I often service my reels and equipment. I polish my knives and sharpen my knifes. I build new rigs and so forth. I now do all this by whacking on a Roger Osborne video and Roger keeps me company while I get my fishing chores done. Great way to spend an afternoon when I cannot get out to the surf.
@@JP-qn4uo I use a set of EZE-LAP L PAK4 Set SF/F/M/C Colour Coded Diamond Hones for sharpening my hooks and knives. I have a Stanley Multi Angle Vice that I have attached to my desk. That hold my hooks while I sharpen. I fish with barbless hooks. I am an avid Alvey fisherman, I have many Alvey reels I use, old and new. I do own the odd egg beater, but I have fished with Alvey since I was a kid. I use Lew's Super Duty Casting Reel Grease and Lew's super duty Spinning Reel Grease. I have a 3-in-One oil I use also. When it comes time to re-spool, I have a Plusinno Fishing line spooler for my Alvey reels and a Piscifun Speed X line spooler for my egg beaters. I would HIGHLY recommend you buy the actual products and not the cheap counterparts you find on Amazon. I fell for that trap and the quality difference is night and day. These reel spoolers are amazing at how well they combat air knots and line twist. I can leave my Alvey reels untied with just the loose line hanging and they don't unravel and tangle up. I can give links to all of these products if you want them.
Hello Roger, many thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge of all things fishy. I grew up in a Victorian country town many miles from the coast but loved to beach fish with my dad when on our summer holidays. Being a girl, Dad only taught me a little bit & certainly not enough to be successful fishing on my own or with my kids. Dad died last year & all that ‘know how’ knowledge is gone. So, you are now my go too! Hopefully, your tutorials will get me & my brood catching fishing confidently and successfully soon. Bless you.
Your channel is the best because you always provide details of your gear in every video... I wish all fishing channels do the same. Thanks alot Roger 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hi there Rodger, yes here in South Africa we do have a variety of worm species. Most notably are blood worms and moonshine worms. The way in which we catch and collect these is very different to say how you demonstrate how to catch beach worms. Ours often requires a pump, and lots of digging to get down to the worm itself. I personally haven’t attempted to catch these but seen tons of videos on how to catch them. Would be great to have you here! 🎉🇿🇦
There are tons on videos on how to collect worms. Perhaps a couple of pilchards in a stocking could work however I've mostly seen the locals use hand pumps and some good old fashioned digging to retrieve the worms.
@@RogerOsborneFishing it would be great to have you here, we love targeting our kob/mulloway here with squid and live bait. You will pick up the odd shark if they're hanging around so you're always in for a interesting session if that happens. 😅 Our beach gear is pretty much heavy or extra heavy. 12-15ft, 3-7 Oz rods and heavy braided line (40lb and up) is very common due to our sometimes unforgiving coast line.
This was another great session. Have you ever considered doing a handline fishing session and see what you think about it? No rods for a session! I think it will be a great session for many to see. Cheers!!🍺✌️🎣
Hi Roger, I’ve started fishing about a month ago and when I started I watched nothing but your videos. I did end up going and purchase a rod and reel on my own and kind of a jab in the dark with some research and recommends. Well it turns out I had gotten the exact same setup as your heavy set, just different brands. Good to know that my setup is the same as one an expert would use. I do a lot of traveling down south during summers and will head down again December this year. I’ll stop by and fish at Ulladulla and maybe I’ll run in to you. Thank you for all the teachings you do. Happy fishing 😊.
Roger, I find it great that the fishing fraternity world wide is a close knit brotherhood. I just read vert and Charles below. Your guide to rod sizes was very informative as I didn't know the weights of star sinkers. Now I do, thank you !!! More rain and strong winds in the far Northern Rivers and SEQ.
Hello Roger , i just wana tell you that you are wonderful , you have such a wonderful charisma.. i am watching you right now from Egypt. I can watch your videos forever..👍👍👍
Thanks mate good video..myself -been using a 9" one peice wilson live fibre trophy rod with a 4k size reel 12lb mono, on south coast beaches for decades, great feel for whiting bream etc will handlebig salmon and tailor etc, however difficult to find one peice rods these days
enjoy your vlogs immensely, I am more similar to how Starlo fishes with lighter gear than you and using braid. But started over 50 years ago with a jarvis walker heavier 12 foot rod and a large threadline and an ABU 10000C when most used alveys rather than overheads. later using my rock spinning overheads with lighter ABUs and then lighter spin gear with reels up to 3000 size and up to 12 lbs. Still havent caught a jewie though.
