Ok guys,,,,, this is my first time here .....I'm an angler from the red sea, Jeddah port. Currently I'm doing my degree in DC but going back home this winter.
I'm used to fish using barehands and mono lines. Braided lines and reels are luxury there. I see the electric reels you guys use as a really great invention!
I'm wanna take one with me home! especially when I remember how to pull two snappers together(or a shark) from like 600 ft using hands with no reel. So, I need your help.
My target species are the rusty jobfish or some ppl call it ironjaw? snapper and other species of snappers in addition to groupers at depths of 300-800 ft. Sizes while deep fishing of course differ as they could come too small or too big. Sometimes we get stuck with sharks frenzy just above the snappers level. After reading your posts and looking at some websites I have come up with this combination and I need your opinions about it. good/bad or any other recommendations.
1-
Electramate drive 920xp (what about downgrading to 620 for price reason? or not worthy)
2- Penn reel 115L
3- 100-130 rod (not an expensive kind, for example this one I found for 72 dollars -5'9 100-130# TUNACHASER ALL ROLLER TROLLING/TUNA ROD)
4- 130 braided line.
5- I'll connect it to a portable battery using the (cooler patent
) I saw here in the forum becuase I have one outboard and one battery that I don't wanna touch.
I usually fish in these depths using a 140mm mono line with 90mm leader. We use a thick line for easier handling by hand. Of course, this is not needed in a reel. Please tell me about the above combination and is good or what changes should I make as i'm not really used to a reel!
Here are some pictures of the snappers that I meant from a local market there. In addition to some groupers and a GT I got from shallower water last summer there in Jeddah.
By the way, anybody familiar with this rusty jobfish snapper and if it eats at night?
