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Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) => Tackle & Techniques => Topic started by: Brandon Khoo on November 13, 2010, 12:51:25 PM
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As Kenji San has now released photos of some of the new lures, I can now provide some photos and descriptions of the lures.
The first is a lure that I was enormously impressed with. It's a new stickbait which he is calling at this stage, the Epsilon. That could be subject to change. This stickbait caught bloody everything. In fact, we had one session where for about three hours, Tak and I didn't raise a fish. On the other hand, Kenji San absolutely cleaned up but he caught fish on only one lure during the session - on the Epsilon.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/epsilon4.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/epsilon3.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/epsilon2.jpg)
The other new stickbait Kenji San was testing was the Bluefish 140. A number of you will be familiar with the current Bluefish which is a fair bit smaller. A great stickbait - he really caught a heap of fish with this lure. Tak did a good job of losing them!! ;D
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/bluefish4.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/bluefish3.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/bluefish2.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/bluefish1.jpg)
The new Sea Frog. No introduction needed! The prototypes were in 120g, 145g and 170g.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/newfrog3.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/newfrog2.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/newfrog1.jpg)
The Pandora. How do you work these? You cast them out and reel them in - literally!
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/pandora2.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/pandora1.jpg)
The Kattobi 145 - a pencil made for tuna but a great GT pencil as well
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/kattobi1.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/kattobi2.jpg)
New colours for the Gamma. Tak did a good job of losing these too!
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/newcolourgamma.jpg)
The Sea Snake - not a new lure but one released in 1999! Kenji San could not believe I was using one!
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/seasnake.jpg)
Enough to make all of us envious - except this was literally only about 1/4 of his lures!
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/bagoflures.jpg)
This is just to prove to Crusty that I did not spend my whole trip fishing Carpenter lures!!
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w95/berniek/crusty1.jpg)
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Beautifull lures.
The Pandora would have worked very well at Elusive this year.
Those new colours in the gamma look extremely nice.
Pete
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that is awesome.
thanks for that Brandon.
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Thanks for sharing Brandon Will these lures be available any time soon .
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Brandon great pics is any idear on the weight of the Epsilon or is it going to be a range of weight classes . As for availbity for all these new lures I assume as per ususal damn hard defiantly interested in the pandora from a lbg perspective Gt;s and the other fast retrieve species any idear on the weight of those as well.
I have a bad feeling i will need another rod
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Gareth, the Epsilon looks about the 140g range but no idea what the production model will ultimately be. Like all Carpenter lures, I expect it will be murderously hard to get!
You'd be a brave man to use Pandoras for LBG - it wuold hurt like hell to get one of these snagged up on the bottom!
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Thanks for this Brandon... I think I just pee'd a little looking at those pictures.... what is it about these lures that makes parts of me twitch that really shouldn't...
Thanks again for sharing Brandon, really fantastic for us neophytes to get a look in on all this amazing tackle and products... much appreciated....
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thanks for the info brandon i will keep my eye out for when the epsilon released but weather i can get one will be interesting is the pandora a sinking stickbait as for lbg where i go rocks and snaggs arnet a problem just a few bommies that the fish try to wrapp you around lol
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Quote from Andre van Wyk
Thanks for this Brandon... I think I just pee'd a little looking at those pictures.... what is it about these lures that makes parts of me twitch that really shouldn't...
Bwhwhwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
I thought that only happend to me Andre!
Aaron.
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Argh!
I'm smacking my head against my screen Brandon. Why? Simply because I know that I absolutely must go out and blow a load on these lures now - and there's nothing I can do to stop it!
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Argh!
I'm smacking my head against my screen Brandon. Why? Simply because I know that I absolutely must go out and blow a load on these lures now - and there's nothing I can do to stop it!
Good luck trying to get them!
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The Pandora and Kattobi I would love for big kings off the rocks..As jay said,good luck getting hold of them...
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Has anyone been successful with the pandoras and kattobis? They have now been out for a while and disappear like a puddle on a sunny day when they are available.
So does anyone have any opinions on them? And forgive my ignorance but do you work the kattobi like a pencil popper or with more a sweeping motion of the rod?
