Sunday, March 18, 2012

The return of Mike

Mike first fished with us 2 years ago as a first time popper fisherman, he was addicted and has since then made a few exclusive popping trips, he was back to fish with us all geared up and try some jigging this time.

We got in a bit of popping first as this was a primary objective for Mike, the results were great with many fish.

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After many fish were caught on popper we decided to focus on the jigging for a few days and here are the results for first time jigging

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Then came the jigging prize for keeping at it…

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Stay tuned for more

Team SFI

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Seawood Tackle group

The end of Feb saw us fishing with the Hombres from Seawood Tackle in Spain, they were fully prepared for popping and jigging and going after big fish….. except massive fish!! So there were line breaks and hook pulls and the monsters live and the boys from Spain will go back with tales of the ones that got away and come back charged up once again.

Let the pictures talk of the mucho mucho fishing we had

Species first

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Then GT’s

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Sharked

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And a surprise for the cream of popping to compensate for the ones lost on jig

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Will they be back for another round??

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We think so

Team SFI

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Swiss and Swedes

Just finish an epic trip fishing with the Legends. Our friends from Sweden and Switzerland visit us for an another wonderful trip.

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Patrick was doing his first fishing trip for GTs. Well, as he noticed it's not that simple and really addictive !
Patrick was ready for any battles and technically on the top. But you definitely need the fighting spirit for the Giant Trevallies.
Helena was doing her second trip. She did well landing a big Spanish Mackrel, a coral trout and severals GTs while my dear friend from Switzerland, Didier, was the veteran and acted properly to show them the way. Decent GTs and a lovely dogtooth tuna for him on poppers !


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It's been hard sometimes to handle some big fish... they won. Often !
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But this is what makes stories, isn't it ?
Switzerland have been proudly represented by Didier but on the other hand, our friends from Sweden learn fast and I'm sure the next they'll re-write the story !
Thank you all for these sweet moments and let's meet again soon.
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Team SFI

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Lacca boys

The third week of Feb saw us fishing with Rory, Dean, Dave and Skollie and though the tides were not ripping we had some fantastic action, it just goes to show that when the fish are around they will play.

The first day started off well with many nice GT’s, one took the popper almost as it was being lifted out of the water. A good start.

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The guys we fully prepared for their trip as the picture below shows

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We were getting a lot of action and surprisingly the dogtooth tuna were happy to play ball too, what a surprise for Dave when he hooked a doggie out of a bait school and it took off.

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Dave and his personal best doggie on popper too!!!

We varied the places we fished with popping and jigging so as to cover more areas and had very good all round action with numerous species.

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There was some insane action on jig with 35 GT’s and Doggies and some lost.

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Action on jig was continuous

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When the tides we better we went after the big ones here is the group on their way out

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And the trophies:

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And then the return home all popped and jigged out

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Team SFI