nice..... next one pan sear em.... if theyre still fresh, rare on the inside (dont know just a guess.....)
overall not a fan of Okuma, but picked up an Azores jigging spin rod (50-100#) today.... for $99!!! to pair with a Penn Spinfisher 6500. It looks pretty legit (all carbon with solid fuji guides) .... gonna spool it with 50# PP tonight. ready to put it to work Got a bunch of other shit today... tent sale at Strike Zone in JAX
I will try and translate as I have zero clue what you are talking about Stinky but I will give it a shot-----Stinky went to the store in Jacksonville and got some really neat gear on sale and he plans on using it to fish ,,,,,,does this sum it up or am I way off base lol
Oh yeah, just had my second Tanacom 500 delivered yesterday. Wifey mentioned we might need a spare for the other 500 as it performed so good on the deep drop trip. Spooled with 350m of 50# Daiwa 8 strand J-braid. Those reels truly could be called little giants with their 33lbs of drag and high line capacity. Can't wait to break them both out on a Cod/Pollock/Haddock trip off Block Island. I think those trips start in Mid to late June.
I hope you guys are out " YACHTING " oops I mean sailing on the high seas today it is quite lovely out there.
There's some big fish down there That reel has close to 30# drag... I'll prob set it to 15-20ish (was gonna put 65# on there, but I already had a 500yd. spool of 50 at the house) not really.... prob just a long leader... 60-80# LOL
I always thought drag should be set to 20% of rated line strength. I usually set my 50# rigs at 10# and so forth.
usually 25% (well, at least for trolling... we would set the 50W at 12# drag... This is from friends that grew up fishing marlin and tuna tournaments) can go up to a 1/3 for jigging/bottom fishing.... You may pull / pop some but you usually got to get them out/away from the structure, but generally you can go higher than trolling simply because odds are the tension/fish will be in one direction.... sometime a fired up pelagic will zigzag/change direction (towards boat, and line goes slack at times... and there's usually more impact on strike trolling ex: my 114H (beast master), I have 80#.... it has around 22# drag. That setup is just for LARGE baits and pulling grouper/snapper out of their holes... havent used this one yet, but have used comparable set ups in the past.... will mostly just be used as a grouper digger. but yeah, messing with that spinning rod yest, i think I'll do 12-15#.... I know despite those drag ratings, not sure how the reels internals can handle it. didnt have an exact scale, just tied it to some dumbbells in the garage. my other large spinner (baitrunner 8000) the drag is set a bit less as it's more for fish closer to the surface (although I did pull that big african Pomp up from 100')
Too bad that's not me in those videos Came across that first one by accident, next thing you know I wasted half my sunday watching them.... theyre pretty classic Those guys down south have it easy.... we have to run 40-60 miles to do most of that stuff
