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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43773
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 3:25 pm Post subject:

sliding floats are easiest to cast as they are on the end when chucked and slide up to the knot once they hit water
a fixed float has to be cast with a full length of terminal tackle flapping about which is never fun as it will tangle and a nightmare to chuck from rocks

i use a 3 metre tele carbon fibre rod built to cast 50 to 250 gms and a good 30 kg multiplier reel for nearly all shore fishing ,float ,on the floor ,dangling or spinning a biggish thing the combo works

not as far as a beachcaster or as sporty as a spinner but very practical in a bag when climbing down cliffs and strong enough for a big wrass ,small conger or perfect bass ,sensitive enough to twitch at a mullet or two small fighting crabs

the rod was about �30 and the reel�50

for years i used an old penn multiplier which cost a fiver and some wd40 on a �10 tele fibreglass caught lots of fish but the carbon fibre is far better for a low stress day on a moody slippery ledge

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 4:48 pm Post subject:
You can't beat a bit of rubber. I use a piece of thin rubber band and tie it tightly on to my main line where I want my sliding float to stop.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43773
Location: yes

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 4:51 pm Post subject:
me too ,even from 15 m up the line it will run through the hoops when cast

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 4:54 pm Post subject:
Great tip, I'll remember that one.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 4:54 pm Post subject:
It will have to get quite a lot warmer before you see me out on the rocks.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 4:57 pm Post subject:
a good knot for the band is an austrian butterfly started around the line a prussic will do but the extra turns of the above reduce slip a good line is important for a stress free life strong ,high abrasion resistance ,low stretch cos even low stretch is a bit bungy at distance and the rod should absorb any jerks shore fishing from a deckchair or a belay is ace

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 5:00 pm Post subject:
wd 40 on the line helps lots

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 5:23 pm Post subject:
I've got this sea fishing kayak to have a go at this year. I only went out on it a few times last summer. I usually spin from it but a bit of float fishing in those hard to reach spaces might be fun.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 43773
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 7:30 pm Post subject:
maybe better than a belay in and out of the place never used a kayak to fish but it seems a good tool

Dabinett

Joined: 23 Dec 2010
Posts: 90
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Thu Feb 10, 11 9:13 pm Post subject:

Bodger wrote:

It will have to get quite a lot warmer before you see me out on the rocks.

Very wise.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 11 7:21 am Post subject:

Bodger wrote:

I've got this sea fishing kayak to have a go at this year. I only went out on it a few times last summer. I usually spin from it but a bit of float fishing in those hard to reach spaces might be fun.

I'm saving for one, which did you get?

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 11 3:15 pm Post subject:
Mines the yellow one which is a purpose built for sea fishing with various cubby holes and rod holders, while Robs is a more sporty one. To the beach. Going Gone

Dabinett

Joined: 23 Dec 2010
Posts: 90
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Fri Feb 11, 11 9:41 pm Post subject:
Very nice. Do you catch much? Which beach is that?

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Sat Feb 12, 11 8:04 am Post subject:
I caught half a dozen pollock on one outing but nothing very big. Its the beach at Morfa Nefyn on the Lleyn.

Dabinett

Joined: 23 Dec 2010
Posts: 90
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 11 9:02 pm Post subject:

Bodger wrote:

I caught half a dozen pollock on one outing but nothing very big.
Its the beach at Morfa Nefyn on the Lleyn.

Ah, I stayed there on holiday with my family when I was about 12 (so about 18 years ago..).

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