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Carpenter Pandora 155 + 30 Stick Bait Lure - The Suggested Style Of Retrieve

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Leo Sorbello:
Hi All,

I'm keen to know and apply the suggested retrieve styles for the Carpenter Pandora 155 + 30 model stick bait lure mainly using it for Yellowfin tuna and/or other tuna families.

Appreciate any members suggested and proven styles to fish this mentioned stick bait.

Regards  :)

Leo

Stu Hardy:
Video from carpenter website should help.
www.carpenter.ne.jp/lure_setumei/pandora155.+30/pandora155.+30.htm

Mark Harris:
I am just back from a (largely unsuccessful) trip and played with Pandora 155+30 a fair bit.

A long sink and then tip beating seems to be the way to go - i.e. pretty much as per that video.  Experiment with the pace of retrieve. I don't think you could retrieve as fast as in that video for very long without the lure coming back to the surface, except in gentle current territory where the lure will sink fast.

Also tried a slow action-less retrieve but the lure comes up surprisingly quickly, and with long slow pulls as many anglers use with large Bigfoots, it does not feel like the lure is doing very much.  So, I would say exactly as per the video but you might need to slow it down.

One other note - as the lure is so dense and very aerodynamic, it casts very well indeed. Just make sure you use a heavy rod to do so.  It is easy to forget that a lure that does not look like a giant, weighs well over 200 grams rigged.

Leo Sorbello:
Thanks Stu, good vid with style to embrace....

Thanks Mark...good break up of lure information you express, many thanks. The Hots Gipang 83H is what I'll be using for my stick bait use, should be O.K. with the pandora.

Tight Lines !

Regards

Leo

Sami Ghandour:
Hi Leo,

I just came back from Tokara last night,
lucky to have a chance to fish with Konishi-san and watch him in person working the Pandora 155 + 30,
and yes he landed his fish on the Pandora 155 + 30, the way he explain it, is that the lure sink at a 1 foot per second ratio.
retrieve with a sudden jerk as if you are jigging  :)
the lures seems to be deadly in Tokara and many big fishes been caught on the Pandora.

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