Hi Roger, I watched your video and enjoyed it as I do all your others. Your way of imparting your experience is exceptional. As an expat Saffa who has done many decades of beach and rock and surf angling, mostly in Natal. I cannot understand why you, and many other Aussie fishermen do not avail yourselves of a belt gimble or 'bucket' as us Saffa`s would call it. The convenience, comfort and control this simple device brings cannot be overstated. I`d be most interested to know. All the best.
Hi Charles, I’m sure that a belt bucket would be great, I’m purely just not in the habit of using one. I haven’t thought about it but maybe I’ll give it a try 😄
Good question, Charles! I've been pondering the same thing. In South Africa, it's customary to beach fish with a "bucket"-it's how I was taught, and I still use it. However, I've noticed that this practice isn't as common here in Australia. I also learned to beach fish with short-butt beach rods, whereas long-butt rods seem to be more prevalent here. Could this be due to a different tradition of practice, or is there another reason? Any thoughts Roger?
Roger, with the 2 hook rigs: cut a few slices of pool noodle and wrap your rigs around those. I keep several on my fishing backpack! Got the idea from Alex belissimo
Hi Roger, your salmon, which is our NZ Kahawai, have you ever tried cooking with skin on??? My wife cooked with skin on one day, I wasn't too keen at the time, but it is actually very nice eating the skin... Agree they really do keep much better if you bleed them and put on ice as quickly as possible after catching... Enjoying all of your videos... Roger Roger
it may be a name thing. i spent a few years fishing in South Africa and certainly used beach worms. i cannot remember what they were called locally there but certainly looked the same same as the beach worms here in Aus.
Roger's back! Have the Maikuro II 10'! Awesome rod for the beach! Long enough to get good casts and keep line above the waves, but light and easy to carry. Will handle most things you can catch off the beach!
Hi Roger, I recently found your videos, and I am truly enjoying it. I am in the market for my first rig, and your video really helped me to understand the difference between a M and L rig. My question is, do you have a recommendation for your first rig? I am based in the South Island of New Zealand
Awesome video as always, and thank you Roger. I have just been converted to the old Alvey reel. Such a beautiful sensitive way especially light set up. Really just love them
Hi Roger. Excellent vid as usual. Just wondering what would be the specs of your light beach outfit? I've currently got something similar to your heavy outfit and though i don't do much beach fishing (unfortunately), when i do I would like something lighter and currently am just using an 8ft 2-4kg UglyStik, which is my light eastuary rod. It's ok but sometimes being able to cast further would be good. I'm thinking similar weight rating but in a longer rod would be the go? Cheers.
Thanks Roger, great video, I'm off to the shed to check my gear and see how it's rated. With the heavier lines, 40lb plus, do you find species are line shy? Regards, Matt
Hi Roger. Thanks for the feedback from your live chat. What I think happened to your trace that had parted, is probably what we call a swim off in South Africa. That is when something thoothy swims into your line and bites it off. Here the culprits nine times out of ten is usually (shad/tailor/ bluefish), sharks or (wala-wala/hair tails/cutlasfish). Thanks for a great show. We do have beach worms of varous descriptions along our coast namely blood worms and moonshine worms. The moonshine worms are probably as close to your beach worms as we get here. The other worm species live in shael amongst rocks and have to be dug with your hands or a small garden spade (wonder worm), live under black and brown mussel beds (mussel worm)(very distructive to collect it) and coral worm (hard stone like tubes "glued" to the rocks and also very destructive to collect). I have seen someone use vinigar to make the mussel worms come out of the mussel beds on TH-cam; but want to try it myself and see if it works. That will save the mussel beds from being dug up to collect the mussel worms.
Hi Roger I've been watching and have scribed to to your you tube channel for many years, I regularly fish seven mile beach at Shoalhaven heads . I would really appreciate you doing a video tutorial of seven mile beach Shoalhaven heads.
