What Gear You Use !?

[mattooty]

one little trick I've found when using a paternoster rig, is about an inch above your sinker, tie a granny knot in the mainline but well below the hook. This way, if your sinker gets snagged up, it only takes a half lockup and the line pops below the hook, allowing you to keep your leader, hook, swivels and all the other fandangled crap you've got hanging of the end of your rod.

One of my favourite basic rigs to use is for chasing jewfish off breakwalls when the mullet are running. 50lb mainline, straight onto a 9/0 blackmagic K/S in 8/0. Bait is large live mullet up to around 30cm, weighing roughly half a kilo. Hook them just rear of the @$$hole on their underside and lob out allowing to swim in currents and large eddys of their own accord. You'll know you're onto a fish when they hit, thats for sure!

Another is same rig as above for blue groper, only replacing the hook with a 3/0 kendal kirby and a ball sinker just above the hook to aid in casting. Winter's best, with tides on the out-going. Use whole red-rock crabs as bait. If you find you're getting timid bites but think it could be groper, break a crab in half and use this. You'll find your by-catch will rise significantly. Best burley is broken up sea urchins. Fight the fish no-holds barred. Lockup or lose out.

Pelagics off the rocks: 6-8ft leader, beneath a small torpedo float. 6inches of 45lb single strand wire if you think there are toothy bastards floating around. No weight, running onto 4/0 big gun. Bait is slimey mackeral, yakkas, garfish herring, mullet live.

[HyyipIV]

Chasing grunter I use a old ABU ambassadeur fitted to a old wilson black magic rod, spooled with some pen pretest 40lb single posternoster rig 5/0 or 6/0 mustard hook and enough lead to hold on the bottom, also have out a 80lb handline same rig and lead to hold bottom left tucked up under side when it runs just pick up and pull her in, squid and prawns are the best bait as fresh as you can get or livies.

Chasing reds use a penn international reel on a penn 24kg rod, 100lb mono line 200lb swivel to a 200lb posternoster rig about 7 foot long (2 foot to 1st hook 4 foot to 2nd hook about 1 foot to sinker) 7/0 -9/0 mustard hook 6-16 oz of lead just enough to hold bottom, other rod is penn 330gti reel silstar power tip rod 15kg spooled with 80lb braid and same posternoster rig (already made tied up to canopy) (never have many get away from these setups, touch wood) bait trusty squid or slab baits

[smashed crabs]

Smashedcrabs,

Some of the comments are a bit harsh aren't they? "or haven't you got a clue"

Really. We've had a cyclone come through the area around Mackay so hope you accept my apologies for the tardiness of my reply.

I usually fish for grunter using the fresh prawns, as big as you can get them. 3-5/0 hooks and usually with a sinker and short trace. Having said that also without a trace and just a running sinker.

Steve

All good Steve ,

The name of the game is to see what works best for individual persons, i spent a lot of years working as a pro and have turned recky and loving it , im clued on to the reef stuff and the deep water, im really liking the estuary fishing , it is in this area that i don't have a glue myself , so it is very interesting to see what floats a boat for some . I have used a couple of methods from here so far that work well for others in here and i can tell you it is making a whole world of difference to the catch rate , the nuts and bolts of the how to and what works best is invaluable ,

Then of course you get them freaks of nature type fisho's who no matter what they use or how they use it they always out catch anyone, then you get them types or have never wet a line and they go down to the water for the first time and land a 100cm barra using a $20 rod and a peice of dead funky bait that was laying on the jetty
Fish Whisperer's i hate you

Cheers
SC

[smashed crabs]

one little trick I've found when using a paternoster rig, is about an inch above your sinker, tie a granny knot in the mainline but well below the hook. This way, if your sinker gets snagged up, it only takes a half lockup and the line pops below the hook, allowing you to keep your leader, hook, swivels and all the other fandangled crap you've got hanging of the end of your rod.

One of my favourite basic rigs to use is for chasing jewfish off breakwalls when the mullet are running. 50lb mainline, straight onto a 9/0 blackmagic K/S in 8/0. Bait is large live mullet up to around 30cm, weighing roughly half a kilo. Hook them just rear of the @$$hole on their underside and lob out allowing to swim in currents and large eddys of their own accord. You'll know you're onto a fish when they hit, thats for sure!

Another is same rig as above for blue groper, only replacing the hook with a 3/0 kendal kirby and a ball sinker just above the hook to aid in casting. Winter's best, with tides on the out-going. Use whole red-rock crabs as bait. If you find you're getting timid bites but think it could be groper, break a crab in half and use this. You'll find your by-catch will rise significantly. Best burley is broken up sea urchins. Fight the fish no-holds barred. Lockup or lose out.

Pelagics off the rocks: 6-8ft leader, beneath a small torpedo float. 6inches of 45lb single strand wire if you think there are toothy bastards floating around. No weight, running onto 4/0 big gun. Bait is slimey mackeral, yakkas, garfish herring, mullet live.

Thanks mate some really good stuff here , i like the bit about the granny knot , why didnt i ever think of that.
Also i have been doing a fair bit of barra fishing lately using live mullet and im goin to stick the hook in him on the underside for a trial to see if it improves hook up rate.

cheers
SC