tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9853543178967804532024-02-19T13:02:20.167+01:00Oshers FiskeblogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-45300518282511660112019-04-22T10:13:00.000+02:002019-04-22T10:20:27.795+02:00Endelig en god fisk på kysten igen <p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Påske lørdag fik jeg tid til en tur på kysten igen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Det blev til 3 fisk plus et enkelt godt hug der desværre ikke resulterede i fast fisk.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Den første fisk var 42 cm (800 gr.). Var den blevet fanget en uge tidligere havde den været 1. 000 kr værd i den noget sløje kystcup 2018 med drengene... :)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">1 time senere fik jeg en fisk omkring de 50 cm. Den var slank og med garnskader, så den fik lov at leve videre.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Kl. 19.30 fik jeg et godt hug ca 30 m ude. Den rullede kraftigt og jeg var sikker på, den ville slå sig af. Men endelig stak den til siden og jeg begyndte at gå mod land for at kane den ind. Den gik lidt frem og tilbage og tog et enkelt udløb ved land og begyndte at rulle igen. Til sidst overgav den sig og en flot blank hanfisk med høj nakke på 3.1 kg blinkede til mig. Det er flere år siden, jeg har fået så fin en fisk. Skønt! Og den ligger nu godt i svinget til Kystcup 2019.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"><br></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQsKwHsWvneyzsvrQtsoRWxHE8Fh7wOgjsJKScIpaRuM-7HHHk7oTuhqgUpN_ko2q8Ut6asVqWXqEbbA1uyiESa9B5dlHtjpWzxD4sJLBUvYqM2HRXy6tgdoJZpsQfg259lxoBTaaivM/s1600/IMG_1839.JP" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQsKwHsWvneyzsvrQtsoRWxHE8Fh7wOgjsJKScIpaRuM-7HHHk7oTuhqgUpN_ko2q8Ut6asVqWXqEbbA1uyiESa9B5dlHtjpWzxD4sJLBUvYqM2HRXy6tgdoJZpsQfg259lxoBTaaivM/" data-original-width="" data-original-height="" class=" " width="292" height="164" title="" alt=""></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hvide træer - det ligner at vinden har blæst kalk på dem</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br></p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdiwlGz5WIL9H2oHbWSj6FikN-DdxOvN7z7VemF27kZwCJiSFNQwMalG_v9Kpg-Q5teGK_CdaSIAgwQ9TGHjHpgvU55bg95je5yESiNkv1TnFmLESfKACjR_xxANb-yoRU28kBFNkY89E/s1600/IMG_1839.JP" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdiwlGz5WIL9H2oHbWSj6FikN-DdxOvN7z7VemF27kZwCJiSFNQwMalG_v9Kpg-Q5teGK_CdaSIAgwQ9TGHjHpgvU55bg95je5yESiNkv1TnFmLESfKACjR_xxANb-yoRU28kBFNkY89E/" data-original-width="" data-original-height="" class=" " width="293" height="164" title="" alt=""></a></p></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">64 cm og 3.1 kg</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-21893683824526617232018-11-23T23:42:00.001+01:002018-11-23T23:42:32.975+01:00Bligh Reef, GBR, Australia, October 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently returned from a trip with Nick Milfords operation, East Coast Angling (ECA). </div>
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The planning and booking of this trip started almost 2 years ago when ECA started out. We wanted to fish in a place whith multiple opportunities. After chatting to Nick, and reading old reports from the area, we decided to book a trip Bligh Reef where we seemingly could expect GTs, doggies, mackerels, napoleon/maori mrasse and a heap of other critters. And it actually looked like it would be worth going there for the light tackle fishing on the flats alone! A napoleon wrasse was on the top of my list - even though it is a bycatch and therefore cannot be targeted specifically.</div>
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With me I had 7 eager guys from Denmark: Nikolaj, Jacob, Jakob, Anders, Jesper, Thomas and David - we've all been friends for a bit of time now (around 30 years for a few of us). All of us had done tropical fishing trips before except one guy.</div>
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We were going to live on a luxurious Mothership, Savannah, in a very remote area of the most northern part of The Great Barrier Reef. For most people living outside Australia, I believe the GBR is a rather mythical place - and for me as well.</div>
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Doing this with a bunch of old friends, the setup was perfect from the very beginning! Add to that three almost completely new and very well functioning boats hosted by three guides that would put us onto fish every single day: Nick, Lee and Declan. </div>
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I can't go into detail about what happened every single day on every single boat because I simply don't know. What I will do is describe a couple of hightlights for me and then let the pictures do the talking for what happened on the other boats.</div>
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- I was fishing my new Carpenter BC75MHS with a Smith Baby Runboh on the edge of a flat when all of a sudden all hell broke loose! A good sized GT came from left to right with all of its back out of the water. Clearly it wanted to kill that Runboh by the first strike. It was an interesting fight where Lee played a big role following the fish with the boat between the bommies.</div>
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I caught a couple of GTs more on the PE5 setup - this was really good fun!</div>
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- Two incidents with boatside strikes from GT packs that had followed the lure for the last 10-20 meters of the retrieve without committing until the last moment. In both incidents, the fish were landed.<br />
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- Jakob hooking up to a GT when his popper rested behind him just before casting. He did a very good job hooking and landing this fish in chaotic circumstances!<br />
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- Hooking a MONSTER barracuda on a homemade popper. Unfortunately the GoPro wouldn't turn on for Jakob so I had to look away and while fumbeling with the camera, the cuda tangled the leader into his teeth a gone it was. That fish must have been almost 2 meters long.</div>
