South Passage Wide 4/12

[SeaSaw]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Nice catch ... love the picture of the dollie, great shot

Can anyone tell me where you get Pakula's at a good price on North Brissy or Sunshine Coast. I gotta put an order in for chrissy

Cheers,

Mark

[outsiderskip]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

hi outsider
nice dollie and whoo

cheers pete

[Outsider]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Mark,

PM me if you want my Pakula guys details. About 50%-60% of retail price through mail order. He can set you up with a whole spread.

[Cheech]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Good Dollie. I wand one.....

We were out there as well. Chong and I were out for the day on Prime Mover. Looking forward to my first Dollie and then we changed direction. Bugga. As you said, no waverider bouy.

I do not usually fish that area, but it did seem really low in boat traffic. Is it normally like that? Fantastic conditions.

Apart from a good run of kingies and trag at square patch, was a pretty slow day for us.

Highlight of the day was driving the boat home all the way from squarepatch to the Manly leads. John let me take it through the bar as well. That was fun.

Cheech

[pegasus]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Hi Outsider,

loved the report and top photos- sounded a great day- look a great day out there.

thankyou

[reeldreamer]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Nice catch! Great conditions, i bet you were hoping for some more hits though!

[Smithy]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

It wouldn't happen to be one of our members who has a little site on the side?

http://www.########.com/

Steve also sells Boss lures through Ausfish which work very well as well.

http://www.ausfish.com.au/bosslures/

Matt G from here is in with Stuart Mackenzie of Precision Rods on the Sunshine Coast and they also sell Pakulas, Black Barts etc. from Stu's shop near where Wellsys used to be.

[jeffo]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

get em from stewie and matt.

smithy- whats wrong with the good old TLD's? sunset on 8kg isnt needed...2 thumbs and a fore finger does the job in apllying ample pressure

[Smithy]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Single speeds are let down by small handles. Eventually all of their cams start to creep. You have to be more on the ball with them then the Tiagras. Because of the years of use with ours, I get my 2.8kg on strike but on the bottom end of the button I am getting around 4kg and middle to top of the buttom I am getting 5kg. Over or anywhere toward sunset and it is istant bust-off ala John that day. Russ's older 2 speed is a bit more foregiving and it is 2.8kg on strike and probably 4kg anywhere on the button. The old Beastmaster 4/0 is great. It has the movable thing for your second strike position. It is 2.8kg on strike and 4kg at sunset. The new single speeds we got are also fine for the time being because the cams are new. Both are 2.8kg on strike and around 4kg the front side of the button. My oldest and most abused reel is my TLD25. It has been rebuilt twice already. Run 15kg on it. For 5kg of strike drag I am probably 7-8kg straight away on the button but if you livebait with it it is hopeless down the bottom end as straight out of freespool it is probably on 3-4kg. So when we get a fish on we need to be switched on enough to know which gear is which and how hard you can fight the fish on that gear. On Monroes boat with 6x16 Tiagras it is a no brainer. Once that strike drag is dialed in you know you can go to sunset on any reel. The drag is sequential all the way - come out of freespool and you are close to freespool, 2.8kg at strike and 4-5kg at full sunset. I know they need new cams but why spend the money if I will be fishing on other boats for most of season and you probably only get a season or so out out of the original cams.
Jeff Sparkes had a Tyronos with him for Mooloolaba comp. They looked good. New Shimano style handle, tall narrow spool and bigger ratio than a single speed. Just can't beat buying the original TLDs for $165 or whatever.

[bugman]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Smithy - I can vouch for Tyronos. I've got two and so far have had Sailfish, Wahoo and Dolphins on the end. Very Very smoothy - no stick points in the drags and the hnadle is a dream compared to the tld. Actually the handle fits the tld if you want to shell out the $80 clams.

Which boat are you taking to the Riviera classic?

Brett

[Sportfish_5]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Smithy - time for some TLD mods

http://www.thehulltruth.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=80155&start=1

Cheers

Greg

[Smithy]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Will be on Fair Dinkum II, Deep V 310 with Monroe, Russ and Tim Matthews.

[Smithy]

Re: South Passage Wide 4/12

Greg just checked out the link.

I wanna go fishing, not spend all of my time in the shed!

Anyone want to go into business doing the conversions? Think of the interest the Razza handles created.