Hi Roger, love your content, I have been fishing on and off for a out 10 years. I now live in outer Melbourne, wondering if there are beachworms this far south? And more Importantly could you do a video on After fishing for the day, correct way to wash and clean your gear. I have in the past damaged reels with not cleaning them properly. A mate told me NOT to put them under running water, he said this would push salt into the reels. Thanks you again. Tight lines.
The way your trace line was frayed at the end with the live mullet we often get here in South Africa on live baits. The culprits are usually small (raggie pups/sand tiger pups), bronze whalers, dusky/grey sharks or hammerhead sharks; as they swim down the line to catch the live bait with their mouths open. The quick take off on the lighter rod would make me lean towards it being either a small bronzie or hammerhead. We usually rig the live bait with a fixed circle hook through the mouth or top lip and skin hook a J hook just under the skin on an adjustable line further back along the body between the first and second dorsal fins. Alternatively we rig the circle hook through the top of the eyes of the baitfish with some cable ties and/or dacron. That way the live bait stays with its head facing into any current and stays alive longer.
Binjee is how it is pronounced lol, used to fish there before it was banned for anglers by the introduction of the park system. very close to Starlo. Like him cant catch beach worms lol. Totally agree with your views on eating salmon, typical common fallacy. Brilliant talk about balanced gear all too often anglers fish too heavy in my view both line and reel size, but I was brought up fishing ANSA gear too and seen so many big salmon even taken on 4lb mono at the beach .
This is Roger from PA int the US with a few questions. 1. What is your opinion on shock leaders to support casting heavy bait and weight? I have heard a rule of thumb is 10lb per ounce for a shock leader. 2. How do you handle wanting to change line 10lb to 15 or 20 lb weight? Do you use multiple spools? Or do you have multiple rod reel combos? 3. Do you have an opinion of line size affecting the bite? That is using heavier line will negatively affect your chances of getting a bite. Great video by the way. I have watched your videos multiple times!
Fantastic informational video Roger ,thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills. Can you please help me with a snapper set-up for boat use . Cheers mate
Hi Roger, here is another angle on this …. I have a 12’ beach rod (Makurio II) and use 20lb braid. I currently have 5500 and a 7500 penn reels. Even the smaller reel is 3/4 full of bedding mono to get 250m of 20lb braid on it. The bigger reel would probably take a km of 20lb braid. Yet both of these reels are hopelessly unbalanced on the 12’ rod. This makes it very tip heavy and uncomfortable to hold. So if I put say a 14000 reel on this rod to make it balanced, and want to use 20lb braid, I would need to use a huge amount of bedding line on it to finish it with 20lb braid. So I guess this is another tradeoff to consider. ( My wife suggests I just use the small reel and tape a diving weight to the rod.)
there is weight tape u can put on the lowest point of the handle, some reels are heavier than others even at similar sizes, some rods u can unscrew the butt and u can put weight in it somehow. though its not too uncommon for a long surf rod to be somewhat tip heavy, theyre generally used in a rod holder most of the time anyway
Hi Rodger, hope all is well. Great videos you make ive learnt so much but could you do more mulloway fishing and a educational video on need to knows and what to knows? I'm in Adelaide and starting to fish alot more and chasing the elusive silver ghost. I pulled my first soapie at the kingston surf comp and am absolutely hooked. Im running a Penn prevail 2 15 - 37kg 12ft matched perfectly with a 14000 baitrunner long cast and 50lb braid
Roger, another great video. I notice the majority of your beach fishing sessions are towards twilight and into dark. You've mentioned about fishing early in the morning. I've been tending to fish early in the morning. So was wondering if it would be best to get down to the beach when it was fully dark and go through the sun rise? Or just close to sunrise?
I'm sure you have probably covered this already but I was interested to see you use a simple piece of PVC pipe to hold rods on the beach. Any reason for not going with a steel rod holder with fins? I like the idea of PVC very much. Thanks
best spinning reel brands will generally be shimano, penn, daiwa, and penn is more a heavy duty kind of reel, with a medium rod like that u could go around 5000-6000 size, daiwa tends to run a little bigger than shimano so a size down there generally
Another enjoyable vid... You didn't say the size of the reel on the medium rod for 15lb. line... Which track gets me to that spot please...??? Does using braid being much thinner mean a smaller reel but in doing so, it might be too small for beach fishing...??? Cheers.
