BERMAGUI '24 | Marlin for Everyone!

Our annual Bermagui trip. The weather was incredibly unkind, however the fishing was red hot. We got 5/7 shots. Our best marlin trip to date.
Apologies for the quality of the audio, the wind was atrocious!

[@jacko3630]

Sean doesnt just rawdog harnesses, Sean rawdogs life. Great trip by the looks of it. Yibbida Yibbida

[@theroachlife]

He is the raw dog

[@toddbakes303]

Nice work guys, well done..👏

[@theroachlife]

Thanks mate, was a good trip

[@thesaltybadger]

Awesome job guys. Great to see you on the fish. We are in our first game fishing season and hooked !

[@theroachlife]

Thank you! It’s very addictive!

[@MarkSweeney-ts7kt]

Nice work Lads

[@theroachlife]

Thanks mate

[@leighroy8981]

Hey mate I’m thinking of giving them ago next year looking at the 30w what’s your rod suggestion mid range nothing crazy 👍 cheers also mono or braid

[@theroachlife]

Hey mate, We just use the new Shimano backbones, they are the same blank as the tiagra rods and now come with an Aftco roller, we paid about $250 each for them (the old ones were about $150, they had the shit roller). Can’t fault the new ones. We use a braid backing of 80lb with about a 100m top shot of 24kg on our 30ws. Great combo and stops marlin no worries

[@thesaltybadger]

What is it with Smitty and the spews !

[@juddsmith]

I celebrated a bit too hard the night before, it was a very hard day on the water for me. Usually don't take kwells but I should have that day.

[@theroachlife]

Likes to celebrate a good days fishing, usually ends up seasick the following day haha

[@Justsomerandom325]

Nice work boys, do you run the same reel drags for barrels?

[@theroachlife]

Those are 30ws that we are using for the marlin. Our barrel reels are 50ws with 37kg line, the general rule is you run your strike drag at 1/3 of the breaking strain. So for 37kg line we run the strike at about 12kgs. I hope that makes sense haha

[@Camh1968]

Excellent effort by your team! With that 50ws and 37kg line, what rod rating do you use? Cameron

[@theroachlife]

@@Camh1968 thanks mate. We use 24kg rods still. Would be hard pressed to snap one of them

[@Camh1968]

@@theroachlife thanks mate. Would that be the 15-24kg rated rods or just 24kg rating? I notice in your video that one the rods snapped. How did this happen and what was the rating of that rod? Cheers

[@theroachlife]

@@Camh1968 just the straight up 24kg I think they are. In that one the leader got wrapped around the tip and the fish took off

[@dan.bennett420]

he leader wrapped thatt first fish so porley did it all wrong