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YFT popping , I am at a loss !

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Andy Rowe:

--- Quote from: Andrew Poulos on June 15, 2009, 07:00:13 PM ---How did you manage to get your Gunz taken by a whale shark...cast too close to it?

Wish we had thousands of YFT around here  :(

--- End quote ---

The whale sharks were swimming around like giant vacuum cleaners, my guess they were working with the tuna to bring the bait to the surface. Some of them were longer than the boat which was around 30 feet. It certainly put a good bend on my Long Reef 88 ;).

Thanks for the info everyone.

Jon Li:
Guys ,

Went to the same place again with Andrew , Ky n Satish . We managed to catch 19 mixed bag of YFTs n Skipjack tunas up to approx. 15 kg , no change of lures and pretty much the same arsenal except with an addition of my estuary rod + Twinpower 4000HG . Everyone managed to catch some fish and we stopped fishing early due to some of the guy must return to JKT for evening appoinments .

Lots of baits , a few more whalesharks which I managed to hook one n resulting in the inevitable bust off and lots of competitors , each schools of surfacing fish must have been encircled by more than a half of a dozen boats .  

What changed ? Not sure and I guess it's the mistery of the sea n fishing . Where the fish got locked jaw last week , this time they hit our lures with abandon .

Jon .  

Andrew Poulos:
Which lures were the winners?

Chris Young:
Great stuff Jon. It sounds like typical tuna fishing to me, they can be sooo fussy at times ::)

Andy Rowe:
The following photo shows the lures which the tunas were taking, far left was my best performer, second from left also took fish, mechanical pencil for scale and a much larger example of the raider-metal which Jon was using. Ky was using a small dark soft plastic about the size of my smallest metal. Light weight gear was required to cast these small lures to the surface boils which made the fishing great fun.

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