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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.
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.
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.
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.
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