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What's your favourite popping style for big GTs?

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Sachin Chaudhry:

--- Quote from: JoeFalcon on March 23, 2007, 11:33:54 AM ---In Fiji the most sucessful lure for the trip was the 210mm River to sea dumbell in all colors, especially the mackeral green and Blue. We also used the haymakers and also took quality fish but they take there toll on your arms after a few hours.

No.1 action was big bloops closely followed by blooping at high speed working the rod nice and high.

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Joe, interesting to note that the dumbells worked so well for you in Fiji. I use mainly pencil poppers here in Fiji (actually almost always use pencils).
The ones I tend to use are Zest Pencil Poppers which are around 8 inches long (110 grams) and the Surecatch GT which tip the scales at 120 grams with standard rigging . I replace the standard trebles with Mustad doubles and find the hook up rates to be around 80% out of all strikes. The Mustads never seem to straighten and also helps me to eliminate the split rings from the equation. Also have a selection of homemade pencil poppers which also work quite well. That being said I have seen some nice fish taken on Halco Haymakers and River 2 Sea Dumbells. Personally I feel it is much easier to get more action out of pencils and by being narrow at the front you can work them in more ways that a large cupped blooper. Horses for courses I suppose.

Peter Lowe:
Gotta love the old River to Sea jobs.....

They do get chewed up/split after a few big one's but ya gotta love that.....  ;D[img]

Johan de Vlieger:
Before I fished the first time on Gt's my targets were tarpons, jack crevalle, leerfish, barra's, ...
The type of popping action I used in the Atlantic was mostly the same : for all the mentioned fish (except for tarpon) a relatively rapid retrieve with big splashes and that almost everytime did the job.
First time I targetted GT's was in Mauritius where the local captain of a charter introduced me to this more extreme way of fishing poppers.
The way of fishing was more demanding : throwing harder, retrieving faster, a lot faster...
That's the way I adapted it and it was also the way I tought you had to fish GT's.
Now I know better : sometimes this very fast retrieving of the popper does still work but the slower way with a lot of splashing and pauzes also works, or the "walking the dog" just beneath the surface.
Conclusion : you have to adjust your way of fishing regarding the time, place and situation your in.
Always fishing the same motion with the same lures is missing a great deal of fish.
At least : that's my opinion !  ;D

Dayne J-W:

--- Quote --- have the 18cm size and some of the smaller ones too. And also have some of their slider lures too. Just noticed Nomad has an online tackle section too now....
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speaking of nomads tackle does anyone know how it performs outside of there "secret" reefs that seem to be overflowing with big GT's ;D ;D ;D

Graham Scott:
Good old river to sea dumbell has been working well along the CQ coast up towards Shoalwater Bay. Although half the price seems a better action in rough water than the Captiva.
Last trip I was the dumbell...mucking around with all the 10 kg queenfish only to get cleaned up by a big GT while dreaming away....next dumbell please.....bugger

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