jewfish and threadfin

[mzaakir]

Hi guys,

I am looking to purchase a jewfish and threadfin rod for livebaits and deadbaits. What setups do you guys run for jew and threadies?

 

Thanks in advance

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

If you want to fish off the land, try a rod around 8-9 feet long, as casting a decent length helps in my experience, with a 5000-8000 baitrunner reel spooled with 300 metres of thirty pound braid. I like a Silstar Crystal Powertip 8 foot 6-8KG rod, and reels like an Okuma Coronado CDX, or any Shimano Baitrunner is good too.

I normally use a size 4 star sinker or lower it down to a size 3 snapper sinker if there's not much tide with 50 pound leader and a 6/o circle hook. If fishing in the Brisbane River, you'll also get lots of bycatch like snapper, flathead, and tailor doing this as well. 

[mzaakir]

thanks for the tip although spots i want to fish i wont need more than 7ft. i was thinking a 4k, you reckon thatll be too small because ive had mates pull huge ones on them.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Are you fishing in the Brissy River? That would be enough, but if there is a bit of structure you might not have the stopping power to prevent a bust off. 

[mangajack]

I would be looking for 2.2 to 2.4m rod in 6-10kg range and a 4500 baitrunner.

I'd run 20lb braid and 40lb leader to snelled hooks and just enough weight to get the bait down to the bottom but not hold....I want the bait to cover large amounts of area.....recasting every few minutes. I would be using live baits hooked up so they swim away from you and a ball sinker right to the snell.

Jew are not a dirty fighter but they do have a bit of torque for 10 minutes.

[Bretto77]

I'm no expert but I have landed quite a few jew over 1.2m (years ago and not around seq). Dirty old abu 6500 paired with a cheap and short rod (maybe 5'8"?).

I agree with @mangajack on the snelled hooks and ball sinker right to it, and just enough weight to get to the bottom but not anchor the live bait.

I like to be able to cover ground too.

[Thorbjorn Hale]

7 hours ago, mzaakir said:

Hi guys,

I am looking to purchase a jewfish and threadfin rod for livebaits and deadbaits. What setups do you guys run for jew and threadies?

 

Thanks in advance

I use mostly 12ft rods but I would recommend anywhere between 8 - 12ft. I have Penn prevail 2 15-37kg and it has caught so many good fish for me. I originally bought it for sharks but it works great for everything else(except bream fishing). Check out the new prevail apex rods. As for reels, I use 4000 to around 6500 but have an 8500 for summer shark fishing. I use Penn slammers or spinfisher 6 live liners and they are great reels. You can pick up a spinfisher 6 for cheap because they just released the spinfisher 7. I would recommend 30-50 braid because it’s not overkill and allows to catch anything in the river. Check out the new slammer braid because 400m of 40lb braid perfectly matches a 6500 Penn reel and it’s really nice line and reasonable cheap.

[mzaakir]

thanks guys for the info, ive always used lures but just havent been able to get the jewfish adn threadfin on them so gonna try bait until i  get one. then ill go back to lures lol

[Bob9863]

If your looking for distance in a baitrunner then I'd recommend a Shimano baitrunner long cast medium, I'd say it's a 6500 size.

Has a great baitrunner system, holds a lot of line, has about 15kg of max drag and casts really good and it's not very expensive at just under $300.

It can't hurt to have a longer rod then strictly necessary, that way when you fish spots that need a little more distance you will still be able to fish successfully. I've lost count of the amount of times I've caught fish when others couldn't because I could get an extra 20ft distance because of my set-up. Also when the wind isn't in your favour a longer casting outfit will still get you in the zone wh3n the wind reduces you casting distance.

For over hand it's definitely hard to beat an Abu Garcia Ambassador, look after one of them and it's with you for life.

They cast great and can be bought of easily modified for super long distances casting.

If you really not in need of long casting, I would get either a the Ambassador or a baitrunner style of reel, I th8nk shimano makes the best but other companies make some really good ones too.

[mzaakir]

yeah i settled on a ugly stick 8ft rod, always wanted to try ugly stick so i ended up getting one of those. I looked at the penn spinfishers and really liked them so might pick one up. Also looked at the shimano d and oc range because apparently they quite good

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

4 hours ago, mzaakir said:

yeah i settled on a ugly stick 8ft rod, always wanted to try ugly stick so i ended up getting one of those. I looked at the penn spinfishers and really liked them so might pick one up. Also looked at the shimano d and oc range because apparently they quite good

Did you get the 8 foot 6-10KG spinnning model? I've been thinking about getting that one for a while so would be good to hear if it's any good. 

[mzaakir]

i got the 8 ft 5-8kg

[mangajack]

My deckie got one about 60cm this morning at the Port on 4lb line and a 1/3kg rod.

[mzaakir]

nice man thats what im gonna do on my 1-4kg rod but for lures

[Bob9863]

The ugly stick will last a long time and handle a lot of abuse, a good reel to look at would be Penn fierce live liner.

Brilliant bait fishing reel.

 

[mzaakir]

Thanks mate will look into it now. I was tossing a turning between spinfisher live liner and shimano oc