Blue Marlin On Popper Rod!

[wacko]

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

[austwave]

Nice work yet again Jack

[netic]

Mate, awesome capture, especially on a threadline.....you always seem to produce the goods, well done

[sanger]

Thats freaking unreal!!!!

Well done!

[bangus]

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

[eklips54]

Epic fish.........SALTIGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! yew.

[Krispy !]

speechless.............

Whats next,

A Hoodlum on handline?

Looking forwards to more great posts,

Welldone mate,

SL,