TERRE ROUGE, MADAGASCAR, NOVEMBER 2009

A trip dedicated mainly to vertical jigging reserved some brief topwater fishing to confirm old faithful lures and new prototypes.
A place surrounded by a striking nature and a endless sea.

The lodge and the places:

Company in navigation:

And the trevallies, not always big but very picky and not easy to locate...

This one swallowed the new proto "bean":

BLUEFIN TUNA IN ADRIATIC SEA

I'm happy to show you what is probably the first bluefin tuna of legal size ( 122 cm and 32 kgs ) caught on a popper in the Adriatic sea an possibly all Italian waters.

The achievement is due to the friend Giuseppe Bandiga Magnani, who caught the fish on my SW 125 model in a sardine pattern, with Gt popping tackle.

CUBAN ROAD TRIP

A brief photostory of a little trip to Cuba, in my mind destined to field testing of topwater lures; the very hot waters of September caused a lack of interesting fishes in shallow waters and a very slow fishing .
Wonderful places and a good company assured a pleasant vacation; the only good fishes on a popper came on a slim version of SW-pop 45.

SOME LITTLE COLOR EXPERIMENT

On the "Bicho Grande", 68 grams for leerfish, jacks, bluefish and so on.....

NEW COLORS

Hope you'll like them....

Wahoo color....


.... and "Psycodisco" Pato:

PATO "HALF"

"Half" because it is about half the size of the original, it weights 75 grams but mantain all the bad noisy popping attitude of its big brother.
Perfect for medium tropical fishing for tarpon, snappers, jacks, or when big predators react lazily to bigger invading lures.
It's on its own also in the mediterranean fishing for leerfishes, bluefishes and even middle size AJs.

SPECIAL LEERFISH

Popper SW in 60 grams size; it pops on the top and swims with a wide wobbling movement just under the surface. Here in a new heavy glittered coloration to blend and camouflage in the foam and bubble trail for educated fishes.

Bicho Grande, 20 cm in a color serie developed on my experience in my home waters of the North Adriatic Sea; the pic miss the black/goldish imitation of the backcountry mullet, but I'll post it very soon.

Of course these are lures for the hunt of large specimen and not intended to pursue the small schoolies that should be left free to grow.

They have shown their value also for big bluefishes, AJs and medium tropical critters such as roosters, snappers, tarpons and jacks just to mention a few.