GLAD TO BE BACK!

Been a year since we fished off the East coast of the Peninsular. Glad to be back we were!

 

Two days aboard chasing all manner of fish, the way we like to do things around here. We had the chance to cast, jig and much more in between. The days were long as the bite was slow but we found a few windows of opportunities and made the best of them...

 

Majorcraft Offblow Casting rod loaded up on a topwater assassin...

A Great Barracuda that took the noisy Imakatsu Trairao with gusto off the surface. A fantastic catch!

Long Toms are a pest and make a mess of lures and leaders. They love Jackson Pintails though...

Things were happening on the casting front. Here a Majorcraft Giant Killing Offshore rod is put to the test...

GTs of this size go hard and are a handful on the gear we were using...

The Jackson Pintail Tune is the go-to lure for this exercise. It is much copied but never equalled. Shame.

We had much fun with the light jigs like the Megabass Metal-X Agitate...

It even accounted for a hungry Squid...

The small IMA Gun jig does the usual damage...

A small Barracuda that took a topwater pencil meant for bigger fish. On the FCL Labo UC74 rod it was a no-contest...

The DUO Rough Trail Aomasa bears the scars from many an encounter with toothy ones...

The Bassday Nin Cas mini madai left to its own devices will fool many Groupers, needing little input from the angler...

The Limited Release IMA Gun Peki jig in a radical colourway. Candy for this Grouper...

The Evergreen Caprice Kid jig is one of our all time faves for this area...

Here's a small Goldspot Trevally taken on a Shout! Shiver jig...

The Shout! Shiver also accounts for this nice Coral Trout...

And the Limited IMA Gun does this beautiful Black Fin Grouper in...

The jigging was sub-par, we enjoyed ourselves more on the casting gear. A nice Goldspot Trev hits the deck, muscled in by the Evergreen Poseidon Ocean Hunter offshore casting rod. It took a Jackson Pintail Tune of course...

We encounter a Brassy Trevally, a really rare catch for these parts. It put up a tough ol' fight on the Poseidon Ocean Hunter rod...

Its hard to go past the Jackson Pintail for this application...

The IMA Gun Peki in another limited release colour, scores...

GTs were making their presence felt on this day, more so than usual. They go hard on the supple gear...

The Jackson Pintail continues its onslaught...

It even accounts for a much welcomed Spanish Mackeral...

The IMA Spin Gulf worked on the bottom draws some attention from this Sea Bream...

The new Xesta Nitro jig is put to good use on a myriad of species...

We had only Groupers to show on the light jigs, as no aggressive speedsters were hit. They were great fun and good for the table as well. Here the Jackson Gallop jig scores another. Much fun indeed!

Watch out for a new video on Tackle Source TV featuring some action captured from this trip!

 

 

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