Thread: techniques

So what is everyone's favourite techniques for catching sea fish?
Maybe type of fish, general sea state, and pics &/or of rig. Reels and rod details to.....
Any tips too

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Throw rods away and get in with speargun

Love fishing lures, hard and soft. Too impatient for bait most of the time.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Love fishing lures, hard and soft. Too impatient for bait most of the time.

I am too impatient for lures !

I use rods,nets,longlines,pots to target varing species threwout the whole year......I maybe some kind of saddist but I kinda even like scraping the frost off of the windscreen in the dark to go set a flounder net in the early hours.

I haven't put a bait on a hook for nearly 5 years and the Mrs is sick to death of eating fish. Softies and jigs all the way

Northland snapper/kingfish/trevally/kahawai/john dory.

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

the Mrs is sick to death of eating fish.

You too huh....I give most of mine away and still get complaints.

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

I haven't put a bait on a hook for nearly 5 years and the Mrs is sick to death of eating fish. Softies and jigs all the way

Northland snapper/kingfish/trevally/kahawai/john dory.

Yep, soft bait and jigs is all I use now, have to carry so much less gear.

I think the thing I like most is that it is active fishing, you can feel what you are doing with the lure when you get the hit and it’s really interactive and I find it more exciting than bait.

Don’t think I will ever go back to bait, would rather head home if nothing biting than try bait!

The only request I get when I go fishing is don't bring any more bloody fish home! I have agreed to eating fish only 4 nights a week now, so she is happy with that!

Worms

Tried dam near every flash harry idea...gone full circle to burley bait and tide. Back to tieing my own rigs and gone basic as. Two hook ledger rig for snapper , single hook for cod! And as @longrange308 said get wet and hunt them!
I love the sea , every day is differnt ,and completely unforgiving mistress!

The only thing I do now is try everywhere deep , shallow , points and right in the back of bays...VC has taught me a lot and for that I will be for ever greatful!

Tried dam near every flash harry idea...gone full circle to burley bait and tide. Back to tieing my own rigs and gone basic as. Two hook ledger rig for snapper , single hook for cod! And as @longrange308 said get wet and hunt them!
I love the sea , every day is differnt ,and completely unforgiving mistress!

The only thing I do now is try everywhere deep , shallow , points and right in the back of bays...VC has taught me a lot and for that I will be for ever greatful!

OK, so for this soft bait stuff. What rod, reel and braid are people using or recommend?
I've only used them once on a charter, bloody good gear (read bloody expensive), but before I get that level, I'd like to get a rod and reel around $300 to give it a bash

Originally Posted by Beaker

OK, so for this soft bait stuff. What rod, reel and braid are people using or recommend?
I've only used them once on a charter, bloody good gear (read bloody expensive), but before I get that level, I'd like to get a rod and reel around $300 to give it a bash

In my experience it can be hard going around Aukers with artificials. I think it might be the sediment and/or current. Go out a bit further and they will work but I have still found bait to generally be better. Saying that jigs have worked OK further out at times, gurnard seem to like the shimano lucanis jigs. However most of the snapper I have caught in the last few years (and kingi) have been on a small jig rod with braid and bait. Cheating? most of my fishing has been off charters so the first to the bottom is often the first in.

The fancy soft bait rods are nice but the cheaper ones are often OK if you get a decent reel. Soft bait reels take a hammering. I have a bit of gear you can try out... It mostly sit's round at the moment.

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

In my experience it can be hard going around Aukers with artificials. I think it might be the sediment and/or current. Go out a bit further and they will work but I have still found bait to generally be better. Saying that jigs have worked OK further out at times, gurnard seem to like the shimano lucanis jigs. However most of the snapper I have caught in the last few years (and kingi) have been on a small jig rod with braid and bait. Cheating? most of my fishing has been off charters so the first to the bottom is often the first in.

The fancy soft bait rods are nice but the cheaper ones are often OK if you get a decent reel. Soft bait reels take a hammering. I have a bit of gear you can try out... It mostly sit's round at the moment.

Yeah, but it’s the rod that gives you the feel, I like a rod made from at least an IM7 graphite blank, IM8 is even better but the downside is that it becomes very fragile, I have broken 3 in the past few years.
Cheaper rods I find too whippy and seem to bend along their entirety instead of progressively, they lack feedback but can still work, just not as nice to use.

I fish with a baitcaster so I like a 6’ 6” rod but with a short butt, not with the reel halfway up the rod like most of the ones that are available.

With baitcasters you get what you pay for, a shimano curado is the minimum I would go, the cheaper ones don’t seem to last.
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