LITTLE LURES TOO

Not only big lures for tropical monsters, but small ones for everyday fishing in home waters.

In the last pic:

Mini bichito short 18 grams

Baby SW 21 grams

Patico 23 grams

Available on request.

NEMOMANIA

The unforgettable clownfish. Special striped coloration help to break the visual shape of the lure to the educated fishes, not only a simple painting exercise.

Popper Patico, 23 grams 8 cm in "turquish nemo", Bichito 28 grams e Bicho Med 42 grams in classic "nemo".

Small sizes studied for european seabass, leerfish and bluefish, but strong enough to be cast to barracuda, jacks, cobias and tarpons in Caribbean or Guinean waters.

BICHO, THE PENCIL EVOLUTION

Bicho means "little critter" in Spanish, not a better name to me to describe a frantic escaping creature on the top of the water.
Like all pencil lures can be retrieved fast on the wave with little jerks of the rod to animate it, or can be retrieved WTD style; but its special carachteristic is in the popping mouth.
When a big fish follows the lure on a regular retrieve but doesn't want to connect with it, we can give the rod a downward jerk to make Bicho pop with a lot of noise an bubble, and this action results often in a vicious strike.


In these pics the bubble trail generated by the medium size of 70 grams:

LIGHT TACKLE IN GUINEA BISSAU

A perfect destination to relax with a lot of nice fishes on light rods, Ile Kerè is a special place in that corner of Africa

Among mangroves and sandy beaches you can fish from shore or from the boat, with so many catches of jacks an snappers that a poor popper cannot relax a moment.

Small swimming poppers like SWpop60 or small pencil like the Bichito are perfect for these waters.

E.D.POP

Born from the need to present in long distance a popping lure not too destructive on the user's back.
"E" means easy and "D" distance, because it's easy to cast and to produce a lot of noise for its size with a little work of the rod; just point it to the lure, sweep on the side and you see EDPop catch water at first and then emerge with a big bloop. Perfect for the beginner, anglers not so strong or not so big or simply for relaxing fishing on somewhat lighter tackle.
It weights 95 grams and measures 16.5 centimeters.
I use it perfectly with a Daiko Hemingway HBGC-77BD or with a Shimano Caranx Kaibutsu Light Pleasure CKLPS7604, both tools with a casting weight of 100 grammi but enough backbone to handle big fishes.

MALDIVAS, LATE NOVEMBER 2008

This is the photo report of our trip to the famous islands in the Indian Ocean.
We touched North Male, Laavianhi and Noonu atholls in the north and found a mix of sun and bad weather, that was largely predicted before leaving from home.
Not a problem for the fishes, not a problem for us.
Under dark skies big black poppers like RingPop 100 made the difference, leaving lighter colors for bright conditions.

Big bloopers like the Pato 130 made often the difference over pencils and cruisers


Smaller lures like the EDpop we was testing resulted in mixed coral trouts an average GTs




Unespected Napoleon fish on a kalamar stickbait skipped across the surface like a pencil:

And the big one on a prototype stickbait worked underwater:

PATO, THE BIG BLOOPER

This is the big noise maker of my collection, designed to move a lot of water in short popping; but even with these carachteristics it's not too tiring to be worked and can be used with tackle not too extreme.

It weights 130 grams without the hooks and splitrings.

Tha name means "duck" in Spanish, because it vaguely resembles the little birds in the aspect.

As all my bigfish production it has first quality hardware with 2mm AISI 316 through wire and 550 lbs SPRO inox swivel.

OMAN GTs

My friend Ivan with Diego and Dad testing the Kalamar stickbait and Dorado pencil in the rich waters off Musandaam some time ago.

MY FRIEND NICOLA IN CAPO VERDE OCTOBER 2008

Some big horse eye jacks right from the rocks; they like big swimming poppers like the SWpop 125 that can be seen in the foam of the breakers.
A very demanding fishing experience.

TANZANIA FEBRUARY 2008

Not a lucky trip, very few activity and even fewer bites, too early in the season an too much fishing with explosives by the natives.... but we managed a couple good fishes.

THE KALAMAR STICKBAIT

It's an hybrid stickbait-jerkbait never seen on GT grounds, available in different sizes and floating or sinking models.

Many times it has resolved difficult situations especially with educated or non agressive fishes, being them trevallyes, kingfishes, snappers or bluefishes.

CUBA FROM THE PAST

Cuba, one of my preferred escapes, far from the world and among the mangroves and the silence of the jaded creeks fill my mind; these pics are from a little trip back in 1997, an adventure shared with a good friend.
After many extreme adventures, with GTs and billfishes on the menù, I always feel the call of that precise and silent fishing under the tree branches.
Cannot wait to come back.