Recently i’ve bought a 15’ surf rod and coupled it with a hemmingway 4000 with 30pound dyneema braid.
My rig set up is a helicopter set-up utilising wire leaders as materials, leader 60pound asso and size 2/0 or 4/0 hooks No.7/8 bottom sinker.
By utilising a treader needle design courtesy of a well known surf caster from melaka, i’m able to use fresh or market prawns for bait and has caught(not as much as i’d like) a host of catfish(DUri and Pisang), the occasiional malung, sesirat, 2 commandable Parrot fish( my proudest catch ever) and recently a 1kg Gemang.
My question
What is the best rig set up for live prawn bait becoz everytime i cast it tends to come off the hook?
When is the best time to target for Stingrays and the best location for them as my brother who has been dying to get one since he upgraded to a 16’ and pls also the best bait for them?
Should i get a bigger spool capacity reel or a longer rod?
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i think all rigs set up is best for using prawn and to prevent it from come off from the hook please try using a baitholder type hook or threaded the prawn with cotton yarn…
im not expert about pari behaviour, but what i know big tide time is the best, as for bait, i think prawn is the best or mebbe can try others ranking bait like whitting or squid…
depend on how big the fish youre gonna to face…experience will tell you what you gonna to use then…
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It’s best to fish live baits from the rocks, jetties, breakwater etc. where the water is much deeper and you don’t need to cast far.
My rig would be the one-down paternoster using single hook and trace length of about 3.5 ft. Simply hook the live prawn at its lower half and thats it. The whole idea is to let it swim freely and make our bait presentation very enticing.
However, casting needs to be smooth and less violent which naturally affect distance thus choosing a suitable venue for live bait fishing is important to get good catches.
2)It is proven that the best time to surf fish is during rising and down going tides where there are more active bites. Peak and low tides are usually less productive but of there are exceptions lah. I guess this would apply to catching rays as I’ve caught many of my rays during this period.
I don’t surf fish that frequently but many of my rays have been caught at Lumut, Rompin and Pantai Penyabung beaches. My first pari was caught at Teluk Rubiah, Lumut using perumpun only.
Baits wise, I guess the best would be the bolos or gelama cut baits freshly caught from the beach at the same venue. These baits would last longer for the rays can get to them.
3)Like leadhunter said, as for the reel you need to ascertain what kind of surf fishing do you want to do, “big game” obviously bigger reels and stiffer rods and vice versa. Generally, a surf reel for spinning set-up is the one with big, long and shallow spool.