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If you’re doing bait fishing a 2-4kg ugly stick matched with a shimano sedona 2500 and spooled with 6lb mono will do job just fine

All good anytime glad I could help the other reel you’re gonna get the Sedona 2500 should be good for handling fish like bream whiting and flathead and the Stradic CI4 will be great for slightly bigger fish and flatties both reels would suit the arrowz rod to seems like you gonna have plenty of options with those two reels can’t wait to hear some reports

Casting With the Stradic 3000 I would recommend casting 3 inch plastics with 1/6 and heavier jigheads and 80-100 mill hardbodies and I would recommend spooling the Sedona with 8-10lb braid and yeah you should be able to find the arrows rod soon enough

Yeah that’s a shame but you should be able to find one soon enough anaconda regularly have them hopefully you get one soon as they are the bees knees when it comes to lure fishing

Yeah the 70L estuary is a 1 piece rod i would recommend the ugly stick if you want to do bait fishing but if you want to do lure fishing a ugly stik really isn’t gonna do a great job compared to the arrowz the atomic arrows estuary rods are designed for whipping plastics and hardbodies over large sandflats or whipping lures or small baits into tight structures for speices like flathead trevally cod jewfish under 1m and also fish like bream and blackfish. The ugly stik however is rod designed for soaking baits and won’t really be that good if you want to use lures the ugly stiks don’t look and feel as nice to and the ugly stiks are no where near as sensitive as a arrows rod and also the casting distance won’t be great with the ugly stik . The ugly stiks are generally good rods but they aren’t designed for flicking lures for small-medium sized fish .Also if you wanted another reel to the Sedona is almost as good as the nasci the only difference is a extra ball bearing on the pinion gear the paint job and the nasci has a few seals .the nasci isn’t a saltwater reel anyway so it can’t handle dunking or anything like that core protect is almost a gimmick really the only useful seal on the nasci is the drag knob seal the anti reverse has zero sealing which is the most common spot for dirty or rusty bearings so if you were thinking about getting the nasci I would get the Sedona and save some money . Hope that helps

By new ci4+ I’m assuming you’re talking about the vanford or the older ci4+ FB reel anyway a good one piece rod for a 3000 reel I can think of is the atomic arrows estuary 6-12lb 1 piece rod perfect for flatties and a fair few people use them for tailor and jewfish has awesome grips casting is excellent and the blanks are super sensitive .awesome rod another 1 piece rod I can think of is the daiwa TD hyper a 6-12lb model although I’d go with the atomic arrowz one I suggested

Seems like a fun day out . I normally use 4lb if I’m going after gar with small hook size 8-10 short shank fine worm hooks work amazingly for gar cover the whole hook in a tiny piece bread and leave the hook point exposed slightly once the gar are eating you’re bait wait 3-4 seconds then set the hook . That’s how I do it anyway lose drags are important to cause the bigger ones are prone to pulling hooks

I suggest looking up tutorials for finding fish on you’re sounder .Every now and then you will get a massive bait school you can use a sabiki rig on a old rod you have with a fairly heavy sinker on the bottom of the rig to get where the bait school is.jig it around the bait school after you get enough baitfish you can either cut them up and use fillets or use it alive,livies @AUS-BNE-FISHO has experience using liveies and seem to have a fair bit of success on them . As for a rod setup ,I’m assuming you’re out fishing in a bay and not the river or offshore correct me if I’m wrong. A good rod setup in the bay would be a 4000 size reel matched with a 4-7kg rod 20lb braid should do the job make sure you use good knots and hooks and make sure you’re rigging the bait naturally I’m sure @ellicatshould have some excellent tips for this style of fishing

Sounds like a good bait fishing setup

Like this?

Awesome job on the snap shame about those bust offs though

Get the Sedona the nasci and the Sedona are pretty much the same reel they have a few minor differences but other then that they are pretty the same reel the main difference is the price tag TBH

Yeah the 3-10lb estuary rod should be perfect for most applications bait fishing top water whiting plastics and hardbodies seem to work well with the rod from what I’ve heard

I haven’t had any issues with my 2 piece rod the advantage to a 1 piece rod is it’s surpose to have a more responsive blank but the blank on my 2pc rod feels better then some 1pc rods around similar price range so I wouldn’t say there is Hugh difference in use between a 1pc and a 2pc rod. I’m not sure how versatile the estuary rod by atomic arrows but I know it’s great for hardbodie lures and plastics some people use them with bait to people mainly use them for flathead but they work pretty decent on whiting and bream from what I’ve heard and seen

No that is false the only difference between the Sedona and the Sahara is a ball bearing and different colour it’s not worth the extra $20 for a ball bearing and the only difference between the Sahara and the nasci is that the nasci is the same as the Sahara but the nasci has core protect which means it has a few minor seals to protect against water but it you dunk you’re reel core protect won’t help much hope that helps

No offence to @ellicatIt will be definitely be worth the extra $20 for the atomic setup the revros rods are decent rods I own a similar rods but I don’t think they work as a allrounder as well as the arrowz does and I haven’t used a revros reel but from my understanding of the reel it won’t be as good as the Sedona for the price. Up to you at the end of the day both are great setup’s buy what feels right for you

Atomic arrows bream surface rod it’s a 7 foot rod 1.5-3.5kg so it covers most common estuary applications I found the rod is best with 2.5 inch plastics and surface lures but goes well with small vibes and crank baits to also using bait is good . Price I got mine for $112 but are most common around $130 if you keep a eye out you can even score then for under $100 and it’s well worth it to . Great rod for small fish like whiting and bream but can decent size flathead reels I would go with would be . Shimano Sedona 1000 or 2000 which retail around $99 or a daiwa legalis 2000 which retails for around $110 the Sedona has a slighter better gear set and is more rigid then the legalis but the legalis does have a better drag but I’ve found the Sedona drag to be fine there isn’t much in it. both reels are pretty similar in performance . So if you like daiwa reels go for the legalis if you like shimano reels go for the Sedona both are great options .line I would go with 6 or 8lb braid and generally use a leader of 6lb for bream and whiting but you could step it up to 8-12lb leader for flatties and bass . Hope that helps . A atomic arrows bream surface rod matched with a daiwa legalis 2000 or Shimano Sedona 1000 spooled with 150m of 6 or 8lb braid would be a awesome allrounder that would within you’re budget of around $200 maybe a bit more if you include the braid I recommend daiwa J braid x8 and X4 both great braids

Flathead jewfish jacks Barra Trevally freshwater or saltwater cod would be my main target speices with those lures.

Yeah I would definitely be using long shanks as the whiting go for the head first and it will make the bait look more natural

Love catching Mackrell they put up a unreal fight unfortunately I’ve never landed one of them because of their razor sharp teeth even had them bust me off almost instantly with 20lb leader

Yeah Ed’s got good advice I won’t bother saying anything and junky has good advice to

I’m pretty sure you’re joking but just in case you’re not they cannot breed as they are 2 completely different speices

Yeah they probably meant mullet gut never heard of mullygar before I looked it up and it just came up with some religious stuff lmao

I went to calliope river a few months back I think I done a report on it . Not a bad fishing spot