Hi Roger, just wondering if you could say something about the speed of rods which i presume relates to the tip flexibility. Seems a whippie r rod tips saves a lot of effort from the shoulder.. older rods were very stiff.
Hi Roger, I noticed that your medium rod is less than 10 foot. Silly question, but with the modern tech in carbon graphite rods with light guides available these days, does the length of the rod really matter in terms of casting distance? I.e. would a modern 10’3” inch rod be still acceptable for casting in the surf?
Hi Roger Thanks for the great content..I live in Lake Macquarie NSW..any good beaches for beach worms that you know of..best beach for fishing up here? Many Thanks
Hi Roger, big fan from WA. I just started to fishing but couldn't find any place to catch beach worm in NOR i guess. Do you know any place that i can catch beach worm? Thanks, Alan
Hi Mickey, I would definitely recommend it. Recently, I have not been berleying much however it actually makes a very big difference and I should be doing it more often.
Hi Roger. With the heavier 12 or 13 foot rods, do you favour a two-piece or three/four piece rods? The car-carrying convenience of the 3 of 4 piece rods is great, but does this compromise the rod’s performance?
شكرا جزيلا على المعلومات القيمة و الفيديوهات الممتعه . منذ اكثر من ١٠ سنوات وانا اتمنى اجلس على الشاطيء و القي بالصنارة في الماء . ادعوا لي افعلها قريبا .
Interestingly what is called whiting (AKA king fish) in the US is different than what we call whiting here in Aus. Is it possible to have your email. I was wondering if you would be open to sponsorship?
I often service my reels and equipment. I polish my knives and sharpen my knifes. I build new rigs and so forth. I now do all this by whacking on a Roger Osborne video and Roger keeps me company while I get my fishing chores done. Great way to spend an afternoon when I cannot get out to the surf.
What do you use for servicing the reels?
@@JP-qn4uo I use a set of EZE-LAP L PAK4 Set SF/F/M/C Colour Coded Diamond Hones for sharpening my hooks and knives.
I have a Stanley Multi Angle Vice that I have attached to my desk. That hold my hooks while I sharpen. I fish with barbless hooks.
I am an avid Alvey fisherman, I have many Alvey reels I use, old and new. I do own the odd egg beater, but I have fished with Alvey since I was a kid.
I use Lew's Super Duty Casting Reel Grease and Lew's super duty Spinning Reel Grease. I have a 3-in-One oil I use also.
When it comes time to re-spool, I have a Plusinno Fishing line spooler for my Alvey reels and a Piscifun Speed X line spooler for my egg beaters. I would HIGHLY recommend you buy the actual products and not the cheap counterparts you find on Amazon. I fell for that trap and the quality difference is night and day. These reel spoolers are amazing at how well they combat air knots and line twist. I can leave my Alvey reels untied with just the loose line hanging and they don't unravel and tangle up.
I can give links to all of these products if you want them.
@@JP-qn4uo I just replied to you with everything I use and my reply was deleted.
@@JP-qn4uo I use Wilson reel grease and Diawa reel oil. Both are wonderful.
Haha, I do the exact same thing, makes it less tedious
Hello Roger, many thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge of all things fishy. I grew up in a Victorian country town many miles from the coast but loved to beach fish with my dad when on our summer holidays. Being a girl, Dad only taught me a little bit & certainly not enough to be successful fishing on my own or with my kids.
Dad died last year & all that ‘know how’ knowledge is gone.
So, you are now my go too! Hopefully, your tutorials will get me & my brood catching fishing confidently and successfully soon.
Bless you.
This is very appropriate as I sold my boat yesterday and am going to start beach fishing...Cheers..
Your channel is the best because you always provide details of your gear in every video... I wish all fishing channels do the same.
Thanks alot Roger 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hi there Rodger, yes here in South Africa we do have a variety of worm species. Most notably are blood worms and moonshine worms. The way in which we catch and collect these is very different to say how you demonstrate how to catch beach worms. Ours often requires a pump, and lots of digging to get down to the worm itself. I personally haven’t attempted to catch these but seen tons of videos on how to catch them. Would be great to have you here! 🎉🇿🇦
Thanks! That's very interesting, I'd love to learn more about worm fishing in South Africa.
