating it in shelak???? a sleeve sounds easier and better if i can find something to do the job.. i must admit i had a couple of whilst i was watching a bit of cricket and i was going to the fridge to top up when i did it. served me right in a way..

i am currently building a bf 5144 up and was just doing some finishing touches before i put a coat of epoxy on it when i accidently walked past a chair and the but got caught between the floor and the chair leg......................................................... SNAP fu#@ i am devastated as i was given the blank and they do not make the exact same any more it broke about 10cm above the upper grip is there any way i can save this rod. It is still together just cracked and caved in on one side i had in mind fibreglass sheets??? any help would be muchly appreciated cheers.

first fish on a spinner bait- aus bass 53cm first decent pig- ?cm first decent trev-49cm heaps of blackfish- 75+ but no salmon!!!!!!!!! and theres still a chance for a jewie ( i wish)

gday noisy yea just my luck i coated it the day before the rain hoping i woul have had enough time so im not going to touch it until th weather dries up a bit maybe just maybe il be lucky and itl dry but im not expecting it to thanks for the tips thelostref.

thanks guys. well it looks like ill have to wipe it off and hope for the best man i hope i dont have to re-bind it but i guess its better than being dissapointed with it for the rest of its life

well youve obviously made a few rods ceph, if i was to put a little more hardner in would that tacky finish remain for a really long time or will it harden over a week or 2 i applied the epoxy 3 days ago and its still rather tacky... what would you suggest.

i wouldnt have put epoxy on it but when i finished i realised how much time i had spent on it and wanted to give it that gloss like finish over the bindings ill give it a few more days its day three today and its still VERY tacky thankyou all for the advice. oh and roberta i do have a drying motor so i might try that stuff next time...

cheers roberta i appreciate your help i use erkskines and i measured half and half but then always put an extra drop or two of hardner it has always worked before i have spent a lot of time and effort in binding this rod and will be very dissapointed if i have to re bind it. i will try a thin coat over it i have done that before on a rush job i once did and didnt evenly coat in the first place and it turned out fine. when you do a 3 to 1 ratio im assuming 3 part hardner i may try that tonight.

i recently coated my bindings with some epoxy i did it in 2 lots i measured them both perfectly and both are staying rather tacky i have done it before and never had this can anyone give me some advice on what i should now do is there anyway of making it harden without having to re-do the whole thing again...

hey roberta. i am a butcher and have a very good 14k vacum machine at work and it works very well but how long does it last in the fridge alone without being salted. i salt pillies and they last 1-2 months pending...

gday jewgaffer, roberta well there you go i didnt know they could change that quik i used to fish with an old blackfisherman who said the lighter coloured fish were better... little did he know.