Recent content by Thrasher

Top dangling sir.

Looks like a wee day out to Bristol might sort you out. There seems to be a few shops that sell sea fishing gear and they will be able to kit you out with all you need. As for the use in freshwater the reels will be limited dependant on what you might be fishing for, they are a bid reel.

They should do the trick.

Well done a nice mixed bag. Your first bass has had a bit of a tussle with a cormorant.

Stop buying Danish bacon in protest.

Wincy Willis?

Get on to you tube. I am sure sea angling adventures have it in a couple of their videos they might have a review, can't remember exactly what ones though.

I watch fishing with Paul on you tube and he fishes Shoreham a bit. I have seen him wait for the access gates to be opened. Trouble is I have not got a clue when that is.

Can you not go for fresh bait and a catch up of what is going on the day before you intend to fish?

Have you purchased anything yet Fitz?

My thoughts are we need no EU boats within 12 miles. We only need creel boats within 2 miles and we need some full no commercial fish zones. No dredgers.

Never had a bad experience with braid itself. The only time I have was due to the reel I was using. Mind you I have been uskng braid for spinning for salmon for donkeys years and all on Shimano's mostly and it was Berkeley Spiderwire so a good combo straight from the off.

I would suggest that you avoid braid on either set up. If they are at the budget end the reels are likely not to have good enough line lay for braid. That will then give you no end of wind knots and you will get pissed off and fed up.

What about the Okuma 8k surf and a Penn tidal 13ft up to 225g for the beach set up and maybe an Abu Toementor 10ft 10-40g and a Daiwa Ninja spinning reel. That would leave some money for a tripod, line, lures, rigs etc.