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Brandon Khoo

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Swimming a Carpenter Gamma
December 24, 2017, 08:48:28 AM
Please refer to attached video on youtube. Thanks to Nick Milford at East Coast Angling for facilitating this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15eJ2DHOTsc
If it swims; I want to catch it!

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Re: Swimming a Carpenter Gamma
December 25, 2017, 05:18:21 PM
Great video Brandon, hopefully this will inspire a few more of us to persist with surface stickbaits. Not as difficult as it first appears,  the bit of slack line and the timing being the key, and also knowing what conditions / circumstances  to use them in - not on a fast drift for example.

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Re: Swimming a Carpenter Gamma
December 26, 2017, 05:08:51 PM
Hi Brandon,

Nice vid indeed....appreciate you sharing this.

Can I please ask you, what rod were you using in the vid...with that Gamma 140 please ?.

Regards

Leo

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Re: Swimming a Carpenter Gamma
December 26, 2017, 07:24:17 PM
It’s a Blue Lagoon 80/43. Not ideal but it did the job. A Blue Lagoon 80/35 or 711/35 or 80/30 would have been ideal
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Re: Swimming a Carpenter Gamma
December 26, 2017, 07:50:40 PM
Thank you very much for this video Brandon, your help is precious, that's exactly the kind of information that I seek!

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Re: Swimming a Carpenter Gamma
December 27, 2017, 05:51:00 PM
Hi Brandon,

Thank you for the rod used. I've got a TBL 80/40, BLC 80/40R-PM Super Cobra & EP 85/36...these all should do the job nicely with Gamma's 120g to 160g no worries respectively.

Take care Brandon.

Regards

Leo