Monthly Archives: December 2013

Sexy Mrs. Claus Cup

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0n 22.12.13. Top fishing store organized the very first Sexy Mrs.Claus Cup at Ontario lake near Zagreb. Maximum number of fishermen, 50 of them, participated in this event. Tomislav Segedi won 1st prize with 91 cm long pike. Congratulations!

Top fishing shop crew would like to thank all of them and to the sponsors who supported this event as well: Praktični ribolov, Idra varalice, Olivari d.o.o., Apipharma d.o.o. and  Artena big game fishing. Enjoy the photos!

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Kup sexy bake mraz

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U organizaciji dućana Top fishing 22.12.2013. održan je prvi Kup sexy bake mraz na jezeru Ontario u Zagrebu. Nastupilo je 50 natjecatelja, a prvo mjesto osvojio je Tomislav Segedi sa ulovom štuke duge 91 cm.

Ekipa iz Top fishinga se zahvaljuje svim sudionicima i sponzorima koji su podržali ovo natjecanje: Praktični ribolov, Idra varalice, Olivari d.o.o., Apipharma d.o.o i, Artena big game fishing. Uživajte u fotkama!

 

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Sipac gliders

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Some great things happen by an accident. We avarded hundredth who liked spineri.com on our facebook profile and it turned out he makes jerkbait gliders which he promised to send when finished. We promised we´ll put them ona test, and if they satisfy, we´ll make presentation here. As you can see, we are satisfied, and some more. In Drago´s own words, all started in late nineties when Drago and his friend Nikola saw Rapala Shallow shad rap in fishing magazine. It was nowhere to be bought, so they made it! 25 years later, first jerkbaits are coming out from a these 2 manufacture. They started with 2 models: Ragnarok and Smaug. Both of them are hand made out of linden tree, they are 4 times coated, hand painted, and protected by an epoxy resin at the end.

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Ragnarok found his name in Norse mythology, Ragnarok is a series of future events, including a great battle between gods and giants, a battle in which everybody gets killed, and almost all world is destroyed. In reality, Ragnarok is 15 cm (6 inches) long and 50 g ( 1 ¾ oz) heavy glider which will ´destroy´ pike. According to Drago, customers will be able to choose exact decor in the future. Ragnarok itself has a great glide, a good body roll and belly flash and makes a lot of mess in a little space. It´s not a ordinary way to use a glider, but this one can be twiched with sharp, short quick downsnaps of a rod tip. That way it shows it´s belly and flickers while it sinks between snaps.

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Pikey Smaug is named after one of the last big dragons of Middle-earth, which can be seen these days in theaters in the Hobbit. Even if you’re not Tolkien´s fan, you should pay attention on Smaug. With his respectable dimensions, 20 cm (8 inches) and 65 g (2 ¼ oz), Smaug represents serious lure, or a nice meal, if you ask pike. It imitates a small pike with its shape and therefore is somewhat unconventional in the world of gliders. Due to the shape of the body that easily cuts thru water, it has really nice action and it is easy to get it to ´walk the dog´ under surface. Its glides can be as a meter long if you work it slowly. If you work it faster, it can have as much as a 3-4 side to side glides in one square meter. If you work it with shorter and sharper jerks, it works only a couple of centimetres under surface. That makes it usable even in a shallow water, as well as in waters with lots of vegetation which often holds a good pike population. You can let it sink as well if you´re fishing in deeper water.

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Smaug is manufactured in 2 decors for a start. It has great belly flash and in combination with wide glide, it lures pike from greater distances. What you need for casting these baits, is a short extra heavy action rod. It takes only a little effort to make them glide, because they are very well tuned. Both can be retrieved steadilly as well, in that way they produce ´S´ kind of an action, especially Smaug. Considering these baits are 100% hand made, be ready to wait for them for a couple of days, or weeks. These lures deserve it by all means. First test models already swim in waters of Croatia, Denmark, England, Sweden and so on and as we hear, first impressions are positive. As Drago says, ´Our goal is to make lures with good catching ratio all over the world by testing our baits in the waters of region, as well as in other parts of the world´. We have no doubt that Sipac jerk manufacture will accomplish their goal.

Spineri.com gives them 2 thumbs up!

