On this wet and wild Sunday, the need to post gamefishing topics is overwhelming. So I thought I'd pick up on the earlier thread about the top lures of the gamefishing season to date.
Please add more as the season progresses.
My own experience is:
Legend Andromeda with black Black/purple skirt - one strike.
Legend Enki with Ascension skirt (silver bottom multi coloured top) - two strikes and one fish landed.
Zuker 5.5 with Black Purple skirt (fish landed on Bushie's Boat at Whangaroa)
Mouldcraft widerange Black/purple (Bushie's again. much interest shown in this lure, eventually being lost to a stroppy marlin at Houhora).
Bushies Zuker 5.5 also accounted for his marlin at Houhora plus PD Squids Albert run on both occaisions well back on the shotgun
From my own stable of lures the the legend Enki blue/silver with pink inner Obald bult for me the week before Houhora got a severe hammering the first day and was eventually lost when I used to much drag way to close to the bottom of the spool on my 50wide. I secured a replacement but with a dark blue plastic head that accounted for PDS marlin on day two.
On my Tuna efforts it was a Zuker equivelent of the black majic affrican warrior in black purple that dealt to my yellowfin and my mates short billed spearfish.
The rest of them were also rans that will also run next year. All my lures have hayes single hooks in a simple rig.
Enki Blue/silver over pink/purple 2 from 5
Small Wide Range Purple/silver over black 1 from 3
Joe Yee White Pearl Medium Plunger Blue/Silver over pink/black tied on with waxed thread of course with a Roddy haircutand half a Pakula shackle rig. 5 from 5 (3 Stripeys,55.7kg Y/Fin and a 250kg Blue)
Medium Lumo Sprocket 1 from 2.
orange /brown petrolero with white head 1 tagged marlin 2 dropped
zuker zuchini tuna lure,1 stripey ,several tuna
blue/white striker several dropped marlin ,3 mahimahi
green/yellow cita lure,2 dropped marlin,1mako released
purple/silver cita lure one dropped marlin one mahimahi
zuchini coloured macskippy(redhead)heaps albies and skippies
lumo sprocket 1 dropped marlin
orange brown pacific, eaten by marlin bugga
blue pink hatteras 1 strike unknown
purple black hatteras chugger untouched this season
hooker ghost 2 dropped marlin
livebait kingy untouched
rest of livies released from livebait tank resulted in pack attack on all lures
Red Gill Raglan Bigeye Tuna and Marlin Strike
Lumo Redgill Bigeye Strikes
Lumo Sprocket Marlin Strike
Small Red Gill squid Brown Striped Marlin
Pink White MacSkippy - Enough Skippies to fill the bait freezer
lumo sprocket about 8 dropped fish and 1 landed
black and purple 5.5 zuker 2 dropped 1 after 30+ minutes on the end
pukula evil 1 dropped and lure destroyed by the same fish we think.
fuggly squid 2 dropped
thats this season all with single hooks and until the last capture all but 6 on light drags started back to heavier drags with a bit of prompting from dustin and running 4.5 at strike and upto 6.5 on the run, hey it worked for me so will carry on with it other have different ideas for sure, they all seem to work.
has been a dam good season for me even though i have dropped 14 of the god dam mutha ****en **** kicking ****ers my sanity is still there in tact dohh
Black magic Option 4 lumo: 3 x Stripeys, 1 x Blue marlin plus strikes
pakula lumo squid: 1 x stripey plus strikes
Hooker Ghost: 1 x Stripey plus strikes
Fugly Squid: 1 x Stripey
Zuker 5.5 purp/black: no action
Pakula evil: no action
Has definately been a season for the light coloured squid type lures for me apart for the one that took the fugly....that fish also hit the lumo first
lumo sprocket = 4 landed marlin 5 others dropped
5.5 zuker = 1 landed marlin 1 dropped
squid sprocket = 2 landed 4 dropped
zuker tuna lure bright yellow = 1 dropped
the 2 sprockets on the riggers have been nailed all season... have had alot of fish up having a play then diving off
...interesting postings, for what its worth, our first season has been as follows;
lumo green pacific baitfishx1 landed
lumo option4 BM grandslammerx2 strikes
green and yellow beer barrelx1 strike
brown coloured squid, big t i thinkx1 strike
Uncles Macskippy Pink/white 1 x Skippy, 2 x lost skippys at boat
Uncles Macskippy Blue/white untouched at same time
Yes , thats right, Im a funny haha
Bonze Evil- 1 bite = 1 blue = lost lure
Bonze Evil Number 2 - 1 bite = 1 blue = gaffed, gotcha you pr!ck
Bonze Bullet - 2 bites = 1 blue 1 stripey = smoked by the blue, dropped stripe.
Bonze The Kahawai- 1 bite lost at boat stripey
Bonze Angry Squid - 2 bites stripey
Bonze Scooter - 2 bites stripies, 1 mahi.
all in 3 days.
Ask Mr Rendle about the bullet head, its a top lure.
Top Gun Medium plunger Lumo -1 stripey
1 blue(285kg)
Zuker -black/purple-5.5 - 1 mako
Bay of Plenty- Lumos and 5.5 Zukers are going off- they make up over 50% of all fish caught
Bonze does make some nice stuff. Imortal - could you post some photos of your stuff please? Bonze showed me some of his stuff when I visited Paihia but he hadn't started doing the bullet heads and kahawais when I was there.
Stretch - Sorry for the long delay in replying. Glad to hear from you mate. Hope Heath and yourself are catching them up.
cheers - Dustin
Dustin
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