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the port mullie for sure. tagged and released felt good aswell. but in saying that' date=' at the time the king felt so good. i was over the moon and i had 6 mates away with me to share it with.if this post runs for a while ill post my three biggest mullie,king and red also...[/quote']dont wait m8 hit us with it love this shit congrats on all accounts thats awesome stuff

thats nasty :sick: :sick: :sick: :vomit: :vomit: :vomit: :( :angry:

see madplop if ya werent such a :c we might have invited ya for a XXXX but the way you went about it was :c ed so happy

boags st george for me thankz mmmmmm.

it's called XXXX for 2 reasons........Qld'ers can't spell "beer" and it tastes like "pi$$"

i thought its called XXXX cos its better than xxx porn. :ohmy: :P

id prefer xxxx over VB and Draught put together anyday of the week

hey southie can i grab the mark or general area of where you get your XXXX from :P

think you may have the wrong site bud you might be after "gps marks for blokes that cant be stuffed" forum champ :pinch: :pinch: :P :laugh:

this got me so pumped i went out this mornin and nailed 15 with my shimano aerplus rod $19.00 job with a yozuri oita whipped the thing stupid and they love it so my $$ are being saved for a berkley egi master reel soon.p.s pic only shows 8 Egi's gave 7 to my fishn partner cheers 4tha.

Berkley Egi Master or Shimano Sephia?

sorry to take it off the beatn track mate but i love my squidding and im looking at the berkley cheers 4THA.

You gotta have some sort of theory behind you to ask around $700 for a sqiudding rod. :whistle: :evil: :woohoo:

is that right mate :ohmy: then why do they spend it on all there snapper and game gear maybe i do it for the sport champ same as the other species :angry: !!