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- Jakobs dogtooth tuna: We were popping an inside ledge. There were some good markings on the sounder. Lee, suggested to drop a jig for them. Within the first couple of drops, Jakob was in! We were pretty sure it was a shark because the runs were not as fast as doggies normally tend to be. So everyone was cheering and yelling when this beast of a doggie surfaced! 150 cm fork length and weighed in at exactly 50 kilos! What a magnificent fish.</div>
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- GTs on homemade lures: It is always a special feeling to fool a fish to bite a piece of wood carved in the shed. A GT is even more so for some reason. I have caught much bigger specimens in Southern Oman on home made lures but I never get tired of it no matter how big they are.</div>
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- Titan triggerfish on a homemade lure. My first of this species. What a wicked looking fish! </div>
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- Seeing and setting the hook in an airborne mackerel. These fish jump like maniacs! With teeth like these, a jump into the boat could end up pretty bad. When this fish came into the boat, it went ballistick. I accidentally got one of the trebles in my pants while the fish was still hooked and it nearly sliced of my right ball before Nick could interfere...</div>
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- Maori wrasse on jig. This was a first for me. One of the fish I had dared to hope for on this trip. We were jigging for doggies on the last day of the trip and had caught the head of one. It ate the jig (FCL SL 230) on the bottom and then just sat there. I actually thought it was in the corals for a few seconds until a couple of tiny shakes in the rod tip revealed something else. We all thought it was a big grouper. I could see the fish coming slowly to the surface but before I could see what it was, Declan, our guide for the day, shouted:"And it's blue!". What a great feeling! By the way, this fish truly surprised me by its strength. After hooking up and realizing it was a fish it took some drag on a palmed spool and fully locked Stella 20000!</div>
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- Sitting on the back of the mothership after each fishing day with a cold beer hearing what the other guys had experienced that day.</div>
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- Seeing Jakobs face after landing in Cairns when he found out that he had forgotten his bag with money, credit cards and last but not least: his pass port in Lockhart River. Not good since we soon had to depart to Denmak! Big thumbs up to East Air who actually managed to make a stopover in Lockhart River with a flight going from Cape York to Cairns. The bag was delivered to Jakob in Cairns airport on the same evening! </div>
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- simply seeing and beeing in this place with a bunch of good friends was a fantastic experience and a real privilege.</div>
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When the last fishing day had ended, we all sat on the back of the mothership and summed up the GT tally to 199. We agreed that it would have been really really nice to have reached 200 GTs. Until Tommy (The Trout) said: Did you count in the one that Jakob caught on the back of the mothership? There it was: GT number 200! :)</div>
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Other than GTs, we caught a handfull of maori wrasse, a good amount of coral trout, red bass and other reefies. I don't think we lost any doggies to reefings. But the sharks... Man they were everywhere and since they swim with the doggies, they will naturally be there when a doggie is hooked.<br />
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The food on board was really good. Sashimi was on the table on an almost daily basis, and the main courses and desserts were really good and tasteful - and what's even more important: there was enough! Filling up the carbo motor everyday is very important on a trip like this IMO. Thank you Adam!</div>
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Many many thanks to Nick, Lee and Declan for finding the fish for us - you guys did very very well. </div>
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Also a big thank you to Savannahs captain, Glanville.</div>
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The setup with a mothership on the reef prooved to be as good as we had hoped for and these guys know what they're doing and is HIGHLY recommended.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The biggest fish of the trip was caught by Jesper. It measured 125 cm (fork length). </td></tr>
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In August, I bought a new spool of Varivas Avani Casting Max PE8 at Veals in the UK. On the package it says 112 lbs average strength. But it can also be much lower and still be within the accepted strength of the factory...<br />
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I have used this braid before with great success for GTs in both PE8 and PE10. The old spool of PE8 had an FG knot strength of around 42-43 kilos. I measured the FG knot strength of the new spool between 24 and 35 kilos - a very wide gap. Most results were around 26-28 kilos which made me believe that this was a 70-80lbs braid PE5-6. Though the diameter was identical (by eye) to the old spool.<br />
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I sent it back to the shop and they sent me a new spool while Varivas UK would send the other one back to testing on their factory in Japan.<br />
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The new spool had the same strength: 26-28 kilos.<br />
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At this time I actually got my money back from the store. I had politely given Varivas UK the choice of sending me a "decent" spool of braid or make a refund. They chose the latter. <br />
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Today, I got an email from Varivas UK, saying that they had got the results from Japan:<br />
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"The average break strength over 5 tests is at the very low edge of our accepted range for this product.<br />
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No1.39.14kg<br />
