RFadventures
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Planning on collecting tuna gear for next year lots of talk out there on the gear. Lets hear what you are using for rods and reels and why??
And you landed over 20 tuna in short order with that gear? Hats off to you.I’ll chime in but take my advice with a grain of salt as I do only have one trip under my belt. But we just used 2 halibut rods with level wind reels, and 2 stiffer old 9foot salmon rods both with old wooden peetz reels. As well as 2 handlines. That setup worked well for us anyway..
What Mike didn't tell you was he dropped $700 on Zukers, rabbits, divers, gangion, mono, etc etc. It was all highly successful but baby steps for us. Especially considering it's a once a year fishery. Its doubtful we will start buying tuna rods. We might buy another hali rod at some point but to be honest I preferred our old 8'6' downrigger rod matched to a 6" Peetz Reel......That and hand lines. The hand lines were very productive and they brought meat in quick and easy.Planning on collecting tuna gear for next year lots of talk out there on the gear. Lets hear what you are using for rods and reels and why??
You don't need heavy gear for 15 lb fish. Sculpin was with me the first time i started getting them on heavy salmon rods and Islander reels. I go as light as possible. Depends on if you're meat fishing or sport fishing.I won two Okuma Solterra SLX lever drag reels with 7' medium heavy Okuma SCT Tuna rods. Haven't used them at all but hoping to rig them up for hali and tuna. What type of line should I be putting on? Heavy duty braid in which pound test?