 

Sipac jerkovi

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Neke super stvari dogode se slučajno. Na fejsu smo nagradili stotog koji je lajkao spinere. Čovjeku smo poslali poklon, a on je obećao poslati jerkove koje radi sa kolegom Nikolom kada budu gotovi. Ostali smo u kontaktu i nedavno je Drago ispunio obećanje. Ja sam pak obećao da čemo ih predstaviti na ovim stranicama ukoliko budemo zadovoljni izvedbom. Kao što vidite zadovoljni smo! I više od toga. Prije utisaka o jerkovima, par uvodnih riječi.
Po Draginim riječima, sve je počelo 1988. U časopisu Bistro on i kolega vidjeli su fotku Rapalinog Shallow shad rapa kojeg nije bilo nigdje za kupiti pa su ga odlučili napraviti. Četvrt stoljeća kasnije, tu su prvi jerkovi iz radionice ova 2 majstora. To su Ragnarok i Smaug. Oba ručno izrađena od lipe, oba zaštićena sa 4 sloja zaštite, ručno farbana i naposlijetku premazana epoxy smolom kao završnim slojem.

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Ragnarok vuče ime iz nordijske mitologije i tamo je ragnarok bitka između bogova i divova za kraj svijeta, bitka u kojoj svi sudionici pogibaju, a gotovo cijeli svijet biva uništen. U stvarnosti, Ragnarok je 15 cm dug i oko 50 g težak glider konvencionalnog izgleda koji će `uništavati` štuku. Po Draginim riječima, dekori su unikatni pa će kupci s vremenom vjerojatno moći birati kako da im majstor ofarba željeni model. Živi bili pa vidjeli. Sama varka odlično glajda, ima dobar body roll i radi puno ´nereda´ u malo prostora. Uz klasično jerkanje, radi i na, u nedostatku bolje riječi- tvič. Na trzaje štapom izbacuje bok, a u propadanju zatreperi prije nego počne ljuljati bokovima. Za dublje vode i neodlučne štuke ovo bi mogla biti dobitna kombinacija.

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Štukica Smaug je dobila ime po jednom od zadnjih velikih zmajeva Međuzemlja, kojeg ovih dana možete vidjeti u kinima u Hobbitu. Ako i niste ljubitelj Tolkienovog lika i djela, Smaug je jerk na koji bi trebali obratiti pažnju. Sa svojim respektabilnim dimenzijama (20 cm i 65 g) predstavlja ozbiljan jerk, iliti ozbiljan zalogaj gledano očima štuke. Oblikom imitira malu štukicu i zbog toga je pomalo nekonvencionalan u svijetu jerkova. Samim tim i zanimljiv. Zbog oblika tijela koje lako ´reže´vodu, ova varka ima odličan rad- na trzaj štapa ova štukica nestvarno lako glajda kroz vodu i radi i po metar duge otklone. S druge strane, može se voditi i tako da u prijeđenom metru napravi 3-4 bijega u svaku stranu. S obzirom da je tonuća, možemo pretraživati i dublje slojeve vode, a vođena brže, konstantnim odsječnijim i kraćim trzajima, amplituda otklona se naravno smanjuje i radi bliže površini pa će biti pogodna i za toplije doba godine i vode sa bujnom vodenom vegetacijom, kakve obično imaju dobru populaciju štuke.
Smaug se za sada radi u 2 dekora i iako to na prvu ne bi očekivali, jer model sa slike izgleda kao da je farban mat bojama, daje puno fleša u vodi pa će, u kombinaciji sa širokim radom, mamiti štuke i sa veće udaljenosti. Za zabacivanje ovih jerkova treba vam kratka toljagica čija se težina bacanja vrti oko 100 g. Namjerno sam napisao za zabacivanje, jer vođenje oba modela je nestvarno lako i voditi bi se mogli i nekakvim 50-gramcem.

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Raspored otežanja, koji je jako bitan za rad jerkova, u oba modela odrađen je tj pogođen odlično. Tako će i oni koji će se možda i prvi puta okušati u jerkanju i nisu vični tome bez puno truda uspjeti dobiti pravilan rad. Uz konvencionalno jerkanje, oba rade i na jednolično povlačenje, pogotovo štukica Smaug, a obzirom da su tonući, oba zavodljivo lelujaju bokovima u propadanju. Iako se mogu voditi i normalnim štapom veće težine bacanja i stacionarnom rolom, preporuka je jerk komplet- veći jerkovi su poznati ubojice stacionarnih rola. Obzirom da se radi o 100% ručno rađenim modelima, odlučite li se za narudžbu- pripremite se na koji dan, ili tjedan čekanja- ove varke to zavrjeđuju. Pogotovo kada dečki usavrše završnu obradu jerkova i dovedu je na nivo na kojem rad već je. Prvi testni modeli već su odaslani kako na adresu Spinera, tako i diljem Europe- u Dansku, Englesku, Irsku, Švedsku, itd i ne sumnjam da će i tamo prvi dojmovi biti pozitivni. Kako Drago kaže: cilj nam je testiranjem probnih modela na raznim vodama regije i stranama svijeta razviti određeni broj modela koji će svojom lovnošču zadovoljavati korisnike širom svijeta.

