Buying a rod

[Richo]

Treating me real well, got some real good software stacked up as well. Not bad speed either Im checking into ASDL this week... which will be even better..

Mandurah this weekend.....?

Cheers

Richo

[Evan]

heading down there tomorrow night - but wont be fishing till sat arvo i think

hopefully youll still be down there fishing at that time and will have left some fish for me!!

catch ya then

Ev

[Craig_S]

Check the new avatar lads - this one is still swimming down there...somewhere?

[Evan]

yep a couple like that and ill be extremely happy

oh no we have abducted a thread again

[Mischievious]

Just might ask for the garantee :P Sounds good. Im not good at catching fish

The new pic is good craig_s. Im proud of you putting the fishy back :P Nice boy! hahaha

I just keep them in buckets for 15 then decide i dont wanan keep it and put it back half dead :P

[Craig_S]

M, putting em back is the way to go really. One of the concepts being promoted by the BREAM comps, and supported in such places as this Forum, is "catch & release" - there's nothing the matter with keeping one for the pan but I think you'd find most of the people here are only in it for the sport (read "fun") and practically nothing gets kept.

And press the main man for that guarantee definitely

[Richo]

Yeah I agree, the thrill of the release is nearly as good as the thrill of the hunt.......

Cheers

Richo

[Mischievious]

Yeah i know all about catchand release. But ididnt have anything for tea... but it just looked too cute :P so i put it back

Its good to catch and release, Im not in it to catch for a feed, if i would like to eat one i might, But not all the time.

Grant is most upset because warren said he might give me a few soft plastics on sat when i go fishing with mimbo and JP. Grant cant go cause he has to work :P hehehe

[Bear]

Hi M,
Please atek you time in amking a decision like this and make sure YOU make the decision, not Grant.

Rod purchase is a very personal thing. Try and get out with as many people as possible a ask to try their rods. Go to the stores and get a feel for the different types of grips and sizes.

The last thing you want to do si spend you money on something some one else likes, not you.

HTH.

[Bear]

And please excuse my shocking typing. I'm rushing to catch up.

[matt_mad_fisho]

G'day mischevious

if u are looking for a rod and reel combo that wont break the budget, shimano have fantastic little rod and reel combos in mackle stores for around $100-250, But if u want something good but not to expensive, may i suggest some kind of diawa rod you can pick them up from around $100-150 and also u should have a look at there reels too, they range in price from about $70 - $350 in the more expensive ones....that wasnt much help was it lol

Cheers Matt

[shawn mcghee]

g'day mischevious,
i had to recently by myself a new rod as a result of trying to yank my soft plastic out of a tree, the result being snapping the 1 to 2kg penn power graph half way down the top section.it was until then a perfect little rod. Its replacement is an abu garcia 4 to 6kg graphite rod which set me back about $80 and it casts little jig heads beautifully. The reel i use with it is a Shimano cx2000 with a rear mounted drag loaded with 8lb fireline.

[Kaisemurangdai]

Hi Mischievious,

Like you I am fairly new to this and bought a Shakespere Synergy sp662M rod the other day.

It is a nice rod, nothing flash but more than adequate for me at the moment. It cost me about 60 dollars, luckily I had a suitable old shakespeare reel, but I did find I needed to use fireline to get the small lures cast a decent length. So don't forget to allow for say 300m of fire wire which is going to cost about the same as the rod.

So on this basis because your going to buy a reel as well, I recommend staying well under a 100 bucks on your rod and if thats the case then the synergy could be good value.

regards

Trev

[Evan]

Originally posted by Kaisemurangdai
Hi Mischievious,

Like you I am fairly new to this and bought a Shakespere Synergy sp662M rod the other day.

It is a nice rod, nothing flash but more than adequate for me at the moment. It cost me about 60 dollars, luckily I had a suitable old shakespeare reel, but I did find I needed to use fireline to get the small lures cast a decent length. So don't forget to allow for say 300m of fire wire which is going to cost about the same as the rod.

So on this basis because your going to buy a reel as well, I recommend staying well under a 100 bucks on your rod and if thats the case then the synergy could be good value.

regards

Trev

Trev why would you ever need 300m of fire line to catch a bream??? unless it is the biggest bream in the world i dont think that they would run off more that 50m of line max. next time just buy a 125yd spool and fill the rest of the reel up with mono backing - hell of a lot cheaper!!! does the same job - for bream fishing that is

[kevinnugent59]

Originally posted by Craig_S
Check the new avatar lads - this one is still swimming down there...somewhere?

What size & weight Craig? It looks like an absolute beauty!

Kevin