PJay wrote: I haven't posted for a while. Here's a recent snapper caught on "Blue Duck", the 12-ft plastic weapon. An 84cm one as measured on the end-on-end Ministry measures on my gunwhale. Released (for us to play with again!). I can pretty much guarantee any straylining session here at this time of year will produce 20lb-ers. Last week, the week before, the week before that...in about 7m of water. All released in good condition. This one here had a big fat gut, I am sure from the 2 hours'-worth of chum it had been inhaling. Caught on a whole fresh-caught jack mackerel, two Gamakatsu Octopus circle hooks snelled on to 30-lb fluoro leader tied direct (no double) to a 30-lb braid main line. Rod a 7ft Nanomatrix rated 8-10kg, reel a 400 size low profile baitcaster. |
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