this is an exerpt from a night held at a tackle shop in melbourne.Here in Oz 'Egi' fishing is still in it's relative infancy. Yeah some guys have been fishing with the old bait spikes attached to hand lines for years but the real art of 'Egi fishing', that we are only just starting to explore, is still a relatively new phenomenon here in Australia.In Japan the history of 'Egi Fishing' goes back more than 400 years, so they do have the odd tip or two to pass on.Here in Oz we account for only about 0.3% of the world's tackle industry, so the amount of gear Gan Craft ship to Australia is a drop in the ocean, however we are the only country in the world that these Gan Craft guys have visited with the specific aim of holding information/teaching sessions. Such is the respect the Japanese Egi fishing community holds for our fishery.'Egi' or as we know em 'Squid' generally account for over 60% of the world's marine biomass. So they are incredibly abundant, & Australia is THE single biggest squid biomass area in the world. This means we have undoubtably the world's #1 squid fishery, right here on our door step.Gan Craft are committed to creating top quality Egying gear & are using Australia extensively as a testing ground for their gear. Although we are a drop in the bucket of world fishing gear sales the Gan Craft gear we have access to is the very best available anywhere in the world today.The guys started out with the obvious - Rods.Now Egi rods are not just souped up bream rods. Until these guys started going into the specifics of Egi rod design I was totally unaware of just how complex these quality pieces are. It's not hard to see why their top range Egi rods have price tags of around the $700 mark. The style of fishing the Gan Craft guys are pioneering with their gear calls for tough but light weight & extremely well balanced gear. Try ripping a jig through the water the way these guys do, with a normal bream rod & you are pretty much guaranteed to end up with a hand full of rod pieces. In Japan Egi fishing is extremely competitive. They have a very large population that accounts for over 30% of the world's Egi tackle sales, so to be successful requires that your gear stand out from the rest. Squid are quite intelligent & will quickly learn that the last 10,000 times they saw a particular jig swimming around them one of their mates was ripped from the water, so they WILL learn to avoid items they have seen many times before. Hence the Gan Craft guys are constantly trying to develop new gear & techniqies that will 'stand out from the crowd' so to speak . Egi Fishing report - Part 2.The Gan Craft method involves using an extremely aggressive rod action to litterally rip the jigs through the water, followed by long pauses to allow the Egi to pounce. Squid are sight hunters & as such the 1st thing an Egi fisherman needs to do is get their attention. Hence the new generation of jigs we are seeing today & the very agressive way they are fished. However, it's actually when the jig is paused that the squid strike, so the pause is just as important, if not more so, than the 'ripping'. Gan Craft jigs are intricatly engineered to float/sink in a very natural & enticing manner. Squid do not 'taste' their food with their mouth as most other animals we know do. Their brain is a circular oragan through which passes their eaosophageus. Pressure on the brain renders the squid quite tepid & so food needs to pass into their gut reasonably fast. Hence squid actually 'taste' with their mantles (the 2 longest tentackles). Often when a jig is free falling through the water a squid will tap at it with it's mantles in order to 'taste' the item prior to actually biting.Egi JigsGan Craft make basically 2 types of jigs. A smooth version without any cloth covering & a cloth covered version (no way am I going to try to pronounce their correct names). When a jig is ripped through the water the 1st 'rip' lifts the jig. The 2nd,3rd,4th, etc actually serve to make the jig swerve from side to side. The jig is then paused before the process is then repeated. Aggressively ripping the jig through the water emphasizes this 'swerving' manner & is very good at attracting a squid's attention. When the jig is paused the squid then strikes. Due to greater water resistence a cloth type jig will travel slower & hence fall slower & swerve through a wider arc. The smooth jigs are faster, fall quicker, & swerve through a narrower arc. 'Horses for courses' or choices for conditions I 'spose.Colours - pretty obvious actually. Squid really only see in two colours - black & white. So why all the lovely colours we see on the tackle shop shelves? Because different colours reflect light differently. Reflect more light & you stand a better chance of attracting a squid. Having said that squid aint just gonna pounce on a piece of discarded cigarette packet foil either. The jig needs to be pretty convincing in regard to 'matching the hatch'. Squid want food & those big eyes are pretty good at determining if something looks like what they normally eat or not. Dark colours present better silhouettes. So the usual choice is dark for a good silhouette or light to better attract their attention. It all depends on the clarity of water, depth you are fishing in, & light conditions on the day. There is no right or wrong answer, just tried & tested 'winners' found through experience.Weight? Well here in Australia traditonally most people have opted for very light jigs in the 2-2.5 oz range.Elsewhere in the world, & partiucluarly in Japan, these weights are unheard of. Why? Well a big squid will look for big food. There's more of him to feed. But a small squid can also just as easilly feed on a large baitfish, so bigger is definitely better. Large jigs are easier to see than small ones & whilst a small squid will still attack a large jig, rarerly will a large squid attack a small jig. The Japanese use 3.4 to4oz jigs almost exclusively. Having said that they also generally fish deeper then we do. Most of their 'Egying' is carried out in waters of 6-8 metres or more, whereas we often chase squid in 1-3 metres. 3.5 to 4oz jigs can sink just a touch too fast in these waters, especially if they are of the non-cloth covered variety. Their recommendation is to use jigs of around 3-3.5oz for the majority of our situations, going up to 3.5-4oz for deeper waters. Gan Craft do not make jigs of less than 3.0oz.Reels?Only 1 size here - 2500. Anything bigger is going to seriously unbalance what needs to be a very balanced outfit, if the Gan Craft method of aggressive 'ripping' is used. 1000 size reels just dont have the retreval rate necessary to keep up with the agressive ripping either. So 2500 size reels are used almost exclusively with ratios oif 5.7:1 an absolute minimum & 5.9 to 6.1 ratios preferred. Drags are pretty tight to cope with the 'ripping'techique & can be quickly backed off if a larger 'Egi' strikes. It is also important to note that very agressive striking of the rod is also recommended when a squid strikes.Often the squid will grab at the body of the jig & not striking hard enough will often see the squid let go before it can be hooked. So, the Japanese guys say - STRIKE HARD.Lines?PE1 to PE3 (10-20lb on average) is the norm with top qaulity an absolute must. 'Ripping' puts a lot of strain on the line & anything that is less than top quality will quickly wear & break under the ripping action. 'Egi' rods are also capable of casting these light weight jigs extremely long distances. They often leave 2-3 feet of line dangling from the rod tip as they really load up the rod big time for these long casts., Rod tip speeds with these rods are increadible.Leaders are also exclusively flurocarbon & usually around the 8-14lb range. Length - aprox' 1.5 to 2 times rod length.It's important to note that the guys recommend that when the rod is rested & ready to cast the knot joining leader to line must not be on the reel spool.Knots uses - for joining leader to main line the FG knot is by far the most favoured. There are plenty of examples of how to tie this knot on the internet, particularly on 'YouTube'.Terminal knots? Well these can vary. If the jig has a fixed eye then the line is tied hard to the eye with a uni knot.However, if the eye is a swivelling type (as found on Gan Craft's non-cloth jigs) then a loop knot is used.The reason is that these jigs use the swivell eye to allow the jig to 'flutter' as it free falls though the water when paused.Using hard connection can restrict the action of these jigs.

