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  1. Thanks guys, I'm glad you liked the images. Mike, is right what you say but is also true that in countries like Italy or spain, absolutely nothing is done to preserve any kind of local fishery, hence what is happening in Ireland looks like a miracle to me. In one week I will be chasing Tunas and Stripers of Cape Cod and I hope the weather will be nice to us, can't wait to be there, it has been a long time since I las hooked a Striper. ciao Nicola
  2. Good morning everybody, it has been quite a while since I last dropped a note on this great forum and today I was a bit nostalgic so I decided to come back to share some images and pics with you. This is about European Sea Bass fishing in Ireland, a great place to chase them, in fact they are protected by the law and cannot be sold comercially, something that is giving the Country a good return in terms of fishing tourism. I was there last June with a group of costumers/friends and we fished the Galway area, spectacular both for photographeras and fisherman, in fact I split my time between the two things with great satisfaction. We fished very light, with rods around the 1oz lure range, using mostly walking the dog and soft weightless plastics. No huge fish have been caught, probably the biggest was has been a 6 pounder, but the amount of bites and fun we had is second to none. Here is a selection of images: One of the fishing spots, the first one we fished. Eventually the fish, apart from the big bass you will see in the B&W photo, were not there Probably the biggest Bass of the week-end Another fishing spot along the coast Irish Sea Bass. This was caught during an incredible morning, when we had one fish after the other taking plugs and mostly walking the dog Nothing to do with the beasts you guys catch in your side of the Atlantic, but they are great fun on light tackle ciao Nicola
  3. This year I went to the Efftex and met Dick and wife, no ICAST, maybe next year. I fished the Mosquito Lagoon long time ago, is a great place. My guide was John Kumisky, nice guy and great fly fisherman. He runs an operation that hire kayaks and take people out fishing as well as owning a skiff. ciao Nicola
  4. Hi Todd, everything's fine here, not much fishing though. How's life in Florida? I bet a tad hotter than WA Any flats fishing lately? ciao Nicola
  5. I have the 665 high speed and low speed and the 665 2 speed as well as an 870 2 speed, a 270 2 speed and a 197 high speed. I'm not particularly keen on the 2 speed reels, I don't think they are necessary for jigging. The only good use of the second speed is when wrestling a large fish and the high gear speed is a tad too high for my taste. On the other end I love any of the reels with low gear ratio. They are superb machines, sturdy, powerful, with lot of drag and just perfect for slow jerks underarm. I use the high speed reels and the 870 2 speed only when fishing high speed long jerks for Tunas. My feeling is that at the moment Accurate has developed the best machines you can use for jigging, especialy if you try the new 665 NN (extra narrow), those are amazing ciao Nicola
  6. Hi sumo, I'm glad you're enjoying the Tropic Pro rods, you have some great fish there. I've now switched to Accurate conventionals and will never look back, they're such an improvement for jigging! ciao Nicola
  7. Thanks everybody for your comments. Ben I understand, no problem at all and yes, it has been a while. Unfortunately I don't have much to offer to this forum, the time I spend surf fishing is so limited that by no means I have interesting news for you. Said that the fish I remember with more pleasure are the few I have had the oportunity to land from shore, including a GT in the Coral Sea, a total blast. Next year I would love to go back to Martha's Vineyard and Rhode Island to do some Surf Fishing, I was there few years ago with Mike Laptew and Peter Johnson and had a ball. Ciao, take care Nicola
  8. Of course is not my intention to sell anything here, but if TimS believs that my post has to be deleted I will respect his decision regards Nicola
  9. It has been quite a while since I last dropped a note on this great forum. Surf fishing hasn't been very much of an option for me since I have been popping and jigging from a boat most of the time but I have followed you and very much looking forward to put my feet on land asap. Thanks to my activity as a fishing guide I have had the oportunity of doing a great deal of travelling lately, mostly to the tropics, and since I have got involved in photography more and more during the lat few years, I have put together a collection of images that eventually ended up in a new web I have just put together. This is my main hobby at the moment, most of the time I drop the rod and grab my Nikon to freeze images of my friends fishing, landscapes or travel. To be very honest I enjoy it now as much as fishing, sometimes more and this is scary If you guys would like to see my photo gallery please enter www.nicolazingarelli.com and if you are interested in the latest fishing reports you can browse <edit>> archivos and go to the bottom of the page where you can see the photo reports. Tx, ciao Nicola
  10. Brian, it was probably intentional, many time the **** get rid of the belly or the tail hook to give less harm to the fish ciao Nicola
  11. Brian, I'm not sure they could work as a needlefish, they have a better action, and a bigger body, with a wider profile and more thick, probably closer to the baitfish the tropical predators feed on. Excuse me for my limited experience with Needles but they seem to have a more "linear" action, even if you twitch them you might not be able to reproduce the vibrations of these stickbaits. Thus, GTs feed very much on needles and I think it could be a great idea to make a superneedle, in the 5 or 6 oz league and try it... One of my favourite poppers is a "Needlefish Popper" made by a japanese guy. Is 4oz X 12" and raise a good amount of water despite of the small cupped face. ciao Nicola
  12. Sudsy, those lures you guys make are beautiful, haven't been around the lure building forum for a while so I missed it. Do you guys reckon that they can sometimes overfish other kind of lures or for you is just another one in the box ? In the tropic, there are days when they would be the only lure able to catch decent fish, or any fish for that matter. Ciao Nicola
  13. Hi everybody, long time no "speak" During my last trips to the tropic I have had the chance to learn a bit more about some lures that are becoming the "hot" thing among GT fisherman. Basically we are talking about the old good walking the dog and it's subsurface cousin, the stickbait or whatever you want to call it. They're obviously not new to surf fisherman but these have a major difference, actually two:size and weight. The size is usually 8 or 9 inches and the weight between 5 and 8oz. In the Coral Sea, fishing with two experienced japanese fisherman I learnt the hard way how good these lures can be. While my poppers were catching nothing, they landed some 5 fish each, and counting. Finally I switched to one of those. But, even though the lure they where using, the famed Carpenter GT Gamma, is a walking the dog, the way I was using it, let's say the classic way, wasn't drawing any strike and I had to stop and see how they did to finally get my first bite. Funny enough, walking those lures wasn't effective at all, while some soft and long pulls to make it sink and twitch under the surface and then emerge with a small bloop, would be killer. As far as the subsurface stickbaits, they are even more effective, or let's say more versatile because they can be used in rough waters as well. Again there's a trick to use them, and even when I thought I knew, I was humbled the hard way by a french friend of mine who REALLY knew how to use them. I'd like to post some pictures here for you to see the lures, and maybe continuing with the conversation later on Carpenter GT Gamma (floating) Orion's Big Foot (sinking) I'd just like to add that I'm an absolute beginner to these plugs, I have used WTD in FW for a long time but this size and tis way in SW is a pretty new experience to me. Ciao Nicola
  14. Beem there a couple of times already, I just love it, check this out: The lodge The surf The fish (Giant African Threadfin) More fish (African Cubera Snapper) ciao Nicola
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