Rods and reels!!!

[goldeneye243]

Just wondering what rods and reels people typically use for fishing from their SIBs...

[goldeneye243]

For use in the SIB I got a couple of Shakespeare Omni 7ft boat rods & a 5ft- ish Kayak rod plus a selection of multiplier reels including a fairly gutsy Okuma Classic XT that was on offer, a nifty little Abu Garcia BlueMax and a cheap little Qunhai.

I don't consider myself a sports angler, I'm only ever after catching something to eat - a few mackies plus maybe the odd codling, nothing too big that would put up a fight.

[Martin]

Strange, I have the Okuma CLX Multiplier reel and a Shakespear Omni rod too...
Did we have a discussion on this subjecty and then all follow someones advice

I'll be honest, I don't know one fish from another apart from Mackies, Gurnard and Cod. That's about my limit
Cheap and cheerful gear for me cos i kinda think a fish doesn't care whether your wearing Mat Allan or Gucci

Martin

[ChrisParish]

I have a couple of Shakespeare ugly stix and some reels. Mainly after food.

[goldeneye243]

What lb class gear are people typically using as well?

[rogerblack]

I tend to use lightweight line, either 19 or 24 lbs with a length of 50lb shock leader on the large reel only, mainly for when I use it from piers or harbours etc rather than the boat.

Any tackle I buy which has triple hooks gets replaced with single and I tend to file the barbs down for easy release. Having once tried to deal with five flapping mackies on a line at once in my small SIB, I now reduce any mackerel feather sets I buy, which tend to come as four or five feathers, to two or three.

My biggest fear is catching anything way too big to handle such as a large skate or octopus - imagine trying to land something like this on a 3.2 m SIB:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland- ... t-13548263

Off Fife that would probably tow me to Denmark, or the USA if on the West coast!

[Stray]

What lb class gear are people typically using as well?

As light as you can, though some members think 50lb class is light.

[ChrisParish]

What lb class gear are people typically using as well?

As light as you can, though some members think 50lb class is light.

I wants to bludgeon the fish to death!

@Martin uses his to haul his anchor

[ArcusFlyer]

Short rods for me for sea fishing, so much easier to handle. I use a couple of 20lb class shakespeare sigma rods. They have all the grunt I need and coukd easily pull big cod or tooe up to the boat.

[ArcusFlyer]

I have both multiplier and fixed spool reels but in the frib on the sea i use the shimano ultegra fixed spool sea reel and have never had reason to change to anything else.