Originally Posted by
Noelm
It's a bit of both for me, down here where fish like Snapper are not that easy, I tend to "under" usually around 6KG, maybe 8 at times, you tend to get more bites, making a feed of fish more likely than thick line, on a shabby looped Paternoster "tourist" setup, if I'm fishing with my mate in Southern QLD I go up to around 10-15kg because of the added chance of Cobia and the like, in hard fished locations, a well presented bait on decent sized line will usually get fish (stating the obvious I guess)