First fish on home made popper
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Topic: First fish on home made popper
Posted By: Nathan
Subject: First fish on home made popper
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 10:45am
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Only a 10kg fish, but stoked that one was dumb enough to go my hand whittled popper. Was a fun fight in shallow water at Tiri.  |
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Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 10:49am
Nice one Nathan very satisfying catching a fish on something you made yourself
How about a close up photo of your popper to show the class?  ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: Double Shot
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 10:52am
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Awesome stuff congrats... ------------- 70ml of 90deg C water pressurised through 13g of roasted finely ground tamped coffee for 25sec's to make a distinguishing sensory hit called a Double Shot |
Posted By: Nathan
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 10:58am
As you can see its a pretty simple creation. A piece of pine, some spray paint, my 6 year olds stickers, $2 shop eyes etc.
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Posted By: snapper14
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 11:27am
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Congrats Nathan. Love it when a plan comes together! might be the motivation i need to give it a crack myself  ------------- If a man goes nowhere and theres no one there to see him, did he ever leave? Munter - Outrageous Fortune. |
Posted By: fish i
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 11:55am
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Always amplifies the feeling catching fish with home made fishing gear.
------------- 6th place in the inaugural Te Kauwhata Regionals paddle crab division |
Posted By: Boxee
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 12:40pm
| Good stuff mate, you must be stoked! |
Posted By: kingcrush
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 2:08pm
Nathan well done mate, I know it brings huge satisfaction on home made gear. I made some jigs up and out fished a boat load of people on home made gear. Nice one mate, may be see these in TradeMe soon 
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Posted By: brown
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2010 at 8:14pm
| good work mate, keep em coming |
Posted By: fatjimmy
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 7:24am
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fantastic.
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Posted By: Snag
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2010 at 2:17pm
Well done
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Posted By: ReelAppealLures
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2010 at 9:56am
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Sweet mate, way to boost the old spirit level's ay
Are you happy with the way the popper held up? any changes to be made? I find it hard to have a lure that is 100%
Good work and keep em coming.
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Posted By: Nathan
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2010 at 1:35pm
| I was pretty happy with it. One of the eyes fell off but and the paint job is pretty soft. The wiring etc is fine. I have just used a washer to hold the wiring and glue to seal it up. Doesnt look that flash but did the job. |