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Title: Some shad for supper
Post by: Jared2608 on December 18, 2014, 11:26:54 AM: I've recently started spinning, which means I get to fish before work in the mornings which is always a bonus. During the closed season the shad where pretty wild, I release plenty of them. Naturally when the season opened I started to battle with them. What sort of sorcery is that anyway?

Well anyway, today I went down to the beach since the wind was finally giving us a break and the water looked like it had cleared up nicely. I was on the beach at 4am and I decided to try out the 2oz Onda that I had painted. It worked brilliantly and I got some nice shad that are destined to make excellent plate mates with some baked potatoes and garlic butter.

I'm also quite happy with the way my paint job worked, the nail pollish I put over the paint protected it very nicely and the few teeth marks can just be touched up with some more nail pollish.

I'm posting from my phone which sucks so I don't know if the photo will load. If it doesn't I'll try edit it later on the PC.
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: Cage on December 18, 2014, 11:42:41 AM: nice going man!
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Post by: Ettienne on December 18, 2014, 12:04:10 PM: Nice one. (clap)
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: Homie on December 18, 2014, 12:05:32 PM: Is that you in the profile pic Jared ?
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: Jared2608 on December 18, 2014, 12:12:12 PM: Yep its me, along with my PB bronze bream.
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: scheeps on December 18, 2014, 12:12:56 PM: Nice fish mate. Will have to shoot to the store up the road and grab me some onda, I only have one 23g original one. See you on the beach tomorrow! :happ:
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: BJR on December 18, 2014, 12:13:15 PM: Nice going Jared.....spinning is a gr8 facet of angling & can keep you going for hours.
We fished the northern beaches of Amatikhulu recently & 99% of my trip was spent on spinning, using Onda , CID175 Slim bait, Toby spoon, Iron candies etc.

I eventually got stuck with the Onda till my son took over when I took a breather, & he lost the Onda to what seemed to be a big shad or a Queen Mack. Had to stock up again.
Must say the purple & pink Ondas worked well.
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Post by: Homie on December 18, 2014, 12:16:51 PM: Aha !
Jbay ! Remembered from the old days !
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: Jared2608 on December 18, 2014, 12:18:49 PM: Lol yeah howzit Homie!

The purple /black Onda is deadly in the extreme. The action is probably the real killer though.
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: Gerhard on December 19, 2014, 12:07:55 AM: Very nice Jared.

Keep at it and post more of the spinning catches.
Title: Re: Some shad for supper
Post by: Jared2608 on December 20, 2014, 08:39:49 AM: Thanks, I'm hoping to test my setup against a more interesting species soon.