Friday, November 22, 2013

SNAKIN' IT EASY.

The humble snakehead. One of the fishes most newbies entering the field of lure casting cuts their teeth in but it still provide fun and exciting moments for seasoned anglers to while away the time. Snakehead are prolific in a lot of waterholes but while it may be common, they sometimes prove to be choosy with their lures and only the best presented lures accounts for awesome strikes.
Going after this local species can be exciting on topwater frogging lures. Nothing beats a surface takes when going after this species. The IMA Dabeat frog is the newest in the market, along with the Kahara Frogs and the Jackall Xeno Buzz soft plastic frog. Enjoy the pictures below of our recent catches,

 KAHARA Frog.
 IMA Dabeat.
  IMA Dabeat.

IMA Dabeat.
 

 IMA Dabeat.

 IMA Dabeat.

 KAHARA Baby Frog. 

KAHARA Baby Frog. 
 Jackall Xeno Buzz

 Jackall Xeno Buzz 
 IMA Dabeat
 IMA Dabeat in heavy cover.
Big one on a Megabass Pony Gabot
Open area luring. 
 Jackall Squad Shad 65

 DUO Realis Shad


Wednesday, November 13, 2013

MANGROVE MANIC

Once again as the urge rose and the timing is perfect, we'd hit the nearby mangrove rivers for some more luring fun, this time putting a "new" technique to use in a place you wouldn't normally use this technique.
We'd still be putting some of our favorite lures to use, most of which have become our go-to fish catchers from our stable of DUO, IMA and Jackall Bros.
First to hit the deck was this chubby cod on a chubby crank.
Chubby crank extraordinaire, the Imakatsu IK cranbait.
Proving that anything more then a mouthful is not a waste, catching cods of this size further seal the Evergreen Combat Crank's effectiveness for deep water cranking.
Beginners luck is no myth as this newbie again hits a sizable grouper with the Imakatsu Crank. The Majorcraft Skyrod has some major heft to drag this fish out from it's rocky refuge. 
Hitting some smaller creeks where fishes were holding, a nice Mangrove Jack didn't hesitate to hit a nicely presented Jackall Bros HD Shad, one of the brand's hand poured plastic, resulting in super realistic actions.
It was a day of size match, as this tiddler of an MJ showed no fear in hitting the big IMA Sasuke 120.
Fishing requires always evolving in techniques and know-how, as we find that the practice of offshore jigging can readily be used as well in the shallow river, resulting in this nice Mangrove Jack.
By scaling down the size of lures, finicky fishes readily take bite size snacks more frequently as we hit and miss a few good strikes. This fish manage to hook itself on a Jackson Gallop 14g, a jig with the prefect weight to maintain position in the current while maintaining a smaller profile.

As an ending proclamation, we dare say mangrove river jigging will be the new rage around this parts of our state but of course, there's no reason why you shouldn't try it. We know we will.







Friday, October 4, 2013

GOING FOR GROUPERS

Spent a day on the local mangrove going for some bad boys of the river. Unfortunately the timing and weather wasn't very cooperative. Nevertheless we managed some nice fishes as pictures below can dictate.
Majorcraft and Megabass rods on the ready with some choice lures from DUO, Majorcraft, and Ima.

Hitting a nice size grouper after an hour of casting. Stout rods like the light and strong Majorcraft Skyrod making short work of pulling the Grouper out from the rocks.
As always, the lure of choice for sourcing out fishes is the venerable Evergreen Combat Crank, pictured here the 320 model.
Double hookup on Combat Cranks! One on the Majorcraft Volkey, the other on the Skyrod.
Combat Crank 400 in Charteuse bone color really works well in stained waters. 
Last fish of the day before the weather forced us to call it quits. This mama Archerfish have no qualms about hitting a big crank.





Wednesday, July 17, 2013

ULTRA LIGHT JIGGING

Time to hit the inshore waters for some micro jigging. Armed with ultra light jigs in the 7g-14g range (pictured here, Ima Gunpeki, Xesta Afterburner, Shout Dangan and Jackson Gallop) and finesse rods like the Evergreen Temujin Spider matched perfectly to 4lb -10lb braid, we were eager to go hunting for shallow water pelagics. 
As always, we would hit the waters early just before sunrise to catch that perfect feeding time.
Happy and eager faces. Shout Visors are quite the trend now against sunny sunshine.
Warm up fish. First drop resulted in this little emperor.
Rock Cod like this are a norm and they are not shy when it comes to snaffling down tiny jigs hopping around their holes.
What we came here for. A nice size Pennant Fish taken on a slowly jigged Ima Gunpeki 7g.
Double hookup meant a bit of chaos navigating the fight but eventually, this nice 5kg Pennant fish was also brought up, putting up great runs on ultra light outfit before being subdued.
More line pulling action as this jig was taken on the drop by a Diamond Trevally, a close cousin to the Pennant Fish. Few of these fishes were missed on the strikes or pulled the hooks as they have delicately thin mouth. Smooth light drags and relaxed fighting actions ensure prize fishes like this are not lost.
Hirames or Flounders like this are a nice surprise as they also take lightly worked jigs on the sandy bottom.
Nice Blue Spot Trout on Ima Gunpeki. 
Coral trout on the Jackall Bros I-Shad Tail soft plastic.
Different day same action. Juvenile Diamond Trevally.
Rod: Evergeen Temujin Spider
Reel: Shimano Stella 2000
Line: Tufline XP 6lb
Leader: Sunline Pocket FC 20lb
Jig: OA Bullet Jig
Coral Trouts are plenty around this waters.
Did I say plenty?
Scoring a Striped Perch on the Ima Gun.
A rare catch, the Spotted Mackerel are always hanging around to chase some helpless baitballs. Tiny jigs like the Ima Gunpeki worked fast with a Megabass Orochi Spin rod almost always guarantees you a hookup.
Another mack, the Narrow Barred Mackerel also on speed jigging. 
Showing here are a pair of Ima Gunpeki rigged with a single assist using Shout Jaco feather assist hooks. Small, split ring pincer is a useful tool for rigging the hooks and jigs onto to small size split rings and swivels like the Sasame sz 6

Enjoy this video of the double hookups plus some.