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dave craig

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Got myself a boat few months ago after spending too much frustrated time on the rocks losing gear and not getting enough fish to justify the time and money spent.
anyway i would be greatefull for any advice on decent mid-range rods and reels, ive had a brief look around and fancy some sort of shimano multiplier, rod wise its basicallly 'up and down' jigging in the north sea so something around the 20-30lb class rating is what i think id be looking for (not too keen on the broomshank 50lb class type rods - not enough sport in them!)

anyway any advice will be much appreciated.

cheers
 
Eveyone has there favs and you will no doubt get 20+ opinions.

tld 20 or pen 245 ld for your reels...i just picked a tld20 up £86 new and my penn reel was £95

Rods wise i only use abu 10-12lb class rods, i have 3 of them and used one of them for 9 years now landing fish upto 40lb and its still as good as the day i got her..only cost me £28 new from ID

If your using braid and i was defo do so you want to keep away from roller line rods and dont over do it i.e in my opinion anything over 30lb on our shore is way over kill...8-15lb class rods the best for sport and able to land good fish also.
 
pretty much as rich says for the reel, I have a Penn 225 and a 245 but find the smaller 225 the most pleasant to use. For rods I go with Ugly Stik rods circa 15-20lb class (thats big enough for anything in these waters).
For line I`m sure there is no choice ........ "There can be only one !" ... thats "Dynon 3000" 55lbd braid ...... perfect.

hope this helps , here's looking forward to the spring !

norm
 
Reel - Shimano TLD 15

20lb class Rod - quite a number of people now using the Fladen Maxximus Solid Carbon rods...skinny as a pencil but immensely strong

Agree with Rich that 8-15lb class rods are good fun but wouldn't totally trust mine when snagged on a wreck in 100+Ft of water. Tend to carry two rods with me on each trip - if the conditions are favourable for fishing with 6oz leads (IE not much drift) then I switch down to the light rod
 
Some people use an uptide rod to downtide as they are longer and also softer in the tip. This is sometimes useful with braid as it can provide a bit of cushioning to the zero stetch.
Even with a mono buffer I bumped a couple of fish of last summer. This may have just been down to me, but I will be trying an uptider next year.
 
dave craig said:
Got myself a boat few months ago after spending too much frustrated time on the rocks losing gear and not getting enough fish to justify the time and money spent.
anyway i would be greatefull for any advice on decent mid-range rods and reels, ive had a brief look around and fancy some sort of shimano multiplier, rod wise its basicallly 'up and down' jigging in the north sea so something around the 20-30lb class rating is what i think id be looking for (not too keen on the broomshank 50lb class type rods - not enough sport in them!)

anyway any advice will be much appreciated.

cheers
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You will have to be good to catch enough fish to pay for boat fishing lol.
I'd say the same as Rich and co for your tackle , braid line being probably the most important part of the outfit. Only other thing that springs to mind for boat fishing success is a chartplotter and fishfinder , they really are invaluable.


Ray
 
thanks for the advice lads much appreciated!!
i'll get looking and spending!
ive learned quickly that a boat is a hole in the water in which you throw lots of money into.
 
Yep it is but if the weather treats us right the sumer is heavan :)

My spending since end of september £1210 on the boat and fees.
 
too right, where about do you fish? i launch up at beadnell, you know any co-ordinates for any wrecks around that area? or anybody else for that matter?
any info appreciated.
 
I am from the Tyne..not really my last wreck mark is 2 miles north of Amble, some crackers 2-3 miles north of Blyth thou but only fished them once this year.
 
dave craig said:
too right, where about do you fish? i launch up at beadnell, you know any co-ordinates for any wrecks around that area? or anybody else for that matter?
any info appreciated.
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Yes, with a little detective work I managed to find a list of over 700 wreck coordinates from 50 to 56°N with plenty of them in our area.