Sretno vam bilo, momci!

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Ako se pitate kako i zašto se jerkovi izrađuju pod imenom Sipac, Drago i na to ima odgovor: Sipac je naprava, varalica, umjetna sipa, kojom su se u nekim prošlim vremenima zimi lovile sipe. Radila se od drveta smokve, imala je olovne oči i povlačila se iza čamca isto kao skosavice danas.

Autmn time

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Car lights that are coming towards me only now and then cuts thru the fog while I drive down the road. Lake is in the fog as well. I park by the water, coming out of a car and like a robot start to assemble my rod. Reel, line, wire trace, spinnerbait. I am ready. Spinnerbait is pretty beaten already, fire tiger pattern on a blade exists in traces only. It caught quite some pike this autumn. In vest pockets I have couple more spinnerbaits, few weedless spoons, some swimbaits rigged weightless and couple of twitchbaits. More than enough for this time of year. I am alone at this side of a lake, on the other side there is just one guy. He´s sitting still by his rods.

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Fallen leaves rustle under my feet and the soles of boots sinking into a thin layer of mud below while I walk. Autumn is definitely here, a time when fish eat more so they could survive thru the cold winter that is coming.On a first spot most of water vegetation has fallen down to the bottom already. Only a few leaves of water lily are on the surface. I can work it with spinnerbaits just like that. First cast is along the bank, and rest of them are more and more out on a water. Shortly, one is tricked. Unfair fight is over very fast. Few moments later, (un)lucky pikey is released and he is coming back to the seeming safety of water lilies. In a next field of water lilies nice pike follows my lure, but it won´t bite. I am rigging mogambo grub on a weightless worm hook, and casting it in a direction where I saw a pike.
I animate it with short twitches of a rod tip. First time around nothing happens, but in the second cast there it is. It came out of nowhere, it´s unbeilevable how fast it appeared behind the lure! It is standing still and fixating a grub. Only its pectoral fins nervously. Gentle twitch of a rod tip results with a momentarily bite. It packed it in its mouth and it slowly turns away. I lower rod tip so I can set a hook better, line straightens, and BAM, I am whacking it. It is pumping on the other side of a line, rod is bent, but it lasts a couple of seconds only. Worm hook didn´t break thru, or didn´t come thru at all. Weedlees is fishless sometimes, especially in pike fishing. Later, couple of more pikeys couldn´t resist spinnerbait blades flashes and then sun started showing on a horizon. The fog lifted and let sun to bathe in a lake. Guy on the other side of a lake is packing his third pikey in a net. They were doomed a moment they got greedy over a dace mounted on a triple hook.

