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Lovely Summer Pike
15-05-2013
Phil Blakey is once again fishing his local canals and ponds, and he is having some great fun with lots of intense strikes. One of the lures that has produced great numbers of fish is a big spinner bait - the Savage Gear Double Propulsion Spinner, but also the Savage Gear 4Play lures have fished extremely well.
Phil has fished the lures using his Okuma Citrix Baitcaster Reel, and a steady presentation followed by sudden spin stops has been just the right recipe!
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Another biggie for Marco
08-05-2013
Our Italian predator expert, Marco Giudici, has been at it again. This time, he went hunting for pike on a big, clear mountain lake - and he quickly found the right recipe for the pikes.
He caught this superb 111cm pike over deep water, slow-trolling a 25cm 3D Herring Shad. The attack was totally crazy, and the well-nourished pike delivered a rock-solid fight with some brutal runs.
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Fishing for finicky pre-spawn pike
29-04-2013
From our Croatian consultant, Dalien Vignjevic, we have yet another cool report:
"I went to fish Lokvarsko lake - a huge highland reservoir with clear, deep water and steep banks just 10 days after the ice had melted.
I knew the pike should still be around spawning time, so I chose to fish the shallow bays. My local buddy Daniel Å najder said they had some big fish following but not taking the lures, so I knew I had to fish with pauses to give that skittish pre/post spawning pike a chance to catch up with the lure....
It didn't take very long before I got a huge close-to-a-meter male in the boat, and some 15 minutes later, I had an even bigger fish rise to my 4play lure, but just nipped at the lure without engulfing it properly...
It was a day to remember thanks to the 4play 19 cm lowrider, which was a perfect lure for staying in the strike zone as long as it takes and combining pauses with erratic bursts. I also painted the back of the lure in white, so I could track it better in the water and notice possible following pike.
I used my super trusty Okuma C3 one piece rod and Okuma Komodo baitcaster for quiet underhand pitches near the shore which was also important for these spooky fish...
here is a YouTube clip taken with my on board action camera.where both big fish contacts can clearly bee seen..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjxd32UizfE&feature=youtu.be
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Another mega-bass for Marco
22-04-2013
From Italian Okuma consultant Marco Guidici we have another big bass report:
"This bass was caught while slow trolling for pike with my cedros reel, 0,30 adrenalin,3m prologic carp rod and the lure is 3d herring shad 25 cm.
The fight was not so good but I was really amazed when I saw the fish jump out of the water! Big swimbait for big bass!" |
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85lb Norwegian Cod
10-04-2013
Brian Ahlers at www.norwayguidefishing.blogspot.de set new Camp record - with this truly amazing fish of 85,5lbs 39,4kg! Brian is testing the new 3D herring in 32cm and results have been superb! The huge fish was caught on the OKUMA Andros and Cortez rod! big Congratz to Brian from us at Okuma!
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Monster Stripers
08-04-2013
From Okuma US product manager, Mike Bennet, we have the following report:
"Phill Jaynes and I headed out in the rain again for a shot at some big fish. We went 11 for 11 with my biggest three fish weighing a combined weight of 125 pounds. My biggest three fish this morning were 38, 42, and 45 pounds. EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!"
Wow, simply incredible!!!!
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Bass fishing in the US
02-04-2013
Mads Grosell has travelled to the US to test his Okuma gear and some of the new Savage Gear lures that he is currently developing for the US bass market in close cooperation with Okuma USA. Here he is depicted with a big bass caught on one of his new lures. The gear used was the Okuma one rod and the new Helios spinning reel.
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Massive dentex on vertical jigging
27-03-2013
We just got a hold of this fresh sea report from Igor Virag in Croatia. It`s a monster dentex taken on the Okuma Andros rod /Cedros 80 reel using vertical jigging techniques with 340 gr jigs in the Adriatic Sea. This fish weighed a stunning 14,15 kilos, and it is truly a massive Dentex and quite an achievement!
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A Window of Opportunity
19-03-2013
Here's another fresh report from our Croatian lure fishing specialist, Dalien Vignjevic:
"The opening of the pike season is just around the corner, and quite often - the action is not early on as my next story will witness. I went to fish a smaller private venue available for pike fishing to do some tackle testing for Okuma, but the conditions were not what I hoped for.
Though this lake has a fair population of pike, the three of us could not get bite for 4 hours. The sun was bright, the ice had just melted and the pike were completely shut down.
Basically, I tried everything I knew, but there were no takes. It became too clear that it was going to be a waiting game for at least some window of activity.
After hours of hard fishing a small group of clouds shuttered the sun and the wind picked up a bit. Conditions slightly changed, and finally I was rewarded with this big and fat lady that took my Savage Gear Prey 115 on my super confident inactive-pike-presentation, stop and go retrieve! I caught another smaller one 10 minutes later, and that was it for the rest of the day - 10 minutes of activity for the entire day!
When the pike are inactive, always try fishing with pauses, it just might be your ticket for sluggish early spring pike..." |
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