MudRiverDan
17-01-2013, 02:52 AM
Well I went out this evening to try my luck, turned up at the beach around low and fished the low and incoming tide.
Had two set-ups, a 4000 Symetre on an old 9 ft Daiwa glass 2 piece, and a 10ft 2 piece Gloomis surf with the VS-275.
I had the Glooomis setup heavy with a wire trace (don’t think fish like wire traces) and mullet chunk as I got bitten off twice in the afternoon, once on 20lb fluorocarbon and once on 30lb fluorocarbon doubled up (dropper loop to a Palomar), so I figure there are still the odd Tailor marauding around and either they were of a good size or just had good dentists.
There was a tonne of mullet in the shallows and after a while a group of dolphins showed up, so I moved just before dark down to Pottsville beach.
Threw a pipi on the old glass rod and got belted and snapped of by something in the shallows, after a while that brown slime weed that sticks to your line showed up and clogged up the rod and I ended breaking the Berkley FireLine exceed I had on it (crap braid), so put it aside for the evening.
Set the Loomis up with #4 surf sinker between two swivels and a nice long seductive leader about 80cm of 20lb Daiwa Nitlon fluorocarbon (good stuff), with a Mustad bait-keeper #4 hook.
Baited it up with three fat pipis and sent it out.
The line had hardly hit the bottom when thump, up comes a nice 40cm Tarwine, I have never caught one before.
10 minutes later another around 41cm was pulled in, then after that one at 36cm.
Fish must have cleared out and I didn’t get a bite after that, though I did not want to stay there all night, I think if I had stayed till the tide had gone out a lot more it might come on again, but it was getting too late.
Rods and reels are great, mind you the braid is a bit trying on the graphite rod in the surf, it has little shock absorption and I was at times holding the rod lightly to allow it to fight so as not to exert too much on the fish.
I have lost a lot of good fish especially Tailor on this set-up because they just go off and throw the hook.
Would like to know of something that has flex but the diameter, cast and strength of 50lb spectra braid.
Fighting a fish on the old glass rod is so much nicer as you do not have to worry so much about bumping the fish off.
Though the set-up has a lot of good points, I just need to get the right line.
I was only casting about 40 meters out max, I figured incoming tide at night, the target fish would be foraging in the shallows on the first half of the incoming, and for once I got a result, they aren’t Jewfish but at least I have finally broken in the new rod and reel with more than 1 fish.
I dropped one too and by the fight it would have been a 40.
88228
The weed took its toll.
88229
Both setups, both catch fish.
Actually the Daiwa is over 30 years old and needs the guides and thread overhauled.
88230
Dan
Had two set-ups, a 4000 Symetre on an old 9 ft Daiwa glass 2 piece, and a 10ft 2 piece Gloomis surf with the VS-275.
I had the Glooomis setup heavy with a wire trace (don’t think fish like wire traces) and mullet chunk as I got bitten off twice in the afternoon, once on 20lb fluorocarbon and once on 30lb fluorocarbon doubled up (dropper loop to a Palomar), so I figure there are still the odd Tailor marauding around and either they were of a good size or just had good dentists.
There was a tonne of mullet in the shallows and after a while a group of dolphins showed up, so I moved just before dark down to Pottsville beach.
Threw a pipi on the old glass rod and got belted and snapped of by something in the shallows, after a while that brown slime weed that sticks to your line showed up and clogged up the rod and I ended breaking the Berkley FireLine exceed I had on it (crap braid), so put it aside for the evening.
Set the Loomis up with #4 surf sinker between two swivels and a nice long seductive leader about 80cm of 20lb Daiwa Nitlon fluorocarbon (good stuff), with a Mustad bait-keeper #4 hook.
Baited it up with three fat pipis and sent it out.
The line had hardly hit the bottom when thump, up comes a nice 40cm Tarwine, I have never caught one before.
10 minutes later another around 41cm was pulled in, then after that one at 36cm.
Fish must have cleared out and I didn’t get a bite after that, though I did not want to stay there all night, I think if I had stayed till the tide had gone out a lot more it might come on again, but it was getting too late.
Rods and reels are great, mind you the braid is a bit trying on the graphite rod in the surf, it has little shock absorption and I was at times holding the rod lightly to allow it to fight so as not to exert too much on the fish.
I have lost a lot of good fish especially Tailor on this set-up because they just go off and throw the hook.
Would like to know of something that has flex but the diameter, cast and strength of 50lb spectra braid.
Fighting a fish on the old glass rod is so much nicer as you do not have to worry so much about bumping the fish off.
Though the set-up has a lot of good points, I just need to get the right line.
I was only casting about 40 meters out max, I figured incoming tide at night, the target fish would be foraging in the shallows on the first half of the incoming, and for once I got a result, they aren’t Jewfish but at least I have finally broken in the new rod and reel with more than 1 fish.
I dropped one too and by the fight it would have been a 40.
88228
The weed took its toll.
88229
Both setups, both catch fish.
Actually the Daiwa is over 30 years old and needs the guides and thread overhauled.
88230
Dan