doobie

hey Des can you take a photo of how your line lays on the spool.

I recently went through a very similar experience and misdiagnosed my problem as line twist. This happened due to a coincidence in timing. I was  using a new lure that was helicoptering, when these wind knots came along

I built a little swivel swivel rig and went down to the park and undid all the twist - packed it all back on tight

Turns out my line lay was the problem. Mine was way too top heavy and I spooled it too close to the lip.

I added shims to both my reels and respooled the top shot, so the line lay would be much more even. I'd like it to be more even but I cant be stuffed adding more shims and walking around the park again.

In my experience, wind knots are from excess line getting dragged over the spool lip while casting. So packing it on tight - having an even line lay and not spooling too close to the lip are the ways to stop clumps of line coming off at once.

Heres my 3 most used reels at the moment - the 2 on the left still have a more pronounced top heavy spooling that the one on the right - so you can imagine how bad it was before I added shims.

Any spooling that encourages line to leap off the spool, like really top heavy spooling, needs close monitoring or fixing, in my experience. Especially on reel used to cast maximum distance often.

Slightly under-spooling so there is a 2mm gap between the edge of the spool and your line - can really help with wind knots aswell.

You can often hear when your line is over spooled - it makes a messy sound as its cast - "plat plat plat plat plat" as it comes of the spool in the early stage of the cast.

The spooling pattern on the far right has been extremely well behaved over the last couple of years - Straight out of the box the line has performed bewdifully
 

I look forward to all the contributions from the many YFW specialists in this forum.
Over the coming weeks I will be transferring a number of posts regarding Yellow Fin Whiting which I had previously only put up on Face Book. (lazy)
I look forward to us building up a knowledge base for us to share.
The posts will not be "Fishing reports" as such but discussions about the Species, Morphology, Habitats, Ecosystems/FoodChains, Tackle and Techniques.
Looking forward to every ones input.
Cheers, Des

Hands down the best braid I've used, moved onto the ADV a while back, does actually seem even better, will definitely be ending up on all my gear eventually once the old stuff wears out.

I have been using Sunline Siglon PEx8 for a number of years now.
 

The thinness and cast-ability has been great. However a criticism of it would be that it frayed a little easily and subsequently prone to breaking easily if under pressure.
I would adjust the drag accordingly. Sometimes too much for a good set of the lure hooks on a strike. You learnt to adjust the drag after the strike.

 
Today I tried the PEx8 - ADV version for the first time ,,,. Brilliant !!!
Smooth, abrasion resistant. I totally agree with their claim;
 "deep resin technology. Increasing abrasion resistance 4 times, slickness and knot strength. It also repels water to improve casting distance cast after cast."
 And available for a very similar price.  Highly recommend it.
Cheers, Des.

Thanks doobie, it seems to be taking longer to recover now days.. maybe I just have to slow down and be a little more selective on what waters I fish..  not that it will happen yet, maybe next trout season I'll try doing that..😀😀
cheers
Adrian

It's been a couple now due to lower back & rib problems, so I thought I'd put up a past spin session from December 2021. This video is one of many that haven't been on YouTube yet. Thanks for watching..
** Good news, I have now improved and now getting back into the swing of things so will have new reports coming soon..
 
cheers
Adrian (meppstas)
 
 

Thanks Kelvin
 
yeah I’m doing a head to head bait series  winner stays on
 
im going to revisit carp as I had encouraging results from salted and skinned carp but the fresh stuff with the skin on wasn’t quite as good  
Salty-ness had been a common denominator in all the victories, but the kfc had been the most dramatic victory I have witnessed so far
A guy who used to run a Barra camp up north said KFC would out fish every other bait 10 fold . And if I’m being honest I didn’t give it a chance against my sardines which had beaten everything up until then.
id had other gurus with extremely impressive resumes, tell me their gun bait would smash mine and it didn’t  
So I was basically doing the test to crush such bold claims
but for once -  an internet guru was right😉 
 
one guy who had 15 years experience at yabby farms told be raw potatoes would be 15 times better than my current champ
raw potato was amoungst the worst performing baits I’d tried
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Im very successful with Kings land based.. Its taken a few years/seasons to work what is.. Biggest so far went 153cm at an estimated weight of 33kilos.. Not bad off the rocks..

*Update on my "Any Sand Worms at Sellick's Beach?" question. 
Yep they are there for sure, only had time to pop down once in the past few weeks and give it a crack.  I managed to attracted a  few up and got my fingers on three, but the buggers gave me the slip...! they seemed a good size FYI. 
With more practice I hope to actually pull some out, its getting personal now... hahaha.  

It will probably all work out in the end.
But if it doesn't, but it works for you, then you are the 2022 SH footy tipper winner - congratulations in advance  

Same for me as well as other comps.

i have never had to sign in again been playing it for years! And yes i am playing the main game, that also plays the SH game too. Every year i just hit my saved link and it takes me to the tipping page fill out my tips done! After the week go to SH Comp and my score is in there!...
 

I'm not sure but maybe it may keep the members names on it from previous seasons doobie..
cheers
Adrian

They are great, peaceful creatures and lovely to watch in the wild.
Thanks Adrian  

This is just a short video clip of a few Platypus I often come across while trout fishing the rivers here in Tasmania. Seeing Platypus in a river while trout fishing is always the highlight of my day, it makes the trip all the more worthwhile.
cheers Adrian (meppstas)
 
 

Unreal. Seen one when I was setting pots for marron on kangaroo Island on the west coast. 
Thanks for sharing Adrian. Very special animal. 

All done.. 👍

All good. Maybe the "Fishing Guru" can donate a small prize or two??

The 2022 AFL season will start on Wednesday March 16th.
If you would like to join the Strike Hook Footy tipping for 2022, you will to either join up (free) or sign in.
There are no prizes - just bragging rights  
This link will take you to the SH / ESPN footy tipping site (https://www.footytips.com.au/competitions/?competitionId=140688&ff=ladders) .... click on "TIP NOW" (in red) which will require you to Sign In or Join Up (hopefully all works)
Good Luck 

The 2022 AFL season will start on Wednesday March 16th.
If you would like to join the Strike Hook Footy tipping for 2022, you will to either join up (free) or sign in.
There are no prizes - just bragging rights  
This link will take you to the SH / ESPN footy tipping site (https://www.footytips.com.au/competitions/?competitionId=140688&ff=ladders) .... click on "TIP NOW" (in red) which will require you to Sign In or Join Up (hopefully all works)
Good Luck 

Haha - my lawn is 90% dandelions and the other 10% is ant hills - so it could do with a bit if TLC.

I think a bit more metal would be required to get it looking good though
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