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FIBERGLASS FISHING COMFORT PADDLE PFD SEAT Excerpt from That experience was so much fun I need to gm overhead and K-Labs 150-250 gm Jig rods in Shimano Talica 8 on my overhead and a Shimano Terminal Tackle do it again but next time I'll be prepared, very both overhead and spin in my arsenal. Thunnus 12000 CI4 on my spin setup. Don't get CATCH 390 prepared. I was never going to win that battle for too stressed out on having to spend a fortune Everyone has their favourite rigs for the style many reasons so in this article I'm going to take Spin or Overhead? on reels though, if budget is an issue look at the of fishing they are doing so I'm not going to tell you through my set up to chase the big ones. tried and trusted reels. The Shimano TLD range you how to suck eggs. I will just mention that if I will cover the gear, baits, and techniques that When selecting a rod and reel set up there is of reels have been used successfully including on you are going chasing the big ones make sure will hopefully turn into some landed big fish for the question of overhead or spin, which is best? the set up used to catch the big kingfish I spoke all your rigs, hooks, swivels are all up to the task. all of us. Well, both will do the job although an overhead of before, so they have been proven to stand up Multi-hook rigs, as an example hapuku dropper can be a little easier to use if you have a really to the task. rigs, commercially these are normally made up as Rods big fish on as you can drop the rod down on to two hook rigs, all well and good but if two baited Prepare for the your thigh or even the kayak and still be able to Line hooks go down there is always a chance that RRP If you were going off chasing big fish from a boat wind the handle on the reel. 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If you are live or dead baiting then mono or braid While I was on a kayak fishing trip goes through the school and several of the fish your own single hooks rigs. need and plenty of storage. Length: 3.9 metres However when a kayak is your work platform a stiff will do just fine. One thing to keep in mind when change course and follow it down, here we go I Width: 850 mm over at Great Barrier Island I was quietly rod will put more pain on you than on the fish. In Reels fishing off a kayak though is your ability to bust think to myself, but nothing not even a tap. I start Read more at canoeandkayak. The Catch 390 has all of the performance Weight: 29 kg fishing away casting soft baits around a kayak you are unable to brace yourself against off should your prey wrap you around a rock or co.nz/bigone characteristics of the Glide 390 but has been a mechanical jigging pattern with the little leaf jig, The reel is your key to being able to winch for snapper. I was landing a few nice the gunnels of the boat, nor can you strap on the other structure. On a boat you simply give it the ‘decked out’ with a range of accessories for your this is working better as I feel a couple of the fish that fish to the kayak and this is the part where pannies and generally having a very gimbal belt and use your weight against your foe big heave ho and bust it off but on a kayak you are next fishing trip. The overall design has been knocking the leaf jig. Next thing bang we are all you should look at good quality gear. The tried so a stiff rod is only going to act as a lever and much more unstable and do not have the leverage simplified and streamlined and comes with a relaxed time. on and I have now got an angry kingfish hanging and trusted applies to both overhead and spin finish with you possibly taking an early swim. so it really comes down to brute strength to bust customised rudder system. off my snapper jig set up: a Shimano Currado on setups. Reel strength is the key. Most jigging saving It was then that I noticed my fish finder light that line so you don't want to go too high. Most of a lightweight BackBone Elite rod. This is just not setups for example will have a lot of metal in up with a huge school of fish directly under my From a kayak you need to look for a rod that us who are jigging off a kayak are using 50lb braid $119 the right set up. Whilst some with a lot of patience their construction, solid alloy CNC machined kayak! One of the advantages of fishing at the is probably considered light for the target but it although there are a few using 80lb too. If you are and luck may manage a kingfish on this gear it frames, spools and handles are the main stay Barrier is that the water is crystal clear and I means that the rod will bend and act as a shock fishing baits down deep for the likes of hapuku or Package includes: wasn't working for me that day, the fish was too but don't dismiss some of the newer materials could see down several metres under the kayak. absorber between yourself and the fish. Looking at kingfish then be sure to attach your sinker to the big and the drag simply wasn’t slowing the fish either such as CI4+ from Shimano which is a When I looked over the side boy oh boy was I jigging rods I'd recommend at most a rod designed rig with a lighter mono, around 20lb is good, so if down. Within seconds the fish has sped off and synthetic material reinforced with carbon fibre. in for a treat, passing under me was the biggest to be used with a 250 gm jig, this will be a good you get your sinker snagged on the bottom it is I’m left looking at a very near empty spool, then These newer materials will give you huge strength school of kingfish I have ever seen from my balance between flex and power. I've witnessed very easy to bust off and you're not trying to bust FIBERGLASS FISHING just as I'm about to be completely taken to the PADDLE PFD a 250 gm JigStar rod land a 37 kg kingfish off a without the weight, and best of all for us kayak that 100lb leader you tied your rig with. kayak. These weren't small specimens either; cleaners the fish drops the jig and all the weight kayak. My personal rods are a Tica RedBack 250 anglers - no corrosion or rust! Personally I use a they were just cruising under me without a care comes off. Slowly winding the line back on the in the world, it was as if I wasn't even there. My reel my adrenaline is still pumping through my soft bait set up wasn't ever going to stop them so veins and although I didn’t manage to hold on to I quickly reeled that in and grabbed the only other the fish for long and I have nothing to show for it CATCH 290 rod I had with me, a bait caster setup on which I am still amped - what a thrill that was! was a small Zest metal leaf jig I had been using for targeting snapper earlier in the day. Down it
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