There are tons on videos on how to collect worms. Perhaps a couple of pilchards in a stocking could work however I've mostly seen the locals use hand pumps and some good old fashioned digging to retrieve the worms.
@@RogerOsborneFishing it would be great to have you here, we love targeting our kob/mulloway here with squid and live bait. You will pick up the odd shark if they're hanging around so you're always in for a interesting session if that happens. 😅
Our beach gear is pretty much heavy or extra heavy. 12-15ft, 3-7 Oz rods and heavy braided line (40lb and up) is very common due to our sometimes unforgiving coast line.
This was another great session. Have you ever considered doing a handline fishing session and see what you think about it? No rods for a session! I think it will be a great session for many to see. Cheers!!🍺✌️🎣
Hi Buddy, yes I have considered doing a handline session. I used to fish a lot with handlines when I was younger.
@@RogerOsborneFishing Cool! The handline fishing was the way when I started fishing as a kid. It's fun for sure.🎣✌️
Hi Roger, I’ve started fishing about a month ago and when I started I watched nothing but your videos. I did end up going and purchase a rod and reel on my own and kind of a jab in the dark with some research and recommends. Well it turns out I had gotten the exact same setup as your heavy set, just different brands. Good to know that my setup is the same as one an expert would use. I do a lot of traveling down south during summers and will head down again December this year. I’ll stop by and fish at Ulladulla and maybe I’ll run in to you. Thank you for all the teachings you do. Happy fishing 😊.
Thanks! That's fantastic that you got a great setup!
Roger I do miss the night fishing they are really fun to watch!
Thanks Roger 👍🎣
Love your content, mate, every one on them teach me something.
Love to see a video on maintenance after use thankyou
Roger,
I find it great that the fishing fraternity world wide is a close knit brotherhood. I just read vert and Charles below.
Your guide to rod sizes was very informative as I didn't know the weights of star sinkers. Now I do, thank you !!!
More rain and strong winds in the far Northern Rivers and SEQ.
Hi Geoff from the South Coast 🐟
Hello Roger , i just wana tell you that you are wonderful , you have such a wonderful charisma.. i am watching you right now from Egypt. I can watch your videos forever..👍👍👍
❤
Thanks so much for the kind words!
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Thanks mate good video..myself -been using a 9" one peice wilson live fibre trophy rod with a 4k size reel 12lb mono, on south coast beaches for decades, great feel for whiting bream etc will handlebig salmon and tailor etc, however difficult to find one peice rods these days
That sounds like a great setup!
enjoy your vlogs immensely, I am more similar to how Starlo fishes with lighter gear than you and using braid. But started over 50 years ago with a jarvis walker heavier 12 foot rod and a large threadline and an ABU 10000C when most used alveys rather than overheads. later using my rock spinning overheads with lighter ABUs and then lighter spin gear with reels up to 3000 size and up to 12 lbs. Still havent caught a jewie though.
Yes bru, come to South Africa, you will love it here
Hi Roger, I watched your video and enjoyed it as I do all your others. Your way of imparting your experience is exceptional. As an expat Saffa who has done many decades of beach and rock and surf angling, mostly in Natal. I cannot understand why you, and many other Aussie fishermen do not avail yourselves of a belt gimble or 'bucket' as us Saffa`s would call it. The convenience, comfort and control this simple device brings cannot be overstated. I`d be most interested to know. All the best.
Hi Charles, I’m sure that a belt bucket would be great, I’m purely just not in the habit of using one. I haven’t thought about it but maybe I’ll give it a try 😄
Good question, Charles! I've been pondering the same thing. In South Africa, it's customary to beach fish with a "bucket"-it's how I was taught, and I still use it. However, I've noticed that this practice isn't as common here in Australia. I also learned to beach fish with short-butt beach rods, whereas long-butt rods seem to be more prevalent here. Could this be due to a different tradition of practice, or is there another reason?
Any thoughts Roger?
