I carry all my tackle in a soft tackle box with plastic water proof containers within. Carry only 4 rods and 3 reels running 30 pound braid on all reels apart from 1 little rod and reel with 6 pound mono. Have left at home about 20 rods and in excess of 25 reels and lots of tackle boxes and have found what I have covers most fishing I do on te road cheers blaze
Instead you could take a canvas bag with recycled screw top Metamucil/vitamin containers and the like. You don't need a huge range of tackle where you have few rod and reel combinations and likely go off the bank.
Similarly the lures that work are few in number and easily stored.
I carry a couple of hand lines in a bag somewhere in the back of my tug. I prefer hand line fishing and more compact to carry. I don't mind fishing with the right company, but I'd rather watch the water by myself if the right company isn't available.
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I carry all my tackle in a soft tackle box with plastic water proof containers within. Carry only 4 rods and 3 reels running 30 pound braid on all reels apart from 1 little rod and reel with 6 pound mono. Have left at home about 20 rods and in excess of 25 reels and lots of tackle boxes and have found what I have covers most fishing I do on te road cheers blaze
blaze, wouldn't you catch more fish in the water than on the road, sorry blaze I really am sorry, Doug made me say that
I carry all my tackle in a soft tackle box with plastic water proof containers within. Carry only 4 rods and 3 reels running 30 pound braid on all reels apart from 1 little rod and reel with 6 pound mono. Have left at home about 20 rods and in excess of 25 reels and lots of tackle boxes and have found what I have covers most fishing I do on te road cheers blaze
Geez, here I was thinking I might go to Kmart and get a rod or something to try at fishing with until I learn how... now I'm completely confused!!!!
Think I might just get a hand line like Granny, can cope with that... just.
The simplest way is to go to Kmart or BCF, and buy a 6kg spining outfit which comes with a tacklebox and accessories.This will catch you anything from barramundi to bream, and usually comes withsome lures and hooks and sinkers for about $40, and normally is a 2 piece rod for storage. Don,t be afraid to go and ask people you see fishing as local knowledge is all ways the best. I find a packet of prawns in the freezer is a good standby for bait in most places.Go and give it a try, you will enjoy yourself.Any questions, pm me. Bill
-- Edited by bill12 on Wednesday 11th of April 2012 06:03:31 AM
My prefered set up is as Bill said above- basic rod and plain old prawn on a hook.
I come from a family of men who turned fishing into an art form, and my step-father (god rest him) was a black fisherman (ludwig or darkie) and his rig was precise and much loved. Best thing you could ever give the man was a new float ! He followed the tides, the moon, etc, and knew where the best weed grew for his bait - travelled miles for it, and even traded with other fishermen for it.
My youngest relative fisherwoman aged 8 goes fishing with her dad, and her set up is simpler than mine. I asked her what bait she was using - peanut butter on bread!
I thought it was funny till she hooked a nice salmon.
As a very much part time fisherman (went round the block in around 6mths & only took the rods out twice), I carry two rods in my clothes hanging wardrobe just in case the mood takes me.
One is a beautiful graphite two piece made for use with plastic lures.
The other is longer & more sloppy, made for black bream fishing.
I have reels matched to each. The one for the graphite rod has two reel spools. One is loaded with light braid & the other with mono.
I make up a number of different rigs wound on small pieces of cardboard (handy when fishing from the kayak).
All the tackle fits into a couple of those cylinder shaped containers that screw together to make a long tube that lives in a pocket of the fishing kayak. A couple of knives (one tough blade & one for filleting) & a few soft plastics packs, plus floats & that's the lot.
I make scalers from three stubby bottle tops screwed to a wooden handle as I need them.
You can always pick up extra tackle as you go. Where ever there are fish there is usually a tackle place nearby.
I once caught a nice bream on a jelly bean for a bet, but I think fresh bait such as prawns or yabbys are better. a cheap bait trap which can be purchased for $3 can catch yabbys , shrimp and small fish, and the kids love using them.Bread is good bait, but catches too many carp in fresh water . Some of my biggest bream and mullet were caught on bread, and you can always eat the bait if you don,t catch anything...........Bill
I personally don't like or recommend the cheap supermarket tackle no matter how inexperienced you are.
I would suggest for the absolute beginner with no boat, a lightweight two piece 2.4 to 2.6 metre general purpose rod with a line weight range of 3 to 6kg matched with a small spinning reel of the similar line weight capacity. This rod type will suit most basic estuary, dam and bay type situations and loaded with around 4kg line, then just a smattering of terminal tackle, ie., hooks sinkers and such (tackle shop recommended) for that rod setup...and Bob's your uncle.
The all up cost of the rig should be under $100 or certainly no more.
It is for me. One of the few things I am really good at is catching fish. Thats why I make a living taking people fishing. I work on the KISS principle. Keep it simple, stupid.Simple, reasonable quality fishing gear, and a bit of luck, is all you need.And its good fun trying. Bill
I once caught a nice bream on a jelly bean for a bet, but I think fresh bait such as prawns or yabbys are better. a cheap bait trap which can be purchased for $3 can catch yabbys , shrimp and small fish, and the kids love using them.Bread is good bait, but catches too many carp in fresh water . Some of my biggest bream and mullet were caught on bread, and you can always eat the bait if you don,t catch anything...........Bill
Apart from the bait net I have never concentrated on mullet. What do you find works well for you, Bill?
I caught a large threadfin salmon on Cable Beach with a hand line. But I don't take fishing as seriously as some of you guys. I guess I caught enough fish when I worked on the trawler. A feed now and then is good as long as someone else catches, cleans and cooks it. Well, I suppose I could cook it. Yeah, I can do that.
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At the moment, I am into soft plastics, casting them on light(3kgs) line. Am getting some nice barras and gilden trevally, and some big wipeouts. Hooked something at the boat ramp which ran off 300m of line and broke me off at the knot on the spool!Its great here in the winter. Bill
I go to a tackle shop and go straight to the bargain bin and pick some Squidgys or something similar. Good jig heads are recomended as the hook quality is better.You tie a small span clip on your line and castout letting your lure sink to the bottom. A sharp lift of the rod moves the lure, and line is relieved, and you do the same again, til your line is all the wayin, or you get a fish, Flathead love soft plastics,and a mates son landed(and released) one 7.5kgs at Wallaga inlet in Feb. I have landed Barras , bream , all sorts of trevally, even a luderick on soft plastics. Go out and try. Bill
The beauty is that as well as being great 'bait' they are always on hand & you don't need to go looking for a bait shop or waiting on the tide to pump some yabbies etc.