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No2.36.33kg<br />
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No3.36.00kg<br />
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No4.33.45kg<br />
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No5.33.34kg<br />
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Average 35.65kg".<br />
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So 80 lbs strength - far from 112 lbs - but still within the accepted range?!?!<br />
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I think the conclusions must be: Always test your braid. You never know the strength. Not even when the braid comes from a highly regarded Japanese company.<br />
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At last, I must say that Veals and Varivas have dealt with this in a very professional way. But I don't think it will be Varivas for me next time.<br />
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Today was our last day. During breakfast on the hotel, we were talking about how the fishing was going to be today. Nikolaj and I had a feeling that this could be the day. Perhaps it was the last hours of yesterdays frenzy that gave us THAT feeling. Would the tuna switch still be on?<br />
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Today was also the day where we would make friends with renowned Italian tuna whisperer: Michele Meggiolaro. Michele knows everything there is to know about BFT and he had helped us organizing the trip, gear etc. Besides that, Michele is just as crazy as we are so everything was a match!<br />
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Alessio had to stay at the Maretta Club to prepare the Exteme Tuna Spinning Cup that was going to take place the day after. In stead of Alessio, Matteo was at the steering wheel.<br />
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The conditions were quite the same as yesterday morning: Glass out and easily spooked tuna. We all started out with the most efficient lure from yesterday: The Tackle House Britt 145 sinking but the tunas refused.<br />
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Michele suggested to try a floating lure and Nikolaj had convinced himself to try the Upekari 190. In the first or second cast, he had a big boil at his lure. In the next cast, he hooked a nice fish. What a start for the Urpekari!<br />
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Jacob had continued to fish the Britt he borrowed yesterday but while Nikolaj was fighting he asked me to find a lure in Nikolajs box - "Just anything that floats", he said. I gave him a Maria Loaded 180F and it wasn't long before he hooked a nice fish!<br />
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On the next bust up, Nikolaj had a strike on his Urpekari again but the leader was cut in the strike. Bye bye fish - bye bye Urpekari. The fish busted up right away 100 meters away and Michele said grab my rod, Nikolaj. He casted out and sweeped twice and BOOM. Fish on!<br />
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I had tried a Shimano Ocea Head Dip 175 on which I had a strike on Day 2. I had a boil on it this morning but I didn't trust it 100 percent. I changed to a gamma 105 and at the second big frenzy, I had several boils on it. Next bust up and I came tight:<br />
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Michele tagged the fish, so now there is a tuna named Peter in Italy.<br />
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Some of the bust ups were very big today. The frenzy was suddenly too much for Michele so he made sneaky cast from the back of the boat with his Gamma 90. A fish followed the lure zig-zagging checking it out until it attacked!<br />
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In the last couple of hours of the day and the packs were getting smaller. I think that some of them were single fish. So when the boat would arrive there were no tunas to see. We made some casts anyway and I managed to catch two fish - both were on a Shout Entice Seduce 190. One of them missed the lure at the first attempt. Accidentally I pulled the lure out of the water and soon as it reached the surface again, the fish hit it full speed. I will never forget the sight of that.<br />
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Carpenter y-90: 1 fish<br />Maria Loaded 180F: 1<br />Amegari Urpekari 190: 1 fish</div>
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Carpenter TBL 84/22, TBL80/35, TBL80/40, Coral Viper 79/40, Endless Passion 85/36, Shimano Kaibutsu Pencil Instrument, <span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Souls Performance Studio XVI - 7'5" Level 8.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the evening we were kindly invited to dinner for all the participants in the Tuna Cup on the following day. It was nice to meet guys from Jack Fin, Glide and Megabass. </span></div>
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Today, Alessio was the captain again and Boris was with us to do some filming.<br />
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We left the harbour at 8 pm with 40 knots cruising speed (yes...).<br />
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Within 30 minutes we were at the tuna grounds and it wasn't long before we found the first bustups. Glass out conditions today. Good for sailing but it was like the tunas could hear the boat appraching. There were many bustups this morning until noon but everytime the boat appeared the tunas went down. We could see them on the sounder - often 20 meters below the boat. We had a couple of strikes just before noon but they were not aggressive like yesterday and they wouldn't stick to the hook.<br />
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At around 15pm the wind started to rip the water surface. It was like a switch! The tunas would eat more aggresively and show up in bigger packs.<br />
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At around 16pm with the clock ticking and no tunas boated, we were getting a bit anxious. We were chatting to another boat (with Matteo who would be the captain for tomorrow) when they suddenly put our attention to some tunas busting 70-80 meters from our boat! Alessio aligned the boat to cast at them and Nikolaj got tight within seconds. I made a cast and sweeped my lure two times and BANG! Double strike again!<br />
