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Username: Richie
Post Number: 31
Registered: 9-2007
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 2:54 am: | |
Some great catches there Udupa and Joerg, nice one! And good to see a decent fish caught in Dubai for a change! Udupa - obviously you were out in a boat..was it with an operator based in Dibba, and if so, who?!!
Ian, re: your qs, there are a lot more experienced boat handlers than me who fish these waters,who hopefully will come on and post but in brief - @ 6 knots is fine for trolling here, and is the speed the operators I know generally troll at; re: jigging, I would get your bait/lure down to the bottom, then pull it up a metre or so and jig it in the bottom couple of metres. If near a structure you could jig it at all levels in the water column and try to 'find' the fish. Use a jigging lure, or if you want to jig bait, a sardine/mackerel/half mackerel seems to be what others use...a friend had a very nice queen the other day jigging a half mackerel here in Dubai. Those 'hamoor' feather rigs...yes, I know what you mean, I've seen them too, I see no reason for them not to be effective. Having mono traces might be a problem if you get toothy chaps such as barracuda/kings having a chew on them though. Re: lines crossing when trolling, never turn the boat more than 90 degrees...allow the lines to straighten before turning again. So if doing a U-turn, turn 90, straighten lines, turn 90 again. Hopefully someone will come and help with your downrigger issues. If you have one, then I'd definitely use it. I don't have one, I've had days on firends' boats when several lines trolling lures 'normally' get nothing or just small barracuda, whereas the downrigger gets some really nice fish.
Anyway, best of luck!
Richie |
