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lever drag sequence..... please explain sounds like when you put it back together you put the lever drag together at full drag even though lever in free spool position?? i had a similar thing on a lever drag reel, i had put the drag back together the wrong way(sequence)lol trying to remember how i put it back together to stop the stiff winding lol i know it was some washer metal thing in the drag area think it was the way the tension knob on thhe lever had to be all the way out when putting back together or was it all the way in??? oh crap just confusing myself and you now

sounds like the main bearing, or you have put the drag back together out of sequence , lever drag sequence?? or your dog has got revenge and pissed on them while you not watching :silly:

what years are the 1st to 5th steve? i have a 1974 but the binding has come apart, spotted an early edition a few months back at a garage sale but i bought the 30kgs of lead instead :laugh:

now thats a huge salmon catfish! :woohoo: :woohoo:

i am pretty sure that breed of cat fish is called a blue catfish. not the same as the salmon catfish caught in the creeks and rivers and dams, they are a bay ocean sort of catty i think . all ways get them in the bay on big live baits.

good to hear a report from you!!!! congrats to your mate on a really good barra

aidanwebb wrote: from my understanding i have to be a member of the organization to lodge a record application, i thought because i caught it on braid and not pretest with the sample of leader and line i was not eligible to apply for a record, i know ANSA australian records require so many metres of the line and trace and witnesses to apply!

nice threadie! i had mine weighed at charltons on some big dial scales and it went 18kgs! grants guide says that they can grow to 2.2mtrs and a weight of 36kgs and that is from a book from 1974 ! so there would be more up to date info out there on the possible max size in australian waters!

if you go the 5000 saragosa you may as well get the 8ooo , same body different spool line capacity, on 30lb braid the high speed is better compared to a lower speed ! when you get up to 50lb braid and higher then the lower speed is better as the sheer grunt required to wind the handle under great pressure, i would not sacrifice high speed on a 30lb outfit running a max of 10kgs of drag! if you were running 20-30kgs of drag then lower with more torque the better! you will be chasing tuna and mackeral which the faster you wind the chrome slug the quicker they hit it! plus you want to be able to gather line as quick as possible if the mackeral or tuna turn straight back at you and you trying not to let any slack happen ! i know yoyo likes the challenge of landing that bigger beastie fish on an outfit that test him to the limit :laugh:

you got it mick, spool is compatable from 5k 6k 8k its the only difference!

the cranking speed of the 4k and 8k are up there for the high speed jigging thats for sure lol

i have the 4k and 8k, the 4 k is light and has 10kgs of drag the 8 k is a lil heavy but i can handle it lol i was using the 4k when we went with smithy ! it holds a fair bit of 30lb braid just not sure how much , sunline 30lb braid would be the go for the slightly thinner line! on the 8k i have 300mtrs of 30lb braid and a small amount of backing, i consider this my lighter jig reel coupled to a lucanus jig spin 2-3pe i would feel better using the 8k if i was jigging say 100mtrs deep knowing i got a good amount of line for that big beastie out there, the 4k i can fish with all day long and i can couple it to the same rod as the 8k, i just dont think it would suit 100mtr deep water but if you lock it up too 10kgs of drag with 30 lb it will slow a fairly big kingie or AJ! the 8k has 12kgs of drag so just that lil bit more, i would suggest go and check out the new saltist - tiga? 6500 spin reel and 4500 retail for around 350 ,but the 6500 has 30kgs of drag yeah haaa lol i know the reels are black with blue trim if someone here can name the new reels :laugh: also nadders go the 8k over the 6k as it is lighter then the 6 and holds more line, same body and spool just line capacity difference!

i think it comes down to if you are all ready going fishing solo and throw it out there that there is a deckie spot available , then it should just state that a share in cost is required, i like to shout trips if i all ready have bait and fuel and after some company out fishing, and dont expect money if i was going any ways! as for a thanks that is appreciated if you have taken some one out no matter how good or bad the fishing was! it is respect to give appreciation!! i think all areas on this topic have been covered well!!

