Rod and reel assignment.

[clemsy]

Hi guys,

as I start to get the hang of fishing, I notice that my collection of gear gets larger. And I read about anglers who say they have specific reels and rods for specific fish and so forth. But I don't understand how they assign a reel or rod to a specific place/fish. SO if an angler wanted to target say Snapper, he would take this outfit, or flathead and take another etc. Could anybody explain how anglers assign different gear for specific fish?

At the moment when I go fishing I take a Tsunami Bullseye rod and a Sienna 2500FD reel for SP, and this is what I pretty much use to catch fish with.

I'm not sure if this helps but I am landbased, so maybe that's why I dont have specific gear for specific fish.

Thanks!

Edited September 9, 2011 by clemzii

[Mr Squidy]

Hi Mate,

When you read of people having a specific set up for specific fish this really is more a set up for a specific technique of fishing rather than a species, its just that as you get more specialised in your technique you reach a point where you really do just target a single species of choice at a time. Obviously different techniques require different abilities in the gear and this is what drives the choice of outfit. Once you understand the technique for a species you'll have a pretty good idea of what constitutes a "snapper outfit" or a "Flathead outfit".

So, for example, a flathead outfit would usually mean a light and whippy rod suited to casting soft plastics or light baits and probably about 7ft and rated in the 2-4KG range because flatties dont tend to fight to hard and the finesse is more important than brute strength. You'd expect this to be matched with a size 2000 or smaller real as this will match a light rod nicely and its not like you really need hundreds of meters of line to fight a flatty on as they dont run that far. Now this outfit could just as easily be called a light soft plastic outfit or even a bream outfit if thats what you targeted with it, its just that someone who uses it to target flatties only will refer to it as their flattie outfit.

Lastly, because it relates to the technique of fishing different people will have different interpretations of what a species specific out fit is. For example a "kingie outfit" used for land based game fishing will be different to a "kingie outfit" for jigging because the techniques are very different. Another example would be that a "flattie outfit" used for bottom bashing outside the heads would be completely different to the one described above which is for fishing soft plastics in an estury.

Anyway, hope that makes some sense of it for you.

Rich

[clemsy]

Hi Rich,

yes that does make more sense now, I think it is just now at this point in time I am not as experienced so it might take me some time to develop any "outfits". As you said before, all I have now is a "light soft palstic" outfit for most situations haha. But yes that does clear things up, thank you for taking the time to explain it mate!

Hope you have a great weekend!

[davido]

Nice explanation. With that in mind, I do have one outfit that i call my "Bream Stick" and use it for targeting bream with bait. First thing i put together without getting a premade combo already spooled. Quite happy that it does its job catching Bream