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Jesenska

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Dok se vozim cestom, tek tu i tamo se iz magle probiju svjetla auta što mi dolaze u susret i isto tako brzo magla ih opet proguta. I jezero je okupano u magli. Parkiram uz obalu, izlazim iz auta, već automatski slažem pribor. Poput zombija slažem štap, rolu na njega, provlačim špagu kroz vodilice, vežem sajlu, namještam kočnicu i na kopču stavljam spinnerbait. Toliko je već izujedan i izubijan da FT uzorak na krilcu postoji još tek u tragovima, boja s olova lagano otpada, a suknjica na njemu je tko zna već koja po redu. Dok je lopoč još u igri, on je apsolutni broj 1. U džepovima prsluka uz spinnerbaite još par žlica sa zaštitom od kačenja, nešto silikona na wormicama sa i bez otežanja na vratu udice i par voblera, više reda radi, da ih nervozno provučem gdje ih je provući moguće. Spreman sam, sam s ove strane jezera, na drugoj obali se kroz maglu tek nazire silueta ribolovca koji mirno sjedi uz svoje raube.
Dok hodam, otpalo lišće mi šuška pod nogama, a đonovi čizama propadaju u tanak sloj blata ispod. Da, jesen je definitivno tu, vrijeme kad se većina riba pojačano hrani da bi što lakše preživjela hladnu zimu. Stajem na prvu poziciju, s lijeve strane mi je jedan od par molića  već nagriženih zubom vremena, a ispred polje lopoča kojeg je hladnija voda i manjak sunčeva svjetla već prorijedilo pa se taj pojas da lijepo pretražiti spinnerbaitom. Prvi zabac je čim više desno, vodim varalicu pojasom između lopoča i obale u 2 pedlja vode nadajući se kakvom štukiru koji se tu negdje parkirao. Idući zabačaji su lepezasti, van na vodu pa u i kroz lopoč u nadi da će neka štuka zamijeniti moju varku za kedera koji traži kakvu takvu sigurnost između stabljika lopoča u plićaku. Zadnji zabačaj je tik uz nosač molića, a onda se penjem na njega pazeći da stajem na koliko toliko zdrave daske, izbjegavajući one trule. S njega mogu voditi varalicu uz granicu lopoča i čiste vode i to mi uskoro donosi upis. Nepravedna borba je ubrzo okončana, a malo zatim  se  (ne)sretni štukir brzinom metka vraća u varljivu sigurnost lopoča. Sljedeći pojas lopoča donosi mi jedno praćenje malo bolje štuke, no bez udarca. Mijenjam varalicu, na kopču stavljam neotežanog silikonca kojeg animiram tek kratkim trzajima  vrha štapa.

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Prvi prolaz ostaje nezapažen, ali drugi ju ne ostavlja ravnodušnom. Fascinantno je kojom se brzinom, naizgled niotkuda stvorila iza varalice i sada ju fiksira pogledom dok joj prsne peraje nervozno titraju. Na lagano odizanje silikonca s dna u trenu reagira napadom, polako se okreće i odlazi s varkom u ustima. Spuštam štap, otklapam rolu i dajem joj par sekundi fore da ga bolje primi, a onda udaram kontru. Osjećam pumpanje na štapu, ali ono traje svega par sekundi. Otkačila se. Wormica ju nije dobro probila, ili ju nije nikako probila… Najveće uvijek odu.. Palim cigaretu da se malo smirim, vraćam spinnerbait pa češljam mjesto sa još par zabačaja i krećem dalje. Još par štukira nije moglo odoljeti odbljesku krilca i pulsevima silikonske suknjice, a onda se na istoku, iza preoranog polja počelo probijati Sunce.
Magla se digla i dopustila Suncu da se okupa u jezeru. Deda s druge strane vadi već treću štukicu jedva u mjeri i sprema u čuvaricu. Sudbina im je bila zapečaćena još onog trenutka kad su se polakomile za babuškom manjom od dlana okačenoj na trokuki…

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Baby face killers!

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We present you 2 spin rods:

Garbolino Ghetto rider ul and Garbolino Game hunter microlure.

Ghetto rider

Ghetto rider is a fancy spin rod which will hardly leave you indifferent. Hot red blank with Fuji K series guides, split handle made of red and black eva foam and Fuji skeleton split reel halter will leave you speechless even for a moment. To some, design like that will be avant-garde and progressive, to others it´ll be a total miss. If you prefer classic rods, I doubt it you´ll even take it in your hands and try what it feels like. Well, too bad for you.
First round guys from Top fishing store ordered sold out in a day or 2. I only managed to try one last left that was reserved for someone. I was stunned. I thought it over and ordered one eventually. I assigned it for trout fishing and couldn´t wait for the season to start. First half an hour I fished with it, I thought I couldn´t set a hook. Truth is I felt every stone my inline spinnerbait stratched. It felt like a bite because of a super sensitive rop tip. First fish i hooked was a small brown trout. Every one who caught one knows how nervous that fish is once when hooked. Over the rod tip I felt every single move, every twitch it made. That trout could jiggle for an hour and it wouldn´t fall off. I cuddle it for a while and then I realised it can wrestle with much bigger fish. So it did.

