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congrats on your cracking kingy session mate a metre king must fell like a runaway train mike

nice bag of whiting there mate nice way to send a couple of hours mike

that surgeon is a classic what a great post mate i though it was gonna be a real post too mike

i have a 4500 saltist which i use for spinning metals 40 grams and up paired with 30lb braid its casts great on my 10 to 30lb 10 foot stick so in short i can vouch for the reel as being more than up to the task

well done jim77 for getting it out there regardless of the out come at least the general public may know about poor sizing on the stickers mick

seems you two fellos always have a great time on the water whether its poking fun at each other or just plain catching fish well done fellas

those squid dont look half bad they still have color / pigmentation the eyes are still have some green in them although they are now white colored let us know how you go as i always freeze mine double bagged mike

that is truly an amazing fish! seems like a totally different era in that you could catch a marlin LB now days you'd probably win a lotto prize than catch that marlin ill take the marlin any day correct me if im wrong but its black marlin ? also what tackle was used to subdue the beast mike

dam thats a lot of rain the top pic is pristine river then other pics are something else at least you live by the river

during Christmas the period my wife got a daiwa saltist 4500 spin reel as a gift i brought it then she wanted to pay for it she insisted anyhow i sent the 5 yr warranty form back my question is do they send you a confirmation email saying they received it ? i know theirs a few people here on fish raider using them that would have sent the 5 yr warranty form back if you can help that would be great because if daiwa do give confirmation i want to get on to them asap for 5 yrs warranty thanks mike

crickey! get a load of that its a flamin idiot and its nesting.

i parked on marine parade north side where the bend is buddy then walk to the ledges

welcome to fishraider mate great first post seems like you had a good outing and feed to boot

not much of a report but i haven't been for a fish i a couple of week or more so today i took my rod with some metal raiders along with my saltist 4500 (still not christened ) to work as i was working at maroubra 2 mins from some cliff /ledges while i was scouting the ledges i noted these rod holes there was a large eye bolt wedged/ concreted in the rock. looked to me like people used this at some stage to get to the spot were the rod holes are its like a 6 to 8 metre drop to get to the large rock then a small drop again to the rod holes what people do for a fish a good fish is not worth the being blown off a rock from a gust any how not far from that area was a nice place to spin with rocks shelting you from the wind so theres no reaL risk but theres no chance you can land a good fish like 20m odd drop so i fished here anyhow casting for while now like 30 mins then i lost a 40 gram raider so i put on a 65gram it was in its element as the 40 gram would have a large bow in the line from the wind on retrieve . i hooked something most likely a tailor in the side but dropped it bringing it along the waves of white water some time passes a bang the 65grams raider smashed i could see the fish before it struck from the ledge its a good fish well hooked too the saltist was screaming and my 10 foot 30lb rod is bent in half. the rod looked so good and the sound of the drag was great to hear its was over as quickly as it started busted of main line 30lb braid rang the misses to tell her how unlucky i am once again then shot off home lost 3 lures in a total of 1h20mins fishing still it was awesome ill be doing it again but at a different ledge i think the ledge long winded post but mike

must have been fate con people to go fishing and win 5 gs then share it what a champ

now thats one massive gt one can only wonder how many people he busted off

just going of price of the reel if its just a fun start to fishing go to bigw and get daiwa sealine in 20lb range should be .40mm or less you should get 200metres thats if the reels cap is in metres and not lbs going of your reels capacity does it say what size the reel is eg 6000 is your reel here pioneer products by trollcraft

sorry byron its YAMASHITA EGI OH Q - NATURALS - AJK is the color its a yakka young gun link to colors offered mike

hey byron you cant win all the time in fishing but the way things are going with your health it seems much improved and well done on your fishing exploits /reports always a good read mike

mate i did the same as you thought ill get a top notch jig i got the ajk natural in 2.5 and caught this squid tasted great too

great post you pulled a steve erwin on the fish congrats on the the salmon and your first post

no problems on the jigs mate when you wanna go for a fish just give me a heads up a day before or so i can pencil it in mike

roberta that took some great effort for no real results you a trooper and you'll score a jew again soon enough the way i see it is you fished with your mates whom you may not see often and what could be better

i fished the spot we went to at both the run out to low tide to see if the fish were feeding on the drop off and another time exactly one the high tide for poor results both times the gars were there but my float was spooking them even fished it with poddies seems to be a hard nut to crack there is a spot were the baits get attention but it needs a good cast to get there the time i fished it at low tide the pickers were there saw a nice silhouette of a flatty no joke swimming high in the water column casted 2metres to the side of him with a half pillie on it spooked him and he did the dash on another note ive got those jigs for you and you must take them mike

the hackings a good allround place to fish well done on the feed of bream nathan and better luck next time on the squid mike