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Nice video and catch! Have been keen to start trying out some soft plastics, which kind and retrieve did you find worked for you? Eg. Slow retrieve and paddle tail, lift and drop etc

wind not looking great mon - wed, southerlies forever on the forecast and im not too keen on casting into the wind for 3 days....might do some pier fishing instead. everything else (tide, rainfall, swell) looks great though so if wind is more favourable thurs or fri or the forecast for mon-wed chang...

Heading up to rye on monday with my brother, will be there until friday doing quite a bit of landbased fishing. Gunnamatta spinning, flinders for squid and sorrento for whiting all on the cards. If any other forum member are keen to join, come along!

DougieK was that the day you went big on the surface popper?

My brother and i have the week after easter off so will be in rye for that week, planning to have a few land based runs at piers and beaches. Anyone interested in throwing some slugs or bait out? Or know what days that week look good condition wise?

also just in regards to the current beach landscape, from what i saw on low tide there are 2 fantastic gutters, one just in front of the wooden stairs and the other infront of the sandy path from behind the surf club. Further down the beach there was a nice hole between the rocks at the far end (cap...

Had a brief session with 2 others from 10am - 2pm after a disappointing morning spinning gunnamatta. 2 small squid (20cm hood) caught on black 2.5 size jigs, a few other squid visible in the water but too timid to take a variety of colours tried (blue, red, green, black, white) even with burn and ki...

Rolled up at 6.30am for first light and high tide, 3 of us with 10 foot rods, one on a halco roosta surface popper, another on a heavy gold twisty and last on a knight. Gutter at the base of the stairs already full with a large contingent of old bait soakers in overalls. 1st cast one of us snapped f...

Is the shimano stradic si4 at 199 a good deal?

Wow not a lot of love for the Okumas on here haha Ill keep looking, there have been some great suggestions put up so ill investigate those. In the meantime ill probably just mount my reel from my general rod (a daiwa laguna 4000. Im a uni student so ive mostly got budget outfits) which should hold u...