The original thread was moved to the Sliding section.
http://www.sealine.co.za/view_topic.php?id=30164&forum_id=76&page=1
I'll just update it here as there is far more traffic.
So I went on my 1st sliding excursion on Saturday. We netted mullet and off to Sundays we went. Just as we arrived the SE wind started pumping. The conditions were terrible, with a strong current pulling my grapnel out the sand. I slid anyway to see if it works. I think it worked, except for maybe that my sinker and bait ended up in the river mouth due to the currents.
Then we moved to the bay. Fished off some boulders into surf, roughly 2m above the sea level. Bearing in mind the SE was PUMPING into our faces, I could not get the clip to move past roughly 15m away from me. No matter how I shook the rod, it just would not budge, dangling in the air with the fish in water. What is the problem here? Too windy? Is there a way to work around this where the wind is directly in my face?
I was actually quite saddened by that, because I managed to cast my sinker for sliding quite far against the wind. I tried to cast the mullet out and couldn't even get past the 50m mark.
1st sliding mission = FAIL
http://www.sealine.co.za/view_topic.php?id=30164&forum_id=76&page=1
I'll just update it here as there is far more traffic.
So I went on my 1st sliding excursion on Saturday. We netted mullet and off to Sundays we went. Just as we arrived the SE wind started pumping. The conditions were terrible, with a strong current pulling my grapnel out the sand. I slid anyway to see if it works. I think it worked, except for maybe that my sinker and bait ended up in the river mouth due to the currents.
Then we moved to the bay. Fished off some boulders into surf, roughly 2m above the sea level. Bearing in mind the SE was PUMPING into our faces, I could not get the clip to move past roughly 15m away from me. No matter how I shook the rod, it just would not budge, dangling in the air with the fish in water. What is the problem here? Too windy? Is there a way to work around this where the wind is directly in my face?
I was actually quite saddened by that, because I managed to cast my sinker for sliding quite far against the wind. I tried to cast the mullet out and couldn't even get past the 50m mark.
1st sliding mission = FAIL