When Stellajigger and I did a Tackle shop crawl in Dec I found a 'had to have' lure, even though I havn't done any serious popping. It is a Shimano Ocea 150s, whats your opinion on these stickbaits.
have used the shimano one and the yellowfin absolutely loved it. they were launching out of the water and nailing it. eventually lost it to a massive dirty old mac tuna right at my fett. think the impact of it hitting the lure so hard at such a short distance from the rod tip did the damage to the line as i was only running 10kg.
cheers matt
I'll add my biased two bit's worth. Some of our guys love using Ocea Pencils on kings and smaller pelagics (macks and tuna), while others have been a lover of the equivalent Daiwa stickbait, Dorado Slider 14. Both are definitely great lures and all the staff have stocked up on them, though neither of them are GT lures in my book; but Daiwa also do a Dorado Slider 18cm, in either 65g or 85g, and that is a very desirable lure! We just got them in this week. I bought some when I went to Japan last year and have been using them, love 'em, so very happy to now have them on the Australian market.
Bernie talks about adding more weight to a Wahoo. I did ask the manufacturer to do this late last year, to give it more 'bob' on the pause, and the newer ones are a little weightier in the tail than the originals, but they didn't go as far as I originally wanted them to. But then after having used them more I do reckon it's really just a change of technique compared to using stickbaits that have even heavier tails, and I'm happy with how they are now. They also did me up some high floating ones, lighter, which were theoretically going to be good for lagoon country, but in practice weren't required, so we scrapped that plan.
This is a link to some of our stickbaits. (http://www.bluewater.net.au/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=stickbait) About the end of the month we'll also have Wahoo 125s, which are physically sized between the 100 and the 150, not just a heavier version of the 100.
We've been experimenting as much as time allows with using singles on Dyneema/Kevlar cord, instead of singles on split rings or trebles on split rings. Results to date have been very encouraging, at least on big fish. Jobus and SJ-51s for extra-heavy lures, and SJ-41 Owners for most things, seem to be the go.
Are you finding a more secure hookup with the assist rigged singles?About on par with trebles so far, but a lot more 'comfortable' when getting the hook/s back out of fish. Every once in a while we've still had the odd bent treble even with the best of Owners, which of course you don't get with assist singles. I have my doubts about singles on split rings though... haven't tried it but the limited flexibility and the fact that you have to spread the ring so much to get it over the hook eye both leave me cold.
I'll add my biased two bit's worth. Some of our guys love using Ocea Pencils on kings and smaller pelagics (macks and tuna), while others have been a lover of the equivalent Daiwa stickbait, Dorado Slider 14. Both are definitely great lures and all the staff have stocked up on them, though neither of them are GT lures in my book; but Daiwa also do a Dorado Slider 18cm, in either 65g or 85g, and that is a very desirable lure! We just got them in this week. I bought some when I went to Japan last year and have been using them, love 'em, so very happy to now have them on the Australian market.
Bernie talks about adding more weight to a Wahoo. I did ask the manufacturer to do this late last year, to give it more 'bob' on the pause, and the newer ones are a little weightier in the tail than the originals, but they didn't go as far as I originally wanted them to. But then after having used them more I do reckon it's really just a change of technique compared to using stickbaits that have even heavier tails, and I'm happy with how they are now. They also did me up some high floating ones, lighter, which were theoretically going to be good for lagoon country, but in practice weren't required, so we scrapped that plan.
This is a link to some of our stickbaits. (http://www.bluewater.net.au/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=stickbait) About the end of the month we'll also have Wahoo 125s, which are physically sized between the 100 and the 150, not just a heavier version of the 100.
We've been experimenting as much as time allows with using singles on Dyneema/Kevlar cord, instead of singles on split rings or trebles on split rings. Results to date have been very encouraging, at least on big fish. Jobus and SJ-51s for extra-heavy lures, and SJ-41 Owners for most things, seem to be the go.
Artical on stickbaits by Scott Bannerot with Damon, in Apr/May BlueWater mag. Some lures wearing singles.