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Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) => Tackle & Techniques => Topic started by: Damien Phillip on February 03, 2009, 11:21:39 PM
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Steering away from the Stella's and 100lb braid :D
Just curious as to what everyone is using as their "light" spinning/casting setups, around the 20-30lb(PE 2-3) mark? for targeting Tuna, Mackies, Trout and various Trevally with lures up to 40g.
Would love to see some pics of your best captures on these outfits :)
Would also like to hear some general feedback and whatever mods you might have made to the reels.
Interested because i've just purchased a Nitro Mag Butt for this exact task but am unsure about the reel.
Thnx to all in advance
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well....cant go past the certates in the mid price range and then there's the up-spec certate customs and hyper. Otherwise in the Shimano camp...Spheros, Saragosa, and upwards are all pretty good atm.
For PE 2-3 casting....Ive got a Dorada 80s coupled to a Certate 4000 or Stella 5000FA. The same reels are also used on light jigging rods, Eupro Salty Fighter and Etuoh Jig Force. Anything lighter I use either my Heartland Z Finesse Special or Alpha Tackle's Trinis bass rod.
To be honest I thought Med popping outfit is PE4-6.....which mine is a Shimano Caranx Kaibutsu Pencil Instrument with a Stella SW8000PG (oldie) loaded with PE 4 (64lb)
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I've got a TwinPower 5000FC with PE3 Varivas Avani Jigging PE3(35lb) on an Xzoga Taka-Si6013 PE3 rod. This is a light jigging rod but at 6ft it can cast metals and light poppers.
Gotta agree with Honsu though, med popping to me is PE4-6.
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Sorry for the confusion guys and thank you for the quick replies, in that case i changed the title. Everyone has different opinions.
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Sorry for the confusion guys and thank you for the quick replies, in that case i changed the title. Everyone has different opinions.
No worries Damien, didn't wanna cause any confusion.
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I have a 4000 Certate and a Smith WGJ-XS610L. It is 6 ft 10 inches and is rated for PE2-4. Am running PE3 on it.
The combo is light to cast and good for small poppers, soft plastics, metal etc.
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For me its a stradic 6000 with 2 spools, one 50lb tufline the other 30lb nitlon (i think). Then a stradic 4000 with 14lb tufline. They get bolted onto various rods depending on the application - high end offerings like silstar powertips for tuna casting etc :D They'll be being relegated to the lender box soon though, am rather sold on high end/high quality gear at the moment.
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Not exactly light but I have a STELLA 8000FA on a Saltiga TN80 with 65lb Tuf line set up for medium - casting work.
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My light popping outfit is a Carpenter BC75MH + Twinpower 4000HG filled with Tuftline XP 30 lbs. , can cast up to 60 gr. lures comfortably . Have caught 20+kg YFT but almost got spooled on the first run , have caught numerous numbers of mahi-mahi up to 12 kg with this outfit and used extensively for sailfish popping .
Jon .
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I use a saltiga Z4000H and a pioneer GT Striker 40lb out fit. Its a good combo, and im very impressed with the pioneer, great bang for the buck!
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Saltiga 4500H with 40lb matched with a TBL80/20RF, great outfit & alot of fun.
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Medium popping rod I use a Saltiga 80tn...Gotta say I love using this rod. 8)
As I do alot of landbased spinning for tuna,mackies and GT's I just purchased a 'Zenaq' Defi Muthos from 'Fishhead' which is 9'6 rated PE 3-5.
MAN what an awesome rod it is for throwing 85g metals and similarly weighted poppers.
Pete
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Medium popping rod I use a Saltiga 80tn...Gotta say I love using this rod. 8)
As I do alot of landbased spinning for tuna,mackies and GT's I just purchased a 'Zenaq' Defi Muthos from 'Fishhead' which is 9'6 rated PE 3-5.
MAN what an awesome rod it is for throwing 85g metals and similarly weighted poppers.
Pete
The Zenaq sounds ideal for casting off the rocks Peter. I was using my Saltiga 80tn around the cape in Byron and it was just a bit short fir the ledges around there.
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A few outfits...
Shimano Tiralejo 9ft and Saragosa 5000F
Shimano Stella 4000FD and TCurve Saltwater Spin 5-10kg
Shimano TwinPower 4000FC and Fireblood 701 Med Spin
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The Zenaq sounds ideal for casting off the rocks Peter. I was using my Saltiga 80tn around the cape in Byron and it was just a bit short fir the ledges around there.
