Light line v heavy line fishing

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harry barker

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I would like to ask my friends on NESA what is your favorite fishing on a perfect day. 1/ mixed ground from piers fishing using 20/30lb line..stiffish rod.
2/rough ground heavy kelp,braid or 40lb mono,ultra stiff rod for hawking thru the kelp and a winching machine for a reel.
3/A fine light rod with good bight detection,15lb line on a small fast multiplier thats capable of long distance casting on semi clean beaches.

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Daylight......
night time.....
cheers H
 
Harry when i fish spots i like to use two rods. One ttr and supermag missiled out with 15-18 lb line for any big fish lurking about. The other rod a Salt Bass with fixed spool and 17lb braid fished close in usually with fish baits such as bluey or mackeral. This outfit has caught loads more fish than my TTR.
Mick.
 
Mmmm, I think variety is the spice of life! Most of my fishing probably falls into "b"; summer fishing up the coast for reddies & much of my winter fishing is also from rocks and kelp, but around this time of year I really look forward to getting on the beaches and doing a bit of "c". Had some real fun the last few weeks with my match rod & little reels with 15lb line on the sand getting cod to 7 & 1/4lb - however a couple of months or so is all I can take of sand-blasted sessions where half the beach ends up going home with you!!

Throw in a fair bit of "a" too - I always like a bit of mixed ground fishing; somehow feels like you've got a few more options as to where to find fish - but I absolutely hate pier fishing; only times you'll find me on the piers (usually Blyth) is for a few springtime plaice sessions, once or twice in the summer to stock up on mackerel (only once this year) and when the sea is absolutely mountainous, rendering most of the coast unfishable - that's usually when it fishes best. I'll occasionally have a trip to Shields pier in the spring as well if the fishing is completely dead locally, but 99% of the time give me the open shore any day of the week.

Gary :)
 
Prefer light line on the open beach with a nice swell coming in,used to love daytime but fish mostly at night now as it is more productive.Find fishing piers boring unless plenty of fish about and detest crowded venues especially mackie time.
 
Rod said:
Prefer light line on the open beach with a nice swell coming in,used to love daytime but fish mostly at night now as it is more productive.Find fishing piers boring unless plenty of fish about and detest crowded venues especially mackie time.
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I am the same Rod,on the beach with a nice swell running.Day or night.
Its a pain fishing heavy ground,pulling for a break every cast,loosing gear and having to bully fish out.
 
a scaffold of a rod abu 7000 type reel 20lb mono and big heavy leads on clean beaches .trying to chuck them out is fun though maybe thats why back is knackered.
 
Hello Harry,
I love all kinds of fishing but I'm at my happiest when I'm fishing the rock ends with heavy line, simple blood loop rigs chucking out big crab or mussel baits. Most of the time on my own because I'm becoming a right miserable old sod nowadays.

Regards Ian
 
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love light line fishing, trundling a small bomb round in the tide holding the rod feeling for bites. mostly for flatties and coalies. even when u catch nout its more entertaining for me than just sitting on my arse watching the tip:p
 
Nice question mate. Pier fishing is good for a chat and cos it's easy but there's nowt better than light line, a massive empty beach, dark night, searching out for holes full of flatties, whities, codling..... Good for the sole :D:D
 
hi harry long time since we met it must be gettin on for 20 years. Its nice to see you still gettin out and i hope your gettin a few i used to fish with norman on the blast and at newbiggin. i remember one day at church point newbiggin watching you having fun with a scarboro reel !! BAH!! LAD!! them were the days anyway back to your question i like to FISH ANYWHERE!! but cant get out as much as i wood like due to Vivs poor health
 
keith.s. said:
hi harry long time since we met it must be gettin on for 20 years. Its nice to see you still gettin out and i hope your gettin a few i used to fish with norman on the blast and at newbiggin. i remember one day at church point newbiggin watching you having fun with a scarboro reel !! BAH!! LAD!! them were the days anyway back to your question i like to FISH ANYWHERE!! but cant get out as much as i wood like due to Vivs poor health
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Keith,
How you doing mate...long time no see,sorry to here about Vivs poor health hope for improvements.

Yeah,I remember that set up mate...that centre-pin was some reel man coupled up with a dc8 it worked quite well......well most of the time haha
This reel was the rolls-royce of c/pins,with cone bearings and adjustable side tension knob all brass fittings at about 10" dia.

Could hoy it about 50-60yds (the lead that is ) into the kelp jungle with a massive ball of mussel and a couple of razors added on for good luck on a 6.0.

To haul a big cod in with this set up was the best feeling ever then,and to think now I only fish clean beaches with light line and fast multipliers coupled to
beautiful casting rods is a complete change round.

But to answer my own question as light line v heavy line fishing I now favour the open beaches on a dieing sea,casting and fishing at distance for the cod.
I find it quite satisfying to take a cod off the beach using a running line that lighter than the cod I catch,and thats my choice now.

I may not catch the quantity of cod by this method but the satisfaction is
so much better.

I will never knock other ways of fishing as Iv'e done it all now and also fished in the prime years of cod fishing in the 70 and 80s and sadly this will never ever return to our shores, but I still get the same buzz when that rod tip moves as I did all them years ago.
 
Hello mate

Hello mate

Harry ive been trying to get in touch for awhile now with emails can you send me your number cos am rubbish with this laptop thing and ive got a few questions about fishing with long rods and fixed spool reels 07752039864
 

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