Hi all,

I am after some advice. I am keen to get into stickbaiting, but I am pretty confused with all this information running around. I am currently based in Sydney, but get home to fish around whangamata and auckland regularly.

I do a quite a bit of jigging so I wouldn't mind a reel that can do a bit of double duty.
I suppose my questions are around, what sort of solid set up would you recommend and also what size stickbaits for around mayor, aldies etc.

Guys as I said, pretty keen to get amongst this form of fishing, but keen on some help.

Thanks a bunch.

Hi mate, I have an old stella 8000SW-PG and a monster mesh max rod. You can pick up that reel for about $800 now second hand (or find a retailer with old stock) and the rod is $350 new.

Hi Jono, I went through the same process recently. I already had a Stella 10k & bought second hand a Carpenter Blue Chaser rod which by the way if you can find one second hand in good nick buy it! I have also got a Shimano Ocea stick bait rod matched with a Shimano Sustain 10k which I used to use around the gulf but I now just use the carpenter. When you coming back to NZ? If your keen you can have a play with the my sets give you an idea of what's out there!
Pete

Cheers team,

Very generous offer Pete, I will look you up when I'm next over (shouldn't be too long).

I was looking at the 10000 size shimanos after watching their video on stickbaiting from last year.

Awesome guys, thanks for the advice, I will keep you posted on my purchases.

Jono... pm me when you get back, i  live in Whangamata and often go to mayor solo jigging and popping so could have a spot for you. Cheers Kevin