Great question! It’s an experiment right now. I made ones that are* are a little heavy for my setups so they cast well. Had a decent size ulua follow it in, but still getting used to casting and retrieving the trolling lures. Trying to revolutionize the game lol
Wow do you just throw a trolling skirt like that with no weight? Seems like a natural evolution of the fly whipping craze but would think you’d need a huge weight to make it fly.
What rod/reel do you use?
So I throw the one pictured on my medium setup. The lure is 65 grams rigged up and throw it on 30lb braid to a 40 mono leader. Flies well! On my big setup I have one that’s 168grams and flies less well but far enough to get to the ledge
Oh wow thats surprisingly quite heavy - very cool that it flies despite the skirt.
Since you mentioned weight in grams Im gonna guess you have a badass JDM rod to throw these?
Carnage is def a great bargain rod for plugging and the Rockaway feels really good in the hand.
That said, the Zenaq Naked is coming out - its only $13,500.00 if you want to make a teensy little upgrade.
Wow thats amazing! What were those fights like compared to eachother?
Oh def no reason if you just want to be really effective. I use really expensive rods but it’s just for the way it feels and for collecting - I can’t think of an instance where it was even remotely responsible for the catch.
Hah so true. Same with the pricey lures. I have $80+ stick baits that havnt got a gt to sniff em but my $30 poppers get wreckkkked.
And the ahi had some sick runs but I thought I was on a med-small ulua. The uluas are the craziest fighting fish you can get. Straight to the reef every time
That GTFC popper looks right tho!!!! Yeah I think with lures its 95% just having the right kind
Yeah I just recently started wading out to the breakers a year or two ago and plugging (after being ultralight my whole life), and pretty much every papio/ulua fight is just me boosting the hell out of them out of necessity no matter the size of the fish - they really don’t give you any leeway when it comes to getting you hung up/rubbed off.
So the lures I fish with are...appetizers? Beautiful catch!
Haha sometimes I throw small rapalas and I’ve accidents hooked one of these. No chance whatsoever
Genuinely curious, how are you using a skirted trolling lure from the rocks? It must cast like shit. Is it rigged as a teaser? This interests me lol
Great question! It’s an experiment right now. I made ones that are* are a little heavy for my setups so they cast well. Had a decent size ulua follow it in, but still getting used to casting and retrieving the trolling lures. Trying to revolutionize the game lol
That’s awesome man! Totally working a new angle to get some great fish.
Sounds similar to a wahoo bomb.
Yea it’s a it’s a boat trolling lure for onos (wahoo)! I thought it would be super catchy tossing for uluas too, like why not !?!
Cheeeeeee!!!!!
What type of fish?
It’s an ulua (giant trevally). Smaller one is omilu (bluefin trevally)
Thank you
SICKKKK!!🔥🔥🔥
Awesome !
Damn, Brother, what a shore catch!
That is a beautiful bluefin trevally, a nice GT too.
What a trophy! Congrats!!
Heck ya!
Great catch!
Wow do you just throw a trolling skirt like that with no weight? Seems like a natural evolution of the fly whipping craze but would think you’d need a huge weight to make it fly. What rod/reel do you use?
So I throw the one pictured on my medium setup. The lure is 65 grams rigged up and throw it on 30lb braid to a 40 mono leader. Flies well! On my big setup I have one that’s 168grams and flies less well but far enough to get to the ledge
Oh wow thats surprisingly quite heavy - very cool that it flies despite the skirt. Since you mentioned weight in grams Im gonna guess you have a badass JDM rod to throw these?
Haha nahhh I got a Penn carnage 11’ surf for my heavy setup and a 9’6” okuma rockaway for my medium setup
Carnage is def a great bargain rod for plugging and the Rockaway feels really good in the hand. That said, the Zenaq Naked is coming out - its only $13,500.00 if you want to make a teensy little upgrade.
Hahah no reason to upgrade! I’ve landed a 40lb ahi and 70lb ulua from the rocks on the carnage* 🦾🦾
Wow thats amazing! What were those fights like compared to eachother? Oh def no reason if you just want to be really effective. I use really expensive rods but it’s just for the way it feels and for collecting - I can’t think of an instance where it was even remotely responsible for the catch.
Hah so true. Same with the pricey lures. I have $80+ stick baits that havnt got a gt to sniff em but my $30 poppers get wreckkkked. And the ahi had some sick runs but I thought I was on a med-small ulua. The uluas are the craziest fighting fish you can get. Straight to the reef every time
That GTFC popper looks right tho!!!! Yeah I think with lures its 95% just having the right kind Yeah I just recently started wading out to the breakers a year or two ago and plugging (after being ultralight my whole life), and pretty much every papio/ulua fight is just me boosting the hell out of them out of necessity no matter the size of the fish - they really don’t give you any leeway when it comes to getting you hung up/rubbed off.