INDIANANGLER

Sharing some of my long range spoons that is very essential for long accurate cast needed while targeting Threadfin salmon.These spoons are designed and fabricated by me. I have kept a 6 inch scale so you guys have a rough idea on the size.

You are not in Pune..Right

I am going to rob your house

Regards and thank for sharing..

Ali..

great invention, will go a long way, thanks for sharing

regards
Naveed Ahmed

thanks for vital info fred , I myself have been testing some handmade spoons with great results in murud janzira. watch out fellas another ' Roger Milla ' will be tempting the rawas very soon

ofcourse neil,
that thrill & excitement when ur reel screams KRRRRRRRRRR thats music to an angler's ear and its amusing to watch a perfectly hooked barra try all his tricks to get rid of the plug especially when he pops his head out of the water and shakes his head vigorously {like a NANDI BULL }trying to spit ur plug. I wonder how many of us have captured the landing of a +15kg barra on their handycam?
thanxs for opening the topic

Thanks Neil, subject very dear to me...made a lot of brass spoons in the loo of my flat-atleast all the cutting, filing and hammering was done there on sun evenings when kids went down to play.many nights in filing and balancing...lucky I had access to the pool after hrs,where i could go and check out the action. Amazing how a slight concavity gave a spoon soo much 'thrum'-am sure the fish could hear it for miles...used 0.5 to 2mm brass, some cut with fret saw, some with a water jet.
I gave a lot of my spoons away when i shifted.Last success story was a sppon I gifted a friend , he carried it back to US and sent me a pic of a salmon he got on the first cast, using my spoon.very gratifying.wait,shall post pics

The material i used is called Tungum which is very ductile and yes expensive fortunately for me while diving on a wreck in the persian gulf i came across this pipe which looked rather different from the rest of steel piping,so i broke this 4 feet long 4"dia pipe and recoverd it to surface.Most of the material went into bracelets and its difficult to say if its gold or not.Something about tungum....Early records reveal that in the 10 years after the first world war Sidney Tungay , a metallurgist, was experimenting with a new copper based alloy which he hoped would look like gold when polished and which would be durable in everyday use. In an article in the 1934 British Trade Review, Tungum alloy was introduced thus –

‘Tungum is an alloy discovered by a well known metallurgist from whose name the alloy is derived. Experimenting with a view to finding a combination of metals suitable for a special purpose he had in view, he produced a compound which is known as TUNGUM. Recognising that its close likeness to 22 carat gold would make it a marketable commodity the inventor carried out a series of tests which satisfied him that he had discovered a wonderful alloy.’

The best spoon I had and made several copies was a 5" tapered strip of metal bent 1/3 the way at the top instead towards the bottom. Weighed about 70 grams upwards.

This caused the spoon to flutter rather than wobble it was devastating on both Barra and Ravas.

Bobby