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good to see you back and pullin em in royce nice fish mate

Royce is it you lost count of the glass rods or you cant count that high sure as hell no i cant and it would take a day to do so.

Im heading to fiji next month and was hoping to flick a few lures around when i get a chance (landbased). I have a 5000 size reel with 20lb braid i will take 30-50lb fluro and a 7 foot ugly stick tiger rated up to 50lb. It is not very reefy where i will be staying, was wondering what lures anyone can reccomend and colours i was going to take some spanyid raider and snipers for long casting but any other ideas would be much appreciated. p.s Im not sure if this should be in takle or here so sorry if i was wrong

oh yes the caravan park pelicans i had one take my luderick about 20 metres away from me after it scooped it up from the shallows i was letting it take the line thinking it would realise and drop it. it sat down and started to try and swallow it, i didnt know what to do so i struck. the fish came out and i ended up getting it in but they hung around the whole session. I dont fish there as much now cause its happend to me a few times now. I know what you mean pete. They look good but i dont like em anymore Oh and there is nothing more anoying than releasing a fish to try and be nice and not to be greedy and then a f*?&n pelican comes on over and takes your groggy fish. but they do look nice.

has anyone used or know anything about these rods im looking at purchasing the BWS2201-2 it is a 7ft 2piece line rating 10 - 50 lb medium action

Kilwell B1742/2 is a nice blackfish rod 2 piece 12 foot i have 2 a 1 and 2 piece great blanks

well done mate nice couple of fish. how did you troll the poddys downrigger or do you weight the rig with sinkers??

got them on the south east side of the bridge mate.

unreal mate sounds like a great day i havnt jigged before but i get a sore arm holding a blackfish rod on the rocks after a couple of hours good stuff and nice lj too

just got back from a short session at the spit heaps of people so i ventured round for about an hour not exactly what i had in mind. found a nice weedy outcrop threw out the float added burley and couldnt even role a smoke (probably not a bad thing) got half a dozen biggest 39cm which isnt bad smallest 29cm rest mid 30s wind picked up i was still getting heaps of downs but the belly in my line was outrageous so i packed it in after losing 2 fish from bad hook up due to wind.

what a weird lookin king well done

haha yea maybe it would help my cause of not getting bricked 2 in 3 times. thanks for the info jewgaffer i dont think the one i ordere is very heavy duty but il have to wait and see. I didnt even think of using more than one leader coming off it that could be interesting especially if you had two rods with two leaders you could have a double double hook up...

jewgaffer to be honest i originally just got it out of curiosity but i was thinking of using it with small live yakas. but i also would like to give it a go with lures it would get the rapala cd lures down an extra metre or two which could be handy. does your mate in the states rate them?

yea id have to agree mate i was thinking the same a hoodlum would snap by the sound of things. did you ever use heavy line with the fishseeker

im definately going to upgrade i was just a bit worried about it effecting the lure action thanks for the advice.