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Dan23

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Hi Guys,

Just wondering what outfits you guys own and what you use them for specifically. After receiving a few new additions from Troutlet including a beautiful 7' 1-6lb number I can't wait to try out:cheer: , I'm now almost finished accumulating my light-mid weight spinning rods and they all have different purposes.

Just wondering if everyone else buys rods for specific reasons like, "throwing jackals at NDP" "casting spinnerbaits at Hinze" "casting unweighted plastics over weedbeds" "casting crankbaits for Bass in shallow streams" "working small poppers over sand flats" "slash baiting for Jacks and Cod".

Or do most people just buy one or two rods and use them for a whole range of applications.

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i have 2 main rods that i use and they were both bought for plastic and chasing bream,flatties. as you all know ive been using them to chase threaddies so it shows that with mid ranged gear they can actually handle quite a bit.

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7ft6 shimano bream finesse, 6ft8 shimano rack raider

Daiwa Revros 2004,4lb fireline - Daiwa Freams Kix 2000 8lb cajun braid.

both reels balance with either rod reasonably well,i often change the reel and rod combo around

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I have a few....

-Calcutta 200b spooled with 50lb fireline on a 6 1/2 foot 6-12lb Angler braid buster for impoundment barra.

-Calcutta 200b spooled with 20lb fireline on a 6 1/2 foot 6-12lb Angler braid buster for river barra.

-Pfluger Echlon spooled with 8lb vanish on a 6 1/2 foot 3-8lb Pfluger trion rod for bass and flathead on plastics.

-Shimano 2500 Spirex spooled with 4lb vanish on a 2-4lb custom rod that I built for trout about 6 years ago but is used for bream and fish in the estuaries.

-Shimano charter special spooled with 30lb fireline on a 6 foot 10-20lb Ugly Stick. This rod was used solely for chasing black jew when I lived in Darwin but has not been used since moving to the gold coast.

-An old Abu Garcia from about 1980? spolled with 15lb fireline on a 7 foot custom rod for chasing reef fish. The reel is by far the best of the lot but it is starting to get a bit stiff lately though.

That is it...... I have a flyrod as well bet is not used much anymore as I lost all my flies overboard while chasing tuna up in Darwin:angry:

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Shimano Twin Power 2500 Spooled with 6lb Braid on a 2-4 Kilo Starlo Stick - For Bass and Flatties.

Shimano Twin Power 1000 Spooled With 2 or 3lb (cant remember) Crystal on a 1-3kg Starlo Stick - For Bream.

Daiwa Freams Kix 4000 with a Phluegar 8-10kg Rod - For whatever, Trevs, Tailor and other rock fishing bities.

Culcutta 200b Spooled with 30lb Braid on a Procaster - Techically for Barra when I get the chance but at the moment what im hoping to get a Jew or Threaddie on.

Alvey Sidecaster with 10ln mono on a 12 foot Wilsons surf rod - Big whiting, dart bream from the surf.

Tiagra 80W with 100lb mono on a fat Ebay rod - Whiting and Bream :P No obviously for land based sharking although its collecting dust.

Angus

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1000 stella on samurai 1 to 3 spooled with 3 lb crystal which is my everything rod.. :laugh: :laugh:

2500 stella on loomis DSR820 S 4 to 8 lb with 6 lb fireline which is my river jew rod and plastic snapper stick... :laugh: :laugh:

4500 sustain on loomis CBR 756 6 ft 3 in 12 to 25 lb spooled with 20 lb fireline for jacks and big snapper etc

6500 baitrunner on a custom stick i had made for snapper mackeral etc

6500 baitrunner on another custom stick which is a silstar crystal tip blank rated for up to 50lb spooled with 50 lb fireline

and an old diawa overhead on an old roller tip solid glass blank

which doesnt get used much any more..:angry: :angry:

Maxi

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namyau wrote:

hey angus imho the calcutta with 30lb is a bit overkll for threaddies, but at least if you hookup properly you know your not gonna lose the fish hahahah

Yeah I agree.

If it was "Just" for threddies I would down grade.

The original plan for that reel was for Awoonga although I never made it. Although this has been proven a myth as well, at the time the general consensus for Awoonga barra due to size and snags was that even 30lb was undergunned :)

Angus

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Daiwa Alphas on 783 loomis crankbait for working crankbaits

Tierra baitcaster on 6'6 phlueger working spinnerbaits

daiwa millionaire 103 on loomis gl2 baitcaster 5'6 small river fishing

Sol 2000 7ft spin rod for plastics

tierra 1500 7ft spin rod plastics as well

3000 sol on 7ft td advantage spin for threadies/Squire

1500 daiwa revros on 7'2 tourniment starlo stick for finesse plastic/lures

plus alot of older stuff colecting dust but still pretty good thats what my kids can use when they go fishing haha

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I have 4 Breamin sticks that each get something different put on them each outing. Usually 1 light jighead, 1 heavier jighead, 1 shallow hard body and 1 deep hard body depending on the conditions and area I am fishing.

