scratching.

just wondering what most of you are using for scratching Mono or braid. and why?

Hi Samo,

this was posted a while back and I believe it to be as good as it gets advice wise!!!


braid is a must for boat fishing because you are holding the rod in your hand and also for drifting you can read the bottom and use very small diameter lines to over come water drag ,this also applies to spinning your in direct contact with the fish.
But as regards beach fishing the only thing braid is good for is a bit of excitment(magnifying small bites) great for pleasure fishing but when your looking for doubles and tribbles mono out fishes braid every time .Im also a fixed spool man and have 15 spare spools in my tackle box for three or four diffrent situations,out of the 15 i have one spool of braid and the only reason i have that is if i am fishing beside someone else using it i would have no choice only to use it to prevent them cutting me off.I do know what im talking about i have tested two rods with exact bait and rigs one with braid and one without ,in a situation where there was plenty of fish results were tribble every cast without fail on mono and singles, doubles and the odd tribble with the braid i hope this realy answers your question "braid is a waste of time for competition beach fishing"
A.Mul

cheers bud,

im after switching over to the fix spool for scratching on beaches on the east coast like clones and tinnaberna. i bought a Trabucco Cattura its a pretty light rod, pretty long as well. any suggestions on a reel to go with it? trying to keep everything as light as possible.

What size cattura did u get Samo.a good fixed spool reel for that rod would be a shimano aero technium mgs get 2 of them '

Whats up Ronnie i got the 4.5m one will be able to clean the chimney with it

Got one a couple of weeks ago great rod. The new dh

TELL THAT SAMO LAD NOTHING

Ha ha cheers Ian