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At that time, Nikolaj and I had caught three tunas each. Jacob had been connected to several tunas to no avail. The hook just wouldn't stick to the fish! We felt that he needed a little boost so I lend him a Tackle House Britt - a long casting lure that had produced for Nikolaj. It was as if the sinking Pelagus just couldn't reach the fish under these circumstances.<br />
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And sure enough: first bust up and BOOM Jacob was on. But he lost it again! I don't think I have ever seen a guy that unlucky. He did everything right but they just wouldn't coorporate ... Nikolaj came tight again and I actually think I saw smoke coming out of Jacobs ears.<br />
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Next bust up and YES! Jacob was on!<br />
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Jacobs first bluefin tuna was a perfect way to end the fishingday!<br />
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We went home to the hotel, had a shower and then we had dinner with Alessio, his wife and son, With Boris and two flyfishermen who had actually caught a tuna today. The video on their GoPro looked insane! They fought it for one hour with a 16 weight rod. RESPECT!<br />
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We went home to the hotel very happy with minds full of fishing, meat and "vino rosso". A perfect setup for the 3rd and last day that unknowingly was going to be our best day.<br />
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After a really bad trip (fishing wise) to Madagascar in January 2017, we were in need of a trip with more fish. We had heard about the tuna fishing in the Adriatic Sea. I contacted Michele Meggiolaro for more information. He advised us to contact Maretta Club ASD in Porto San Giorgio which is run by Alessio and Boris.<br />
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We, Jacob Rønnow, Nikolaj Bielecki and I, set up three days of fishing that went like this:</div>
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Day 0, September 2017, travelling day</div>
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We took a plane from Copenhagen to Rome where we hired a car and drove 2,5 hours to the town, Porto San Giorgio, on the Italian east coast where we were supposed to fish. We arrived at the hotel at around 9 pm and to set up our rods. </div>
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Day 1, September 21st 2017:</div>
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After a good nights sleep and a nice breakfast on the hotel, we grabbed our rods and gear and walked to the harbour - a trip of around 5 minutes.</div>
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Alessio was ready in the boat: An inflatable Focchi boat, 7 m 30 cm and 250 HP engine. We should find out later that this was a real war machine!</div>
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We went to the tuna grounds in around 30 minutes which was 20 NM from shore. After one hour of searching, we saw the first bust up. Every one was excited - even the boat! Alessio turned up the engine and we were slowly reaching 57 knots. With a bit of old swell from the day before, this was not a pleasant ride - but who cares! The tunas looked really agressive turning the water white. We casted all three of us and we all had a strike, unfortunately Jacobs and my fish did not connect to the hooks properly. As the line got slack, I twitched two times with my homemade sinking stickbait and I was tight again - double hookup with Nikolaj!</div>
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It was a bit of a mess fighting two tunas this way but soon, Nikolaj had his fish on the surface. </div>
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What a start! First bust up - first cast and BOOM! After this, we thought it was going to be easy. But tunas can be finicky and 2 hours of casting to busting tuna went past before Nikolaj got tight again.<br />
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An hour later, it was my turn. I wanted to catch a tuna on the other of my two homemade stickbaits - a pink/purple/silvery one. We came to a frenzy and Jacob had a strike but no hooks would penetrate. I had a strike as soon as the lure hit the water.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-15230762171966467382017-09-26T15:46:00.000+02:002017-09-27T11:48:44.671+02:00Oman Video is finally done!After 4 years, I finally found some time to finish the video editing from our terrific trip to Southern Oman in Oct-Nov 2013.<br />
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Efter fire år fik jeg endelig redigeret optagelserne færdig fra vores gode tur til Oman:<br />
http://peterosher.blogspot.dk/2013/11/jakob-and-i-had-awesome-fishing.html<br />
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Videoen kan ses her:<br />
https://youtu.be/pgsL-7vm2kA<br /><p align="right" style="font-size: xx-small">posted from <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=pl.przemelek.android.blogger">Bloggeroid</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-63629099268062251562017-08-03T07:08:00.001+02:002017-08-03T07:08:04.533+02:00I Thormarens båd med 20ve<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Jeg havde overvejet en tur alene på kysten i morgen, men 20've lokkede mig med ud i Thormars båd i dag. Først lovede de 6-8 sm fra nordøst, så der aflyste vi. Vejrudsigten ændrede sig dog pludselig, så de nu lovede 2-4 sm fra øst, og vi aftale derfor at mødes på havnen kl. 18.<br/>
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Det begyndte at regne, da båden blev sat i. Og det blev værre, mens vi sejlede. Her ses 20've med regnen lige i ansigtet:<br/>
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Min lynlås på vadejakken var gået i stykker, så det gav lidt vand på maven.<br/>
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Vi sejlede om til de pladser, der havde givet fisk de sidste par dage - bl.a. en 4 kilos til Thormars far. <br/>
