Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Tackle & Techniques
Shore based GT popper style fishing?????
Mark Harris:
Some truly brutal sounding rods there.
I have always been intrigued by the Ripple Fisher Infinity Shore 102. Not a PE10 rod admittedly, but a PE8 rod designed specifically to catch GTs from shore at Tokara. It must therefore be up for some seriously heavy duty work. As few people seem to use chuggers in Japan, I am guessing it is a stickbait rod. It is a two piece and I am guessing a butt join? And as is the Ripple Fisher way, very light at just 420 grams.
I was told that only a few of these were ever made.
Brandon Khoo:
I have one, Mark.
Vinh Nguyen:
Mark, the RF Infinity Shore is a split joint I believe. I think the only Japan butt jointed rod above 9ft would be the MC Works Raging Bull 938XX, the other Raging Bull models are split joints. I read somewhere that Ripple Fisher were testing some prototype pe10-12 shore rods at Tokara but haven't seen anything released to into the market yet. Pretty sick because they were catching Dogtooth from shore! :o
Sydney Neal:
I think Dante is chasing the 9 footer because his fish will be fighting under and behind him anymore than 9 foot and he has a good chance of being flipped, hav'nt chased XO GT's like this but have caught some monster grouper in the pylon.
Go the 8foot6 and stand closer to the edge :-)
Mark Harris:
--- Quote from: Brandon Khoo on December 30, 2012, 10:56:26 PM ---I have one, Mark.
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Great to know Brandon. I would absolutely love to hear a bit about this rod from an actual user! Please :)
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