PM an e-mail address if you would like a copy of the XL file.
 
they would probably be ok, as on a decent day 2 miles north of amble isnt really that far from beadnell, u got any tips/advice for wreck fishing, is it simoly a case of repeating the drift over the wreck or do you anchor?
 
latitude: 55°33.884' N
longitude: 001°26.980' W

Have a mooch around there , it's about 5 miles out , never fished them but there a few wrecks together in that are and some decent sized ones , worth a look ;)

Ray
 
dave craig said:
they would probably be ok, as on a decent day 2 miles north of amble isnt really that far from beadnell, u got any tips/advice for wreck fishing, is it simoly a case of repeating the drift over the wreck or do you anchor?
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Most boats off Northumberland drift the wrecks , that is , find the wreck , plot it properly , find your drift over it then drop a bait or perk etc down as you drift over it , over and over again.
Norman wrote an article on this site somewhere , it's brilliant , tells you exactly how to do it , reading that is how I learned to find and fish a wreck .

The co ordinates I put up are wrecks about 5 miles east of Beadnell , they are within my range(from Amble) on a good calm day but so far I've not been to them , if I were sailing from Beadnell they are the wrecks I'd be checking out , and of course the Somali which is on your doorstep , someone posted on here last year that there were a lot of cod on the Somali one weekend.

All the wrecks will be marked on your plotter , it's just a case of checking them out one by one and seeing how they fish and if you like fishing them , I have my favourites , but also have a few marked that I hate fishnig because they are covered in nets and it's virtually impossible to drift them without losing all your gear every time.
It takes a bit of learning how to find and fish them but that's half the fun of fishing for me.
I'll look forward to your reports in the spring and summer , keep looking and asking on here and the lads that have been at it for years will keep you right , they have for me so far and I've improved with each trip out.
Couple more days and the nights start to get lighter again and we can all start looking forward to spring :)

Ray
 
lol Norman i cant wait and i always do rubbish until May time anyway but still cnat wait for lighter mornings and the chance to get out...you paid your fee's yet? Slinky out the water next year? Stingray out 4th of April for a week (1st time) checked Slinky and she was fine last week, i had a live crab in my fish well...gull must of dropped it :)
 
Going back to the original question...over the years I have used 30 class rods and the shimano tld's, 10,15 and 20,s ...cant fault them .

Braid is a must, any fine make witha round a 30lb BS.

A few years ago I bought a mitchell 6-16 class rod and did at the time wonder if it would manage but it has since proved to cope with fish on this coast and and the west coast of scotland and has accounted for tope up to around the 55lb mark. A very good buy and now time for replacing.

travelling down from Berwick today i called into Greys ( as you do ) just to see if they had anything suitable for the wifes xmas present. I managed to bag her an absolute bargain of a Greys Longboat 10-15...I actually dont know why I bothered because she hasnt used the last rod I bought her...but at least I manged to use it a few times because it would have been a total waste of money otherwise!

I am hoping that this coupled with the Penn 975 ld I bought earlier this year will be a perfect combination as I havent used a jigger in about 4 years and prefer bait or shad fishing and hopefully the slightly longer rod will be an advantage to this kind of fishing....time will tell.

Cheers
Dave
 
davem2005 said:
Going back to the original question...over the years I have used 30 class rods and the shimano tld's, 10,15 and 20,s ...cant fault them .

Braid is a must, any fine make witha round a 30lb BS.

A few years ago I bought a mitchell 6-16 class rod and did at the time wonder if it would manage but it has since proved to cope with fish on this coast and and the west coast of scotland and has accounted for tope up to around the 55lb mark. A very good buy and now time for replacing.

travelling down from Berwick today i called into Greys ( as you do ) just to see if they had anything suitable for the wifes xmas present. I managed to bag her an absolute bargain of a Greys Longboat 10-15...I actually dont know why I bothered because she hasnt used the last rod I bought her...but at least I manged to use it a few times because it would have been a total waste of money otherwise!

I am hoping that this coupled with the Penn 975 ld I bought earlier this year will be a perfect combination as I havent used a jigger in about 4 years and prefer bait or shad fishing and hopefully the slightly longer rod will be an advantage to this kind of fishing....time will tell.

Cheers
Dave
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Lol , sick of slippers and other such "useful" christmas presents , I called in to their sale last week , I bought four rods and a jacket and gave them to my missus , I said "wrap them up and give me them for christmas"............. no suprise , but at least I'll be honestly pleased with what I get.

Ray
 

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