jeff f

take a look at the fin-nor offshore reels

i use a 700 calcutta on a7' 50lbs tcurve bluewater overhead casting rod

beautiful rig, good luck with the sale

long tail tuna can be a very single minded fish. at times they will lock onto one species of bait fish and will not touch anything else, this is ok when it is white pillies or frogmouths its easy to match, but when they lock onto "eyes" ( 20mm, see through bait fish) its very hard to match the bait size with anything castable.

Jeff, have you found this with Longtails?

To be honest, I have found that with Mac Tuna, and NOT longtails...

Plus I'm pretty sure the blokes at Jones' Tackle said the same thing to me one time (that it's the Mac Tuna that are picky, and not the longies)[/quote

terry in my experience it is the other way around the macs will hit anything the longtails are the fussy ones

never caught one in moreton bay but i've caught hundreds in hervey bay

long tail tuna can be a very single minded fish. at times they will lock onto one species of bait fish and will not touch anything else, this is ok when it is white pillies or frogmouths its easy to match, but when they lock onto "eyes" ( 20mm, see through bait fish) its very hard to match the bait size with anything castable. it's always a good idea to have an assortment of very small barrel sinkers painted white or silver with you, just thread the sinker on your leader and tie a hook on.

clear plastics are good.

always have a few gold halco twistys with you sometimes when they wont touch any of the chromies or slugs a bright shiny gold spinner will get them going

cut it into long tapered strips and put it on a jig head, use it like a plastic

1st edition 1965

5th editiom 1982

the 5th edition also came out in a waterproof version printed on the same plastic they use for money,had one in the dive boat i worked on way back then.

cant help you steve, i've got a 9th edition, 1999, but i'll keep my eye out.

got meter + ones in hervey bay

Feral wrote:

Strewth, I have 50lb braid on my light gear. Dont think I'll bother straining the old brain, dont quite think I qualify!

allo thyat counts in that case feral is the leader weight

124cm threadfin on 1kg braid

marlin on 8kg mono

7 kg bluefin tuna on 2 kg mono

heaps of golden trevs between 5 and 12kg on 2kg mono

5.5 kg queenfish on 2kg mono

4.5 kg gt on 2kg monno

and a hell of a lot more in 30 years of fishing silly string

92cm barra on 2kg mono

i know one way you can legally put a EFFIN' huge v8 in a tinny;)

build a swamp boat :woohoo:

you want a good solid 16' punt

an evil monster hemi :evil:

and the top of someones windmill:silly:

if you put a set of castors on it you could drive it straight up the ramp:side:

c'mon now booty they're the familly that gives us our reputation

my pb from the breamer is a 125cm bullshark

from the crib park pontoon

34 cm bream from bundamba creek mouth

i'll check the paper archive files next time i'm at the library

all finished 1 replaced 1 repacked 1 spare set in the boot

tip,

when doing this in the wild make sure you put down an old sheet or blanket because if you dont you will drop one of the freshly packed bearings in the dirt:angry:

ah found it

a quick refresher course thanks to feral

now into it