shimano waxwing

[Doug Terry]

Shimano waxwing these lures look cool anybody tried using them from a boat or shore.
Looking for some lures apart from poppers for a forthcoming trip to Aitutaki.

[Mark Harris]

I think Waxwings are tiny casting jigs (effectively, spoons)? I am not sure a GT Tackle forum is the most productive place to be asking about them..... I suspect even a small GT would break one in half .

[Brandon Khoo]

One of our members here Sam Owen was casting them around on light tackle when we were at Bugatti.  They have a great action and kept getting hit but they seem to struggle to hook up because they only have one hook on the tail.

We called them the Anna Kournikova lure because they looked really flash but simply never came up with the goods!

Even the biggest size isn't quite GT sized though

[Andy Rowe]

  LMAO, thats very good.

We called them the Anna Kournikova lure because they looked really flash but simply never came up with the goods!

[Mark Harris]

We called them the Anna Kournikova lure because they looked really flash but simply never came up with the goods!

That's just too good Brandon!

And I can think of a few more in that category .

[Brandon Khoo]

we better not get started on that otherwise we might get sued by some producers!! 

We called them the Anna Kournikova lure because they looked really flash but simply never came up with the goods!

That's just too good Brandon!

And I can think of a few more in that category .

[Peter Morris]

Sam prefers the BONG-A-JERK....!!!

Bigger profile with loads of flash.

[Brandon Khoo]

Yo mean bastards told Chris that he was shaped like a Bonga-Jerk!!

[Sami Ghandour]

Shimano waxwing these lures look cool anybody tried using them from a boat or shore.
Looking for some lures apart from poppers for a forthcoming trip to Aitutaki.

Some of my friends in Lebanon are using them for the Bluefin tuna and they had a great success with the waxwing!
they landed many fish this year, the biggest estimated 60kg.
the lure has a very nice action and i have no doubt that GT's will hit them, the problem is the hooks and the body of the lure,
the following Picture belong to Nicolas Nini from Lebanon (14 years old),he hooked the fish on a Carpenter Black current rod using the Shimano waxwing lure

[Mark Harris]

You think GTs would routinely hit something that small Sami?

[Brandon Khoo]

they come in bigger sizes than that, Mark.

[Chris Webster]

You can import larger sizes from America than we get hre in Aus.
If anyone is intereted drop me a PM and ill tell you where to get them.

Chris

[Andy Rowe]

Mark, For example I landed 20 odd kg fish on the small shibuki and Jon the same on a similar sized prototype lure in Sumba. The termianls were not in good shape at all after that though

You think GTs would routinely hit something that small Sami?

[Sami Ghandour]

You think GTs would routinely hit something that small Sami?

I have no doubt Mark,
the boys from Ocean Active target GT's with small lures out of Musandam and they have great success, off-course when it comes in to a bigger fish you better off with a bigger lure for many reason but that doesn't mean bigger fish won't take small lure 

[Mark Harris]

Thanks guys .

I had only seen the 9cm waxwings but I see there is a 12 cm as well. Still very small and I would be worried about a GT swallowing it.