Fishing Rod Advice

My amazing Wife decided to treat me this xmas and went out and bought me a $230 fishing rod which is a Penn Ocean Assassin 621MH 6'2 PE 2-5 on the advice of the bloke at Getaway who uses the same rod.

It feels bloody nice to hold buuut she didn't realise I already have a 5'2 PE3-4 Daiwa Monster Mesh with an 8000 Stradic and a 7' PE2 Daiwa Catalina with a 5000 Biomaster.

I use my Catalina combo for drift baiting with a size 5 bean sinker and working placcies and microjigs as well as trolling and I use the Monster Mesh for dropping baits as well as working the bigger jigs around the 90-180g mark.

I'm thinking of two options:

1) Keep the Ocean Assassin as a dedicated jigging rod and whack a light 6000?? reel on it to make jigging for a couple of hours a lot more comfortable as the Monster Mesh combo is pretty short and heavy.

2) Take the rod back and grab a PE 5-6 rod and whack as 10-12k reel on it as I'm starting to venture out into the 40s now and plan to starting hitting Direction Bank. 

I'm leaning toward option 1 as I'm increasingly getting into jigging and fishing out of Hillarys all I am finding so far is flat coral so I am yet to get bricked in a cave from the handful of Dhus I've managed to pull up.

Cheers JF

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Answered....

Tue, 2017-12-26 13:56

with your detailed analysis that you have taken

the time too write and describe in great detail

i think you have answered yourself bud .... 

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Haha after all that I've

Tue, 2017-12-26 15:33

Haha after all that I've decided I'm gonna go option 3 and return it and buy a 20-25L portable Engel/Waeco. Got a bloody good wife though 

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Hey

Tue, 2017-12-26 16:11

 Mate we fish direction bank alot out from.mindarie in the 40 to 50m mark and i have always used a hots stilletto rod rated pe 1-3 with a stella 4k with pe 2 braid and never had a problem loosing fish etc so your rod will be perfect for the job and if im having trouble holding bottom and need a bigger sinker i use a swage imortal pe 3-5 with a stella 6k and that is oerfect no need to take the rod back it will be perfect good luck but an engel is always nice too

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Deciding!!

Tue, 2017-12-26 18:52

now that's making a decision?? If I had such a special

wife like yours ? I'd be taking the engel over Waeco

hands down !! That's what your after other people

deciding shit for ya frosty !! Cheers da pirate! 

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You should see me trying to

Tue, 2017-12-26 20:27

You should see me trying to decide what to order for dinner at the pub Pirate. Agonizing decisions

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Yeah right ......

Tue, 2017-12-26 21:04

fair enough mate!! Mind you the day my mrs starts to

decide what I'm eating at the pub for a main ??

Is the day I start wearing her undies ! But that's

just me bud ! ... happy fishing there frosty ! And

all the best for the new year !!  Cheers pirate!!

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I think you need to work on

Tue, 2017-12-26 21:51

I think you need to work on your trolling Pirate. Sub par at best.

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Trolling??

Wed, 2017-12-27 08:19

well what can ya say bout that ? Definitely not on your

level there champ ... you are a pro !! 

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 I would relegate the monster

Wed, 2017-12-27 09:16

 I would relegate the monster mesh for a designated Octa rod. 

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That's a pretty good call

Wed, 2017-12-27 16:04

That's a pretty good call dodgy.

Went in to the store to look at Waeco fridges after my missus bought me a quinoa salad at the pub and I picked up the Shimano Type J which I love and is the rod I was going to get before my Catalina popped up half price. Gonna take my Stradic in tomorrow to see how it balances with the S594 with a view to upgrading the xmas pressie and retiring the Monster Mesh until I upgrade my reel later on down the track. Was also looking at the Deep Jig 200 and Assassin Jigmaster too so will see how that balances out as well.

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That esculated quickly. The

Thu, 2017-12-28 16:22

That esculated quickly. The Tackleworld specials were too enticing and I ended up getting the Shimano Type J PE3 and am going to whack a 5000 Biomaster on it and use the MM combo as my bait/octa jig combo ... yet another combo for the rack.

Cheers for the input lads.

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