CTS from NZ made Eric Grell rod blanks I think.
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Nice to hear another fan of the baitrunners :thumbsup:
The Pflueger's have always been good value for money - I have a President 6-10kg which is my knockabout / mates rod …… it's certainly the oldest rod I own that still gets used - must be close to 20 years old - The cork is starting to go but man it's a solid rod
Chris
8-10 kg livefibre with a 760l penn live liner rigged with 25lbs low stretch mono ( i like white or pink ) with 3 ganged 7766's in 4/0 and a pilly with a 4 or 6 ball on the hooks , if i'm really fussy i'll use a cast-net lead on the lead hook instead. pretty much the same rig for mackerel.
simple but deadly
BigE
Live fibre 6-8kg and Shimano triton rods coupled with baitrunner reels for bait fishing. For plastics I have a venom x 15-40lb with a daiwa Catalina 4000 (which I actually think is too heavy) and a nitro viper with a Stradic 4000. I want to get a decent 3-6kg rod with a 3000 daiwa which I think would be perfect size for snapper plastics and soft vibes which I reckon are great for snaps.
Good thread, hopefully more people post.
Cheers
I don't fish deep for my snapper but I just use a 4to10 lb Graphite USA and Diawa 2500R hypercustom with 15lb powerpro and 20lb leader I only fish lures and soft plastics and it will catch any size snapper all day long.
Haven’t done it for a while but loved catching a good snapper using one of my Alvey reels.
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Well I'm a sportsman and fish shallow
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Nice outfit ….. certainly love those Hyper Certates & should have bought one when I had the chance . I reckon they were the best of all the certates .
Every now & then I drag out my light outfit which is a Samurai Reaction 6-12 & an ATC Valour SW5000 (same size as a 2500 Daiwa) loaded with 15lb powerpro ……… but I've been dusted a few times on good snapper - kings & cobes . So it generally only gets used if I want to have some fun or I've got the fish rising up a pillie trail .
Chris
Shallow fishing out to 120 feet will see only two on board.Once anchored a berley trail is established and a three in one snapper rack type rod holder is positioned either side of the bait board set flat.My side will see three baitrunners one spooled with twenty pound mono the other two with twenty five,rods are nothing special,Silstar powertips.All three rigs will have different sinkers sitting right on the hooks until I can get the line going down at the same angle as the berley trail,if I need bigger than a four ball I will start to play around with leads above the swivel (rolling black) as well as on top of the hooks (VMC 4/0 octopus in permasteel snelled ).If using pillies the head has to face away from the sinker,strip baits I try to keep uniform.Baitrunners are set so as the boat rises with the swell line is peeled off the spool,most times I will peel of a bit of line as well generally of the inside rod.The way I start the process will have the inside rod get close to the bottom first so in it comes the other two are jockeyed across one spot with the wound in rod going to the outside to start the process over again.If things are slow I will drop a snapper lead over the side as well with cut bait.If the young bloke is with me the same will be happening on the port side.
From thirty two fathoms out it's a deck winch and drifting.Again I don't like more than two simply because it takes at least a pound and a half of lead to spin the winch,I only have two winches and unless you are using the same lead your not going to hit the bottom in the same spot/same time and a pound and a half is not nice to get up in time.Positioning the boat is everything,first drop I will mark anything and check out the length of the plot line from when I let go the lead till it hits the bottom,this is then how far I will travel past the school and drop.I do not drift more than thirty seconds and I never hit that show more than three or four times unless it's huge,you will scatter the fish if you do,so three or four drifts and find another show,same again until you have a few spots marked up then back to the first.At this point I will tell you.......If the person at the helm can't get the positioning of the boat correct shallow or deep the best fisherman in the world will not catch fish.