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På det første drev fik 20've en fin makrel efter 5 minutters fiskeri. Ellers skete der ikke noget de første 20 minutter og vi bandede begge lidt over regnen. Mens så havde jeg et meget forsigtigt nap. Og 7 omdrejninger efter et til. Jeg speedede op og derefter ned igen og BOM - fast fisk. Vi kunne se den var fin på hvirvlen og plaskene. Den blev nettet uden større dramatik. Det var en smuk, gylden fisk, der blev vejet og målt til 3,2 kg og 62 cm. <br/>
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Drevet gav yderligere en kilosfisk, der fik friheden igen. Det regnede stadig...<br/>
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Nyt drev, mere regn, og endnu en fin fisk - denne på 2,4 kg, mens 20've kæmpede febrilsk med at få trådet en gennemløber! :)<br/>
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Regnen tog af og 20've fik lidt efter også hul på bylden med en smørgås på 1,65 kg og kun 47 cm - altså en kondi på 1,58! <br/>
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Den var proppet med tobiser mellem 12 og 20 cm. <br/>
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Det begyndte at blive mørkere og fiskeriet tog mærkeligt nok af. Kun hvirvler og puf til agnene afslørede, at der var fisk.<br/>
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Vi endte dagen med fire fine fisk og en masse vådt tøj.<br/>
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Tak for lån af båden, Thormar. Det var en fed aften.<br/>
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Vækkeuret ringede kl. 3 og hurtigt afsted og stod klar på kysten kl. 05.05. Ingen springende fisk at se. Kun en blank overflade. Smuk morgen. De første 10 kast gav nok 5-6 rigtig gode hug. Det ene resulterede i fast fisk. En fin fight begyndte og jeg troede egentlig den var større end de 45-48 cm der kom. En flot fisk. Havde et par gode hug mere. Bl.a. en der tog godt med line før krogen slap sit tag. Øv...<br/>
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Da solen kom frem kl ca. 5.30 døde det helt <br/>
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ud. Fortsatte et par timer mere uden held.<br/>
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Fangede også et par tobiser. Den ene ca. 15 cm, som den Savage Gear jeg fangede på. Den anden noget større. <br/>
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Vi startede på de sydlige pladser uden videre succes. Som aftenen gik, fik vi fisket os nord på langs Vens østkyst. En time før solopgang kom der gang i fiskeriet. Buler på op til 6 meter viste sig, og de ville gerne hugge. Vi fik ca. 30 fisk op til ca 3 kg. Der er i øjeblikket rigtig mange 2 kilos fisk. Vi kunne godt snart bruge en 5+ kilos.<br />
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Det startede sløjt, men endte med triple hookup 😀<br />
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<br /><p align="right" style="font-size: xx-small">posted from <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=pl.przemelek.android.blogger">Bloggeroid</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Sverige55.933777 12.661864tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-19176980812517884942017-07-08T12:58:00.001+02:002017-07-08T13:04:58.353+02:00Multe med Fisken og 20'veVar ude med Fisken og 20've. Det var svært at se fiskene i dette store område hvor de kan være overalt. Efter stor tålmodighed fra Fisken begyndte et par stykker endelig at spise. 20've og jeg var lige kommet tilbage til Fisken og listede os ud til ham. Vi havde et par småhug før jeg fik kroget en fin fisk. Fighten i dette lave vand med blæretang alle vegne er mere stressende end sjov. Vi fik den ind og vejede den til 2,6 kg. <br />
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Tjek lige Fisken på dette foto. Øver han sig i at ligne en multe? Eller er han ved at mutere til en rigtig fisk?<br />
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Det blev mørkt og vi så et par enkelte fisk spise uden at fange dem, inden vi tog hjem.<br />
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Jeg købte orm og takler fredag og var dermed klar til lørdag morgen, hvor vi - Lars, Rønnow, Claude og jeg - skulle mødes i havnen.<br/>
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Vejret var ikke just med os. Vinden lagde ud med 4-6 sm fra nord. Op ad formiddagen tog den yderligere til, og det begyndte gudhjælpemig også at regne!<br/>
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Nå men nogle flade blev det da til. Vi havde 25 dtk. med hjem. Vi havde smidt ligeså mange ud. I øvrigt blev det til 7 forskellige arter på ormene: <br/>
Ising, rødspætte, skrubbe, torsk, makrel, knurhane, hvilling.<br/>
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Det var ikke rigtig vejr til at hive mobilos op af lommen til foto. Det endte dog med et lækkert måltid:<br/>
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Der var font med fisk på 20-25 meter vand syd for Ebbes. Der var også mange småbåde ude. <br/>
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Det blev til ca. 20 torsk mellem 1 og 3 kg.<br/>
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En helt blik stille aften på Sundet med flex. Det var en god fødslesdagsgave. Tak, Rønnow...<br/>
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Var i dag ude med Rønnow efter torsk. Det blev ikke til det store. <br />
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Vi kiggede selvfølgelig også efter tunene, der efter sigende skulle være set i overfladen syd for Ven i går. Vi så dem ikke i overfladen...<br />
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Men efter at være drevet gennem oceaner af sild, der stod på et meget langt stræk mellem 10 meters dybde og bunden så vi dette på skærmen : <br />
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Det ses tydeligt, at der her er noget STORT i vandet, som sildene bliver "trykket" af/skræmt af. <br />
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Vi er ikke i tvivl om, at det er tun. Og det samme siger en kendt tunskipper i USA, der har set billedet.<br />
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Det er spændende, hvad de næste 5-10 år vil vise! Måske kunne vi som lystfiskere en dag få lov til at fange og genudsætte en sådan tun? En dansk blåfinnet tun...<br />
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Jakse og jeg er netop hjemme fra en tur til Hallaniyat, hvor vi med succes har fisket nogle gange før.</div>
