Ballooning setup
Submitted by choc on Sun, 2012-07-15 08:24
Hi Guys
Looking at getting setup to do a bit of balloon fishing and was wondering if anyone out there has some suggestions on rods and reels to use,it will be mainly for off the rocks up north.
Cheers Choc.
Rig
Posts: 2159
Date Joined: 27/12/06
Live fibre
Live fibre do a LBG rid that is pretty good.
As far as reels go I use a penn international 30tw and a shimano tld50 lsra
Its important you have enough capacity
Oceanside Tackle
Posts: 1365
Date Joined: 23/07/09
Live Fibre LBG
The Live Fibre LBG 9ft 15-24kg rod has been a popular seller for us over the past 6 months. Plenty of up and go to use locally and plenty of boys have been using them to chase the Mackies up at Quobba and Steep point. This rod matched upto a 30-50 size overhead reel as mentioned by Rig will be a perfect set up. We have one of these rods left instock, If you wanted to have a look.
Cheers
Blake (Manager), Josh & Ryan Thipthorp - The Oceanside Team -
Like us on Facebook
Ph #(08) 9337 5682 - Specializing in Jigging for demersal & Super Deep species.
choc
Posts: 124
Date Joined: 05/01/12
Thanks for the info
Thanks for the info guys,might come and have a look next time I am up in Perth.
Knot Big Enuff
Posts: 364
Date Joined: 17/05/11
im in the market for the
im in the market for the same! Also for someone to go with, NoR. Always been boat fisho.
Cheers,
Hesh
PGFC Member
Fireguard
Posts: 33
Date Joined: 13/09/09
My big 'Steep Stick' is a
My big 'Steep Stick' is a Snyder Glas FT120 6W matched with a Deep Spool Alvey 651C5.
The alveys got plenty of winching power and plenty of line for balooning, the Snyder is like a broom stick, i'm really happy with this setup.
My last trip to Steep I managed to winch in a 2.5-3m shark (after an hour, we cut it off at the base of the cliffs - toooo heavy to lift)
sherbert
Posts: 4489
Date Joined: 10/09/06
Times have change
Better setups around SORRY
Old farts club
Rig
Posts: 2159
Date Joined: 27/12/06
Old
Hey herbie that out fit is almost as old as you lol
brenz
Posts: 2195
Date Joined: 15/06/06
nah no where near it rig
nah no where near it rig sherbs is prehistoric
TROOPY
Posts: 81
Date Joined: 30/05/11
me and my mate run shimano
me and my mate run shimano catana 10ft overheads and tyrnos 30 filled with as much 50lb braid as possible. its done me great in the past and not an everly expensive combo
1 from the beach is worth 10 from a boat
mulloway_hunter
Posts: 260
Date Joined: 18/04/11
tyronos 30 or 50 with a
tyronos 30 or 50 with a sarbre or some sort of 15 to 24kg lbg rod got into blue water they can give you a bit of a hand in morley. they got some rods but every rell that you could imagine for ballooning