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no luck finding carpenter lures :(
but i learn how kenji-san rig his lures....crimped single strand mono (200lb?) to solid ring to splitring...no swivel.......
thanks brandon for the great pics
cheers
izhan
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hey brandon ,
i am wondering what rod was used to work with the large gamma GT250 :o :o
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Monster Hunter, Mick
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Has anyone been successful with the pandoras and kattobis? They have now been out for a while and disappear like a puddle on a sunny day when they are available.
So does anyone have any opinions on them? And forgive my ignorance but do you work the kattobi like a pencil popper or with more a sweeping motion of the rod?
I haven't seen a Katobi in action but the Pandora worked great.
The Pandora sinks really well, with the weighting and being more hydrodynamic in profile. This lure's action is basically cast, let sink and slow consistant wind back.
It accounts for GT to 52kg as well as Dogtooth to 40kg.
I do plan to use this lure more towards the middle of the day in deeper areas.
Luke
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MMM thanks Brandon and Luke awesome stuff " It just gets better"
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The Kattobi is a pencil. Cast it out and reel it in at a speed that is enough to skip it over the surface. I actually work it just fast enough to do this.
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Thanks guys! Great info as always!
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Monster Hunter, Mick
Brandon, which of the monster Hunters did he use? On your advice, I bought the MH80H. I just purchased some Orion lures, among others a bigfoot 230. It actually weighs 240 grams on the scale. I guess it would be stretching the MH80H to use this weight (plus hooks) on it, since it is stated to a max lure weight 250 grams. What do you think?
I do have a heavier rod though that can handle this lure weight, but it is not really suited to stickbaits.
One thing I noticed when I weighed the Orions is that almost every model (Long Tom, Nambas, Big Foot, Cono-Cono) was heavier than stated. Is this common?
Best regards
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This is the second time in 2 years I see a carpenter seasnake on picture.
Very innovative and unique lure I think.
@Brandon: Is this a pencil(trumpet) or stickbait lure?
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He used a MH80H. It is stretching the capacity of the rod but it did manage. That's why I've been suggesting it for big stickbaits.
If you're using sinking stickbaits like Orion Bigfoots, you don't need a stickbait rod. The specialized stickbait rods are meant for surface stickbaits, not sinking ones.
I have always found the Orions to be pretty spot on and in fact, Eric designates them that way by rounding to the nearest 10g.
Monster Hunter, Mick
Brandon, which of the monster Hunters did he use? On your advice, I bought the MH80H. I just purchased some Orion lures, among others a bigfoot 230. It actually weighs 240 grams on the scale. I guess it would be stretching the MH80H to use this weight (plus hooks) on it, since it is stated to a max lure weight 250 grams. What do you think?
I do have a heavier rod though that can handle this lure weight, but it is not really suited to stickbaits.
One thing I noticed when I weighed the Orions is that almost every model (Long Tom, Nambas, Big Foot, Cono-Cono) was heavier than stated. Is this common?
Best regards
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The Sea Snake is a pencil. Carpenter stopped making these many years ago. I'm about the only person I know of who likes using them!
This is the second time in 2 years I see a carpenter seasnake on picture.
Very innovative and unique lure I think.
@Brandon: Is this a pencil(trumpet) or stickbait lure?
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The Sea Snake is a pencil. Carpenter stopped making these many years ago. I'm about the only person I know of who likes using them!
This is the second time in 2 years I see a carpenter seasnake on picture.
Very innovative and unique lure I think.
@Brandon: Is this a pencil(trumpet) or stickbait lure?
It's 1990's lure ;D
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Thanks, Brandon. I am happy to find out that it can actually handle this weight.
What about the floating Nambas 210 - do you think the action is sensitive to the character of the rod? One of the Nambas 210 I got from Eric was actually weighing 230 gram. I hope it's still floating when I add hooks :o
Cheers
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Nambas is not as sensitive to tip action as surface stickbaits like the Gamma or SS Twister so i don't think you need a specialised stickbait rod for this lure
Well, if Nambas does not float, it can be used as a sinking stickbait like Bigfoot! ;D