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Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) => Tackle & Techniques => Topic started by: Robert Tapert on November 01, 2012, 08:23:59 AM
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HI
I am going with a group to Oman at the end of Nov. I want to pack some light tackle gear. Any recommendations on lure selection to go with 20 to 30 pound braid?
thanks
rob
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Hi Robert
The Shimano Waxwing 88 mm worked very well there in april. As did the Strike Pro Baby Buster - it bloody caught everything including smaller GT's and bonitos! Unfortunately I didn't bring any of them. I just stood there watching my buddies catching on them! :) For brim the smaller poppers worked well and the queenies did seem hungry for whatever was presented - I got a really nice one on an Orion Bigfoot 25.
When are you going?
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Hi Robert
A star of both trips I have made was Orion Mister Joe 35 grams. Ed Nicholas also loves this lure and made me leave the one I had left with him :) as his own stocks were all gone.
Also Shimano Ocea Pencil in the 150 mm size. That probably means that similar lures like Smith Baby Runboh and the small Tailwalk Gunz would go well.
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There is a big difference in size between a Mister Joe and a Baby Runboh. The bream there will take a Baby Runboh!?
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There is a big difference in size between a Mister Joe and a Baby Runboh. The bream there will take a Baby Runboh!?
The bream there grow to 8 or 9kg don't they??
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I was not referring to bream in isolation Brandon ;) .
That being said I caught a bream on a 150 mm Ocean Pencil..... that's a touch bigger than a Baby Runboh! The bream are very large.
Relative lengths:
Baby Runboh - 145 mm
Ocea Pencil - 150 mm
Mr Joe 35 - 130 mm
I am sure smaller lures like Peter mentions also do well. Casting might be an issue though if you are fishing PE3.
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G'Day Robert
I would recommend you get yourself some of the Maria Duplex in the squid colour IKG. These heavy weighted minnows are 31g & 18g & are 80mm long and they make for a super long cast and have an excellent wobble & roll action.
Cheers Rob
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These are the lures I would bring next year:
Bigfoot, sride, pintails, roosta, some light jigs and spoons, plenty of soft plastics and definitely the Mr Joe
And a few squid jigs!
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I'm going to catch one of these bream, stick a tiny vibe into its mouth and take a photo against a really plain unidentifiable background and then post it on a bream forum claiming I caught it near Tom Ugly's Bridge! The next weekend, there are going to be a hundred anglers there
Chris, do you think they will take a big crankbait?
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You are evil Brandon 8) .
For what is worth Brandon, I fished twice in Oman for while with a fairly large Eco-Gear crankbait ((once for big Bluefish and once for targeting Bream), caught nothing and went back to stickbaits. Some of that might have been my own general lack of familiarity with using crankbaits.
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If those monster bream are in a feeding frenzy, I think they might. But I'd rather use the smaller stuff. It's really exciting seeing them come up from a reef and pack attack a little roosta!
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Damn, I wanted to fish for them with snakehead gear!
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Bunch of soft plastics. Maria Duplex, small Tailwalk gunz, oversize vibes / blades that can work the water column.
Don't really get the bream scene here, but those big fella's look very cool. Agree with Brandon, extra points scored for tormenting our domestic bream fisho's.
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I reckon we would have a hundred anglers down around Tom Ugly's the following week!
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Not sure if you want to try your toman gear...one of these fellas might bust you off. This one took a liking to my 190g bigfoot
Damn, I wanted to fish for them with snakehead gear!
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Robert,
I haven't fished Southern Oman inshore so I haven't encountered the big bream that everyone talks about but I took a heap of lead head jigs (dropshots) and soft plastic tails in various colours and weights to Hallaniyat and had a ball. I also use these in Musandam almost exclusively. I've caught everything from GTs to grouper on them. I don't see why they wouldn't work on bream though since they work in other parts of the world on them.
They also don't take up a whole heap of luggage room as you can stuff the packets of tails into those recesses between the big items.
I grew up in the shadow of Tom Ugly's trying to chase bream, mostly unsuccessfully. If I'd have caught one like these I'd have made the front page of the Leader at least!
Oh, and don't fish lighter than 30lb.
Regards,
Trevor
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I actually tested the toman outfit on these on a trip in May. It is so hard trying to stop a big spanglie on a baitcaster!
Not sure if you want to try your toman gear...one of these fellas might bust you off. This one took a liking to my 190g bigfoot
Damn, I wanted to fish for them with snakehead gear!
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Soft plastics and spoons will do well for sure but nothing beats the visible surface take for me - be it a bream or a spanglie you enticed up.
Like Chris I had a large spanglie take a big stickbait when fishing for GTs and I remember so well the ridiculous bend it put in my EP82/38! Trying to handle one of those on a snakehead outfit is unthinkable!
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what size poppers are best for the bream?
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what size poppers are best for the bream?
By the look of some of those bream, Hammerhead I cups!!
Regards,
Trevor
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what size poppers are best for the bream?
I didn't try poppers for Bream - stuck to stickbaits and pencils. I remember Ed using Yozuri Hydro poppers though in the 40 gram size.... that probably means this is about the right size.
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Ed is really in love with Mr. Joe! I gave him one as well but he must have been smoked :)
Brandon, the poppers that worked for brim were in the 25 gram range
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Thanks Peter
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here's a clue for you Brandon:
(http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/74761_415526251811567_1077381088_n.jpg)
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is that a Tackle House?
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It's a Yozuri Hydro in the 12 cm 43 gram size.
(http://www.powerboats.lv/images/products/yo-zuri-hydro-popper-cgm-1327671081777.jpg)