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Vi havde egentlig booket båden i marts 2015, men da Dorte nu har termin der, aflyste jeg og tog i stedet derned på et afbud hos Ocean Active. Jakse kunne ikke lade være med at tage med :)</div>
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Vi tog en overnatning i Salalah på Juweirah Boutique Hotel, inden vi skulle fiske. Et 4-stjernet hotel hvor vi også boede sidste år. Vi lå ved poolen, da Dorte ringede og fortalte, at det bliver en lille pige til marts. Fantastiske nyheder, men også noget surrealistisk at ligge der og få at vide.</div>
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Vi delte båden med en flinker fyr - John Wilson fra Skotland - bosiddende i Dubai.</div>
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Fiskeriet efter GT var virkelig tamt trods fremragende vejrforhold med vind på 4-10 m/s. </div>
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Det blev til i alt 3 GTer på de 5,5 dages fiskeri. Jakse fik en 5-kilos på førstedagen på en Hammer Head Tobi 123. Jeg fik en på andendagen og en på fjerdedagen på hhv. 12-15 kilo og 30-35 kg (120 cm). De huggede på hhv. Carpenter Gamma 160H og en Sebile Splasher 190. </div>
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Vi havde dog et ok light tackle fiskeri et par aftener med flere yellowdot trevally på op til 13 kg (vejet). Endvidere orange spot trevally, big eye trevally, mahi mahi, blacktip trevally, bonito m.m. </div>
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Derudover et slidsomt fiskeri efter amberjacks og tropical amberjacks. Kun de mindre eksemplarer ville tage jiggen. Jeg fangede desværre kun tropicals, så jeg har stadig min første amberjack til gode. I desperation prøvede vi live baiting efter de større modeller, og det lykkedes Jakse at fange to virkelig flotte fisk på ca. 14 og 20 kg. </div>
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Jeg havde også et bud, der nåede at tage måske 30 meter udløb, før linen sprang. Den må have været flosset fra et tidligere bundhug. Fuck...</div>
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Den anden båd, der bestod af 3 sydafrikanere og en australier gjorde det ikke meget bedre, idet de kun fik en enkelt GT. Dog ligeledes på 120 cm. De havde heller ikke meget held med light tackle fiskeriet. De ramte til gengæld ind i mahi mahi Mekka og fik mange fisk op til 17-18 kg. Derudover fik de under GT fiskeri en monster queenie på ligeledes 17-18 kg.</div>
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Kosten var i øvrigt ikke på nogen måde af samme standard som den har været de sidste to gange. Temmelig meget fisk og et par dage fik vi til morgenmad tørre madpandekager med smør, syltetøj eller Nutella - IKKE mad der holder hvis der skal fiskes igennem indtil frokost kl 13-14 stykker.</div>
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Noget af det, der holdt moralen oppe, var kaptajn Sauds altid gode humør. Han knoklede som en gal, men fiskene var der bare ikke i det antal, de har været på de øvrige ture.</div>
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På vej hjem i flyet mødte vi en inder med mere rødt hår end Jakse!</div>
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Alt i alt en ok tur, men også skuffende på mange punkter.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-3579457587229109822014-09-30T08:56:00.001+02:002014-09-30T09:04:49.661+02:00Osher Baits fanger bluefin tuna<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lakse Jakse havde lånt et par Osher Baits med til Gibraltar for at give de blåfinnede et skud. Der lykkedes ham at fange i alt 5 stk. mellem anslået 25 og 45 kg. De to af dem blev fanget på Osher Baits. En lille flydende stickbait på 21,5 cm og 128 gram. Fantastisk fjer i hatten til den hjemmesnittede. Tak, Jakse. Godt gået.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-20997922779930669472014-08-23T13:49:00.001+02:002014-08-23T13:49:57.942+02:00To havørreder over 3 kg<p dir="ltr">Op kl. 4 og på kysten med Rønnow. </p>
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Den 11. Juli fik Anders "dobbelthug" med sin kone i form af tvillinger.</div>
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I dag blev det til endnu et dobbelthug - dog af multer. De havde snydt os i ca. 10 minutter hvor de gik og guffede brød præcis hvor flåddene ikke lå.</div>
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Anders fik sat krogen i en, og min line lå lidt i vejen for fighten, så jeg trak lidt i den, og i det samme missede en multe mit brød der satte i bevægelse. Jeg stoppede indtagningen og lod brødet ligge. Multen kom efter det og et splitsekund efter havde jeg også fisk på!</div>
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Jeg havde aldrig troet, at jeg skulle opleve dobbelthug med multer. Det lykkedes at lande begge to, der hver især vejede ca. 2,5 og 3 kg. </div>
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En halv time forinden fik jeg i øvrigt en fin fisk på ca. 3,5 kg, men den største fisk blev for en sjælden gangs skyld ikke dagens højdepunkt.</div>
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Efter et par forgæves forsøg, lykkedes det at fange 3 multer i dag - den ene på meget lavt vand. Vægt: ca. 2,5; 3,0 og 4,0 kg.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-75306436161091427242013-11-18T10:48:00.003+01:002017-09-28T09:45:20.167+02:00GT popping in Oman okt/nov 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Jakob and I had an awesome fishing adventure with Ocean Active in Southern Oman April 2012. With our mutual friend, Fred, who had never caught a GT before, we decided to book 7 days in april 2013. The trip was cancelled due to bad weather but Nick managed to rebook the seven days from October 31st - November 6th 2013. <br />
We of course hoped to get some of the GT action we had last year and we also hoped to have some light tackle fun and to get some of the AJs that are around this time of year. We got it all though the number and the size of the AJs had already decreased from what had been there early October.<br />
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Travelling Copenhagen - Amsterdam - Muscat - Salalah. <br />
Oct. 29: We were at the Juweirah Hotel at 5am. Took a few hours sleep and went into the pool. <br />
