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Author: josh

Category: Kayak fishing tackle

Created on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:07

Written by Josh

_{14" Williamson Live Little Tunny compared to a Rapala Magnum CD 14cm}

Recently I had the pleasure of being tasked to select and order a range of high quality lures to be used by Doug Jenkins (my day-job employer) who is about to embark on an epic multi-month sailing cruise from the Carribean to Australia. Obviously the plan for the crew is to troll lures along the way to supplement food supplies with fresh fillets of fish. Knowing that there would be times that larger pelagics would be target species, I went out of my way to provide some extra large lures. When the package of lures arrived I marvelled at the awe-inspiring size of the Williamson 14" Live Little Tunny, which is very likely to catch some rather big fish for them. The first thing I thought when I gazed upon them was 'wow... thats pretty damned big... too big for a kayak'. And then I remembered the little saying that is often associated with making assumptions... you know... the one about assumption being the mother of all fu... oh, you got it? Good. 

So much to the smirking delight of my collegues I declared that I would go forth and troll one of these suckers from the kayak and would continue to do so until an equally worthy fish decides to strike on it. Of course I don't expect to be getting hook ups left right and centre on a lure like this, but it's probably safe enough to assume that whatever does decide to grab it, is going to be big. Whatever is able to fit that 14" fish-shaped chunk of plastic into it's gob has got to be a winner, surely. If I do hook up on this lure and land the fish on my yak, surely it'll be worth a page or so in someone's book, if not an entertaining scene in an upcoming episode of Yakass Coastal Kayak Fishing Show 

Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking 'this is madness!'

To which i can only reply, 'No... this... is... SPARTA!'