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I have an 11ft spinning rod that I use for scratching around in gullys, and my reel has packed up, so I'm in the market for a new one in the 4K-5k size range. I've always been a Shimano person, but I am open to other brand suggestions. Can you suggest what are good options in this size and price...

I remember, when I was a kid (fifty) years ago we visited some family friends on one of the East Cape lagoons and we went the one day to the mouth to collect "piss clams" , so called because they peed on you when you took them out the water. You just had to stick your hands a few inches into...

I saw the Okuma Nomad Travel 11ft 4 piece XH 1-3oz online and it specs out similar to the equivalent but more expensive Assassin Amia Zero. I never used to like Okuma tackle as it used to be on the cheap and nasty side of things, but they certainly have come a long way in the quality...

My favorite rod is(was) the old Assasin Amia 11ft 4 piece XH travel edition. It was just light enough to fish (scratching) like a spinning rod without a bucket, but had enough length to lift tackle and fish around structure and enough beef to land anything, even small sharks. It broke shortly...

Its been a strange year on the garden route. Our shad season normally starts after the spawning, in December, as the shoals move into the shallow water, and we start to get nice catches. Perfect conditions are when that blue "tropical" water moves in and you can feel the warmth of it on your...

I just had to share this. I was scratching in wilderness between the rocks with small sardine baits, and I picked up a strange looking game fish of about 45cm that looked like a cross between a yellowtail, leervis and a kingfish. Kind of like a wide leervis with yellowtail colouring. It...

I have a Shimano Sahara 4000 grinder. If I have to take in in a little slack after throwing in, or tightening up before striking, the reel has a slight glitch, before it starts turning. Once its moving, you don't notice it. I checked it out, and it gets a little stuck in two spots, one worse...

I've seen some weird "skelm" fishing methods over the years, many are already posted in various parts of this forum, but this is a chance to put them all together in one fun thread. To kick off. I arrived on the rocks on the garden route, and there were a group of guys nailing the belman. There...

I normally carry a cheap pair of side cutters to cut line, wire and braid, and then a separate pair of stainless steel surgical forceps that lock at the back to remove swallowed hooks. This combo works well, but the side cutters have to be oiled after each trip, as they rust quickly and seize...

If I can share a few thoughts on the subject. Those fancy bottle sinkers with the four red weed eater strands out the side, actually seem to work. I'm just trying to work out if they are worth the price. They are currently about 3x the price of the normal bottle sinkers. I seem to be loosing...

Not sure if this has been posted, but its really good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADGIHt9tAU

I was looking at buying the Okuma Makaira Blue 14,6' 3-6oz for edibles. I already have a Shimano Beastmaster 14' Heavy and an Assassin Amia 11' XH. So this should fit somewhere in between. The Beastmaster is fine for in-eds, but is not the sort of rod I like to use everyday, as it is stiff and...

So my expensive Assassin 11ft Amia 4pc XH didn't last a season, and tip is now broken, snapped in half 50cm from the top :? Assassin have replaced it with the new model, so I may as well use the other three sections to prop up beans in the vegetable gardenbw_l_) Is there any way to fix this...

I'm looking at upgrading my edibles rod. I'm looking for a fairly light setup +/- 14 foot rod 3 piece to throw sinker weights of between 3-5 oz. Will fish it with a grinder with braid. Any suggestions as to a well built rod with quality guides for this purpose? Preferably locally made.

Can you see anything wrong here? I got this rod recently and if you look at the picture of the rod showing the last two sections, the first eye shown matches up with all the previous eyes, and then the last eye of the section is short and lies close to the blank and does not line up with the...

The bar that is attached to the handle of my reel is bent, and cannot be straightened without damaging some of the fragile plastic parts of the handle. I was wondering how easy it would be to get a replacement in George? I must have dropped it somehow... or the kids:? Any idea's where I can get...

I was fishing wilderness the other day, and a guy pulled out a nice santer on a small sardine bait. First time I have ever seen a "red" fish come out from the beach. Has anyone else seen this species come out on the shore before?

I prefer fishing off the rocks, where I normally take 2 rods, a heavy surf outfit, and a 9ft 2pc blue marlin rod 1oz casting weight with a 4000 shimano grinder. I find that I catch most of my edibles on light sinkers and small drift baits on the 9ft and land up using that most of the time when...

I stopped at Bontebok national park for a picnic on route between CT and George. I was a bit puzzled by this poster. The left side had a range of exotic fish, bass, carp and blugill for catch and if you like eat, and the other side had the indigenous fish for catch and release and report. Two...

I haven't noticed too much effect with respect to water colour, but I have identified what I think are some colours that make a difference: Bright blue (tropical turquoise) water with a nice white foam. For me, this seems to work well. If I hit the clear blue patches, its no go (water too...