Origin	Indonesia
Model Number	X-8s
Brand Name	Miya Epoch Command

Miya Epoch Command-X 8S: Lever drag, weighs 3.6kg, max. 48kg drag pressure, capacity 1000m PE12, 800m PE15 Then there’s the rod; and most anglers will use them standing up on their usual bottom fishing rods. But the better arrangement is a game rod with a short curved aluminium butt, and ideally a swivelling roller tip. That swivelling roller tip rod needs to be custom built, but it allows the outfit to be fished entirely from a rod holder, and is definitely the way to go when using the bigger and heavier reels. The in-between is to use an off-the-shelf rod fitted with a mini bent butt. Bottom rigs for the very deep are best done with crimps, three-way swivels, heavy circle hooks, lighter sinker loops and very heavy snapper sinkers. If the sinker snags, it’s the only part of the rig lost. Fish hook themselves on circle hooks, which is good because there’s no way you’re setting the hook from 300m away. I’m no expert on all of this, so beyond the above, all I can say is there’s a lot to learn. How abundant those fine-eating deepwater fish like bass groper and grey-bandeds are off the various launching ramps is pretty much an unknown. How essential the addition of lights and glow things are to the bottom rigs will be a learning process. What the right baits, the best size hooks and most productive bottom will be requires experience. One thing I do know is that when that knowledge is gained, it will be gained with the assistance of a lot of 12-volt reels.