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Hey guys - to help offset the cost of shipping if you buy a dredge from me I will do 15%-20% of other items that would fit in the box to offset the shipping cost and save you some money. I understand that the acrylic head lures are really expensive there, we have a full selection of the large name brand lures, as well as other tackle you may need, many of which are not on the website yet. Drop me a PM and I'll try and help you out any way I can.. 

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Hey everyone, it was brought to my attention from multiple customers that they were receiving an error about customer address not matching the card. We have solved the problem.. since we have only been selling to the US market my merchant processor had international sales blocked, they have removed the block so it will work now. Sorry about the inconvenience, let me know if there are any more problems. Thanks for the orders, very much appreciated!

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well done Dolph, great looking product.

check out his instructional video here,


Thanks for everything you did for us Eric. may you rest in peace, You were one of the real legends of NZ recreational fishing
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Dolph, the dredges look great. I see Strike Point make both stainless steel and titanium dredge bars, just wondering if the dredge arms on yours are stainless or titanium and whats the difference between them?
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Anybody loosing any arms off there dredges?,have had 2 dredges and lost arms off both of them in a very short time and its not through fish pulling them off
Recently talked to one manufacturer and he said yes it was a big problem so wondering how everybody else is getting on
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i have a bonze dredge for sale comes with spare squids pole and weight! gimmie a txt number is 0275609129
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Hi Fisherman, I lost 3 of the 6 branches off my front tier on my dredge, went back to the supplier and they are replacing them at no cost to me. We went through how I was running it and they told me that at no time should the dredge break the surface, if it does you will break them. The minimum weight you should have is 64 onz I only had 42 onz so was a user problem, which I admitted but they are still replacing it at no charge. Can't ask for more than that, hopefully I don't break any more
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Renegade.. what size dredge are you using and what speed are you towing at?

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Originally posted by stonefish stonefish wrote:

Dolph, the dredges look great. I see Strike Point make both stainless steel and titanium dredge bars, just wondering if the dredge arms on yours are stainless or titanium and whats the difference between them?
Cheers.


Yes, the ones with the kit are stainless not titanium. The difference between the stainless and titanium other than cost (4x the price) is the titanium doesn't flex, its rigid and creates much more drag and is more difficult to pull. The guys around here use stainless, the cost is substantially less, it flexes and springs and gives a pulsating action to your baits as you slow and accelerate the boat and make turns. I cant speak for all dredge arm makers but some of the ones I've seen have titanium arms and the dredge components are stainless. Most the guys that seriously fish change their dredge arms every year to avoid failure. Someone commented that the dredge should not come out of the water. That is correct, you either need more weight, less speed, or the dredge needs to go further back. How far back is personal preference but when we fish bridge boats its in clean water where it can be seen well from the bridge 3-5 feet under the surface.

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Kaveman, it's a 3 tier 36", 24" and 18" I'm trolling at 7.5 kts, we may hit 8 kts if trolling with the swell. On Ultimate Lady Tom has the same dredge, he trolls it at over 8 kts and even faster and it's held up no problem, my issue is that it was breaking the surface at add times hopefully the extra weight will fix it.
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sweet, will make sure i have plenty of weight thenWink
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First day out with new Bonze dredge....all fired up! Had done plenty of homework re rigging, and used 3mm nylon cord off a boom I had made up. I had added a small stainless pulley on the boom tip to aid the retrieval....not a good move in hindsight, as after 2 hours, the cord broke due to chaffing on the edge of the pulley!! Fair to say it took the edge off a great day on the water (as did the 28kg Bluenose we got).......just a heads up for others setting up a dredge.
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