After a few efforts with no success, I finally managed to get all aspects of tha big beach rod working. With fresh herring caught on Sunday and a decent ganged rig set up me and my mate were at our local.  So far so good we made it without any close calls of writing tha 4x4 off.   My first cast I was very happy with and set tha rod in my piece of PVC.   I set up my little rod to try for some more herring.    After 10 minutes or so I decided to see if anything was happening.   Some thing had taken my herring and 2 of tha ganghooks straight off.   I was stoked even tho I had nothing.   A new set of gangs and another side of herring and I was back in.   Within minutes I was getting big pulls on tha drag but nothing set.   Then all went quiet.   I reeled in to find a hering carcass back bone and tail on tha hooks.   Wow what a rush.   Unfortunately tha swell started getting crazy and tha seaweed was starting to cause havoc with tha lines, sinker and bait.  So we called it a day.   Just stoked to have made it to step 2!!!!!

What was tha forcast swell for today for northern metro.   I think that I have a lot of learning to do when it comes to picking good days to get out.   That being said this morning was fuckin awesome!!!!