Off to Bali on Wednesday and, though I've heard that the locals have ruthlessly netted the place, I'm still taking a bit of travel gear to enable me to wet a line. I probably won't catch anything, but I like hard fishing and just being in front of some fairly deep water wondering what's lurking about gives me a thrill.
I've bought a selection of single inline hooks (the eye is inline with the point rather than at a right angle) to replace the trebles on my lures. Trebles have an excellent hook up rate, but they make such a mess of the fish
If one was fishing for the pot, that's fair enough, clonk it on the head and be done with it, but for catch and release I don't like trebles, even though I'm dooming myself to more missed hits on the lure. If I get a hit..
Also bought some 8 strand braid in 20lb and 30lb to renew my mainlines, which admittedly are ancient.
The hooks are good branded makes, and the lines are from Ali express (but with good reviews on WSF:
While I was shopping on Ali Express, I found some shameless Black Minnow soft lure knock offs too, at 1/4 of the price of the real thing (The blue ones on the left are genuine) :
So I bought a bunch of different sizes and colours:
While I was there, I also decided to add some other bits to my slow boat from China order:
40 gram popper (I've already swapped the trebles for singles on this lure):
20 gram "Badger King" diving lure (below an existing lure of mine):
The above lure, being the king of all badgers, apparently, should hook me into a nice Jack Trevally or Yellow Fin. Why wouldn't it?
Finally, I bought some new leader lines: 20lb flouro-coated mono to use as lure leaders (I prefer this to pure flouro leader as it flexes better) and some tapered leaders to lob out a bottom bait, if I fancy it.
So this afternoon I'll be replacing lots of trebles with singles while trying not to hook myself and once I've decided which reels to take, I'll get spooled up with new line.
Looking forward to going and not catching anything!!
