(Under no circumstances should you use uncooked imported prawns as bait as Biosecurity Australia prohibits it due to the risk of imported diseases such as the recent infection of white spot.) Freshly cooked prawns also allow you to eat from your bait bucket if the fishing is slow
For a vessel with a setting speed of 7 knots (3.6 m/s) with negligible inline current, by time conventional and experimental hooks reach 0.85 m, the vessel would have moved about 5.8 m and 4.0 m, respectively, from the point where the baited hooks contacted the surface
I still stand by the awesome 8-strand Varivas Avani Sea Bass Max Power PE braid as my benchmark for these kinds of lines, but I feel confident telling you that over a fairly long period of time I have built up enough confidence in two other braids to put them in the same sort of category as the Varivas stuff - and thanks to the Labrax Squad lads, I have found out that at last the grey Varivas Avani Sea Bass Max Power PE braid is coming out in a bright green colour - see here
You take it out of the box and fish
Just because you're carrying a laptop doesn't mean you need to lug around a bag that screams, "I have an 8 a.m