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Shore based GT popper style fishing?????

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Nathan Tsao:
Once you set the hook, you find a place to jam your leg or hip or feet or whole body into a lava rock and hold on for dear life until the fish turns or you break line. Fishing with heavy drag from the lava rocks forces you to use the terrain as much as you can to your advantage. If you've got a few good rocks, you can apply more pressure to a fish from the land than you can from a boat. Then once it turns, that fish can absolutely not take drag again or its all over. Often times it becomes a foot scramble between rocks to keep the best pressure on the fish. Stick and move, stick and move, is the only way to get the job done.
It just sucks when you get reefed and end up flying backwards ass over tea kettle onto sharp lava, always ending up bloody and bandaged during the year at some point!

Mark Harris:
Huge respect to you Nathan.. really.

Brandon Khoo:
Now that is extreme fishing!

Trevor Skinner:
Huge amounts of respect.

I feel like a real wuss now......'why hasn't this boat got a cappuccino maker?' is my idea of roughing it.

Regards,


Trevor

Vinh Nguyen:
The United Composites 100XXH is a beast of a rod, it'll cast a 200g+ popper a mile and have enough power to work a big cup popper properly.  I'd say its a 10ft pe10-12 rod.  Nate trimmed my UC down a bit, the butt section is really long so trimming it to shorten your swing during casting is ideal.  I foul hooked a GT that was about 35lbs range from the rocks and it didn't tap into the power section of the UC, very strong rod.  Only downfall, if you want to look at that way, is the UC is a 10ft butt jointed rod so transporting it will be challenging.

Again, another option would be the Patriot Design Rockfist.  At 11ft and 70/30 joint it's a little easier to transport.  I think the Rockfist has a slightly fast action tip than the UC.  But they're close down low in power.  I've only handled the Rockfist blank at the moment until Nate finish wrapping it for me, so I can't give you a side by side comparison.  Though I don't plan on having to 2 heavy shore rods, my plan for the Rockfist is to keep at 11ft and use it to throw slightly smaller lures and utilize the 11ft to clear areas that needs to clear some distance.

Another option, and an impossible one, is the MC Works Raging Bull 938XX, 9ft 3in, pe10, the only butt jointed rod and strongest of the Raging Bull series.  Probably the lightest (weight wise) of the group.  Only downfall is actually finding one.  EXTREMELY hard to find, even in Japan.  Good luck

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