Heres a photo of a couple of my 6/0s gettin used , and a greenish 12/0 and rod i bought from some old bear last year,before and after cleaning shots.
I will take a few more photos on weekend and cozz i am enjoying this gallery like most other members ill post em up.
Very nice Harry, I'm glad that you decided to post them. That first pix belongs on a front cover of a fishing magazine. I would have never thought that there were so many Penn guys. Thanks for sharing. Sal
Great Penn pics!!!! It is nice to see them in action, love to see some more.
John
Nice old reels and and great photos. It is good to see the old-school equipment still in use.
Sal , i remember back in 1984 rockin up to the screwpile jetty at Victor Harbour and the whole wide end of that pier was chocka block full of reels ,mostly all senators and probably 2 or 3 Daiwa 900Hs. There woulda been 40 or 50 reels being fished that night easy if not more.
I often wonder where have all those reels gone ? Must be in some old shed collecting dust i rekon, the rods too , cant seem to find any of those old school game rods that used to be around back then.
Thanks for all your kind comments. hope you all enjoy. I will add more pics soon too ;D
They cleaned up well Harry. thanks for sharing.
Quote from: Harry on May 16, 2012, 03:53:03 AM
I often wonder where have all those reels gone ? Must be in some old shed collecting dust i rekon, the rods too , cant seem to find any of those old school game rods that used to be around back then.
Thanks for all your kind comments. hope you all enjoy. I will add more pics soon too ;D
Great pics Harry i know that jetty( pier) lol Yeah what ever happened to all those senators i remember that same jetty(pier) years ago when i counted 28 reels lined up of the end there was at least 18 6/0 s a few 4/0 s alveys and tatlers v and my 9/0 and one of the 6/0s had a run and no one knew which one went of ha ha cant wait to see more pics
Quote from: George4741 on May 16, 2012, 03:08:40 AM
Nice old reels and and great photos. It is good to see the old-school equipment still in use.
Yep George still fishing old school you should see the kids faces when we bring down the 6/0s and bigger down the pier and then we cast them beats there TLD s Toriums ,Tyrnos hands down cheers
You know some of these rods n reels and this pier/jetty el greco, some are no longer in our ownership anymore. :(
old photo but i like it!
Thank you for posting the photos of working gear.
Quote from: Harry on May 17, 2012, 03:53:09 AM
You know some of these rods n reels and this pier/jetty el greco, some are no longer in our ownership anymore. :(
old photo but i like it!
[/quote Love the pix Harry its a pity young people cant experience that any more with so many do gooders around ,is that the longbeach 68 in the mix there cheers
Yep ...3rd one in from the right ...lonbeach 68 my first Penn!
My 9/0 befor i found this site , gave it a quick service and checked out the drag stack.
Never knew others would be so intreasted in fishing reels ,thought i was the only nut!
Harry, Did you replace the original drag washers with HT100's in your 9/0?
George
Indeed George i have ,but it did take the loss of a nice big fish to make me realise how bad the standard drag washers are once they get "HOT"....el greco would remember that night too!
All my penns have them now , except 1 12/0, have them here though just havnt put them in yet,coming to think of it... ive never pulled that 12/0 to bits yet , ive only taken of the sideplate a couple of times to try to repair the line eating problem i HAD!
Cheers Harry
A few more pics of my working reels. Hanging to go for a fish.
Quote from: Harry on May 22, 2012, 04:25:27 AM
A few more pics of my working reels. Hanging to go for a fish.
hey.
we used to fish Normanville for big rays and shark yrs ago.
I used the penn red 6\0 and a Daiwa 900.Both with upgrade drags.
Rapid Bay jetty and the south headland. in season for the big Kingies
using live squid from under jetty
This was in 70's and 80's. Bronzies of 6 ft and more where quite common to.
Biggest eagly I ever got. almost spanned the jetty from side to side.
Used L.Rover winch to drag it up beach at 4 in morning.
Those bottles of Greens Ginger Ale.used to go down real nice in the cold.
Lying there in swags waiting for the ratchet click..
Those Daiwa's had much stronger gears than the penns.
Gday macka17, you still in my neck of the woods?
Yea some good areas down towards rapid bay still .
No Harry. I come from Townsville.
Lived down there for a few yrs. Then went back up to Queensland again. C.Q. Yeppoon.
Couldn't stand the cold.
Ex is still down there though. Seaford..
You getting some of the Tuna runs down there again.
Same as we used to heve in the 70's. off the end of Jervis and the Pages.
You could just about walk on them in those days..
