1Kg barra baitcaster

[Cast-Away]

Dave, I have a custom built Loomis SB6400 baitcaster with titanium/gold cermet guides. Very light and very responsive. I suspect you will know if a rod is right when you have it in your hands with some 1kg cotton through the guides. I live in Kenmore, Brisbane and would be happy to let you have a play with the rod if you are interested.
Cheers
Steve

[finding_time]

Nagg

A mate of mine Mark Bird (Thunderbird) had a stripe marlin hook - up for 2+ hours on 8 kg and WOULD have had a tag in it much earlier if his deckie had ever spent time in a boat before ( not the time to learn to drive a boat) The fish would have been around 80 to 90kg. He runs 5kg on sunset on his Alutecnos and was fishing sunset for 80% of the fight, the 8kg line did not fail , it was the 150kg leader that parted so it can be done. During the gcgfc light tackle masters a stripe was tagged on 8kg also a blue hooked but that lasted about 20 seconds.

As far as Blues go i've made a choice to use 37kg and not 24 in an effort to avoid tail wrapping fish , but lot of blues seem to come up dead on 24kg.

Jeremy

You Wombat Go above the button mate it's fine as long as your reels are up to it ( eg don't try it with a tld no matter how you upgrade the drags) It took me a while to trust the reels and knots , but every tuna i caught i would go above the button and really get stuck into the fish and had no failers so now i do it on billys and alls still good

Ian

Ps this off another site


for anyone who hasnt herd of the great capture by the brand new ''diversion'' a 42ft riveira set up with just about everything you could ever dream of captured an amazing 82.3kg stripe marlin on 4kg on the 24th of this month. The angler was James holt, the skipper was gary holt and the crew conisted of timmy dean, dave (timmys decky), and a first timer phil who was on the camera.

ill also tell you some intresting facts about this fish, the 82.3kg stripe marlin captured by diversion made the gfaa 20 to 1 capture club, there has only been 5 anglers to make this club and all have been shark captures james holt is the very first angler to have a marlin in this club well done james and the boys. james is also in the 10 to 1 club to with only 6 other recordered marlin captures in the club.

the old record was only 65kg and the boys blew that one of the block in style, the fish toke under 5 minutes to capture. i went down to port stephens this long weekend to fish with the boys and i saw the footage and it was nothing short of spectaluar the fish was jumping into the riggers etc just going crazy. once again well done to james holt he is only 17 and the crew of diversion who are in the npsgfc.


top effort!!!!