Finz Bonanza- Part 2

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Finz Bonanza- Part 2

Post by Uluabuster » Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:30 am

Con't from Finz Bonanz Part 1....

The Williamson Gyro jig from the previous article...
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El Cheapo Williamson Jig
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The lures went sent out again to troll but you guessed it, triple hook-up again within minutes! This time round my trolling lure wasn’t in the water, but I was rigged up and ready to cast when the rest were reeling in the fish. I jumped on the front deck but the birds had already gone. The lure of choice was a sinking stickbait of 80mm that claimed many tunas before. My first cast out saw a dark shadow tailing the sinking stickbait but not striking. When I swapped to a Lucky Craft stickbait of similar size, the same time happened again.
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1st Sinking Stickbait
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Eventually, I put on my heavy sinking minnow and whipped out a long cast. Weighing merely 24g, Tackle House Flitz cast like a dream and could be cranked back at high speed, courtesy of the dorsal fin which acted like a keel, ensuring the lure tracked straight even at high speed. I counted to 10 to let the lure sank deeper before burning back at full speed. At this stage the birds were no longer in sight and I was merely blind casting. On my 3rd crank I felt a solid thud following by the screeching sound of my Twinpower 4000XG as the fish peeled the 20lb braided line out at the rate of knots. The tuna gave my Bayside Shooter 10-25lb a good work out as you can see from the photos. The first run was powerful, tearing a fair bit of line from the spool. Second run was strong but lacked the stamina of the 1st. By the 3rd run, line barely came out of the spool and the tuna was merely doing circles. Since we already had 4 tunas in the esky, I made the call to release the tuna at boatside. Trashing tuna with a set dangling trebles in a boat with 4 person wasn’t a good idea at all after all. As such, there was no photo taken- apologies! I was ecstatic to deflower a lure which had been sitting in the stash for 4 years!
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Tackle House Flitz
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Bayside Shooter Action1
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Bayside Shooter Action 2.
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Whilst I was rinsing and de-salting the lures, I noticed that the split ring on the rear hook had been deformed! The tuna was hooked on the upper jaw on the tail treble. Looks like the treble stood the test but the split ring gave way instead. Mine you, they were the stocked standard Japanese HD split ring and Owner Trebles.
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Opened Split Ring1
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Opened Split Ring2
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In the next half an hour or so, more tunas were landed. We landed 8 tunas altogether but only kept 4. The boys also picked up baldies and a few legal dhueys in 60-70m spots. However, I didn’t even manage to get a sniff on my heavier jigs!
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Total catch 1
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Total Catch 2
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The FISH WEREN'T INTERESTED IN THESE
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Heavier jigs
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This had to be one of the best metro fishing trip for me ever. I am pretty sure the casting results would have been just as good had the skipper decided to cast rather than troll for the fish. But I couldn’t ask for more, beautiful weather, red hot trolling action and the opportunity to deflower new lures!

P/s: Sorry for the looooong article, hope you don't mind. :oops:

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Re: Finz Bonanza- Part 2

Post by Nude up » Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:37 am

Dont mind at all great read

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Re: Finz Bonanza- Part 2

Post by alaskanaturally » Mon Jan 26, 2015 5:42 am

Your writing is really descriptive. Thanks, it is appreciated.
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Re: Finz Bonanza- Part 2

Post by CarlG » Mon Jan 26, 2015 8:21 am

Great report mate, used to love reading them on the other forum, good to see them on here now..!

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Re: Finz Bonanza- Part 2

Post by sloth » Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:14 am

Nice report. Thank you for posting - looking forward to more.

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Re: Finz Bonanza- Part 2

Post by barra mick » Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:12 pm

Nice read...nice tuna !

Cheers bm
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Re: Finz Bonanza- Part 2

Post by matt1991 » Tue Jan 27, 2015 7:57 am

great stuff

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