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take Johns advice he is the kingie master you wont be able to push 13kg of drag into a tcurve so dont worry about big drags the gosa would be a great reel for that outfit spool it up with some pe3-4 and u will have a nice little combo i dont think the smaller gosas come with carbontex drag washers so u might want to upgrade to them if thats the case for a smother drag you dont need big drags and heavy rigs to catch big fish i no ppl who pull 1mtr+ kings jigging in <30mtrs of water using pe3 outfits

The jigging master Ocean God would be a great rod if you dont want to spend the big bucks but still want a quality rod it has all the JM quality just without the price you would be looking at around $350ish compared to $500 for a powerspell

i recall one of Wackos youtube videos of him smashing some big kings on the downrigger around that bridge LINK

if your serious about jiggin take my advise and save up some money and get a good setup to start with once you get the bug you will want to upgrade your gear asap its cheaper in the long run to start off with a decent setup pe3-5 is what you need for 98% of sydney kings i have a saragosa 18000 there great reels and mines spooled with 80lb but there a tad on the heavy side so they are not every ones cup of tea the saragosa is pretty much a pimped spheros so instead of getting a spheros and adding new drag and handle u might as well just buy a saragosa jigging master is my pick of the litter for rods but as said they are not cheap and unless your pretty serious about jigging u should look at some thing cheaper first the braid concept rods are ok for a light jig stick and they can be picked up for under $100 they have a nice bend and a nice action just dont push them too hard would be a good pe3-5 rod

if you have just bought a downrigger there is no need to switch to braid most ppl switch once the wire needs to be replaced braid is thiner so there is less resistance in the water so u get less blow back to the bomb braid doesn't humm like wire can and braid doesn't produce any electrical discharge into the water like wire does and if you happen to snag up and loose your bomb its just a matter of tying a new bomb on you don't need to crimp on a new one on most ppl use 200lb braid and im yet to hear of ppl loosing there bombs to jackets

as soon as you said caught at the 12 mile i knew it was a barracutta its all thats out there at the moment sadly

i have run 2 scotty 1050's for a few years now and never had a issue with either of them the only thing i have done to them is change from wire to braid a few months ago both brands make great downriggers so either one is a good choice

some nice soundings here the HDS units seem to be pretty popular my new HDS8 should hopefully arrive today

you should really try to get as much line onto that reel as possible 250mtrs is fine untill you get bitten off a few times by jackets as the amount of line on the spool reduces your gear ratio also changes and it will take longer for your jig to hit the bottom as it will be hitting the lip of the spool as Dangas has said some electrical tape around the spool is all you really need when i use mono backing i only use about 4-5mtrs worth just enough to give a few wraps around the spool as for the drag 13kg is great i run around 6kg on my light outfit and this is more then enough for all the kings its caught so far

i fished the 12 on Saturday not much going out out there atm apart from barracuttas

my heavy jig outfit uses a saragosa 18000 and they weigh in at around 850gm i can jig all day using it with no problems the Tekota will be fine for jigging the ratios are fine the only negative i see is the level wind once you are loosing alot of line with a big fish pulling alot of drag alot of pressure gets put onto the level wind and there is always the risk that it might fail and you will loose the fish sure there is little chance of this actually happening but it could this is why game reels and most jig reels dont have a level wind the jigwrex rods are great i had the s605 with a saragosa 18000 running PE5 they have alot of power and will handle any king you would happen to come across alot of ppl say they are too stiff and that you tire too easy using them well i used to jig all day using this outfit and never had any problems

its around 24km out

sounds like he was pulling the half hitches too tight and damaging the line from friction tie it correctly and you wont have any issues along with the chain knot you wont have any problems well unless you get snagged on the bottom then you have yourself a new anchor

over kill when tied correctly the PR will never break ive done some testing with mine and ive pushed over 30kgs into the knot and its never failed your maineline is going to snap well before the PR does if your bored and you want to learn a new jigging knot do a search for the AG chain knot its a knot the jigging master guys use to connect the jig to the leader this along with your pr knot you have a pretty much 100% connection

yeh i would no a few ppl why dont u just use the recordings from your HDS instead or using a laptop how would you connect your iphone to the NMEA network ??

looks like Dr Depth software which gets its data from either a nmea connection or from saved recordings from your sounder

you sounder has to be setup correctly to get nice readings like that looks like he has his gain up a little thats why the screen is soo clear only problem with this is you will also not see small schools of bait fish as for the fish arches this will only happen when the fish are sitting directly under your transducer if the fish are on the outside of your transducer cone you will get half arches and so on

what gear were u using and what size jigs and weights if your marking fish and you are pretty sure they are kings but they are not reacting to your jigs try changing jigs to a diffrent colour and size change your jigging action change your jigging speed best way to sound out kings is to first be in a area that kings are likely to be in and then sound out bait if the bait is balled up chances are there are kings in the area feeding on them you really need to learn how to read your sounder so you can tell the difference between schools of bait fish and schools of jackets and schools of kings the only real way to learn how to do that is spend the time on the water or fish with some one with the same sounder

there great but they have there problems jackets love to eat the skirts off them they can be replaced at around $5-6 a pop have caught a few kings off the white one mate has caught lots of leather jackets using them best fished with a slow retrieve or just leave them in the rod holder and let the boat do the work the red is supposed to be dynamite on snapper im yet to catch one tho not that i ever target snapper tho

nice work john u seem to be pretty lucky with that blue jig im itching to get back on the water hopefully this weekend pans out top work

thats fine for kings where are you going to be catching yellowfin off the rocks ?? cant even catch the things offshore at the moment

there have done tests on sharks regarding blood in the water the sharks responded best to prawn blood and other fish blood human and other mammal's got a response but nothing compared to the animals shark actually feed on

nice work those kingy fillets are making me Hungary what rod is that well the saltiga ?

is that the boat you just got ?? or do you have 2 boats

what can i say im a genuius ha and by the shape of that hull looks to be a Blackfin 15 great little boats