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yeah that's a stomper knackers. Always a triumph when you land a first of a species! to do it by yourself - even better ! congratulations and happy eating

I use the jewel 1-4 kg matched with an exage or ecooda 2500 for onk mullys my pb went 88cm 12plus kg was a great fight on 10 pound main line and 20 pound leader. for the mullys in the coorong what you have is fine you may just come up against an unstoppable one though which you might be able to stop if you had a 2-4kg or a 3-6 kg . I rate my jewel highly unfortunately I have snapped it 3 times not through fishing

In saying that! if you are using tommies where there are tommies around you will catch something as you are really trying to mimic/ provide the fish with what they are eating at the time

Have to say my Pb Onk mulloway a big fat 12kg engulfed my live Tommie and many of the other mullies I have caught have been on live and dead tommies albeit these ranged from 56 to 88cm

Ill chip in with three bad weather success stories my 2 most recent and 1 most memorableThe most Memorable one was about 2 years ago at snakes. Some of the guys I fish with off here and myself were heading down for some hopefull salmon, throwing slugs of the rocks. It was wet, it was windy and the swell was pumping, when I got there a bit later than my mates there was about 10-15 people lined up not quite shoulder to shoulder throwing lures and just about hooking up every cast, dropping fish landing fish getting snagged. id say the largest in the school was probably 2-2.5 kg most were 1-2kg. I

definitely are a good rod in the 7ft I was casting a 50gm slug miles when down at waitpinga with a headwind! like cal said though that doesn't matter when the fish are less than 50m away! I was just chucking the slug around as a bit of fun while baitwasting! all my fish were caught casting less than 20m from the wash! As someone else said it comes down to personal choice and are you casting lures or soaking baits! totally different styles of rods and sinker weight is important as well. If you are casting big baits this adds weight too

Love my Wilson 8144 I think that's what it is! can throw medium baits a good distance matched with my penn 950 ssm 30 pound mono! Also have the supergraph and I love it I didn't think I would relegate my 8144 to second place but the supergraph is light and can throw big baits a decent distance! In my eyes though generally gutters aren't that far away and it is more accuracy you want than distance! I know id prefer to throw 30m and be in a gutter than 50 metres and be sitting on a sandbar. If your looking at throwing slugs go a 9ft, I have a catana that throws up to 60gm nicely for larger slugs

I disagree with tony on this one, I have had my best salmon sessions along christies to southport in this type of water, snapper also get caught in these conditions. Might be a bit early for the big salmon though? Only way to find out is get down there and give it a crack! you will be surprised

lots of flounder to be found wading the flats of the coorong with spotlights and hand spears!

smith camion (various colours) i seem to do well on ones with yellow, gold,black and orange combossx 40 lc kangoku bassday vibe in same colours as camionsthat is mostly onk i would add squidgy bug in wasabi if fishing the glenelg in place of the sx 40

I Agree with live fibre, the mt8144 is a great stick and i have had one for at least 6-7 years now and it has taken alot of abuse even from monster rays that wouldnt budge! I love it and if it ever breaks I wont hesitate to get a new one the same day I also have a wilson super graph 12 ft and i love this rod as well i have found i can get big baits out where i want them with some sort of control! As live fibre said my 8144 is matched to a penn 950 spinfisher ssm and personally i think being matched with "old school" heavier surf reels is the go with this one! whereas the super graph being li

i generally put a hone on my edge with a diamond honing knife but for the sharpen i get the pros to do it! as an ex chef my knives got a lot of use and would be sharpened 4 times a year now they are quite smaller than when i got them but with the professionals you know you are getting a good edge every time and it is relatively cheap , definitely cheaper than using cheap sharpeners and buggering the blades or getting a crappy edge

good work yet again chuck!

this topic made me sad i just snapped my 3-6kg jewell which caught me many mullies up to 88 cm! wicked rod i used it for everything from lures sp's to live baiting! you will have a ball with that rod

Exactly the same red bull! this is also a utility style setup! can be used for multiple rigs and different fish without changing reels or mainline