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glengood87 reacted to ljackway in Travel rod tips May 1, 2016

Thanks everyone for the insightful responses. I ended up going with the shakespear slingshot. It is nice and sensitive and very very light 4 piece. Came with a case and ticks all the boxes.

Would have loved to go with a savage gear, or a shimano raider but unfortunately they weren't in stock at the place I went.

The gen black were just a little bit out of my pricerange, so thats why i didnt go for that.

Also now that i bought a cheaper rod for only 80$, I have money now to spend on a 1000 reel to make this a proper light gear set up!

glengood87 got a reaction from newtontoney in Braid production and prices. June 14, 2015

I'd recommend Sea Lion braid from Ebay - they seem to have generally positive reviews and are shipped from Melbourne.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/281677163072

It will arrive far quicker than Aliexpress (I ordered some squid jigs shipped 4 weeks ago and still no sign of them ) and the breaking strains are pretty accurate according to this line testing site:

http://www.paulusjustfishing.com/

glengood87 got a reaction from ASD14 in New gear June 11, 2015

Awesome rod that one, I have the spin equivalent and absolutely love it!

glengood87 reacted to Kuerschie in My first kingfish May 18, 2015

So Iâ€™ve heard many stories of people finding rat kings within a couple of hours from metro in the last six months and never had any thought of chasing them due to not owning the correct gear. However, one close fisho friend of mine gave me some sound info a fortnight ago and gave me motivation to have a go at a landbased king. Not having ever seen one in the wild (plenty in aquaculture) and never having caught one, I went out chasing.

Day began at 5am, left home early and drove up to an area that had frequent sightings of rat sized kings. Armed with a few combos and a couple of not-so-fresh baits, I was hopeful. I began by sending out a freezer squid under a float and let it drift way out off where I was fishing. Whilst that was out the back, I began tossing a squidgy flickbait around on my 1-3kg Samaki Zing and my newly acquired Daiwa Caldia 2004 hoping to nab a few salmon or maybe a snook. After a long while and no hits on plastic, I swapped to a simple paternoster rig hoping to at least catch a fish. Managed to catch typical reef/rock fish such as sweep, zebrafish, wrasse and heaps of leatherjackets in the small size range. I kept periodically checking my whole squid throughout the day but it remained untouched. I swapped out the squid and put on half a garfish just to see how it went. After midday I swapped back to plastics and was rewarded with a solid hookup and strong run. The Caldia was singing loudly and I was losing heaps of line fast. The fish hadnâ€™t jumped so I knew this was no salmon, the Kingies were finally here!! I fought this legal sized fish for five to ten minutes but without a crab net to lift and having completely the wrong gear it was hopeless. The king went for a short run and busted me off on the last pylon. I couldnâ€™t entice another strike from anything until around 4pm when I began to bring in my last half a garfish bait under the float. As I retrieved the float, it began to bloop and pop the garfish across the surface. To my surprise two/three kings came from nowhere and smashed the gar on the surface and things came tight. Against strong drag from the Stradic 5000, it still managed to take line and felt like the harder I pulled, the harder it tried to run away. Eventually I got it close and was able to deadlift it on 40lb leader. Success!!!

My first ever kingie at 70cm. Great fight to it and to do it by myself was awesome. Now I just have to wait until late spring to hopefully go and find some more. Would love to land one on plastics as well, so thatâ€™s my first summer goal for next season.

glengood87 reacted to johnwalkley in Carp, flats flys blue skies May 11, 2015

Been a while since I was active on here but made a small vid a few months back
Flats fly fishing on the hobie for carp.
Enjoy.

glengood87 got a reaction from bjorn2fish in Anyone braving the weather to go fishing this weekend? May 9, 2015

I'll be spending my would-be fishing time trying to make some small mods on my kayak I reckon

glengood87 got a reaction from Cal in The Weird Things that Happen out Fishing April 2, 2015

Weirdest thing I have seen in my relatively short fishing experience was at Glenelg jetty a few months back. I was squidding while my mate was going for fish, and he hooked up a small snapper of around 30cm. As he was reeling it in, we noticed it was being stalked by a squid - that was no bigger than the snapper!! I managed to tempt the overly-ambitious squid onto a jig and my friend finished reeling in and releasing the snapper. It was pretty cool seeing a squid in action like that - pulsating waves of colour as it approached the fish - just couldn't believe it thought it stood a chance of catching a fish bigger than it!