Recent content by ChrisW

I'm asking the home of Sliding Rigs for a contact for a manufacturer of sliding rigs in small commercial quantities. Must be decent quality.

I'd like to annouce the opening of our latest Jig Star agency, this time in Indonesia. Welcome to the Jig Star family William and I hope you develop a great business with our brand. Jig Star can be found at - PT Lautan Wahana JL Tambak-Pondok Permai 2/E-5 Jogjakarta Central, Java, Indonesia...

We descended upon Whakatane wharf during the afternoon of Wednesday 14th.  This was the trip that Royboy and his group of keen Saffers did last year. The group comprised of Sydneysiders Rob (Mr Miyagi), Tim and Johnny while the kiwis were Richard and Fishnetters - Jason (Muntid), Rob (Rob...

My regular 3 Kings trip in March was canned due to inclement weather.  Lance of Enchanter doesn’t often cancel but I rather suspect the 5m and gale force winds might have been the decider.  Mr Miyagi (Rob Wong – Jig Star in Aust)and 3 mates from Sydney had to turn around after 2 days, nice...

apologies if this is the wrong section to post this but, John was synonmous with our jigging rod designs and members on this forum might be more familiar with his influence. John passed away early this morning without a hint of any health problems. His passing has been a shock to me and the NZ...

Another Ranfurly report -written mostly by Matt Velhuisen (Choppy) and partly by Chris Wong.         As usual on these trips Lance the skipper gave us a safety talk and the latest weather and fishing report. The weather report was not too encouraging and rough conditions were forecast except...

I have been organising this particular trip since my video "Heavy Metal at the Ranfurly" filmed in 07.  This year the newbies were John (Kojak Rods) and Anesh (Stellamoon).  The weather forcast was rather mixed but Skipper Lance had planned our 5 days beautifully.  You have to realise that the...

this was a re-book of last year's trip where we filmed my jigging DVD - Heavy Metal at the Ranfurly. We had such great weather with monster Kingfish and Hapuka that this had to be done again.  This trip report is replicated with the permission of the author Simon Gooder (Sid Fishus).  It is well...

What is available in SA? Prices, Availability? Also what are the specs of jig rods that you would like to see become available in SA?  I'm familiar with most Jap rods so I can understand comparisons. I have a range of jig rods being made for our NZ market which have the look and performance of...