For catching bass I take 1 stick for spinners, 1 for jackals and a spin rod for plastics. Thats as specific as I get. At various times they all get used for a different purpose though so none are really specialised equipment.

Terry

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I've probably got as many rods, not that many reels though, maybe 20?

Choice is fairly easy, baitcaster or spin depending on reel I want to use.

over or less than 6 foot (less if fishing from boat, or walking along the Stanley)

under 5kg for Bass and smaller

upto 8kg for barra

10 to 12kg for sharks

surf rods for surf

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Thanks for all the replies. Interesting to see how heavy or light everyone fishes for different things.

Anyway, at the moment I'm running three spinning rods for breaming that all alternate on my TP2500 with 6lb TD Sensor. A 1-6lb Tactix, 4-6lb Daiwa Procaster X (modified) and my rack raider.

I just got a 6-12lb phfluger Trion for Casting lipless cranks at NPD. Yet to see how it performs. I may also use this rod for jigging big plastics for jew/flatties

Also have my TD Advantage 3000 and 10-17lb matching combo I use for slash baiting and casting poppers for Trevs (as yet unsuccesfully)

Also have just ordered a 5000 Stradic FI for surf fishing but haven't chosen a matching rod yet.

Add to that about 10 older rods I barely use and that's my quiver at the moment. I also have my eye on a cheap BC rod Jeryl is selling to use with Kev's Calcutta that he lets me borrow to replace my old school BC like my ABU Ambassador and Shimano Coriolis. Eventually I'll get a nice baitcaster like an Alphas but that's a while away.

Oh and I'm going to get a fly fishing outfit next summer too!!!:cheer:

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Got about 16 rods

6 - 2-4, 3-5, 2-5kg Estuary spin setups

2 - Estuary Bc's 2-4 and 3-5kg

3 - 6-8, 8-10kg Heavy Spin Rods

2 - 10-15Kg Overheads Tld 25 on an Ugly Stick and a Penn of some sort(forget the name)

4 - Surf Rods, 2 Heavy Rods for Tailor,Jew etc, Both with 600 or 650 Alveys with 20lb Mono, 2 Light Rods for Whiting, Dart Etc, One with a 600 Alvey with 6lb mono and one with a Ebay Brand Spin Reel thats suprisingly good and dont care if it gets in the sand and water, Thats got 8lb.

These are all 12 or 13 ft.

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Shrimpo wrote:

Dan23 wrote:

Also have just ordered a 5000 Stradic FI for surf fishing but haven't chosen a matching rod yet.

Why not an alvey? They rule the beach.

yeah, I want to be able to spin slugs and work poppers etc. It has a 5.7 retrieve so I can get my bait back in quicker. Also I really love the carefree aspect of alveys but I always seem to get the line stuck around the drag star so I have to using spinning gear to idiot proof it. Plus I just like using spinning gear more. oh and it has 25lb of drag to hopefully stop a 20kg Jew!!:woohoo:

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Feral wrote:

We will have to get together a shore based tailor trip this winter, so we can all take the surf gear out of mothballs! Might even change the 1975 12lb mono on my Alvey specially!

that's a good idea feral. I'd be there for sure. :)

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i have got a few rods and reels but 2 are species and technique specific,

daiwa alphas with a loomis crankbait cbr843 for jackalls and topwater

daiwa hlc with a daiwa battler flanker for spinnerbaits,

both outfits are used for targeting bass,

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kevinchen19870316 wrote:

maybe it's time for me to get a squid jigging rod now:laugh:

do it do it - jeryl still has a raycal for sale i thing very nice rod.

i forgot to mention i have an 8ft majorcraft triplecross egi rod matched to a old silstar reel spooled with 6lb fireline. im gonna be getting a newer reel for it but havent decided yet

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Dan23 wrote:

Feral wrote:
We will have to get together a shore based tailor trip this winter, so we can all take the surf gear out of mothballs! Might even change the 1975 12lb mono on my Alvey specially!

that's a good idea feral. I'd be there for sure. :)

I'll have to have a look through the calendar, and see if we can find a spare weekend.

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