Bought a total new spinning set today, from E-waves Fishbyte:

A Rod Ford Creation Magnum Shoot and Crank Spinning Stage.

A Daiwa Sweepfire 2500 spinning reel

and also bought several lures, all from Rapala:

2 Skitter Pop

a Mini Fat Rap

a Rattlin' Rapala

and an X-Rap.

And a new braided line:

Berkley Fireline Crystal

Learnt a whole lot of new things today from Melvin. The Shop assistant that helped me with my selection of equipment. He gave me a good price discount and also good insight, tips and techniques of much better fishing.

Learnt about drag and it's purpose: to tire the fish out. Let the fish take the drag then once you feel the drag slowing down, tap the drag to stop it then reel it in and fight the fish.

Learnt about the types of rod action and how the action of the rod determines the amount of action that you get from good fights with slow action rods which bend close to the grip to ultrafast rods that bend right at the tip which provide good easy hooksets on the fish but not much of a fight.

Learnt about the some ways to work the lure. Twitch, then reel in the slack then twitch again.

He mentioned that Luring is challenging cause it makes the fisherman think. Many variables affect the success of a fisherman's luring, he said to think like the fish. Like when in the morning when the water is still cool, go for a deep diving lure to get to the fish at the bottom. Then when it starts to get warm when the fish are aggressive and feeding, go for topwater lures or shallow ones. Local freshwater fish such as peacock bass and snakeheads are aggressive and go for topwater lures. Just have to work the bait right.

After today's shopping session. I will most definitely PATRONISE E-waves fishbyte.