wacko Posted May 4, 2010 Author Share Posted May 4, 2010 (edited) Awesome mate! Well done on a great fish with a challenging combo. I take it you are happy with your saltiga outfit as I have seen you have landed a few marlin on it on youtube. I'll have to give marlin fishing a decent go sometime soon... Could I ask how long the shockleader you use is and how much strike drag you run? I also fish jigging outfits for tuna etc and am concerned that my briad will break when hit by a fish on the troll. Andrew Hi mate, On the troll with Braid, I would normally run around 5-6kg of drag?.....It's hard to gauge because your running off a Spin reel with no pre-set drag settings. I just set the lure to the desired postion and pull drag off the reel with my hand....if it feels like good tension without the rod popping from the holder, I will leave it at that. The braid won't break upon strike and you should be running decent leader to absorb some of the shock.....say at least 6-10feet After the strike though, I normally crank the drag up and get stuck into it best I can......not so much line capacity on the Spin reels! On this occasion, I had 200lb Jinkai connected to 80lb braid using the 'FG' knot. At the end of this I had a Ball/bearing snap........ Clipped the lure on which also had about 8 feet of 200lb Jinkai. Cheers, Wack' Edited May 4, 2010 by wacko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austwave Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Nice work yet again Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Mate, awesome capture, especially on a threadline.....you always seem to produce the goods, well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanger Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Thats freaking unreal!!!! Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangus Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 (edited) WOW great catch on a popper rod, and a saltiga good on you Jack Cheers team bangus aka Rommel and Robin Edited May 5, 2010 by bangus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eklips54 Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Epic fish.........SALTIGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! yew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krispy ! Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 speechless............. Whats next, A Hoodlum on handline? Looking forwards to more great posts, Welldone mate, SL, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brooker435 Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Hats off to you and your Crew definitely something you will be talking to your grand kids about some day. Great Story, great fish and a real Congrats on yet another Wacko Adventure always look forward to reading your posts and watching your footage, Regards, Nathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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