Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Tackle & Techniques
Xzoga Taka-pi 7525
Jon Li:
--- Quote from: Paul de Bruijn on February 17, 2010, 08:19:07 AM ---Hi Brandon, thanks for your response.
You are absolutely right: we are going to Saint Brandon in April and the guy we are renting a boat from told us a story about a trip he had last year. Some Spanish guys lost a lot of poppers and fish while fishing with 65lbs braid. He advised us to go to 80 or 100...
Unfortunately we have rods that seem too light for this: the Xzoga mentioned and a Smith WRC 80P/35 (altough someone told me that the Smith rod can handle 100lbs...)
We might have to look around for another rod...
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This rod will handle 100+ lbs anyday :
http://www.gtpopping.com/forum/index.php?topic=1998.0
Jon .
Paul de Bruijn:
I'll give it a go with the Smith rod and try and be gentle with it. ;D
For my friend it's a different story, I will keep an eye on the classifieds here...
Jon: thanks for the link...
Khaled Altaher:
Maybe you should've gone with this Xzoga:
SPECIFICATION
Model Length Type Sec. PTF action PE NO MaxDrag BestDrag Popper Wt. Tip Dia. Butt Dia.
Taka-Pi 7710 7' 7" S 2 FAST+ PE 10 25 KG 10-14 KG Max 240g 3.80mm 15.20mm
http://seasonsrods.com.au/taka_pi.htm
Tom Grubb:
hey paul, i have used one of these rods before as afew of my fishing buddies own them for a light popper rod. they are running stellas with 50pound over it, they are catching fish 20-25kg with this set up, yet if you going to hook onto that 30kg+ it would be a different story. i am normally running my PE8(live fibre) or PE10 (xzgoa Taka-Pi 7710) incases that fish of a life time is around :-)
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