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YFT popping , I am at a loss !

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Andy Rowe:
Jon,

Fantastic stuff, great to see the fish still on. I may try and slip work for a day next week and have another go, I've got a few new little casting jigs to try out from smith and halco.

It's hilarious having to avoid the whale sharks with your casts.

I'd like to know what larger predators are lurking out there, no indications from teeth marks on your bent jig??

So you had no tractor inner-tube to put the 20lb crew on while you continued the chase then.. ;D ;D ;)



 

Jon Li:
Hi Andy ,

Yesterday was quite different and we did not bother to catch the smaller tunas , less whale shark activities but saw a few small school of cow YFTs which were easily spooked when approached , they were eating ballyhoos and only surface very briefly making it difficult to target .

We managed to approach these cow tunas several times but I was the only one who were able to get a solid hook up resulting in getting spooled when the tuna dove to the abyss , I was using HL TN87 mated with Stella 6000FA filled with PE4 line .

Just could not stop the tuna even though I had 7 kg initial drag set at an almost full spool , tried to stop the spool by hand but by that time the base of the spool already seen , I was left with empty spool .

In an after thought , I should have used a larger capacity reel but the choise of rod was correct , HL TN87 was able to cast the 50 gr. lure a long way to reach the wary school of cow tunas .

Need to buy more PE4 line now !

Jon .

Andy Rowe:
Jon,

That is bad luck, it must have been a real nice fish.

Seems my light tackle advice was a double edged sword, we did not see any real cows on Wednesday and after striking out personally but seeing other boats getting hits with PE3 and 40lb leaders I was thinking it might be sound.

I still have the itch, but will be tied up with work until at least Wednesday the following week so will miss wetting a line with Ky.

Here's hoping the season drags on, I did see huge amounts of bait lying in the bay so we may be lucky and I hope we can get another run together

Cheers
Andy

Jon Li:
Hi Andy ,

The end of the month is the earliest I can go , I am off to fish the freshwater rivers of the jungle of East Borneo starting July 18 ~ 24 but a few friends are going this week and I think Adam is trying to fish on the 25th .

No worry about the light tackle advise , next time will go better prepared !

Jon .  

Jon Li:
Hi Andrew ,

Cut the river trip short due to rain upriver , returned to JKT n grab the tuna popping outfits n straight away we went to P.Ratu , finally we got one decent size YFT n almost got spooled again with only approx. 30m left in the spool when the leader broke , had 2 more strikes but no hook up .

Thinking of taking this Friday off from the office but this depends on the availability of the boat , I predict the big tunas are going to be still there this week but not sure for how long .

Jon .  :D

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