 

Game hunter

Game hunter, partly because of a camouflage pattern and thicker handle above reel holder (25 mm diameter), at first looks kinda beefy. For real, there are not too many differences compared to Ghetto rider. It is 30 g heavier than Ghett rider, but once you mount reel on, you can hardly feel the difference. Reel weighting around 250 g works well for both of them. Game hunter has normal guides, finish is nice, and it´s quite similar to Ghetto rider with it´s action. Same as with Ghetto rider, blank is super fast and sensitive, rod tip detects shy bites well, but it has strong backbone which can cope with bigger fish than you could imagine. Although print on a blank says microlure, this blank can cope with normal lures without any problem. That is work horse, for fishermen who catch fish and who don´t bother with high end components and make up on the rod. Considering we are dealing with 2 very similar blanks, general impression can be said in 3 words: baby face killers. In 4 words, wolf in sheep’s clothes. In 5 words.. No, I am just kidding. Both of these 2 are great for what they are made for. Thay cast and feel small, UL lures superb. On the other hand, you can cast a 20-25 grams of a weight with it. 10 cm slit shad with 15 g jig hook, for a n example. We did it, it is possible. How ever, they feel the best with softbaits up to 7 cm and 7-8 g, twitchbaits between 5-8 cm and metal jigs up to 10 g. We landed few bass around 1,5 kilo, barbel around 2, couple of asps over 60 cm, and so on. These boys can do it. Ghetto rider is more expensive because of Fuji k series guides (which trully are tangle free!), Fuji reel halter, it weights less and its design is great. If you ask me. On the other hand, if you like ´more common´ rods better, with Game hunter is a rod for you. Whichever you choose between these 2, you can´t go wrong.[ezcol_1half]_MG_4675[/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]_MG_4677[/ezcol_1half_end]

Game hunter je radni štap, za ribiče koji love ribu i ne zamaraju se opremom, šminkom i high end komponentama. Nadam se da mi nitko neće zamjeriti kada napišem da je game hunter ekonomična verzija ghetto ridera, i to jako, jako isplativa.

S obzirom da se radi o jako sličnim blankovima, opći dojam za oba se da izreči u 3 riječi: ubojice dječjeg lica. U malo više riječi, oba štapa odlično odrađuju ono za što su namjenjeni: bacaju i osjećaju male varalice, bilo da se radi o jig streameru vezanom na 2 g glavici, ili nekom tviču od 5 cm. I kad lupi manja riba, zabava je zagarantirana zahvaljujući punoj špici koja odradi i prenese i najmanje trzaje. Pri drilu veće ribe, ostatak štapa ulazi u fajt i sa ribama do 2-3 kg nema problema, pa makar se radilo o mreni oko dvice u jakom štromu. Klenovi, bassevi, ili pastrve oko 50, kao i boleni veći od toga nemaju šanse. Mada smo bacali i 15-20 g teške jig udice sa 10 cm dugim silikoncima, preko 10 g i 7 cm dugih silikonaca ne bih išao. Isto vrijedi za razne žlice i pilkere. 5-10 g je optimum. Što se voblera tiče, 5-7 dugi tvičevi bi bili optimalni, a do 10 cm nema nikakvih problema sa kontrolom i vođenjem. ´Meps´ dvojka je taman, a ni sa trojkama nema problema.

Svoju cijenu ghetto opravdava opremom (fuji k stvarno je tangle free!), malom težinom, jako dobrim općim dojmom pa i dizajnom koji je nesvakidašnji. Fujijev split halter, koliko god čudno izgledao na prvu odlično leži u ruci i poboljšava osjetljivost, jer su i dlan i kažiprst na blanku. S druge strane, ako vas ne smeta malo aljkavija završna obrada, ako trebate radni štap, za stvarno malo novaca (oko 400 kn) u game hunteru dobijete štap sličnih performansi. S obzirom da s oba štapa možete pokriti ultra light, light pa i medium light ribolov donekle, ozbiljno konkuriraju za best buy do 500 kn, odnosno 1000 kn.

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Specifications:

Game hunter

lenght: 2,22 m

tip diameter: 1,2 mm

butt diameter: 10,2 mm

handle lenght: 44 cm

lenght from reel till the end: 37 cm

weight: 144 g

casting weight: 1- 7 g

guides: 9

space between guides: 90-32-24-19-15-12-11-10-9 (cm)

diameter 24-15-10-8-6-6-5-5-5 (mm)

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Ghetto rider

lenght: 217

tip diameter: 1,1 mm

butt diameter: 9,6 mm

handle lenght: 38

lenght from reel till the end: 33

weight: 115 g

casting weight: 1- 7 g

guides: 9, fuji k series

space between guides: 92-30-21-18-15-12-11-9-8

diameter: 24-15-12-10-8-7-7-5-5