hambo692

UL - 1-3kg L - 2-4kg ML - 3-6kg M - 5-8kg MH - 6-10kg H - 10-15kg XH - 15-24kg UH - 36kg UXH- 60kg Maybe?

Should/ could the 'increased bag limit' be decreased bag limit?

I think pretty much all braid frays a bit, but Fireline's one of the worst.

I know you were talking about increasing lure size to increase fish size, but I think you've gone a little too far

Don't know why I PMd this, I'll put it in here as well: "I haven't caught one myself, but I've done plenty of research and fished with people who consistently get 10kg + fish on plastics. People use a pretty broad tackle range to target these fish on plastics; I reckon the ideal is a 2-5 or 3-6kg 6'6"-7'6" graphite rod matched to a 2500-3000 sized spin reel spooled with 10lb braid, and 12-20lb leader. This is best for plastics under 5 inch with ~1/4 ounce and under jigheads, although some people prefer to use 1/2 ounce and heavier jigheads with larger 7 inch plastics, with heavier outfits like 6-10kg rods, 4000 size reels with 20lb braid. I think basically the lighter outfit for most stuff, but if you're often fishing deeper holes with decent current it may be better to upsize the gear. Plastics that I've heard and seen good things about- 5inch + 7inch Gulp Jerkshads 100mm Squidgy fish silver fox and gary glitter colours 3 and 4 inch gulp pogys 100mm Squidgy shad white lightning 100mm and 120mm Squidgy wrigglers, bloodworm and silver fox Jigheads: 9 gram squidgy fish shaped heads (my usual with shads and fish) 1/4oz Nitros with a 2/0 hook for the 5inch jerkshads 3/8th TT heads for the Pogys 1/2oz-1oz with 4/0-5/0 hook for the 7inch jerkshads Recommended outfits- light- Shimano Stradic FJ 2500, Daiwa Freams 2500, 10lb Power Pro, 10lb Daiwa Shinobi, 12lb Nanofil, Pflueger Trion 3-6, Shimano Raider Soft Plastics 3-6. Heavier Outfits- 10-20lb Shimano Terez, Basically any lightish snapper rod, with 4000 Stradic FJ, Freams, Stradic Ci4, whatever, 20lb Power Pro etc. If I was going jewie fishing on the Hawkesbury right now I would take- Trion 3-6. Stradic 2500. 10lb braid. 9Gram fish shaped jigheads. 100mm silver fox fish. 12lb fluro leader. I would fish them with a pretty solid rip rip then sink to the bottom. Hope some of that made sense. Good luck!" The reel/rod recommendations were really just to provide an idea of the sort of thing, there's obviously plenty of cheaper/more expensive equivalents.

check your pms

The one time when you really don't want your $300 reel to let you down... That sucks. Would certainly have been fun though

Thanks, I actually opened that tab a few hours ago but missed it when I was reading... They say that nylon was not invented until 1954, whereas the DuPont site says 1939 I might just have to choose one site and follow its version.

Hey everyone I'm doing this project on lines, and I've got all my results, but still got the hard bit to go... I was wondering if any of you could help me out by providing me with some information about the history/evolution of lines? Nylon monos were introduced in 1939 apparently, but what was used before then? Some sites say Dacron, but other sites say Dacron wasn't invented until the '50s... If anyone has some info or links or anything it would be great. Thanks Hamish

I always do it manually and never have any problems (almost).

Get some cheap mono probably 6-10lb. The process is much easier if you have a spare spool for your reel. Tie the braid loosely to the first spool of your reel and wind it all on. Then attach your backing with an albright, double uni whatever, and wind that on until it's at the perfect level. Then simply take that spool off your reel, put the other spool on, attach the backing to the fresh spool, and wind it all on. This method gets it perfect, but if you dont have a spare spool you can do it slightly differently; begin by winding all your braid and then the perfect amount of backing on, and then wind all this onto an old reel that's bigger than your 2500 (or anything else, although it's much slower to wind by hand). Then you will have the braid on top with backing underneath, and you need to flip it again, so wind it all off onto another reel (or spool, or rubber tube, or phone, or whatever you have). Then you will have the backing ontop again, and you can wind it on to your new reel. Otherwise you really just have to guess, it's easier if you use more than you think you'll need to start with, and then if there's too much just go back and cut some off. Hope this made a bit of sense

Wrong

Not at all. Go the castaway out of those two (the Sensor its actually pretty thick) or Power Pro in 3 or 4 lb.

Yeah I've managed to avoid them so far. Freaked out on the weekend though because I thought one had got me on the knee... Turned out it was just the hook.

That is not much fun when you can't catch them yourself so buy them at 18.50/500grams... In my mind the bottom of the river is 89% catfish; sometimes they'll hit it as soon as it reaches the bottom Maybe I'll put more effort into getting livies.