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    Posted: 04 May 2011 at 7:08pm
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What are these like? New to this style of fishing and can't wait to get a king and I have two of these. 
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mean i reakon, just like the halco roosta and yo zuri surface bull
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Sweet. Being all pre rigged they are quite good value too. 
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Originally posted by Tomatron Tomatron wrote:

Sweet. Being all pre rigged they are quite good value too. 

If you are running the standard terminal tackle Tomatron, give the barbs a squeeze with some heavy pliers or file off, it will help reduce damages to you and the fish and don't lock it up and expect them to hold eitherLOL... I have heard of these breaking at the neck on large fish and because they are not "through wired" it is all over. 

Let us know if you snap one, that would be awesome Big smile 

P.S I am not bias, I have a red/white flame in my bag of goodies. I like the keel sides also Wink
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I have to ask, have any of you guys fished the Williamsons on GTs. I have caught GTs on all sorts of poppers and have my doubts how any hollow plastic popper will take the punishment?
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Originally posted by Nirai Nirai wrote:

I have to ask, have any of you guys fished the Williamsons on GTs. I have caught GTs on all sorts of poppers and have my doubts how any hollow plastic popper will take the punishment?

i have not hooked a GT on them, but i have used them a little bit, they swim nice and put out a great bubble trail.... but

i agree with niral, they are plastic and have no wire through them so a good fish can crush them and you are only attached with a bit of plastic.

the photos below are of a williamson jet popper that caught a 127kg striped marlin in rarotonga 2009, (trolling the popper) the hooks were replaced and owner trebles were used, you can see that the fish had crushed the popper and it was (un)lucky to be caught, unlucky for the fish, lucky for the angler!

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i replace all my hooks with owners, i run more halco roosters, and yo zuri bulls other than williamsons
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New to all this and I now see the cons of a through wire and solid built popper as opposed to the hollow.... 
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Opps, i mean the pros... But all I plan to catch would be kings from the rocks so they will cut the mustard. 
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Yea  ive caught a few fish round 15 to 20kg off the boat with these and no probs at all. a bigger fish in the 30s may be different, I must say with no teeth or reel jaw crushing power the should be fine for kings.
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Its the leverage that kills lures and hooks with kings.
 
Have seen Jobus straightend,and high end lures pulled to bits,it comes down to how they are hooked,which hook and the pressure you put on them.
That was all kingfish around the 15-25kg range.
 
In the case of the jobus they were on the tail of a orion crazy dog-no swivel on the belly or wire on the tail,they are tough lures with no give so the hooks bares the brunt of the fight.
 
Have seen QUALITY timber lures crack under the strain also.
 
As long as lures are wired through i think ther is no issue,you may wreck the lure but you will stay connected.
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Wow!  That's one heck of a chomp out of that Williamson!
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ive thrown them at GT's befor had one hit but didnt hook up then the popper started taking on water and wouldnt pop after that and now the small steel ball's they have in them for the rattle are rusted into the corner of the cavity plus i think a big GT would destroy it no sweat!
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I have also thrown them for GTs and got some good fish on them.  The hooks and rings need to be changed. I have not seen one break yet, or fill with water, but my use of them is limited.  I have had clients use them and get fish up to 35kg range, but the hooks were buggered.   GT teeth can easily puncture a hollow plastic lure, seen it on some of the newer River2sea stuff.
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