Shimano orca stickbaits
Submitted by scano on Wed, 2014-02-19 14:27
Hi everyone,
just chasing some feedback on sinking stickbaits. I have been looking at buying some for an up and coming Exmouth trip to throw at tuna and general busting up bait schools.
I have a 5-10kg rated rod so don't want anything too massive. I was thinking in particular some of the 160mm shimano Orca stickbaits would be good. Has anyone used them much? With much success?
Lastly can can you recommend any other light weight mid sized stickbait options?
many thanks
scano
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Leemo
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Maria Bullchops are my
Maria Bullchops are my alltime favourite, weighed at 43g, perfect profile for tuna.
Duel Addagio 125's are very good aswell.
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Ryan C
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stickbaits (cheapest option!!)
heres a tip, last saturday we were out at the fads surrounded by yellowfin,southern blues and stripies , after a few on metals and plastics we thought surface lures would be the go , lo and behold there were about 200 minnow lures on my boat and 1 lone small dumbell popper (which we fought over !!) i have a box of cheapo tailor minnows that work well so i thought i would snap the bib off one and give it a go??, well i snapped the bib off a jindivik jerk 11 and trimmed the excess with side cutters ($4.95 at big W and an EXCELLENT TAILOR MINNOW IN ITS OWN RIGHT ) and lets just say it was AWESOME!!!!!! the sexiest walk the dog action youve ever seen with almost no rod action and the tuna just went nuts over it , we lost count after about 40 tuna of various species so i went down monday and bought another handful of my new favourite minnow /stickbaits, and they cast a mile on 20lb spin too!!. cheers
crasny1
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Thats cheaper than a Smiling jack!!
And I love them as a tailor lure.
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Have two Shimano Orcas but
Have two Shimano Orcas but are yet to use them.
Spent part of Monday casting a Duel Addagio 125 at some reasonable sized bluefin tuna though and they seemed to love it. (Bait they had balled up was very small so didn't break out the Orca's as trying to keep the lure profile small). Can still picture one chasing it down and nailing on the surface bow wave and all!!
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scano
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Awesome suggestions gents
Thanks for that
i will be sure to be on the hunt for some of the lures mentioned above. Will also post and let you know how they go in our exy trip around Easter time.
dkonig82
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I really like the Orca - was
I really like the Orca - was the light lure of the trip for me in Vanuatu until I lost it :-(
+1 for the various Maria offerings also.
But most importantly - 40 tuna in a metro session on surface lures?! Awesome
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Pics
Pics and a report Ryan?
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no pics
sorry mate no pics and no report , we were too busy on the day, was me Joff Weston and my regular deckie Ben , it was awesome though!and Ben and Joff say it happens all season out past the fads in 250 ish metres.