Hey Roger, congrats on the 100k subs mate.. love your work 🍻
Roger, with the 2 hook rigs: cut a few slices of pool noodle and wrap your rigs around those. I keep several on my fishing backpack! Got the idea from Alex belissimo
i justtt started doing this i havent taken my pool noodle out yet (which has like 15+ rigs on it right now lol)
Hi Roger, your salmon, which is our NZ Kahawai, have you ever tried cooking with skin on??? My wife cooked with skin on one day, I wasn't too keen at the time, but it is actually very nice eating the skin... Agree they really do keep much better if you bleed them and put on ice as quickly as possible after catching... Enjoying all of your videos... Roger Roger
it may be a name thing. i spent a few years fishing in South Africa and certainly used beach worms. i cannot remember what they were called locally there but certainly looked the same same as the beach worms here in Aus.
Mmmm thanks for the feedback
Roger's back! Have the Maikuro II 10'! Awesome rod for the beach! Long enough to get good casts and keep line above the waves, but light and easy to carry. Will handle most things you can catch off the beach!
Another great video Roger excellent information not only for newcomers but everyone
This video is very helpful to me in choosing existing or new gear. Thanks.
Thanks! Glad to help out.
Can you do a video on Alvey reels? Would be great to learn how to use them and rig them up!
Hi JP,
Send me an email via my website and I can help you out with some info.
I reckon Alveys are the only way to go. Good fun hooking something big and palming the reel to try and slow it down, that's fishing!!
Hi Roger, I recently found your videos, and I am truly enjoying it. I am in the market for my first rig, and your video really helped me to understand the difference between a M and L rig. My question is, do you have a recommendation for your first rig? I am based in the South Island of New Zealand
Do you think you could tell us about your Rod Rest Tube, you put your Rod in, and is it easy to push into the sand , many thanks JC.
It’s just pvc pipe cut on an angle at the end that goes into the sand. The rod end is usually heated and flared or has a flared attachment.
@@Pat.Mustard
Also use the thicker pvc pipe as it penetrates the sand easier
Love seeing these beautiful beaches 🏝
Awesome video as always, and thank you Roger.
I have just been converted to the old Alvey reel. Such a beautiful sensitive way especially light set up. Really just love them
Hi Tim, I have used Alveys for many years.
I am really enjoying fishing an 11'4" Gary Howard club special, and 6 pound line. Mainly whiting style set up. Seems to work well with the right bait.
Alvey the only reel for the beach anybody who offer's a egg beater for the beach is giving you bad info
Hi Roger. Excellent vid as usual. Just wondering what would be the specs of your light beach outfit? I've currently got something similar to your heavy outfit and though i don't do much beach fishing (unfortunately), when i do I would like something lighter and currently am just using an 8ft 2-4kg UglyStik, which is my light eastuary rod. It's ok but sometimes being able to cast further would be good. I'm thinking similar weight rating but in a longer rod would be the go? Cheers.
Thank you mate, you are the best
Thanks mate!
Thanks Roger, great video, I'm off to the shed to check my gear and see how it's rated. With the heavier lines, 40lb plus, do you find species are line shy?
Regards,
Matt
I go to my tackle shop and go, I want to try fishing for this species from here, what gear do you suggest?
Thank you, Roger
Love the video Roger
Hi Roger. Thanks for the feedback from your live chat. What I think happened to your trace that had parted, is probably what we call a swim off in South Africa. That is when something thoothy swims into your line and bites it off. Here the culprits nine times out of ten is usually (shad/tailor/ bluefish), sharks or (wala-wala/hair tails/cutlasfish). Thanks for a great show. We do have beach worms of varous descriptions along our coast namely blood worms and moonshine worms. The moonshine worms are probably as close to your beach worms as we get here. The other worm species live in shael amongst rocks and have to be dug with your hands or a small garden spade (wonder worm), live under black and brown mussel beds (mussel worm)(very distructive to collect it) and coral worm (hard stone like tubes "glued" to the rocks and also very destructive to collect). I have seen someone use vinigar to make the mussel worms come out of the mussel beds on TH-cam; but want to try it myself and see if it works. That will save the mussel beds from being dug up to collect the mussel worms.
Hi Roger I've been watching and have scribed to to your you tube channel for many years, I regularly fish seven mile beach at Shoalhaven heads . I would really appreciate you doing a video tutorial of seven mile beach Shoalhaven heads.
