kiro

Hey raiders, I also got one of these rods.. they are a little long but if you livebait often, they are brilliant. Best thing about them is the use of the bait jig, where you dont have to take it off your rod and try and tie it back up and put it in the tackle box after every use... i used to end up throwing it out and using a new one which got really annoying and expensive.. im sure u all know how freaken annoying it is handling one of those jigs.. anyways, i love it and recommend it if you do alot of livebaiting.. Kiro

nice report brother... maybe I should ask you to take me out sometime Great Job!! Kiro

nice haul there brother... im also curious as to the size of the fish at the end? was that a bonito also?? kiro

Hahaha game reel lol onya boofhead.. Priceless!

Awesome pics Ray... That last one had me in stitches hahahah

Hi all, This is a late report, but thought i'd still share... I was in the states last July on a holiday visiting the inlaws.. I have this thing where I HAVE TO fish wherever I go around the world, so the first thing I did after leaving the airport was book a fishing charter. The Mrs' family aren't into fishing, and had never fished before... It took some convincing, but I managed to get 8 of them to join me... Them having to fork out $100 and wake up at 3am seemed to be the problem... During my stay, I was constantly visiting fishing shops and wholesalers to stock up on gear, as the dollar was awesome... While searching for tackle shops online, I came across a fishing competition that was coincidently on the same day i had booked the charter! As it wasn't cheap to enter the comp, I accepted the fact that the cousins weren't gonna fork out more money, so I just bought 1 ticket... (had to put the ticket in one of their names as you have to be a citizen to enter comps involving money...) We head off at 4am to the first reef and hilariously, my wife and I are the only ones catching fish... We were landing flounder and gummy sharks... Needless to say everyone else was tired, bored and getting a little annoyed... We move spots, and again we are the only ones pulling in fish... At this point it stopped being funny and I started feeling bad for them... I hooked another fish and I thought to myself "I'll bring this fish up, and the next one I hook, I'll pass the rod to someone else.." At first it felt like I was snagged, then dead weight... I was convinced I had hooked some coral or a rock... I felt some tugs, then the fish went spastic... He realised he was hooked, and went nuts.... I called the skipper and told him to get the net or gaff.... I was playing the fish for some time, it became like a tug-of-war... I started seeing some colour, then I hear the skipper screaming, "F**K its a salmon" and pushed one of the cousins out of his way onto the floor (serious).. I brought it to the surface and as the net came within half a metre of the fish, to went for another run... I was freaken spewin as the target fish for the competition was salmon... I brought it to the surface again and another missed attempt at netting the fish... I was ready to throw the rod in the water and slap the skipper... Third time lucky, and the fish was in the boat!! It weighed 29.9lb!! I immediately rang the numebr on the competition ticket to ask where the weighing station was... I went and weighed it and was told to come back at 2pm for the presentation... When we got back on the boat, the skipper approached me with some bad news... Apparently, there are wild salmon and hatchery salmon in the states. The hatchery salmon are bred and released into the ocean during the fishing seasons, and the wild ones are just that, wild... They differentiate between the two by one of the fins (it had a special name but i cant remember it) Anyways, I had caught a wild salmon, and if i wanted to keep the fish, we couldnt drop another line in as it was illegal to continue fishing with a dead wild salmon on board...... If I was happy to release it, we could continue fishing... We all agreed to keep it as I had a good chance of winning the comp.... At this point, I felt really bad ay... They couldn't care less about fishing, they paid 100 bucks each, woke up at 3am, didnt land a single fish, and now the 6 hour fishing trip was cut to 2.5 hours... spewin.. Anyways, to cut a long story short.... I won 1st place, 5 grand! $1300 automatically went to tax (they tax prize money there the ba$tards)... Split the remaining money by the 9 of us, so we each got 400 bucks, and tipped the skipper 100 bucks... Then we went out and ate & drank our arses off! Cheers, Kiro

Definately Ceph.. I specifically remember giggling out loud reading his posts of dropped gear (sorry brother..) and im LOL now reading Wigg's post (sorry again Ceph...) Come to think of it, wasnt it Ceph who posted in Tackle Talk recently about the 2010 Stella??? he probably did it on purpose as an excuse to buy the new model... nice...!

great read brother! well done... on 6lb line, that would have been an awesome tug-of-war... great stuff!

to fishraider mate and an awesome report to open your account with! Well done.. Congrats on your new boat and christening her with a kingy is a bonus! Looking forward to reading more of your posts soon.. Kiro

well done brother.. its great to see people catching the fish they actually target! awesome stuff

to Fishraider mate... great first report.. looking forward to reading more of ur posts..

No one heard of the Bradia?? Spewin... prob not worth buying it then huh... Its funny how saying nothing actually says alot lol... Cheers Kiro

Hey Raiders, Anyone familiar with the Daiwa Bradia?? Are they any good?? I am told they are a step down from the certate... Is this true?? If anyone has had any experience with them I'd love to hear from you.. I can get some pretty cheap and was just wondering if they are worth it.. Cheers Kiro

nice haul there buddy... keen to read your next report on what those squid produced!! by the way, Jesus was a carpenter not a fisherman.. I was too busy building wooden projects so baby Jesus dont cry lol.. awesome report champ..

excuse my stupidity, but does it actually have to 'bite' you to inject the venom, or if you just touch it?? im curious as to how it gets the venom inside you?? is it barbed, fanged etc...?? cheers

hahah you definately are 'funnierthanme' nice report... i have the same issue with my mrs... she always seems to land the first fish, and 9 times out of 10 will land the biggest.. freaken spewin..

Nice work Jeff... Great to see your yong ones getting amongst it... awesome stuff!!

nice work brother...glad to see your still getting into those kings.. your now better at it than I am! catch up soon!

Well done Joey... Very jealous mate... I just got my new baitrunner D yesterday.. hopefully i can christen it with a jewy like that! Poddy Trapper, interesting you say that... i saw them being sold in a take away fish shop in brighton yesterday.. fella reckons they aren't bad if you cook em right... i beg to differ

well done brother... great read! Snap freeze those squid and hopefully u'll land the bigger ones... cheers

nice session Ray... awesome how u can just go for a fish when u have a few hrs to spare.. wish it was that easy for me!! nice pics too... well done

G'day Raiders.. Was the Mrs b'day last week, so we going away this weekend to Jervis Bay, staying in Huskisson. Just wondering if anyone can help me with any good land based fishing spots around the area?? Also, what type of gear would be most appropriate (reel/rod size, line weight etc..)?? thanks in advance... much appreciated..! Kiro

gotta be happy with that..!! huge king in little water..!! nice...

nice...! shame about the snapper, but its always good to catch something for the first time on plastics! well done..!!