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How to loose a rod
- Thread starter Andre1979
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Shark Man: good for you then! You found happiness right at home, not in some distant country =)
Anyways, back to the fishing subject. I had to clinch my teeth, bite the bullet and buy new fishing gear. Jokes aside, i did it on the 1st of April, and now i'm a happy owner of another Blue Marlin G3 420 6:8 rod (R 1 200) that replaces the exact same rod i lost, and Daiwa Sealine SL50 reel (R1 200) which is surely better than Firewolf, but more expensive, obviously. Total damage to the family budget 2 400 rand. So i'm going to test the new gear this coming weekend. Try to finally catch a bronzie at the namibian coast. Wish me luck! This time i'll attach myself to the gear real good and will not let it out of sight even for a second!
Anyways, back to the fishing subject. I had to clinch my teeth, bite the bullet and buy new fishing gear. Jokes aside, i did it on the 1st of April, and now i'm a happy owner of another Blue Marlin G3 420 6:8 rod (R 1 200) that replaces the exact same rod i lost, and Daiwa Sealine SL50 reel (R1 200) which is surely better than Firewolf, but more expensive, obviously. Total damage to the family budget 2 400 rand. So i'm going to test the new gear this coming weekend. Try to finally catch a bronzie at the namibian coast. Wish me luck! This time i'll attach myself to the gear real good and will not let it out of sight even for a second!
Back in the good old days , when you could still drive on the beach, Neil Gouws put a slider out on Maccassar Beach in Cape Town and put the rod in the stainless rod holder on the front of his bakkie. Obviously ,(after a couple of Captain Morgan Spiced Gold's) forgot to loosen the drag!! Long story short , shark took off ,he could not get the rod out of the holder due too the fish pulling (HARD!!) , the rod butt snapped off!! Now if it was in his pension pipe , the rodholder would "flex", taking some of the grunt!! The bakkie was parked in gear and handbrake on , so it did not move at all!!!! Meanwhile back at the ranch and after peeing ourselves laughing , he actualy landed a 80kg bronzie on a rod with no butt section!!! If it was any other angler it would have been impossible. Neil Gouws is a fishing maestro in my opinion!! Try it once , attach your reel with some tape or cable ties right at the bottom of your rod and let somebody pull away like a (big) fish!! Not that easy!!