Hi Roger, love your content, I have been fishing on and off for a out 10 years. I now live in outer Melbourne, wondering if there are beachworms this far south? And more Importantly could you do a video on After fishing for the day, correct way to wash and clean your gear. I have in the past damaged reels with not cleaning them properly. A mate told me NOT to put them under running water, he said this would push salt into the reels. Thanks you again. Tight lines.
The way your trace line was frayed at the end with the live mullet we often get here in South Africa on live baits. The culprits are usually small (raggie pups/sand tiger pups), bronze whalers, dusky/grey sharks or hammerhead sharks; as they swim down the line to catch the live bait with their mouths open. The quick take off on the lighter rod would make me lean towards it being either a small bronzie or hammerhead. We usually rig the live bait with a fixed circle hook through the mouth or top lip and skin hook a J hook just under the skin on an adjustable line further back along the body between the first and second dorsal fins. Alternatively we rig the circle hook through the top of the eyes of the baitfish with some cable ties and/or dacron. That way the live bait stays with its head facing into any current and stays alive longer.
Hi Henk,
Thanks for the info, those are some great tips on how to rig live bait.
Excellent video, now I understand what all those numbers on the rod mean. Thanks Roger, we'll done.
Cheers mate, glad I could help!
Binjee is how it is pronounced lol, used to fish there before it was banned for anglers by the introduction of the park system. very close to Starlo. Like him cant catch beach worms lol. Totally agree with your views on eating salmon, typical common fallacy. Brilliant talk about balanced gear all too often anglers fish too heavy in my view both line and reel size, but I was brought up fishing ANSA gear too and seen so many big salmon even taken on 4lb mono at the beach .
Thanks Keith
This is Roger from PA int the US with a few questions.
1. What is your opinion on shock leaders to support casting heavy bait and weight? I have heard a rule of thumb is 10lb per ounce for a shock leader.
2. How do you handle wanting to change line 10lb to 15 or 20 lb weight? Do you use multiple spools? Or do you have multiple rod reel combos?
3. Do you have an opinion of line size affecting the bite? That is using heavier line will negatively affect your chances of getting a bite.
Great video by the way. I have watched your videos multiple times!
Fantastic informational video Roger ,thanks for sharing your knowledge and skills. Can you please help me with a snapper set-up for boat use . Cheers mate
Thanks, mate, I will put together a video on snapper setup for boat fishing soon.
Hi Roger, here is another angle on this …. I have a 12’ beach rod (Makurio II) and use 20lb braid. I currently have 5500 and a 7500 penn reels. Even the smaller reel is 3/4 full of bedding mono to get 250m of 20lb braid on it. The bigger reel would probably take a km of 20lb braid. Yet both of these reels are hopelessly unbalanced on the 12’ rod. This makes it very tip heavy and uncomfortable to hold.
So if I put say a 14000 reel on this rod to make it balanced, and want to use 20lb braid, I would need to use a huge amount of bedding line on it to finish it with 20lb braid.
So I guess this is another tradeoff to consider. ( My wife suggests I just use the small reel and tape a diving weight to the rod.)
there is weight tape u can put on the lowest point of the handle, some reels are heavier than others even at similar sizes, some rods u can unscrew the butt and u can put weight in it somehow. though its not too uncommon for a long surf rod to be somewhat tip heavy, theyre generally used in a rod holder most of the time anyway
Hi Rodger, hope all is well. Great videos you make ive learnt so much but could you do more mulloway fishing and a educational video on need to knows and what to knows? I'm in Adelaide and starting to fish alot more and chasing the elusive silver ghost. I pulled my first soapie at the kingston surf comp and am absolutely hooked. Im running a Penn prevail 2 15 - 37kg 12ft matched perfectly with a 14000 baitrunner long cast and 50lb braid
Roger, another great video. I notice the majority of your beach fishing sessions are towards twilight and into dark. You've mentioned about fishing early in the morning. I've been tending to fish early in the morning. So was wondering if it would be best to get down to the beach when it was fully dark and go through the sun rise? Or just close to sunrise?
can you beach worm near melbourne ?