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Ewan...I used my saltiga 80tn off the rocks quite successfully on longtails,queenies etc.
But yes you do sacrifice some casting distance.
The zenaq was just what I wanted.
Pete
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Light spin...Certate 3500hd on Tcurve 5-10 with 20lb Fins...saltwater spin for macks/dolly's
Fast spin ... Emblem 550x on Custom built Sabre 220 (E glass)with 20lb Fins.....Heavier spin for fast retrieve and extra lifting power at the boat, great for long casts at Tuna up to 30kg, cant beat the distance, speed and power of this combo for 40-50g metal ;D ;D (old school)
Light popping stick....Catalina 4500H on Smith GTK70JP with PE4, I love this stick for the smaller pencils and stickbaits up to 100g, has a surprising amount of power.
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Smith KGS68M with Twinpower 5000HG and 30lb Powerpro
Love this outfit so much. Light jigging up to 100g or throwing 60-80g lures its awesome. Biggest fish so far was a 35kg sailfish but this wasn't caught by me, was by a friend who borrowed the rod when he went to Madagascar.
Always take this for messing about at night on the back of the liveaboard.
Next purchase will be the PE3 Ripplefisher.
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Currently my "light" outfit is a 8ft Shimano Exage Surf with a Stella 6000 and 50lb braid.... Plenty Yellowtial kings fallen to this set up, and Small Bluefin Trevs, Greenspots etc in the surf zone....
Will be upgrading to Ocean Revolution STK76 on release I reckon.....
Keen on some a smaller Twinpower at some point too, on an 8ft of some kind... yet to decide.....
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It was easier to show my 'cataloged' Spin combo's, I want to put my StellaFA 8000 on a Zenaq FC 76-4 which I saw at Fish Head to round things off nicely, loverly 50lb outfit .
The Contender is a cheap [$120] rod but a delight to use for spinning and L/M popping
The Soft Tail [Shikari blank] is a top 20lb SP or light popper rod, perfectly matched to the Twin Power 4000.
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That's awesome Greg! What program did you use for that?
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Jesus Greg....You nearly have more combo's than me. ;) :D
Pete
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Very impressive Greg! Would have taken a while to build that collection up. That Ultra Jigman, you use it for both popping and jigging? Are you sponsored or what? :D ;)
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Did it a few years ago on Office Excell Jay, if I keep it updated it helps knowing what line and age [more important with Gamefishing mono] is on what spool, not shown is spare spools and line in hand, oh! and overheads, but thats a different story ;D.
Love to see your collection Pete, I would say it's hard to beat (http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd207/bunzo51/smiley36.gif)
Sponsored, if only!! ;D wouldn't that be nice ::)
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Couple of quick questions, would everyone agree the new TwinPower is better than the old? and would everyone prefer FINS braid over Tuf Line XP for light work?
Lets hear some opinions..
Cheers
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Couple of quick questions, would everyone agree the new TwinPower is better than the old? and would everyone prefer FINS braid over Tuf Line XP for light work?
Lets hear some opinions..
Cheers
Some people dont seem to think so ;)... refer to this thread Damien...
http://www.gtpopping.com/forum/index.php?topic=1074.0 (http://www.gtpopping.com/forum/index.php?topic=1074.0)
Just an update... I got my reel back from Tim at Dunphy Sports(Shimano) and now the reel pulls 10kg of drag on both spools. I'm pretty happy with that.
Once again... nice work Shimano! :)
Cheers Rob
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my light outfit is as follows
Rod - Daiwa saltiga 80TN
Reel - daiwa Saltiga blast ( a bit slow for me now)
Line - fireline 30lb in pink ( not the best but it will have to do for time being)
I have caught GT's to 18kg with this out fit.
Cheers
Ash
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A few of you have mentioned using certate 4000's for the lighter stuff. What is everyones take on the hyper customs (harder gears) versus standard certate 4000's? Are they worth the $200 odd extra dollars for one more bearing and the gears? Don't the standard daiwa's have harder gears than the shimano's anyway??
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my light jigging outfit:
rod: shimano blue rose S553F
reel: stella SW4000
my light popping outfit:
rod: poseidon oceanhunter POHS 77
reel: stella SW5000
:)