slothparade

Been meaning to ask, do you have a smaller tackle box that you pack for traveling? Or do you just take everything? Once I have the fridge, recovery gear, sleeping arrangements, spare parts, fuel, water, ECT, really not much spare left. Have you had any experience with a 3 piece rod? Are they any good?

Agree with the 2 setups, and I actually do have multiple beach rods. Just to elaborate my situation, I am getting into long distance touring so having multiple rods just doesn't fly, hence why I'm looking for a more multi purpose one. What influenced your decision to choose a 9' rod for spinning on the beach? I found with my 9' rod, I was struggling to get lures out any reasonable distance. How robust do you find the Stella? Often looked them, but then considered what my gear goes through. My rods get strapped to the front of the car and run up and down the beach. They also get dunked, dropped in sand, splashed on the kayak ECT, hence I transitioned over to Penn as the stradics were giving me trouble. As for the bait fishing, would you ever use your lure setup if say you could only bring one setup? The nice thing about the 4500 slammer is it has the line capacity and the drag to stop most things on the beach while being light enough to cast. As for the rod, what do you think of 8-12kg, would that be a reasonable compromise? Can still flick smaller lures for tailor, salmon, ECT and reasonable lures for jewfish. As for my dedicated jewfish bait setup, I already have a baitrunner and just need replace the rod as it fell out of the rod holder and was run over. But at the moment, have been using a 8-12kg heavy rod. Do plan to get a 15kg. Use to have a 24-37kg but that one was unfortunately snapped.

Good afternoon, after a 2 year break, i am returning to fishing. I am looking for some advice in regards to beach fishing combos. My intended use for this would be to cast lures for jewfish, tailor, salmon, ect, with a secondary use of soaking baits for jewfish, bream, flatties, salmon, ect. I am currently looking at a penn slammer iv 4500hs paired with a penn prevail. Firstly, I am wondering what weight class would suit my purpose the best. Secondly is there any other combos i should be looing at, thanks.

Lots of fatties, the bottom is quite muddy, so keep that in mind and it's quite shallow through there. Think of it like a big mud flat. Its starting to get a little bit to cold for whiting, but there may be some around. Main target would be fatties. Though there are bream in holding up in pockets

I've eaten them and am still here, so I'd assume they're ok to eat. If your worried id just not eat to many. They're good with garlic and butter

Yeah I've had an issue like that, they measured the bream which was right on the legal dot, and they still took it and gave me a warning. I guess it depends on who you bump into. Do they have a quota to fill?

Live prawns for harbour kings.

Try a bit of burley, slightly larger sinker and drop it through the school and slowly bring it back up and drop it down again.

Yeah they're great

I use a td hyper rod with a stradic 2500

It's really easy, just get one of those through hull kits the brand of mounts that you want (there is heapes), then drill them in and do a through hull wiring. Try and standardise on one brand of mount for rod holders, ECT. You can mount the transducer in the front of the hull with some marine goop and then run the cable up through the hull. As for the battery, I recommend getting a lunch box and a bit of cut up noodle to hold that battery in the box. Drill 2 holes in the box and put a cable tie around the mast in the hull and then run the power cable through the through hull kit as well

I had the same issue on Stockton. Started throwing 70g jigs, problem solved on most days

You can see the lumps on your sounder, but I usually just have a look over the side. Can usually see the bottom or most of the way down on a good day. Head out about 2km then a bit up north, then you will find an area full of concrete blocks.

When long reef gets rough and has strong currents a lot of the fish go into the debris where there are quite a few caves/ crevices. Just drop a bait right on top of them and they come out pretty quickly

Can someone please confirm whether this is the correct weed for luderik. Thanks

On a kayak, your silhouette is a lot lower, shadow is usually a lot smaller and you can travel around a lot quieter. As said before, stealth is key, especially in clearer water. Fish are very routine, if anything is to out of the ordinary, they will be spooked. An example of this is the carp in the dam. Caught many carp over the years out of the dam, but over time they stopped taking my baits if I stood in my usual spot. When I crouched down, the baits got smashed. Furthermore kayaks has almost an all access pass to access different waterways, meaning they can fish a lot closer to structure and different areas.

250m is absolutely perfect. It's enough to stop 90% of things. I use about 300m of 15lbs and have never had any issues stopping things. The fish are usually a lot closer in than expected, so you don't always need to cast so far out. Reasonable size Jew fish will give you a run for your money, but if you okay them well, shouldn't be an issue. The only thing that will pose an issue would be rays and sharks. Some of those can be unstoppable, lost over 800m of braid to a shark.

In the dam there's about 3 that hit lures while the rest don't 😂.

Curl tail grubs. I think upper Nepean has quite a few carp. I use a float with a bit of bread which works everytime

How far up north do you head? We went yesterday and absolutely struggled, 12psi, 35s and just kept getting bogged, was an absolute struggle. We tried a couple of gutters but every bait was just washed back in and up the beach.

I'm actually using prawns and beach worms and still having issues 🤣 Where do you even get a Rod that can cast 700g? I thought that is drone territory. Thanks for the advice though, much appreciated. Mainly targetting bream ect.

Anyone got any tips for fishing stockton? baits, rigs and just general info would be much appreciated, thanks. having issues of my baits being washed back in using a size 2 star sinker.

Could you post a pic of the rig you are using, I mainly fish bait and almost all my reels have braid and I have never encountered this issue.

Doubt it on a live pike

It was a live pike, so doubt a ray got it. Just a few nights before, there was a very large Jew pulled out on a yakka.