Don't get caught up in all this egi squid marketing wank.Any light rod and reel will do.

dont see why you cant get caught up in it all am lookin at the range myself squiding can be an art especially locally at the moment dont know if any other s&h members have had alot of inquiries at there jags with no hook up lately but it was frustrating tha shit out of me!! some great EGI reading around but each to there own i love my EGI'S. cheers 4THA.

gamakatsu octo's 5/0-9/0 for me snapps used some gamma 5/0's circles other day and mouth hooked my first legal mully though so im bit up in the air at the moment wether to change my snapper ways and go circles been some good reports for the circles good topic M8

thats some prety radical lookin equipment there F/N

hey iva let me know when your headn out next i will follow you out put my scuba gear on then you can send the prawns down whole dont bother cutting them up just put some tartare sauce down in your berley bucket for me. mmmmmm :P :clap: :laugh:

volleys are awesome love em grip up on most surfacesi was fitting a/c's for a while and all the lads wear em

hi alljust wondering how everyone tests and sets the tension on there drag. i personally have just adjusted it by feel, but im hoping some one can give me a bit more of an insight on how they do it?is there a tool you can buy ? the 2 reels i mostly use are my shimano charter special and calcutta 400.cheers 4tha.

fantastic stuff sam welldone mate very envious would have been a experience to savour thats for sure. :clap: :clap:good luck with your grades too mate.

inch thick slab of cow 3 mins either side then rest for another 3 then slosh a jug 'o' diannes gravy over it and thats how i have it yummalicious mum

I eat whatever the crew bring for lunch' date='I must add its pretty piss poor most of the time and i'm almost tempted to make some of my own. cheers brenton[/quote']brenton thats is classic i laughed so friggn hard when i read this :laugh: and i have to say "Ricks Ribs" are an absolute sensation at 2am in the morning :)

Dont know if anyone else seen this happened last year :pinch: :pinch: :blush:

any lure thats big enough for them to swallow when their switched on!! ST dont muck around!!! i've caught heaps of them with a piece of plastic tubing with a hook tied through it!!!

yep used a bic biro cut into different lengths just added trebbles and they love it.

have been fishing for as long as i can remember my first memory of fit was down the port next to the birkenhead bridge with my 3 brothers and dad cos we had such a big family (i also have 2 sisters) we rarely got to go but were always at dad to take us.my uncles were alot more into it than dad and a few of them had boats which we got to go on occasionallymy uncle owned a sierra classic 18ftr and took us out whiting fishing in at wallaroo and thats when i became "hooked" on fishing.ever since i have mainly been land based always after squid of jettys and yellow fin off the beaches and had a fair period of attacking the westlakes outlet with soft plastics with awesome results to my sceptisism.i love wading down yorkes chasing the yf's my pb to date is 48cm caught 2 year ago at moonta the most i have caught in a session is 13 which was also 2yrs ago.i'd like to concider my self as a bit of a yf expert as i have been doing it for 10-15yrs on and off and have a favorite spot which i collect bait and also fish with rarely a fishless outing i know its not everyones cup of tea but to me its my release and time to reflect on things and have a bloody ball doing it thanks for taking the time and effort to read and cheers for the post Rick.

calcutta 400 30 lb finns braid with a sabre custom, built by yatesy sfs.light enough for kg's etc. and has taken a 9kg red from its dwelling no hassles.my whiting stick is a sienna 2500 8lb finns and a shimano aerplus 562 spin rod which i had bent in half last weekend thanks to a ray and a doggy ask Rickster he was my witness.got a couple penn sports and a ugly stick with a charter special when i dont wanna muck around with the reds.cheers 4THA.

Never had to choose yet' date=' normaly blowing a gale with it.If it was a nice day with a shower or two, wouldn't worry me. I usually get wet at boat ramp weather I like it or not [/quote']boat chasing lmfao. :laugh: