Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

That dog doesnt look too fat.

Its This Old dog thats got the condition on him...

ok guys just after a bit of info on bait cannons , age 70+ and a few medical probs i'm not getting the range i used to
with my old warehouse silstar . has anyone here used one or had experience with one , thank you .

Originally Posted by HILLBILLYHUNTERS

ok guys just after a bit of info on bait cannons , age 70+ and a few medical probs i'm not getting the range i used to
with my old warehouse silstar . has anyone here used one or had experience with one , thank you .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvgQJfF1mO4&t=1570s

Due to the rather damp conditions outside today I have been mucking around inside with some fishing gear. Tried a little experiment and it seemed to work. A snake proof jig rig. Plastic coated wire attached directly to mainline with an FG knot. It seems to hold. Just the thing for winter @stingray

Originally Posted by Shearer

Plastic coated wire attached directly to mainline with an FG knot. It seems to hold. Just the thing for winter

It's neat (and I like neat!), but do you need an FG knot? Presumably you're not winding the wire through the rod guides? My concern would be that under high tension, the braid would strip the plastic off the wire.

Originally Posted by MB

It's neat (and I like neat!), but do you need an FG knot? Presumably you're not winding the wire through the rod guides? My concern would be that under high tension, the braid would strip the plastic off the wire.

Yes. I see your point about stripping the plastic off the wire. I hadn't thought of that.
The idea of the FG was to keep a minimal connection. The glorious southern sailfish will slash at anything shiny/making bubbles so you don't want to use swivels of even crimps as they will target them as well as the lure. I was only going to use 100mm or so of wire from the lure so no, it won't be going anywhere near the guides. I have given the knot a pretty through test and they haven't shown any sign of slippage, braking a uni knot connection first. The braid seems to dig into the plastic pretty well. It may turn out to be a waste of time but worth a crack I guess.

A work of art @Shearer!

But we bait fishermen target gurnard and other delicious fish in the winter rather than snakes!

Originally Posted by stingray

A work of art @Shearer!

But we bait fishermen target gurnard and other delicious fish in the winter rather than snakes!

Like spiny dogs?

I'm always having ideas for fishing rigs. Some of them work out, others less so!

Tropical fly fishers and European pike anglers use knotable wires which may be of interest.

that knot looks very much like what we use to join mono onto a fly line...never had one let go and yes they bite into plastic cover really well. if worried you could always loop wire back onto itself and twist it off to form a loop... sort of another hook eye...

Ohiwa Harbour produced the goods again,

With an evening low tide last night it was off to a spot on the channel edge to target the last of the outgoing tide and slack water tide into the cool of the evening. A prefect night of no wind, clear skys with a sunset transitioning to banging stars and stillness of bugger all noise of civilisation.

The dog enjoyed her run and the snapper went 45cm and made a great mothers-day lunch along with the kahawai, both been hot smoked over manuka chips with sourdough bread buns and plenty of butter....

@Fat belly Dog never had much luck in the harbor.Buy the looks of that I'm obviously doing something wrong

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@hunter Al.7mm08 I have had plenty of fish-less sessions in there too..

I think its more this time of the year or even the shit weather /large swell last few weeks. Been a few reports of good fish the last couple of weeks, I have also gone to 2 bar-o hooks fishing a ledger rig rather than a running or pulley rig. Small baits and fresh if I can catch a mackerel or skippy or small kahawai. I have been having best luck on a bait runner set to just hold in the current, the bigger snapper seem to pick and run and with the small baits and 2-bar-o s are helping, funny thing is I am not catching many undersized snapper at the moment with this set up.

I tend to target Low tide incoming tides as spot i fish you walk out to the channel edge, but I think either change of tide change of light would produce.

Cheers FBD

I am going to unlock one more new fish before I leave here.

Originally Posted by Black Rabbit

I am going to unlock one more new fish before I leave here.

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Please what species is that fish?