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Fishing Talk / Re: Malibu/Santa Monica Shark Species
« on: December 09, 2019, 09:59:43 PM »
Welcome. I personally recommend lever drag conventional when you move up to the 7s and stuff. Something like an Avet or I know Penn has one a haír cheaper. Star drag works fine but setting the drag for the bite and for the fight comes in handy when you’re dialing it in for the current or the kelp while you’re waiting on the bite.
50# braid may work but I feel much more comfortable using 65# and most use 80#. 7s won’t spool you but a big bat might. Can’t speak for soups but I do hear they’re runners, so 300 yards of 65# would be a comfortable place to be with your reel, maybe 350#.
Malibu definitely has leos, fresh bait helps as they said above.
And yes the 7gill game is a slow one, I’m pretty sure I’ve targeted them on at least 50 trips and 4 of those trips were successful. But once I did catch one I felt like it was all worth it. I still sometimes feel like i don’t know what I’m doing, though. I caught 2 about a month ago and I’ve gone maybe 5 times since for nada. It must be the gambler mentality that keeps me coming back because I can’t rationalize fishing for these things any more
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50# braid may work but I feel much more comfortable using 65# and most use 80#. 7s won’t spool you but a big bat might. Can’t speak for soups but I do hear they’re runners, so 300 yards of 65# would be a comfortable place to be with your reel, maybe 350#.
Malibu definitely has leos, fresh bait helps as they said above.
And yes the 7gill game is a slow one, I’m pretty sure I’ve targeted them on at least 50 trips and 4 of those trips were successful. But once I did catch one I felt like it was all worth it. I still sometimes feel like i don’t know what I’m doing, though. I caught 2 about a month ago and I’ve gone maybe 5 times since for nada. It must be the gambler mentality that keeps me coming back because I can’t rationalize fishing for these things any more
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