Planning to Upgrade My Fishing Gear

Marko6164 on 16/06/2021 - 09:27
Last edited 16/06/2021 - 09:47 by 1 other user

Need advice from experts in the forum:

I am planning to upgrade my fishing gear. I've started fishing about a year ago and mostly fish in estuaries and piers. I bought a couple of reels and rods since August last year but want to upgrade.

I have a Penn Conflict II, 2500, Shimano Sianna HD, Daiwa Aird 6000-H reels and for rods I have Shimano Solstace XT, 7ft, (3-6 KG). Shimano HD 9ft (6-8 KG) and Daiwa Crossfire 12ft (3-6kg).

Last weekend, caught something big on 15 pound braid but my line was of no match. I catch Bream, Flathead and Trevally mostly, and about 1KG size at max. On few odd occasion caught Stingray/Manta ray and it was fun. I would like to go something big… maybe 50 pound braid gears so that I do not have to worry about losing my catch.

What reel and rod would you suggest?

Sports & Outdoors

Comments

  • adelliah on 16/06/2021 - 09:50
    +4

    Unless you’re going off a boat anytime soon your current setups are perfectly acceptable.

    I’ve got the same Shimano HD with a 4000 reel on it and it’ll tackle most of the jobs for you.

    If you want to maybe start rock/beach fishing then yeah you’ll need a 12ft+ rod that can take 30lb line.

    Re the snapped line, it happens, sometimes you hook onto something massive with an undersized rod/reel.

    Id recommend making do with what you’ve got cause it’s all good and useful gear for what you’re currently doing.

  • Kuge on 16/06/2021 - 09:55
    +4

    Not sure if you need 50lb setup for estuary or pier fishing. If you have your drag setting correct you should be able to fight most fish in those systems. 6-8kg rod and 6000 reel more than enough for everything from King fish to Jew fish. If you're after tuna, shark and GT you won't find them in estuary and pier anyway.

    I would actually suggest down sizing to smaller setup to fish for bread and butter species. Much more fun. If you just want a feed go fish market, you will save much more time.

    • Marko6164 on 16/06/2021 - 10:39
      +2

      My be I need an excuse to buy a new rod and a reel. Thanks mate

  • walahbro on 21/06/2021 - 13:01
    +1

    check out davo's tackle online and also Motackle, if you find something cheaper than on motackle website, they'll price beat it and send you $100 worth of free lures

  • pull the lever on 27/08/2021 - 14:12
    +1

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