paulanth68
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hi all, I'm relatively new to fishing,been boat fishing a couple of times in my youth,enjoyed it ,but didn't take it any further, so about 6 month ago wor kid (rotten bottom on here)asked if i wanted to go fishing with him and my nephew kyle, just in the Tyne down by spillers,and i loved it 
,i was using his spare gear so decided to get my own started off with a Jarvis walker rod and fixed reel combo,then got myself a okuma fixed spool and a Ron Thompson zenzorflex 12ft rod , finding it hard to reel in any weight really on the fixed spool , we decided we had to move on to a multiplier , so we had a trip a week or so ago to ID Fishing Tackle where we both got a sonik sks 13ft rod and a greys mag seven reel.So yesterday we headed to shields pier to have a go with them.We got to pier for about 8am ish, fished just before the 44 mark , wor kid had a nightmare day , scraped his new rod off the pier wall because he never flicked the switch back on the reel lol , lost 6 sets of gear , 2 canny birds nests and caught nowt (oh and a leaky flask lol )but he lives to fight another sesh , i on the other hand had a canny day , no nests only lost 2 sets and caught 7 fish (flounder,5 whiting and a coalie),loved me new rod,but to be honest i wouldn't know a good one from a bad one lol,im still cautious of the multi like,we both are but we'll get there im sure 
,i was using his spare gear so decided to get my own started off with a Jarvis walker rod and fixed reel combo,then got myself a okuma fixed spool and a Ron Thompson zenzorflex 12ft rod , finding it hard to reel in any weight really on the fixed spool , we decided we had to move on to a multiplier , so we had a trip a week or so ago to ID Fishing Tackle where we both got a sonik sks 13ft rod and a greys mag seven reel.So yesterday we headed to shields pier to have a go with them.We got to pier for about 8am ish, fished just before the 44 mark , wor kid had a nightmare day , scraped his new rod off the pier wall because he never flicked the switch back on the reel lol , lost 6 sets of gear , 2 canny birds nests and caught nowt (oh and a leaky flask lol )but he lives to fight another sesh , i on the other hand had a canny day , no nests only lost 2 sets and caught 7 fish (flounder,5 whiting and a coalie),loved me new rod,but to be honest i wouldn't know a good one from a bad one lol,im still cautious of the multi like,we both are but we'll get there im sure 
well done on the catch 
the sonik sks is quite a good rod, I like most started with a fixed spool but soon got a multi, first one being the penn 525 and loved it so got another in the form of a daiwa 7ht also and recently bought the greys g-mag 7 simply because of the price of it, never tried it as of yet but looks well worth the £50 I paid brand new, I'm sure within a few weeks you will get used to the multi and wont look back
. Never mind i just hope thats 2012s bad luck out the way and roll on next sesh bro im going to blunt your hooks so you know what its like to blank when im bringing in fish after fish...
