Giant Trevally popping in India

It’s not hard to understand why fishing for Giant Trevally (Caranx ignobolis) has become so popular in recent times.  In any sport, a small group of diehards always search out the extreme and, in angling, fishing for GTs is exactly this. For those uninitiated to this side of the sport, hooking a large GT could be compared to having a train suddenly attached to the end of your line.  The South Africans, for example, have suitably corrupted...

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Fishing the Maharashtra coast, Western India

The Blubber Lipped Snapper. Not a very common catch on the west coast, but look in the right places and  you will be rewarded with one of the hardest fighting dermersal reef species in India. Here Jochen shows off a good specimen that took a home made buck-tailed jig worked around some structure.Trolling a small lure near the rocks rewarded Sam with this stunning Grouper.  The legendary Yo-Zuri Tobimaru lure that tempted the fish into striking.Sunset...

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