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After 10 minutes in the pool, I found my cell phone in my right pocket. DOH! Fortunately the sim card fitted in Freds phone so that I could call my wife who was taking care of our 6 months old son.<br />
We fished for a couple of hours in the harbour but had no luck. There were mullets all over and we saw a shark.<br />
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The hotel is only a couple of years old and is really recommendable. It was nice to have a day to relax and adapt to the much higher temperatures than we have in Denmark this time of year!<br />
Oct. 30:<br />
We were picked up at the hotel at 8 am and drove to Shuwaymiah to be greeted by Nick and his group that was on their way home from Hallaniyat. We were also greeted by our beloved Captain Saud. A man who can make you smile no matter what state of mind you are in. The fishing had been a little slow which made us lower our expectations a tad.<br />
We made the trip to Al Hallaniyat within an hour and were welcomed by Cameron Mundy, Kareem (Ashrafs son) and his team. We all got a room with AC. In the afternoon we went to the nearby rocks to have some light tackle fun and caught a couple of Sheris (spangled emperor). <br />
We also had a bit of a chock when we came to a pool where a murray eel splashed into the water with maybe 6 or 8 other eels still lurking in the pool!<br />
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In the evening we started to set up our tackle for the fishing the next
day. We had 2 set backs during the evening: We had brought a wrong
charger for our camera and Fred broke his medium tackle rod...
Fortunately, Cameron was so kind to let us borrow his camera AND a
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Oct. 31: <br />
Our first fishing day.
We started to try for the GTs. We had fished for an hour or so when my
eyes caught a huge bow wave behind Jakobs Tobi. He casted again but the
fish wouldn't bite. That was the first sign that monsters were around
and our heart rate increased a little!<br />
We went jigging for a while.
No AJs around but we caught a couple of red bream. I got a blacktipped
trevally and Fred got a spotted grunter which none of us had never seen
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We had some great GT action before lunch and caught four GTs between 104
and 134 cm. I caught the smallest and biggest of the day - both on a
Gamma 140 Fusilier. The biggest was a new personal best for me. From
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Not much action in the afternoon but we saw some sailfish and one one
them attacked Jakobs 70 gr Bigfoot but didn't hook up. When we were
fishing for the sails Fred popped his light tackle rod in a cast - two
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We had a beautiful ride home in the sunset with a school of dolphins. <br />
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Outside the camp we tried some GT popping. Fred hadn't caught a GT today but his day was made when a yellow dot trevally engulfed his 140 gr GT popper.<br />
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Nov 1: <br />
Second day of fishing. We headed out early morning and capt. Saud was in the mood as always.<br />
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We caught 3 GTs today. I caught a smaller one around 7 kg on an Orion Bigfoot Light and 30 lbs gear which was awesome! Jakob caught two GTs up to the 124 cm mark.<br />
We lost a couple of GT's and some of them were big. Fred had his first GT bite - it was big but it was gone in a few seconds.<br />
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In the late afternoon we spotted some fishermen putting out live
sardines. We had some awesome hours in the setting sun catching loads of
big eye trevally and yellowdots up to 11 kgs on light tackle.<br />
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We jigged in the morning and I got a nice Sheri (Saud calls it "single Ambera" which must Omani for "spangled emperor" :) ).<br />
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We went fishing for GTs before lunch and Jakob got two smaller ones.<br />
I had brought some home made floating stickbaits and thought I would try them out. Not many casts later, a big GT engulfed it!<br />
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After many hours of carving, coating, testing, carving, coating and testing etc., I was stoked to see they could actually catch fish!<br />
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We managed to boat two smaller GTs. One of them took another of my homemade sticks.<br />
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Before lunch we went in shore for some light tackle fun. I managed to
catch a bluefin trevally . I was fishing barbless and when we had the
fish leadered, it came of. I was a bit sad not to get the picture as it
was my first bluefin ever. Soon after, Fred caught a nice blacktipped
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By the beginning of day 5, Fred still hadn't
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Fred
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suddenly his Skipjack was slammed big time! He fought the GT to the boat
and when Saud lifted it into the boat we all screamed of joy. A well
deserved GT. Freds first GT ever measured 140 cm! </div>
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Within 30 minutes, Jakob and Fred had a double hook up. Unfortunately,
Jakobs fish pulled the hooks but Fred managed to boat his second GT
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Jakob hooked up to a nice 125 cm fish two hours later. </div>
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Fred and Jakob caught two Geets of around 110 and 121 cm respectively before we went jigging for AJs. </div>
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Jakob and Fred got a couple of AJs up two around 12 kg.<br />
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Nov 5:<br />
Early morning we went popping for GTs. Capt Saud borrowed Freds rod but had no luck this time. When we were fishing with him last year in April, he borrowed Jakobs rod and caught a 135 cm fish in his 5th cast!<br />
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The GTs were not in the mood to play along so we went to jig for AJs.