pinkey wrote: My goodness! :laugh: That is seriously outgunned! Would have been a hell of a fight. Do you reckon you were making progress, or was she just playing with you? all i could do was motor in front of her and try and lead her head to the surface, she was an easy 1.8-2mtr bully out at kooka last year, i started at my usual spot and ended up over half way to river side, i had a couple of fellas in another boat ask me if i wanted them to gaff it, so i got her to the surface and gave them a good shot but they pooped them selves when they realised how big she was :laugh: its no yarn as i bought the pretest from charltons and took it back to show them how frayed it was after gaining line then losing it all again over and over, had to strip the whole lot off as it was stuffed.. what bait did the beast take? haha i remember going into charltons a while back and they showd me your horse thready on their computer. Spent many hundreds at charltons, my local. i was using a live mullet of around 30cm, the bigger sharks out there usually prefer the mullet over the boneys,oh and charltons been my local since i was 13 :laugh: they are some top blokes !!!

werewolf wrote: My goodness! :laugh: That is seriously outgunned! Would have been a hell of a fight. Do you reckon you were making progress, or was she just playing with you? all i could do was motor in front of her and try and lead her head to the surface, she was an easy 1.8-2mtr bully out at kooka last year, i started at my usual spot and ended up over half way to river side, i had a couple of fellas in another boat ask me if i wanted them to gaff it, so i got her to the surface and gave them a good shot but they pooped them selves when they realised how big she was :laugh: its no yarn as i bought the pretest from charltons and took it back to show them how frayed it was after gaining line then losing it all again over and over, had to strip the whole lot off as it was stuffed..

pretest, im guessing an ANSA member? 48kg bronze whaler on 6 kg in a 10 ft punt out in the shipping channel 20kg longtail 20lb braid 3500 baitrunner 18kg thready " " " " " 17kg barra " " " " " not all that light but still some good fun 4.1kg flathead 2kg pretest 8.5kg bully 2kg pretest 4.2kg bully 1 kg pretest 80kg+ bully on 3kg pretest fought for an hour but lost in the end!!

here is my mate george !! the escape artist!! staffy [img size=375]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/george.jpg

rotciv wrote: i to am guilty many years ago we use to cross and go right up to the wall then slide down the concrete and fish on the very skinny platform along the bottom of the wall , but we were young teenagers and just having fun , wouldnt dare these days!!!lol we were catching live shrimp that were crawling over the rocks by hand , it was funny you could pick what size you wanted..then throw em on as bait..i have been catching good bass at the mouth of lockyer creek right up til it flooded , the best went 46cm but got skunked by some bigger bass , there is heaps of little bass to 30cm to keep you going. the water is still murky but hopefully it will clear soon..

rotciv wrote: I'm not surprised, around 10 years ago, when they let the flootgates open at wivenhoe, many big bass escaped. When i say big, i mean big. We caught 2 60cm+ models. One of them were 65.5cm from memory and the other was just over 61cm. Average bass caught in the same area would have been 50cm. All were caught on live prawns, not far from the flootgates. were you using the live prawns that were walking over the rocks with water flowing over it? i remember when the gates were open back then , i was there catching heaps of bass on a home made lure painted rocket red with no eyes lol that was one of my most fun bass sessions ever , 40-50 bass for a 2-3hour session, with heaps of the 50-52cm bass, cant wait for wivenhoe to open its gates like that again, even though it is a few years away yet..

i do recall many many years ago like maybe 15-18 years ago there was a guy with a massive bass caught using worms and a clear bubble float that from memory was well over the 70cm mark and was caught out near lowood in the brisbane river , it was in the QT news paper, Maybe there is a way of getting this article from the QT paper office , But i do remember it being somewhere between 5-8kgs an absolute horse that may have been one of the original wild river bass , Can any one remember this article if you are from ipswich?