That’s what I want to know too
I'm sure you have probably covered this already but I was interested to see you use a simple piece of PVC pipe to hold rods on the beach. Any reason for not going with a steel rod holder with fins? I like the idea of PVC very much. Thanks
I use the PVC because you can cut it the size that you want, it works well and is inexpensive. The metal ones work fine as well.
Hi Roger, Any chance you could please do an Alvey beach session?
With the medium 9.5 foot rod , what size reel are you using/pairing with it please
Thank you.
Also, what brands, please?
Tbnkk you again . Donato
best spinning reel brands will generally be shimano, penn, daiwa, and penn is more a heavy duty kind of reel, with a medium rod like that u could go around 5000-6000 size, daiwa tends to run a little bigger than shimano so a size down there generally
I'm currently using a Shimano Stradic 6000.
@@RogerOsborneFishing Thank you
Another enjoyable vid...
You didn't say the size of the reel on the medium rod for 15lb. line...
Which track gets me to that spot please...???
Does using braid being much thinner mean a smaller reel but in doing so, it might be too small for beach fishing...???
Cheers.
I’m using a Stradic 6000 with the 15lb line.
Overall, braid allows you to use smaller fishing reels and you could certainly do that with beach fishing.
Australian salmon makes great sashimi too . . .
The UK has lugworms and ragworms (maybe others), can normally get them from fishing shops or hunting yourself.
That's great to know, thanks!
Hi Roger, just wondering if you could say something about the speed of rods which i presume relates to the tip flexibility. Seems a whippie r rod tips saves a lot of effort from the shoulder.. older rods were very stiff.
Hi Roger, I noticed that your medium rod is less than 10 foot. Silly question, but with the modern tech in carbon graphite rods with light guides available these days, does the length of the rod really matter in terms of casting distance? I.e. would a modern 10’3” inch rod be still acceptable for casting in the surf?
Hi Roger
Thanks for the great content..I live in Lake Macquarie NSW..any good beaches for beach worms that you know of..best beach for fishing up here?
Many Thanks
Hi Roger, big fan from WA. I just started to fishing but couldn't find any place to catch beach worm in NOR i guess. Do you know any place that i can catch beach worm? Thanks, Alan
Hi Roger, I have rarely seen you using any burly on the beach, is it a waste of time due to the current or would you recommend it?
Hi Mickey,
I would definitely recommend it. Recently, I have not been berleying much however it actually makes a very big difference and I should be doing it more often.
Perfect, thanks Roger.
Hi Roger, what series size is the reel on your medium rod.
Hi Roger.
With the heavier 12 or 13 foot rods, do you favour a two-piece or three/four piece rods? The car-carrying convenience of the 3 of 4 piece rods is great, but does this compromise the rod’s performance?
شكرا جزيلا على المعلومات القيمة و الفيديوهات الممتعه . منذ اكثر من ١٠ سنوات وانا اتمنى اجلس على الشاطيء و القي بالصنارة في الماء . ادعوا لي افعلها قريبا .
Why don’t you use braid on the beach? Do you use braid on any of your rods? What knot do use for the braid if you use it?
Hi Jeff,
I do like braid and use it as well. Mono is more forgiving for beginners and is easier to tie.
Recently there has been a lot of rain. Heavy swells and stormy weather. How does this kind of weather affect your fishing trip/expectations?
Interestingly what is called whiting (AKA king fish) in the US is different than what we call whiting here in Aus.
Is it possible to have your email. I was wondering if you would be open to sponsorship?
You are welco🌺🌻🌼🌸
nice
I've been watching your experience for a while now. You and your camera lady need a
Not everyone can carry a 9ft rod in their vehicle. Any opinions on two piece rods?
They work the same as a one piece mate
Never seen anybody searching for beach worms on the mid west coast of west ausralia
Thanks for the info.
+1
Just go to a tackle shop an ass what sort of fishing rods you need for beach fishing instead of going a fortune
It’s a shame Sydney beaches are so polluted, they pump sewage out during heavy rain.
Ok what size reels you are using.. beach fishing .use only 12 .to 13 foot rods. And don't need to know about south Africa..
Hi Darren, I mainly use a 6000 with 15lb mono, and a 14000 with 30lb Mono.
@RogerOsborneFishing thanks for the video . . great info & help