Blue Asparagus wrote: Moocha wrote: Catchelot wrote: I have a beautifully rollered Berkerly Gorrilla 7 ft 8-15kg rod with a worked TLD20 2 with 700m of 10kg Maxima mono...hoping to have fun with anything big. Wont catch anything in the garage teddy ... I hope you are talking about a Marlin not some kinky BBW shenanigans. put a team in next year Al and see how ya go Mooch you are too much

Teddy no not connected at all to the mooch but teddy has a gangster mate we call him Teddy 2 toes

Daiwa SL20 is all you need for 3 and 4 kg,  nice and cheap super smooth drags, alittle extra Cals grease doesn't hurt.. Before that I used an ABU 6500C Sprint for about 20 years, it's now at the bottom of the parengarenga habrour if you want to go get it. (bloody kayak fishing!) Have fished 4 Kg for years on kings up to 12 kgs and water up to 50 metres deep. It's a blast alright. Have just this year thrown out the 4 kg and trying the 3kg for the first time haven't caught anything on it yet, it's amazing how much thinner than 4kg it is.

yeas mate I am currently using a Diawa SL20 with 4k mono also have the Bantam 50 which I will either go back to 6 or swap it out for 4 and use the SL20 for lighter got 3 of them so have a few options

6kg on one of the shimano charter specials, works well for me. plus a couple of 3kg on spinners, great for reef/beach. 

Not really a light tackle expert but I've done lots of kahawai fishing on one and two kg and a lot of snapper on 4kg which isn't really a big test unless its big snaps and small kings at least on 6kg but a couple of points spring to mind:

An overhead has a tendency to swallow line if it has big clearance between the spool and the frame. Especially if you're a master bird nester like myself. Probably not a big issue on modern gear but my otherwise faultless Penn Mag 525 tends to do so. Well it is a Penn

Catching even a 2kg ky on 1kg meant two fish absolute max (talking mono of course) and the top 20m of line would be buggered after the old in and out through the guides. I'm guessing the choice of guides would be all important for ultralight.

Marligator wrote: 1 and 2 kg - spin outfit is a Okuma VS30A reel on a Offshore 1-2 kg rod 1kg - Overhead outfit is a Ryobi ultralight rod coupled with a Abu 5600 reel   2 and 3kg - Spin outfit is a Okuma VS40A reel (different spools) on a Okuma X Factor soft bait rod. 2kg - Overhead outfit is a Abu 5600 reel on a Composite Developments Baitcaster 2 rod. 3kg - Overhead outfit is a Shimano TR1000LD reel on a Offshore Rods 4-6 kg rod.   4 and 6kg - Spin outfit is a Okuma VS40A reel on a Berkley dropshot softbait rod. 4kg - Overhead outfit is a Shimano TR1000LD reel on a Offshore Rods 6-8 kg rod. 6kg - Overhead outfit is a Shimano TR2000LD reel on a Offshore Rods 8-10 kg rod.   8kg - Spin outfit is a Shimano 4500B baitrunner on a Offshore Rods 8-10 kg spin rod. 8kg - Overhead outfit is a Shimano TLD15 reel on a Offshore Rods 10-15 kg  rod.   A bit of good advice for guys who are wanting to get into light tackle fishing is rather than buying new rods and reels, just use your soft baiting rods and reels and get spare spools for the reels and use those for your mono.   My 3 soft baiting outfits are Okuma VS40A reels on soft baiting rods of varying strength and they make great light tackle mono outfits. I can fish 2 to 6 kg mono on them. In total I have 9 spols for these 3 reels, 3 with light braid, one with heavier braid for soft baiting around the bricks and the other 5 have mono of varying weights from 2 - 6 kg.

Wow great thread , I love light tackle fishing , where I am there are a number of fish for light tackle , one silly thing I do is chase GTs on light tackle , well light for GTs , Saragosa 8000, 20 kg rod [ CTS ]  , 50 lb braid yea I here you, not light , but believe me it is on GTs , best to date 25 kg , Sams small poppers , another great fish is Queenfish , 6 kg braid 6 to 10 kg rod Saragosa 4000 , in the harbour small GTs ,  4 kg braid , Saragosa , 3 to 4 kg rod  , Deep water , Nannygai ,Shimano Sedona 1000 , 4 kg braid , 4 to 6kg rod [ CTS ] , and the list goe's on .

few more still required chaps.

My 4kg outfit is a an overhead, ducro 10 which casts nicely and is set up mainly for inchicu fishing with braid.  Have done snapper to line weight on it so far and can't wait to tackle a legal kingi or a skippy, very nice drag and plenty of capacity for such a small reel.  The rod is a T-curve revolution, not too sure about this longterm so any suggestions are appreciated.

DON'T LAUGH, my 3kg setup is a FX2500 and a Eclipse, $60 from kmart, I've got two of these reels after breaking one rod, one with 3kg stren braid and one with 3kg maxima mono.  I've caught Snapper to 8lbs and an 8lb porae on it and a few rats too. I believe Moocha got a bit moist on a rat kingi with it during the Nats, ****e drags just take more finesse   I said DON'T LAUGH, I will be upgrading as funds allow and advice flows in from this thread.

And if Mooch gives foot rubs in the front cabin then where was mine?