Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Reports & Expeditions
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Andre van Wyk:
Awesome as always Jay... great fish, fantastic pictures... epic bro, thanks for sharing!
Luke Wyrsta:
--- Quote from: Tom Grubb on April 15, 2009, 07:08:34 PM ---nice report and some great fish, you havnt had any problem with your Lucanus hooks have you? last trip we did with these we had afew hooks go straight on us? just woundering if anyone else has had this problem!!
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Tom,
The Lucanus jigs are generally aimed at bottom dwellers up to 15kg. But this doesn't limit them to all levels of the water column and much bigger fish - because we continue to catch fish anywhere in the water column and even Tuna of giant proportions have been landed on them! So in summary, they have quality Owner hardware but are not designed for anglers targeting huge fish with reef wrenching and jigging drags. I do suggest if you want to do such jigging, upgrade the hooks to a heavier gauge such as an Owner SJ-41/51 to suit the size of the jig.
This is easily done - if you can't do it yourself let me know and I can upload some instructions.
Jay Burgess:
--- Quote from: Tom Grubb on April 15, 2009, 07:08:34 PM ---nice report and some great fish, you havnt had any problem with your Lucanus hooks have you? last trip we did with these we had afew hooks go straight on us? just woundering if anyone else has had this problem!!
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Yeah mate we have, regularly get jigs back with straightened hooks and broken assists. Easily fixed with a hardware upgrade which we will be doing from now on.
Jay Burgess:
--- Quote from: Andre van Wyk on April 15, 2009, 07:30:07 PM ---Awesome as always Jay... great fish, fantastic pictures... epic bro, thanks for sharing!
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No worries Andre glad you enjoyed it ;D
Tom Grubb:
cheers for the help guys, we have tried afew upgrades but didnt get the same bite rate as the standard hooks, maybe using hooks that are too large! will try the Owner SJ-41/51.
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