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New Cal Adventure

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Stan Konstantaras:
Hi Chris,
Nailed 5 fish on the 200g Full Scale Kong, great lure and one of the tips I picked up from the boys on the site. Had this color and blue wiggle, worked great. Also used Jai Fish Head and Squidpen. In fact out of the 40 plus lures I had, these three were my go to lures. Also happy to say that all came from FishHead. I do have a bunch of others I want to try, but these

One thing that was funny was that David from LPB commented that I had rigged the squidpen wrong, eyes at the front ( see I told you I was new) but now I was even more determined to use it as I had rigged it, something about stubborn Aussie vs Frenchy. Now as a floating lure, rigged backwards it actually nose dives and rolls seductively up to a foot under the water, it looked great and caught 5 fish, including a 30kg fish, you could almost work it as a subsurface suspender. One thing for sure I reckon it will work on our south coast kings, its wounded baitfish imitation action is mindblowing.

One thing I was amazed at is that the bloop cannot be BIG enough, big learning curve for me and the Kong and the Jai worked well for me.
Right now there are a couple of Kongs retired to the Pool Room!
We did film a little bit, but most time was spent throwing poppers. Like all trips it takes on a year or two before you sit back and start doing some filming.

Seven seas belt was good to use, but moved around a bit when you use the side gimbals
Cheers
Stan

Kasey Leong:
Funny that, every time I have been there it has been mostly blowing below 5 knots and we actually do a dance each night hoping for 15 knot winds.

Uncomfortable to fish, but boy does it draw the big ones up. They seem to love surfin' those swells.

25+ will make things a bit difficult though...

Chris Young:
Stan...Funny you talk about big bloops mate. I've got a couple of new models heading over to the boys that should give them all the bloops they want ;D ;D
Glad you got onto a few on the Kongs mate. I'll send you a PM.

Cheers

Crusty

Sam Conacher:
some nice GT'S there Stan. :)

hopefully we all will get some bigger and better one's when we return again soon.

Sam Conacher:
Hi Guys.

I was on this trip with Stan and he pretty much said what i was going to say in all honesty.

hear are some photos of my self from the trip and i was hoping for some bigger GT'S then what i got but hopefully that will happen on the 2nd trip to NC soon. Anyway it was a good trip all up with many more GT Popping trip's to come.

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