Macka
macka
you talkin green ginger wine,
a couple of gulps and a shudder
good to go ;)cheers
Quote from: wallacewt on July 24, 2012, 12:18:25 AM
macka
you talkin green ginger wine,
a couple of gulps and a shudder
good to go ;)cheers
yea.
Greens Ginger Wine.
BUT. 3 in morning under tarp. Freezin.
Waiting for, hopefully. Somebody elses ratchet to go off...
Warms the cockles of your heart.... Then some.
I fought a 9ft Bronzie one night with Daiwa 900 and Fenwick game stick.('74\75). Loaded with 80lb Courtland (white with green stripe) from UK.
still in sleeping bag. with snot frozen on my nostrils.
We must have been mad in those days.
Great memories
Macka
yea hi maka, for a couple years now the tuna have picked up around the cape and off victor areas for the boat fishos. The aveage size seems around 15 kg. Seemd like they had vanished from those waters for couple of decades. Making a comback now tho.
Did u ever used to baloon out of cape jervis jetty ? never tried there myself but thinkin bout trying that area once the weather heats up a bit.
cheers Harry
Quote from: Harry on July 24, 2012, 03:55:19 PM
yea hi maka, for a couple years now the tuna have picked up around the cape and off victor areas for the boat fishos. The aveage size seems around 15 kg. Seemd like they had vanished from those waters for couple of decades. Making a comback now tho.
Did u ever used to baloon out of cape jervis jetty ? never tried there myself but thinkin bout trying that area once the weather heats up a bit.
cheers Harry
Yep But..... They tend to collect sharks in warm weather.
If Rapid Bay still usable.
Squid from under jetty.
Round the southern headland there's a shelf up past the cave.
Up in there you can see the big Kingies cruisin' past.
Lob a Squid. and hang on.
Those things were submarines.
Another great spot was at Granite Island. down over seaward face of the bluff.
Bit of Climbing involved. but worth it...
We used to get some great runs from there. Kings. and Tuna..
We had a coupla Eye bolts I set in the rocks. but they probably long gone by now.
Have fun
Macka
Wish i could join you!
Rapid bay jetty is half there now , its closed for fishing, they removed a section so u cant get up there and built a small jetty on the northern side of it , mainly for divers .
Havent been to that kingy spot near the head, might have a look ...probably be boats there on a nice day lol
Funny u should mention about the rocks facing the bluff off Granite island , thats the only spot iv ever rocked fish there(just for sprats) usually just fish of the screwpile.
There was a picture few months ago aparently 500 meters from the bluff with a nice sbt caught from a boat tho.
thanks 4 the tips maka
Alan if you come here to join us bring a couple stainless gear sleaves for 114h penn for me. ;D
cheers Harry
Hi Harry,
Love the pic of your collection of Penns. Used to do the shark fishing off Adelaide jetties back in the 70's. It was all Tatlers and Penn 6/0's, 9/0's, 12/0's and up to 16/0's.
Rapid Bay jetty was pretty good back then...remember watching a 12/0 drag start smoking when something (probably a GW) decided to take the 80lb balloon line to Kangaroo island.
The Screwpile and Bluff jetties at Victor were good as well. The Bluff could really produce when it was on.
Don't know if anyone fishes there any more, by the rocks to the left of Second Valley jetty (by the old boat sheds) was great for MEGA Eagle Rays and big gummy sharks.
I have re-discovered my youth and am collecting Tatlers and now Penn Specials....funny, once you start you cant seem to stop!
Then again, there is nothing like the scream of a Tatler reel to get the adrenalin pumping.
Good luck with your fishing.
Harry.
The Tuna used to run past there in early 70/s.
as well as some mainly, Hammers and pointers Chasing them.
That 12\0 at Rapid Bay smokin'.
Coulda been one of the submarine Kingy's too. They used to get under there after the squid...
Same as up the channel at Port Agudda. Past the road bridge.
The big kings used to go up there for breeding in 60's\80's too.
I swear some of them buggars were 7 ft long. You couldn't slow them down.
When hooked they'd swing my yacht round on it's mooring buoy. All 15 ton of it...
And I won't say anything about the nice Butters (Mulloway)we used to get.
A set line from my rear mooring buoy to next mooring buoy. Half a brick in middle to hold it down and a coupla 6\0 hooks with Salmon cut up for bait. When we kept our yachts in the Hot Water Channel behind Garden Island.
The breeders still go down there if you have a mate with boat on mooring. Shhhh.
Jeez we had some good spots. Specially for Snapper Of the Barges. and outer bar grounds.
Maslins etc.
See Ya