pop-eye
29-07-2009, 11:32 PM
Hi all
What a pearler of a day for a bit of offshore fishing 29/7/09.
Finally got in the water as it turned out, by myself at 9.30am and headed about 25km NE of the bar in 70m of water.
On arrival i flicked out a 5" BBQ Chicken Jerk Shad on my 8lb to 14lb Daiwa Exceller SP rod/SoronSTX40 10lb braid with 20lb fluro leader.
I then got the bottom basher rig down with a livie and then as i was going to sit down to have a coffee the Exceller bent over to the max. After some good runs i got him to the surface and then into my dodgy net. 80cm with fin stretched.
Just as i was trying to get the hook out, the paternoster rig went off. I got the rod out of the holder and it was going hard. I got the beast about half way up when it went its second run. Just as i was going to back off the drag it gnawed through. Big fish that one!. The rig was made from 60 lb mono tied to 30lb braid guided through a $39 Abu Garcia 6'6"OverHead matched with a "on special"$99 akuma CT-30L. Dont know how long the rod will last but i am impressed so far.same goes for the reel
The soft plastic was quite so i pulled it up and floated down a pillie on my M10/tld25 40lb mono rig. I tell you what that did the trick as i was onto something big, a big snapper for sure. What a fight,i was winning untill my knot on the 8/0 Big Red pulled.
After pulling up my bottom lip i turned back around for a second drift and nailed these 3 other smaller fish on the floater before heading for home
Before i go i must say next trip i wll be making the paternoster rig out of flurocarbon or maybe even piano wire:)
What a pearler of a day for a bit of offshore fishing 29/7/09.
Finally got in the water as it turned out, by myself at 9.30am and headed about 25km NE of the bar in 70m of water.
On arrival i flicked out a 5" BBQ Chicken Jerk Shad on my 8lb to 14lb Daiwa Exceller SP rod/SoronSTX40 10lb braid with 20lb fluro leader.
I then got the bottom basher rig down with a livie and then as i was going to sit down to have a coffee the Exceller bent over to the max. After some good runs i got him to the surface and then into my dodgy net. 80cm with fin stretched.
Just as i was trying to get the hook out, the paternoster rig went off. I got the rod out of the holder and it was going hard. I got the beast about half way up when it went its second run. Just as i was going to back off the drag it gnawed through. Big fish that one!. The rig was made from 60 lb mono tied to 30lb braid guided through a $39 Abu Garcia 6'6"OverHead matched with a "on special"$99 akuma CT-30L. Dont know how long the rod will last but i am impressed so far.same goes for the reel
The soft plastic was quite so i pulled it up and floated down a pillie on my M10/tld25 40lb mono rig. I tell you what that did the trick as i was onto something big, a big snapper for sure. What a fight,i was winning untill my knot on the 8/0 Big Red pulled.
After pulling up my bottom lip i turned back around for a second drift and nailed these 3 other smaller fish on the floater before heading for home
Before i go i must say next trip i wll be making the paternoster rig out of flurocarbon or maybe even piano wire:)