Barra and Jacks - line discussion

[James@herveybay]

Gents,

I would like to get some opinions on line (main and leader) everyone likes to use for Barra, Jacks, Threadies etc in places like the Burrum River, or any other estuary / river system with similar species.

Thanks in advance for any input.

James

[ActiveAngler]

Hi James,i use 20 lb braid and anywhere from 20 to 40 lb leader on pretty much all my outfits.

[Didley]

James I use 20lb Tufline braid and 20, 40 or 60lb black magic leader depending on the country

[nipsta]

Hi Jamie i use schiender normall mono as my leader and i use 30 lb to 60 lb i also have black magic flurocarbon i like as well .
But value for dollar and strong to the schiender line kicks arse .

[Barramag]

Hi James,for Lenthalls, Mary,and now the Burrum I'll use 20lb Main and 30-40lb Black Magic Leader.When I go to Mondy,and when i go to Awoonga in November I'll use 30 to 50 lb Main and 40-60lb Leader.I use mono leader on the surface lures.
Paulo

[snake]

James,

It really depends on where your catching them, around townsville I mostly use 4, 10 and 20lb braid and occasionally 30 if im fishing heavy country and think that theres a good chance of a big fish.

my setups are,

4lb braid, 14lb running leader to a 25-35lb bite.

10lb braid, 25lb leader sometimes a 40lb bite.

20lb braid, 35-40lb leader

30lb braid, 40-50lb leader

also note that I only use flurocarbon for leader material.

Jake

[rooboy98]

Hi mate,

I run 20 lb braid (Platypus/Bionic) and 40/60 lb leader (Jinkai Plus) on a couple of rods for casting lures and plastics. For trolling lures deep in amongst timber, I run 30 lb braid and 60 lb (sometimes 80 lb) leader.

Cheers,
Roo.

[randell]

I'm oldschool and just use mono, sunny coast so I'm after a jack.
I have 15 lb, 20 lb 35 lb outfits.
This day I used 35lb outfit, for a 4 kg landlocked jack.......
We ate him at family gathering.............. also won $50 fish of the month Taclke World Kawana...

I think it is more tactics, timing ,tide, weather, I have been reading up...........
I''ll be back


randell

[Lukeyboy83]

20lb finns braid with 40lb black magic flurocarbon leader

[James@herveybay]

I am thinking thus far that 20lb braid main line with a 30lb black magic fluorocarbon seems to be good all round solution. Thanks for the responses, I am about to re-line my reels and I don't have spare spools so something that is good for most of my fishing needs is preferable. Leaders are easy to change unlike the main line and I cant afford to buy too many more quality reels.

Randell - nice fish, family would have loved getting into that one.