Not quite mainstream popping and jigging but a bit of light tackle and a bit of jigging so thought I would post the report in our sponsored section to add a bit of difference and to show not everything is monster GTs but all sizes count and are fun! This last week Jon Viney and Myself fished in Fujairah with Alex Louw on his boat Lara. Really awesome trip and great fun. We met up at the marina early morning after driving through from GT House and launched the boat.
The aim was to do a little bit of everything from jigging to trolling to light tackle. We headed out to jig some of the wrecks. After a lot of hard work Jon managed to hook up to a good fish on the MC Works 556. After an initially easy fight a nice yellowfin tuna which I believe is the first one of the season came to the boat and then all hell broke loose and Jon had his work cut out for him! But the angler and rod did a fine job and Jon landed a nice 12kg YFT. I managed to have a couple of hits which looked like Aj but never managed to to hook up.
After the sun and heat got up we headed for the tankers to try a bit of trolling and light tackle spinning for Dorado. Alex has an amazing mister system on the boat which spreys a fine spray of fresh water while you fishing, simply fantastic! We actually fished for about 12 hours on the boat because of the system in UAE summer heat!
We got to the first tanker and found no dorado but Jon dropped a jig and managed to raise a couple of fish and then the game was on. We had a fantastic time catching some good sized dorado and rainbow runners on Riptide Plastics and small Hots jigs. I think we must have got about 10 dorado and 8 rainboaw runner. Really great day out and nice to be a guest on someone elses boat just relax and do a bit of fishing!
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Launching the boat early morning
Jon into the first YFT of the season on the MC Works 556, awesome rod for this area!
A nice chunky little YFT jigging in 110m of water
Light tackle spinning with a dorry
Nice female dorry on light tackle.
Jon bending on he aerocast
First rainbow runner of the day
Jon hooked up this fish from under the props of the ship!!
Masters of the ocean, still amazed these ships float!
Jon with another dorry
Fishing next to the ships
A nice bull on light tackle, gave me a good run for my money!
Alex in action
Jon in the rainbow runner action again! Great fighting fish!
Jon with a dorado
Finally beat this one, gave a very good fight!
Great pic
Double up! Alex hooked up on the MC Works 556 Conventional
Rainbow runner on jig with a Drift Tune 120gr that we were testing, awesome jig!
I managed a nice rainbow on light tackle
Fighting and landing our own fish we were so busy hooking up fish!
Jon with another nice dorry
Caught on a small plastic
Alex with a nice dorry
Rainbow runners by the dozen!!
Was great to fish the whole day finally as the heat is starting to calm down.
