is it the crunch of the hit or just shear pressure mid fight that's causing them to break? I have three myself and have caught a decent amount of fish on them without an issue so far.
Cheers Alex
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Re: berkley lures
It's large snapper and their vigorous head shakes during the fight that do the damage, rather than an initial strike. To split the rear join of the lure and free the hook requires a lot of linear force on the hook at the same time as a violent sideways jerk and twist from a head shake to open up the lure. It's usually ones that have caught a few fish that fail for me.mazman wrote:is it the crunch of the hit or just shear pressure mid fight that's causing them to break? I have three myself and have caught a decent amount of fish on them without an issue so far.
Cheers Alex
I still use them trolling for snapper. I find the 10cm 4m deep diver in black/silver to be perfect for snapper around the Altona reefs and it usually gets hit before a TDD7 or 9.
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Re: berkley lures
Thanks shane, might stop using them for jewfish, pretty sure they have a good enough headshake to break them. Will continue to use them for snapper though because as you said they get the job doneshane wrote:It's large snapper and their vigorous head shakes during the fight that do the damage, rather than an initial strike. To split the rear join of the lure and free the hook requires a lot of linear force on the hook at the same time as a violent sideways jerk and twist from a head shake to open up the lure. It's usually ones that have caught a few fish that fail for me.mazman wrote:is it the crunch of the hit or just shear pressure mid fight that's causing them to break? I have three myself and have caught a decent amount of fish on them without an issue so far.
Cheers Alex
I still use them trolling for snapper. I find the 10cm 4m deep diver in black/silver to be perfect for snapper around the Altona reefs and it usually gets hit before a TDD7 or 9.
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Re: berkley lures
I like that one!! Blame shane if you loose the fish of a life timemazman wrote:Thanks shane, might stop using them for jewfish, pretty sure they have a good enough headshake to break them. Will continue to use them for snapper though because as you said they get the job doneshane wrote:It's large snapper and their vigorous head shakes during the fight that do the damage, rather than an initial strike. To split the rear join of the lure and free the hook requires a lot of linear force on the hook at the same time as a violent sideways jerk and twist from a head shake to open up the lure. It's usually ones that have caught a few fish that fail for me.mazman wrote:is it the crunch of the hit or just shear pressure mid fight that's causing them to break? I have three myself and have caught a decent amount of fish on them without an issue so far.
Cheers Alex
I still use them trolling for snapper. I find the 10cm 4m deep diver in black/silver to be perfect for snapper around the Altona reefs and it usually gets hit before a TDD7 or 9.
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Re: berkley lures
Already got a jewie on one but I don't want to risk losing one in the future. While a big snapper would be nice they aren't a fish of a lifetime to me.Wind Waker wrote:I like that one!! Blame shane if you loose the fish of a life timemazman wrote:Thanks shane, might stop using them for jewfish, pretty sure they have a good enough headshake to break them. Will continue to use them for snapper though because as you said they get the job doneshane wrote:is it the crunch of the hit or just shear pressure mid fight that's causing them to break? I have three myself and have caught a decent amount of fish on them without an issue so far.
Cheers Alex
It's large snapper and their vigorous head shakes during the fight that do the damage, rather than an initial strike. To split the rear join of the lure and free the hook requires a lot of linear force on the hook at the same time as a violent sideways jerk and twist from a head shake to open up the lure. It's usually ones that have caught a few fish that fail for me.
I still use them trolling for snapper. I find the 10cm 4m deep diver in black/silver to be perfect for snapper around the Altona reefs and it usually gets hit before a TDD7 or 9.
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Re: berkley lures
My first Berkley Frenzy FS6. This poor little bugger caught about 60 pike, dozens of couta, several rock flatties, trevally, salmon and even a parrotfish.