trophy oama gear
After losing so many jumbo oama yesterday, I decided to scale up my gear to land the trophy oama. I felt a little silly but I took my smallest bait casting rig with a Calcutta 50 reel and spliced on a 4lb fluorocarbon leader. My plan was to fish it like it was a straight pole, and if I hooked a strong oama, the fish could pull drag instead of ripping free. I fished a lower tide than yesterday’s and the few oama around were scattered and feeding. I landed a few medium sized oama on the straight pole, and then had 3 jumbos tear off. Time to get the trophy oama rig!
trophy sized oama
The oama seemed to know I was loaded for bear and hid for a while. I finally found them just outside of the shaded area and hooked a few that peeled drag! Landed a few 6 inch plus trophies and called it a day. It was much harder to deal with a rod and reel than a straight pole but it was pretty fun to land the bigger fish on the ultralight gear.
Next up would be to land a big papio on one of the trophy baits.
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