MEGAMOUTH RINGPOP PROTOTYPE

In prevision of some demanding fishing trip and upon request of some friends I worked a little on the ringpop shape and size to obtain those two big poppers that you can see around a classic ringpop130.



Right one is 165 mm, not including lead ball, and weights 180 grams, while the little kid on the left is 190 mm and 210 grams, both with a mouth 57 mm wide... big toys...
Out of center line tie should help working them in the water.
As always through steel wire of 2 mm diameter and ventral swivel rated to 700 pounds.
Testing time coming soon.

HABANO, THE LONG WALK

After long time of development, and with some friends helping me in experimenting it, tha Habano is finally born; the name come from the most classic of Cuban cigars, to which resembles for it shape.

It's a singolar lure; I developed the first specimen several years ago, but it has always been in the shadow of other models whose sperimentation I thought more interesting. Its shape is very classic, a common one, a thing that I don't like a lot for my lures. For this reason it has touched the water only in special and difficult conditions when other lures failed; but this way it has permitted many catches to salvage bad days in many parts of the world...

..... from the difficult GTs of the Red Sea...

... to some good jack crevalle in cuban waters....

... but I've to thank Mr Caranx for stimulating me to perfect further the lure....


Finally a very versatile lure has seen the light; shape is classic but his heart is not; it can be dogged in the traditional WTD style, but is balanced to obtain different movements, from subsurface jerking, to fast immersions and jumps out of the water with sharp twitches of the rod.
Three were the original sizes:
Habano 200, 20 cm and 105 grams,
Habano 160, 16 cm and 70 grams,
Habano 130, 13 cm and 45 grams,
everyone with oversized closed through wire and swivels of extra heavy pound test; in reality I developed a small 110 size ( 11 cm, 30 grams ) dedicated to seabass but strong enough to tangle with strong tropical critters too .... smaller 90 and maybe 70 sizes are now under testing and will be ready for the autumn.

A prey of Habano 110:

ALLE'S LURES IN SPAIN

I'm especially pleased to announce that Alle's Lures are now available to buy on the Spanish market.
I've been happy to give them to my friend Nicola Zingarelli for his shop on line on caranx.net ;
this web has long been a reference point for saltwater lure fishermen worldwide, first in that country to treat tropical popping among the others.
Up to now it's only a limited selection of models and colors, but we'll be working together to develop the array of lures in near future.

http://caranx.net/wp/?p=334

MY TIME TO MALDIVAS

A week to join my friends in Gaafu atoll, one of the southernmost land in Maldivas.
Fishing was not easy due to slack current and big waves. The fishes definitely preferred small poppers over big bloopers, stickbaits and other lures.
Pato "half" of 75 grams made a good show, catching some nice GTs, snappers an coral trouts.
It worked so well that I created a "GT special" version with oversized wire of 2mm, to resist the demand of hard fishing that wasn't in the original project of such a small lure.

BICHO IN MALDIVAS

Memories of a week cruising the southern atolls for my friend Salvatore.

"Bicho" 135 was the best lure of the week, the ones that caught the biggest fishes of the trip; GTs didn't want noisy poppers, but preferred a good sized pencil worked fast... sometimes those kind of lures make all the difference.

Not always big ones indeed....