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I have had one for nearly 12 months mate and I reckon they are bloody great. They as tough as nails and have delivered a great number of Kingies and I'm still learning how to use one properly I reckon. You wont go wrong with one and the after sale service is brilliant (downrigger)
Andys "Red Rocket" as I have now named it did the damage. First called for a smallish king and putting up a respectable fight the fish was raised, at the side of the boat the net was called. Swoffa almost cried tears of either frustration or disbelief or a combo of both. Andy your jigs can Catch anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was a First for me!!! (250g knife jigs)
Workmanship is excellent and they work well mechanically. I've had nothing but raves and compliments on them. Good money spent IMO. (downrigger)
Mate your jigs smashed it I was belting the other boys 3 to 1 than I had them using them but now there all gone so I will order some later in the week, the other two guys will order some in the next two weeks as well (250g knife jigs)
I tied a few knots in the 50 LB last night very impressed with the knot strength of the line. Allbright broke under a bit of a fair load
vertical node knot (youtube) broke under ALOT of load ( leader wrapped around my foot and braid wrapped around a screwdriver handle and giving it a hell of a time) (PE Braid)
Fisho, Andy always goes well above and beyond in his customer service...
i dont know of any trader/merchant/seller that comes within coooey of his service... if interested go up and meet him check out the gear and im sure you will walk away happy.. pockets a lot lighter but happy cheers...steve....
Smashed them on the block then when the punters got tired went into the banks and got into them there ,everyone bagged out on 70/97cm fish within 3 hours so i think i can safely report that they are still there, your pink/purple was the winner for the day and with only two other boats there for the afternoon it was very refreshing. cheers joe (knife jigs)
Ive got one and its the shit.....Andys service was exceptional going out of his way to let me test the product before buying and delivering to my door. (downrigger)
ANDY you are a GEM when i opened the box and seen what was in it i died in the arse i knew it was big but jessuss i said to myself what have i got myself into after getting used to what i was looking at i said bloody ripper now for the rod most likely tomorow a call to richard and off to EDEN we go you will here from me sometime in the future (electric reel)
The new reel was awesome, drop after drop it was unbelievable you couldn't stop it. I was amazed at how easy it is to use and the speed of the retrieve, we had it hooker up to a jump-start battery pack which is pretty small but ended up having plenty of life (electric reel)
Forgot to mention that I was using a $30 saltiga jig, and downrigger shop jigs had landed 3 fish without so much as a touch on the Daiwa. I ended up switching to a pink river to sea that cost $12 to get my first hook up... Might need some stock Andy! (knife jigs)
This fish came up quickly initially, saw the yak & dived to the bottom again, got him back up to the leader knot then all the way down again, then one more time to the top when I grabbed the tail & 85cm of kingfish was on my lap. Thanks to Andy from the CJ, the jig was one of his he gave me as a demo, I'll be buying the set. (knife jigs)
Mate the reel held up awesome,thanks once again,cant beat the sound of that drag it was smooth as silk,took me a couple of minutes to get the kingy off the bottom and then just let the rod/reel do its job!! (HG4000 reel)
Thanks for the braid. I received it on Friday and really impressed with delivery time. I owe u and romano a beer. Love the braid and thanks for the quick delivery once again, looking forward to buying more products of u in the future. (PE braid)
If ya going out,get a heap of Andy's jigs as they are cheap and work great as you can see from my success & plenty of spare line and prey to the fishing gods as its hard out there off sydney and also down the coast from what ive heard.. the 73cm king weighed 4kg and the skinny 83cm 5kg ..
Plenty of triple and quadruple hook ups, and even managed to have everyone, skipper included hooked up and landing fish at the one time... Not sure what you'd call it though there was 5 of us on board.
They werent touching the livies that we had down, which was a bummer because we had a tank full of them. But they were loving the jigs. All were caught on Andy's jigs.
Andy I recieved my line counter a couple of days ago that you sent off very promptly. It is an awsome little tool at a very reasonable price. I was a little skeptical as to how accurate it might be so measured out 50 mtrs with the tape. Fitted the counter to my rod [takes about 1 second] , hooked the line to the fence and walked back to the measured 50 mtrs. I was pleased to read exactly 50 mtrs on the line counter. Then I wound back to the fence and counter had wound back to exactly zero.Fantastic mate. now we know exactly how much line has been taken off the spool to fill the reel and how much is left for the next job. (line counter)
Hi Andrew i would just like to express my personal thanks to you for selliing myself a deep sea electric reel and rod, you are one of the very few people that is able to explain and sell a product exactly how will operate and perform, i also have a shimano tanacom bull 1000 and its only 12 months old, in which I purchased before your rod and reel, shimano do make some great products, but not in this end of the market and not in deep sea electric reels like your product
Adriano keen to test out his new outfit purchased from the downrigger shop (Daiwa Saltiga rod + Daiwa Oceano 4500j). We made our way out and once we arrived we immediate landed some rats 70-75cm. when he saw the size of his fish, the smile from his face was from ear to ear. he landed the biggest of the day at 95cm. at the end of the day we caught ~20 kingies (Saltiga JG-511 and Daiwa 4500J reel)
On the fish I did catch the Seagate did not miss a beat, smooth drag, great retrieve rate and really comfortable to use even after 200 casts although 30lb braid might be over kill (until that hoodlum comes along and smashes me!) but I would recommend this reel to anyone looking for a cheaper reel that doesn't skimp on quality (Daiwa Seagate 3500H)
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