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Originally Posted by
Steve B
I got a PM fron our mate 080522JK,
He owns a whale charter company. He saw ol Homer and wanted to know if I would go to japan and work on his whale charter boat.
Apparently they are getting plenty of surface action at the moment, with hapoons in bleeding krill working best early in the morning. they dont use leader, just 1000kg wire. Harpoon tips are all OWNER. they reckon the cheeper harpoon tips just bounce of the whales, especially the humpbacks or they straighten pretty easy if lodged incorrectly in the skull. Humpys are a dirty fighter too apparently, always trying to stitch you up around the nearest greenpeace snag!!.
Catch and release hasn't really proved popular yet...except with the sharks.
steve