rockfisherman

Lucky man, you'll be so much closer to amazing fishing.

Pilchard under a float is ok ?

Not bad is an understatement, great haul of fish.

At it again yowie, I envy you, well done on the feed.

Some sort of angler fish I was also thinking . I'd say those dangly bits on its might even illuminate.

Good fish bud, well on the Pb,new mark to beat

Another thing I will add is, in between sessions, after washing, back your drag right off, having it clamped down is not a good thing if you want your drag to be smooth

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The tackle stores I frequent managed and run by the owners, who know their clients and have built a relationship with them. And in that time I don't think iv seen anyone other than the owners apart from rare occasions. I would point you in the direction of the big stores that sell fishing gear, there's a couple around and that would get you amongst it.

That's the truth right there,once you have all your gear, it dosnt cost much to get out there and have a go

Yep, lucky they get spooled with 500m, allows for mishaps and line that gets lost to snags or scraped along the rocks.

I just use reel oil

Iv found if I don't stay hydrated I'll have immense muscular pain the next day, in saying that, you know as well as I do, as you get older aches and pains come easier and takes their time going away

Hey grant So much to say. Brett would be on the mark when saying you should just replace the mono with braid, it will save you money. If you get on a good king,I don't think those reels will handle it very well, the alivio 4000 has about 5kg worth of drag. I have a bunch of braid going at a good price, pm me if you're interested, there might be some other interest in it.

I did have a great time mate, totally unscripted and all panned out ok in the end. Just hanging to get out again.

You have the option of servicing the drag yourself. Set up a rag to work on. Take the spool off the reel by removing the drag knob. Check the underside of the spool where the clicker is and make sure there isn't any grease muffling/absorbing the sound up. When your ready to service the drag, remove the keeper clip with a small screw driver, be careful because coming out those things can fling across the room and good luck finding it. Remove the drag washers by turning spool up side down, if they don't come out tap the spool on the work bench. You'll see a bunch of metal and felt washers, may e take a photo so you remember how they came out. Separate them individually and absorb the oil off each one with some tissue. Once you've done that, start putting them back in one by one putting enough oil in between so it's oily but not drenched. I used shimano grease on recommendation from a tackle store, works for larger reels but makes the drag in smaller reels pretty sticky.

Hi raiders Due to the cancellation of a family get together, to my wife's displeasure an opportunity arose to go fishing, so quickly grabbed my gear and took off before she could change her mind. I get to the bait shop and guess what? Wallet is at home. I was on the verge of aborting the mission, but was able to scrape together $14.35 from the ashtray, door trim and drink holder, so I grabbed some prawns and a Loaf of bread. Obstacle avoided, off we go. I gets down to the rocks, water was extremely low but the swell was pounding the headlands producing some good wash. Set my gear down and get ready to rig up and guess what? No hooks, yes you read right, no hooks. I look in the bottom of my bag I find 1 hook, lucky for me I was meeting one of the boys down there and he was to arrive shortly. So we rig up and get fishing, 10 minutes in I get totally owned by a black drummer which wedged himself in a crevice under my feet, POP! Goes the line. Next up Mick got into some trevally which came in at about 40cm, what a great sports fish, and not to bad to eat. He also got a good pig. Zero for me Anyway, it was becoming dark so we moved to a higher ledge, the swell was already knee height and the tide was rising. We get to the next ledge and Mick is into another 40cm trevally, a few fish later, Mick is on 3 trevs and a pig, and all iv got is a tarwhine. Things went a bit quiet so I started munching on a slice of bread that didn't make it to the burley bucket. As I'm munching the rod loads up, my brain switches off and I start winching after a few seconds the fish spits the bait and iv wound about 10 rounds of line onto this bread I was eating. Couldn't help myself, cracked up laughing, then Mick casts and before he could turn his reel back to winding position, WOOSHKA! A fish has grabbed it and taken off causing a massive tangke, I was still cracking up from the bread incident when this happened, so I just kept laughing because it looked like he was trying to fly fish with an alvey. At the end of it was another beast trevally. The session was drawing to a close, Mick found a red Rock crab which gave me 2 baits, first half flew off while casting, second half goes on. I gently lob it in, no crap, half a minute later I had a take, I'm thinking "YES! GOPER". Wind Wind Wind Wind, fling it up on the rocks, turn the headlight on, what is it? 2.5kg of dirty wirrah... Anyway, that was that, had a fish, had a laugh, couldn't ask for anything else.

Congratulations on the new species, Bonito are favourite of mine.

Good you landed some legal fish. Sorry about your lure but theys the perils of trolling the harbour on a Saturday.

I guess it's not s bad thing to use a swivel. If I do I connect it directly to the split ring, other wise I don't really use one.

Hi raiders Wondering what your favourite all round plastic is, your go to plastic for a range of species or one that covers a couple of bases. Pics would be appreciated

Good on ya for taking advantage of the fishing opportunity and killing a few.

Sure thing, might see you about.

HAHAHAA grandmaster I love it

Lesson learnt, would've been well worth the $12 and trip to the bait shop.