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Brent, Im talking SHARKS The sort that would take your leg off in one go, Can't wait to see the faces on a couple of ausfishers tomorrow if all goes to plan, The bait is around 8 kilos, they seem to like that size
Im not going down there Brent, I think he is a smart one our sharky, should be off point lookout don't send a search party if we don't come back, there are that many out there I wouldn't like our chances, true game fishing it is, man against beast
Thanks for that, I think I understand your knot and will give it a try.
Mack
On the subject of gear failure.......
Started out with the trace not being enough went from 30lb to 50lb and now using wire. After that, leader and line breaks and knot failures and on one occasion,
insufficient line on the spool.
For my latest attempt I am using my alvey surf reel loaded with about 500mts of 18lb mono connected via a swivel to a couple metres of that knotable steel trace with a couple of 6/0 Gamakatsus (spell?) at the business end.
If this doesn't work I'll go back to 20lb braid, but concerned that 300mts on the spool may not be enough.
Brent,
I probably caught half a dozen or so of those whalers and yeah there are a lot of fun, and as you say they often come out of the water, but you can usually pull them up inside of say 50 to 60 mts. Whatever is smashing me up is in a different class of fish. I haven't turned one yet and they empty 150 mts of line without drawing a breath. I got 3rd degrees burns (lol) on my index finger from trying to slow down the spool.
Going fishing tomorro morning so will update you on my progress friday.
Argo Phill next time you hook up to 1 of those monsters tie a float to your anchor for a quick release....Mate see how far that beast can tow you around..LOL
COULD BE A GIANT SHOVELNOSE RAY!!
Nugget has said there are some monster shovel's out there....would be nice to think they are big big jew.
Cheers Brent
Argo, What is probably happening is your hooking up whalers in the, 60-100kg range, 10 kilo mainline is useless, it takes me around 2 hours to get a decent one to the boat with 24kg gear. Be a bit of fun boating one from the dart
All I have left is a 50lb handline, so if I can't get close with the Alvey then I may have to throw in the towel.
Certainly don't intend to boat one, just want to get close enough for a look. I want to keep the dart between me and them!
Fished Wello this morning from 4.30 am. Caught and released two small whalers - around 70cm . The Alvey made very light work of them. Also a few squire just below the limit. The place went dead as high tide approached and I went home shortly after.
The sort that would take your leg off in one go, Can't wait to see the faces on a couple of ausfishers tomorrow if all goes to plan, The bait is around 8 kilos, they seem to like that size
Argo Phill next time you hook up to 1 of those monsters tie a float to your anchor for a quick release....Mate see how far that beast can tow you around..LOL
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