follow this journey with just such reel. My reel
of choice 12 years ago was and still is a Daiwa
SL30. Why? Well , because it was the best reel
at the time I could afford and the most modern
reel in simplicity to the great Jigmaster that I
cut my teeth on. At this time coffee grinders
were coming to the fore and they were
starting to take favour with many fisherman
for many facets of fishing however I was going
to do this with a multiplier.
My rod at that time was a Shimano
Exage 110H , a great rod that can
throw from a 1oz to a 6oz spoon with
lots of back bone to muscle any fish. I
then added a on 13kg line onto my
SL30 and off I went...for at least the
first 2 years it was “moer n soek” type
method and threw everything at the
sea at any time of the day , just so was
my eagerness! I bought books,
magazines etc and still could not find
that ONE thing that would get me into
the ZONE with Kob and spoon.
Everywhere I went and fished I was being told
LOW and SLOW ...sand banks...ginger beer
water…early
morning...high
tide...low
tide...blah blah. Well, I soon slowed myself
down and attached myself to a very good lure
fisherman, whom I sort of knew. He then took
me to a few spots along our Jikeleza. I
immediately noticed that he fished with an
11ft rod with a very fast tip, an Abu Garcia
level winder and also 12kg line. So, with the
reel and line I was fine, however I soon
realised that the 110H was a tad “heavy” and I
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falso noticed that LS(what I shall call him)
threw fairly lightish spoons, and mainly
amongst the bricks...And so begun my
journey.
I went about securing myself with another rod
which had a faster tip and still the backbone.
Enter the 12ft BM TruFlex. Well, first outing I
had to contend with was with 1oz to 2oz
spoons and this takes some thumb control as
any overwinds amongst the bricks means
reeling over the bunch up and then going back
to peel the bunch up out...while your partner ,
LS , continues to cast and as you look up he is
into a decent fish! OR, let the spoon sink and
run the overwind out and HOPE your spoon
pulls free.
Many sessions/outings later and I finally got
my first 3kg Kobbie in the bricks with a 1oz
spoon, it was about this time I started keeping
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