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New Caledonia with LPB - July 2009

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Paul Chan:
Hello Brandon,

Your trip report makes my day! Wonderful photos with interesting captures. Can't wait to fish at NC one day!

Cheers,
Paul

Jeen Raj:
Great insight Brandon . Thanks .




Jeen

Stan Konstantaras:
Hi Brandon,
Great story and photos, even though the weather was lousy at least the company was great.
As for the Full Scale, thumbs up.
Cheers
stan

Jay Burgess:

--- Quote from: Brandon Khoo on August 07, 2009, 11:32:48 AM ---
In terms of tearing the hooks out, I have to say that I haven't experienced this before. I think over the years I've been fishing, I've had a couple of occasions where the hooks have pulled when we're towing the fish but I think this is more then fish turning and the hook coming out from a poor hook-
set rather than tearing out. GTs have pretty strong jaws. The approach used by LPB is the same as any other guide when you hook up in the shallows. On most occasions, the GT will allow itself to be towed out but on a few rare occasions, I've had the fish decide it is not coming out.

--- End quote ---


This used to happen to us quite regularly when we used to tow fish out rather quickly under very heavy drag settings. We've since started driving out just above idle and we've noticed a significant decrease in the incidence of pulled hooks.

Recently at Bugatti we pulled the hooks on so many fish it wasn't funny, and we were using singles - sheesh  :( I can't attribute this to anything besides bad luck.

NathanMcNiece:
Hey brandon
great photos and well done
is the red line on your 18000sw varivas? as I know they did make a red edition line.
thanks

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