MagicRik
26-11-2005, 07:37 PM
my day started at 3.00am and i set off to darlin island 2 hours i was there and not a bite......was using fresh squid and prawns and nothing.
so i walked around to glebe point...........set up a nice rig, bomb sinker to get right to the bottom..........a set of new gang hooks i just bought........one about 16" from the sinker and another 12" away from that, so i could see what depth the fish were biting at.
some nice fresh squid and i was set........i cast out and with the sinker on the end it must have gone about 50 metres or more. Not ten seconds past and i had a huge tug on the line......my first thought was come to daddy you big..............then nothing, really there was nothing, no sinker, no line, no more gang hooks nothing.
it ripped my 4kg line off like i was using candy floss :-[
45 mins later pow metal lure gone
2 hours later two soft lure and another set of gang hooks.
by this time im peeeed off in a big way.
so what i would like to know is can anyone give me any tips on stopping fish bitting off my line.
also the line im using is 4kg like i said, but my reel can hold a a 12lb line so it says on the side........if i want higher line what is the limit my reel can really go......its a shimano fx 4000 and my rod is shimano technium plus spin 70.......or do i need a new bigger reel and rod?
so i walked around to glebe point...........set up a nice rig, bomb sinker to get right to the bottom..........a set of new gang hooks i just bought........one about 16" from the sinker and another 12" away from that, so i could see what depth the fish were biting at.
some nice fresh squid and i was set........i cast out and with the sinker on the end it must have gone about 50 metres or more. Not ten seconds past and i had a huge tug on the line......my first thought was come to daddy you big..............then nothing, really there was nothing, no sinker, no line, no more gang hooks nothing.
it ripped my 4kg line off like i was using candy floss :-[
45 mins later pow metal lure gone
2 hours later two soft lure and another set of gang hooks.
by this time im peeeed off in a big way.
so what i would like to know is can anyone give me any tips on stopping fish bitting off my line.
also the line im using is 4kg like i said, but my reel can hold a a 12lb line so it says on the side........if i want higher line what is the limit my reel can really go......its a shimano fx 4000 and my rod is shimano technium plus spin 70.......or do i need a new bigger reel and rod?