Saud and Fred caught some tropical amberjacks - beautiful fish! <br />
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After lunch we went popping for GTs again. Jakob lost two and I managaed
to boat one. It had its body 3/4 out of the water when it ate my
homemade stickbait! It was a very strong fish that put me and my MH80H
to the test. I thought it was bigger before it came to the boat. It
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Last day of fishing. Jakob caught a 120 cm in the early
morning. No more GT action that day as we spent some time with the light
tackle. 5 minutes ride from the marina, we saw a big shoal of smaller
fish being hunted by mahi mahis. I rushed to get a rod with a smaller
stick bait and I hooked up in the first cast. I had never caught a mahi
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Late afternoon we went inshore. Jakob caught a couple of blacktipped
trevally and soon after my stickbait was hit violently by what turned
out to be a bluefin trevally. The fish was around 6-7 kg and I was very
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Finally the trip was over and we could sum it all up to 19 boated GT's with 4 over 132 cm (estimated 40+ kg), a couple of smaller AJs a some light tackle fun. The trip turned out to be all we had hoped for...<br />
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Gear used:<br />
Succesfull lures:<br />
Hammerhead Tobi, Skipjack 120 and 150, Gamma 140, Gamma 160H, Sebile Splasher, Craftbait GT3, Hammerhead I-cup, homemade floating stickbaits.<br />
Popping rods: Carpenter MH79XH, MH80H, CV79/40, Saltywatertackle Custom CV79/40, Endless Passion 85/36, Racepoint 200, Westin popping rod.<br />
Light-medium rods: Beastmaster 240H, KGS70MH.<br />
Jigging rods:<br />
Edge jigging rods (now Westin rods), Daiwa Catalina<br />
Reels:<br />
Stella FA, SW-a and SW-B from 6000 to 18000. Saltiga 4500, Daiwa Hyper Certate Custom 3500, Twinpower FB 4000, Stradic FJ 4000. Jigging Master conventional.<br />
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A compilation of the best moments recorded with GoPro can be found here:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-59711258619925799382013-10-20T23:05:00.000+02:002013-10-20T23:05:35.943+02:00Fire stk. mere klar til Oman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Fire nye hjemmelavede stickbaits er afprøvet i dag, og de kan alle svømme. Er ved at tune mig ind på de mekanismer, der gør sig gældende, med en større succesrate til følge. Det er ufatteligt så stor betydning, små detaljer kan have på en agns gang. <div>
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De to mindste er 225 mm (plus tailbly) og 140 gram. De to større er 240 mm og 170 gram. Ready for Oman! Lindberg, Fritte og jeg fisker GTer ved Hallaniyatøerne fra 31/10 -6/11. Håber at fange en satan på en af de hjemmelavede.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Og kamæleon (skifter farve mellem mørk grøn og lilla afhængig af lysvinkel)</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-51650268916837635212013-04-01T21:32:00.000+02:002013-04-01T21:32:16.286+02:00Tigerstriber - grrrrrrr....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Fik testet de fire nye albinoer, og tre af dem kunne svømme. De har senere fået tigerstriber, og er nu klar til at blive molestreret i Oman om en uge.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-985354317896780453.post-37923701397393340332013-03-27T19:47:00.001+01:002013-03-27T19:47:53.407+01:004 nye sticks - albino<div><p dir=ltr>Skal testes i morgen</p>
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Fire stickbaits mellem 23 og 25 cm er i rotoren. Nu mangler blot et par lag epoxy, før de kan monteres. Dernæst skal de få en svømmelektion. Håber, at bare en af de fire kan svømme fra fødslen. Ellers må belastningerne omfordeles.</div>
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