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nah i just bought it, sorry i just thought id give you a heads up

they have bloody small guides, i have the itchy twitchy

slinga wrote: Only thing I've seen that gets close to 30kg was one Warren Carter caught in WP.

Not to say it hasn't been done though...

ive seen think big get a few around that mark.

ive caught one about 30 and several in the high 20's.

I cannot wait to get one of those monster 20kg plus models scream off. Can only dream of a. 30kg fish. That number gets thrown around all too often. Dunno what's around in bass straight at this time of year. Surely the pinkys would be around as they move into the bays They are not that exciting, ve...

I cannot wait to get one of those monster 20kg plus models scream off. Can only dream of a. 30kg fish. That number gets thrown around all too often. Dunno what's around in bass straight at this time of year. Surely the pinkys would be around as they move into the bays They are not that exciting, ve...

2 Gummys over 7-foot!!!!!!! Have to be some sought of record. At 6ft they are nudging 30kg. hahahhahaa largest one ever recorded on fisheries data is 1.93m, the heaviest 36kgs, thats from ~5% of commercial data (5% of all commercial shark catches in vic since the 1960's). 5% because thats about how...

Drifta-X wrote:20lb is fine for gummy if they don't wrap them selves up.
Once that do the chances of landing on 20lb leader drops heaps as their skin just wears it through.

keep on using 20lb if your happy with it.

i dont use paternoster rigs for that reason either.

Not sure what you guys are doing but I've been bitten off once in the last 10 years or so. For the last few years or we have been using 30lb braid backing with 30-40lb tough mono or fluro leader for gummies but I would have easily caught in excess of 100 gummies using 20lb mono. Landed the odd toot...

frozenpod wrote:20lb is a good size for gummies.

Not impossible but unlikely to get onto a toothy whilst fishing on the bottom.

thats where i catch em all..............

if you wanna catch gummies...a lot of them....but not big...this is the best time to do it...another tip...