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I have been beaten by fishes 3 to 1 at least fishing next to pylons. its not that I target 2-kgs fishes, but they love my 10 pounds fc
home made sabikis. the terminal stay ok..but the main line get wrapped. it can be a 100 mono, 80 hybrid but once the fishes get around -pylons, all cause is gone. I love the challenge though . switching to heavy handlines, 50 fc leaders still and a 50/50 jig. that's light down the wharf.
even a 400 grams sweetlip can bust your heavy tackle once they get into/around pylons. no one has blogged, fishing wharves and jettys need be heavy. plus you need a drop gaff or a drop net too.

yeah mate handlines are the way to go........ especially for the odd barra who run straight under.
nice homemade rigs by the way

ty Tuff. Im ditching all braids fishing rockies and pylons and also fishing with kids. braids cant handle barnacles, or pylons coated with baby oysters. braids get scuffed pretty quick and let go. with kids, braid are too sharp, a split second reaction could cut a kids fingers, watching them how they play and react to bites. I have to lift a kids hook up with gloves to land his fish ( to keep him keen) 30 pnds braid is still razor sharp. we learn from mistakes. I got 600 yards of dyneema braids coming 100 pounds, I may just twist it as a leader.
btw yo zuri hybrid ( mono_flouro hybrid) 40 pounds seems to hold better against pylons.

updating the rig pics. thanks. dang. first pic should be the second pic. I dunno.

Re they bread ties you used to hold the rigs together?... good thinking. I have otherwise been been placing each rig in a clip-seal bag. Nice idea.

yah franklinryan, those ties you get with freezer bags kits that we mostly throw away . its just really to keep the lil spool tight and tangle free once you get it out the zip bag. being flouros, they seem to jump out the bags (in coils ), the ties helps to control it . fish are on frenzy, fingers shaking, that fixes that in a way

and btw, I reuse all that bags and ties. nothing is left behind at the fishing spot. if the session results to damaged rigs ( blunt hooks, kinked branch lines, frayed lines, etc. ) I just unsnapped and coil it back to the next empty bag available. most of the time, re rigging a branch line plus new hook, results in a new rig.
have you tried those 6 bucks a puff snapper rigs? or shark rigs? . or those sknelled 5 bucks rigs? they are for fairies fishing in fairyseas

Informative. Good work platesize.

thanks for the appreciation @ Mud.

last weekend for example. this trevally with battle scars all over, shark bitten , 2 little hooks in its guts ( red 1/0 and maybe a bait jig # 10 hook rusted ) , got to drag em out the snaggy pylons , 80 pndsmono leader looks like an overcooked spaghetti . this one is ..was a fighter.

So that's where my livey got to LOL

this one reminds me of kevin rudd. a stabbed mark at the back, 2 hooks rusted in the guts and still fighting..in the end he lost.

Territory_Tuff wrote:yeah mate handlines are the way to go........ especially for the odd barra who run straight under.
nice homemade rigs by the way

Yeah mate handlines are wonderful. Seen a couple of lads pull in metre barra on them using a hard bodied lure. Everybody uses them where I live and I just love the ease of them.
Cheers and good luck with the barra.