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Each to their own! If I'm bait fishing it's 's a pennel of 6/0 vikings stuffed with up to 4 good lug, attached to a minimum of 40lb suffix zippy on a simple 3ft clip down paternoster tied with phone wire stops (get a big fish on and they will slide thus getting the lead up out of the way of snags, walls etc). Absolutely none of this 'saving the bank' bullocks! Go big or go home empty, I honestly care not and will happily take blanks rather than 'nuisance' fish. I've had bass to 9lb11oz so far this summer on a coast renowned for scratchers who baulk at using ten lug in a session whilst fishing 3 rods out of the boot of their car - I just do not get that approach! I've had my fill of hounds, rays, tope etc over the years and now do what suits me and suggest you should too as it would be boring if we all did the same. Enjoy your fishing, that's the key.

BTW I released that fish as I want lamb not mutton so I use what those doyens of RSA fishery management the Yanks call a 'slot size' of 45cm to 65cm for bass and codling that I want to eat - which isn't many as I prefer game and wildfowl to be honest

<blockquote data-quote="Topwater" data-source="post: 64866" data-attributes="member: 620">Each to their own! If I&#039;m bait fishing it&#039;s &#039;s a pennel of 6/0 vikings stuffed with up to 4 good lug, attached to a minimum of 40lb suffix zippy on a simple 3ft clip down paternoster tied with phone wire stops&nbsp; (get a big fish on and they will slide thus getting the lead up out of the way of snags, walls etc). Absolutely none of this &#039;saving the bank&#039; bullocks! Go big or go home empty, I honestly care not and will happily take blanks rather than &#039;nuisance&#039; fish. I&#039;ve had bass to 9lb11oz so far this summer on a coast renowned for scratchers who baulk at using ten lug in a session whilst fishing 3 rods out of the boot of their car - I just do not get that approach! I&#039;ve had my fill of hounds, rays, tope etc over the years and now do what suits me and suggest you should too as it would be boring if we all did the same. Enjoy your fishing, that&#039;s the key.BTW I released that fish as I want lamb not mutton so I use what those doyens of RSA fishery management the Yanks call a &#039;slot size&#039; of 45cm to 65cm for bass and codling that I want to eat - which isn&#039;t many as I prefer game and wildfowl to be honest</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Topwater, post: 64866, member: 620"] Each to their own! If I'm bait fishing it's 's a pennel of 6/0 vikings stuffed with up to 4 good lug, attached to a minimum of 40lb suffix zippy on a simple 3ft clip down paternoster tied with phone wire stops (get a big fish on and they will slide thus getting the lead up out of the way of snags, walls etc). Absolutely none of this 'saving the bank' bullocks! Go big or go home empty, I honestly care not and will happily take blanks rather than 'nuisance' fish. I've had bass to 9lb11oz so far this summer on a coast renowned for scratchers who baulk at using ten lug in a session whilst fishing 3 rods out of the boot of their car - I just do not get that approach! I've had my fill of hounds, rays, tope etc over the years and now do what suits me and suggest you should too as it would be boring if we all did the same. Enjoy your fishing, that's the key. BTW I released that fish as I want lamb not mutton so I use what those doyens of RSA fishery management the Yanks call a 'slot size' of 45cm to 65cm for bass and codling that I want to eat - which isn't many as I prefer game and wildfowl to be honest [/QUOTE]

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