QUOTE(1dollar @ Jan 21 2013, 04:45 PM)
when u said cacing,.. as in live earth worms?
You didnt try the zoom worms I gave you ka ??
Went to Exotic on Sat with Inv & trowachin.
Well it was a fun & frustrating day for us, apparently bite rates to inv & trwoachin wasnt that good according to them, 2 weeks ago was almost 1 cast 1 bite.
We landed some good Amazon, baung, plabuk.
Lost quite a lot of lines fighting fishes, I lost mine to some thing strong pulling into the propellers machine.
Kinda sad because most of our hooked fishes didnt made it to the land. A lot slip & escaped while fighting.
Lessons learnt from Exotic :
1) Dont bother going with line below 15lbs
2) go with a rod rating M-MH
3) bring extra rods, if possible 3.
4) Soft plastics works so does deep diving lures.
5) workout those arm muscles & just hang on to the rod
Reel n rod setup also very dependent on what fish u are targeting. Not to say that you can't go with a UL setup, but from experience, it takes too long to land the average sized Asian red tails on a UL setup. But if u r targeting the jelawat, a UL setup is very fun.
Summary,
Jelawat, UL/L setup recommended.
Asian redtail, preferably ML/M class rods n reels.
Amazonian, higher chance to land the big ones with MH setup, above 15lbs line. 20lbs preferably.
My fav. Baits to use there would be any soft plastic for jelawat n Asians, while the amazonian will require some deep diving crankbaits.