Hoffies

Is a slow pitch jogging rod gonna have a real soft tip with heaps of bend, almost whippy? I’ve been liking for a baitcasting rod like this but can’t find one 

On 07/07/2021 at 2:58 PM, Junky said:

I was on the lucinda fishing jetty flicking plastics one night, getting really nice tarpon.

There were half a dozen people and a group of young kids, good young kids like I'd imagine Hamish is. Keen on their fishing and out having fun. 

 

This older gent pulls up in an old hilux ute, typical reddish stains burnt into it like a lot of the cars up there have. 

He steps out and grabs the wheel barrow in the back (now you've got my attention) 

He then puts all his fishing gear in and walked down past me to the inside RH corner of the jetty outside the handrail. (It's like a T shape if you haven't been there). I thought it was odd that he needed the barra to do this. He didn't have much. 

Well he cast nets for a bit up and down the jetty and gathers his lives.

Naturally I am drawn to folk like this and I begin to hover around. It would be so obvious to him that I'm stealing, sorry.... learning his skills but I think to myself that I'm doing a great undercover ops mission without him noticing. 

What got me was the crab pot with the top mesh cut out and reeved up in a way to become a basket. Obviously modified from standard. That's what I assumed the barrow was for, to carry that. It was a big pot. 

 

Well he rigs up a livie (10/Oish hook through the back of an approx 200mm long mullet) on the hand line and slowly lowers his mullet down in that corner. The mullet hits the surface and he stops lowering. 

He then puts on some riggers style leather gloves and holds the line, standing up (well now you really have my attention old boy) 

 

I don't reckon it was 20min before this bloke was on, and I mean on. The splashing underneath sounded like he'd hooked moby **** but it was dark so couldn't see the fish for the white water.It was insane to see because this thing was going mental and to top it off this bloke is wrapping the line around his gloved up hand and is fighting this thing one on one, one handed. (all I could think at this time was how quick this could go south if he loses his balance or something. That's what a lifetime of JSEA's and SWMS do to you haha). 

 

He then reaches over and grabs the crab pot with his other hand and begins to lower it over the side. Remember he has moby **** going berzerk in the other hand....and he's old. 

He stuffs around for about 20 seconds and then drops the hand line and with both hands pulls the crab pot up as quick as he can. 

Well FMD if this wasn't a 1m30 barra. Biggest barra I've ever seen, and all within a space of half and hour. 

There were now about 6 people around him and we are all congratulating him on an absolute ball tearing effort. 

He brain spiked the fish, lifted it into the wheel barrow, chucks his line and crab pot on top and labours back to the car. 

 

A memory that I will never forget. 

hahaha what a mad dawg

Down the breakwater today, decide to take the 6th brake off my caenan, peg the lure out ($15+ chasebaits rip snorter) and get an overrun like a noob; lure is jerked back mid flight suddenly and the  leader knot slips and off she sails out into space 

why  have double uni knot as recommended main to leader knot literally on the packet when it’s gonna  slip??? Reeeeeee

I dunno man this is how zombie outbreaks and prolly covid started

On 19/10/2020 at 8:47 PM, Ed. said:

I ditched a whole heap of WTF line a while ago, I spooled up a few of my baitcasters with it, and after a while I tested some of the 18Kg line left over on the spool with a 4-5kg weight, tried to lift it slowly off the floor and it snapped, not at the knot but in the middle of the line, tried a few other new spools that I had and same result. So into the bin it all went, I unwound it off all the reels and replaced it with thicker braid. Others may have had better results with it than I did, but to say I was unimpressed with it would be an understatement!

Man i just got some 8kg for my baitcaster since I love the 4kg on my sienna 1000 so much, and this stuff is snapping way too easily in tests I haven’t tied any weight to it yet to see what kg will snap it but I was gonna so that tomorrow. The line casts amazing otherwise. Maybe they have really bad quality control and we got bad batches? I really wanna like this line; it’s so thin you don’t even need a leader with 8kg “translucent” 

I got back into fishing last year after like 20 years and had no idea what to get brand wise for a cheap live baiting Barra spinning combo reel-wise and ended up with a pro max 40; it’s smooth as and I’ve had no trouble with it. Maybe you got a dud?