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    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 6:52pm
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first topwater session for the season straight into the action all fish caught on carpenter rods and lures,anyone looking at getting into this type of fishing i highly recommend getting yourself some carpenter lures we have tried a lot of lures and while most will catch small kings always seems the carpenters get the bigger ones 
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LOLLOLLOLVested interest maybeWink

Don't get me wrong Carpenters are great but i've out fished anglers who were using them next to me plenty of times, with lures worth half or a third of a gamma, bluefish etc

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Amazing where did you get those beauty's from?
Good work
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i make no money from fishing I'm in construction
Originally posted by Fishy11 Fishy11 wrote:

LOLLOLLOLVested interest maybeWink

Don't get me wrong Carpenters are great but i've out fished anglers who were using them next to me plenty of times, with lures worth half or a third of a gamma, bluefish etc

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Would love to catch ones like that on a stick bait, Keen to learn more just a novice at present
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if your in auckland go into yeehaa fishing and talk to luke he got me started
Originally posted by robdunk robdunk wrote:

Would love to catch ones like that on a stick bait, Keen to learn more just a novice at present
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Nice fish, well done!
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Will do thanks, chucked some nomad lures around waiheke channel marker buy this morning few half hits but no takers, nothing big though.
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Total novice here, my only top water Kingi this year (from 2 visits to a buoy en route to spot X) was caught with a Shimano Ocea Pilchard pattern, rigged with VMC singles.
However, n=1: anecdotal, not evidence, as they say.
But it was a nice first for me.
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gotta start somwhere mate 🤙
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Lots of options with Carpenter lures........

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