Ascension Island
Shell Shaping popper saltywatertackle.com
Arguably no angler is more passionate about popping and jigging than is Sami Ghandour, an enthusiast who started Salty Water Tackle, based in Sayreville, New Jersey. The shop, which does a large mail-order business, not surprisingly specializes in popping and jigging lures, rods, reels and other gear. Its customers know that Ghandour can offer informed advice to help them make choices; his blogs from adventures all over the world reinforce that experience-based opinion. From a few of those trips to many of the planet’s best popping and jigging waters, Ghandour here shares 20 impressive images, among them catches that most of us would consider spectacular, and even more so on spinning gear. Ghandour has led many anglers on his adventures to amazing catches, which gives Ghandour “the ultimate satisfaction watching their dreams become reality.”
Yellowfin tuna
Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama saltywatertackle.com
Socotra Island, between Yemen and Ethiopia
Unidentified stickbait saltywatertackle.com
Raivavae, French Polynesia saltywatertackle.com
Tanzania Unidentified jig Mady Alexiou
Southern Oman
CB One stickbait saltywatertackle.com
Tahanea Atoll, French Polynesia
Hot’s Drift Tune jig saltywatertackle.com
Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama
Amergari stickbait saltywatertackle.com
Between New Caledonia and Chesterfield Island
Trolling saltywatertackle.com
On the bluefin grounds off Cape Cod, Massachusetts saltywatertackle.com
New York
Nikita Ghandour with guide John McMurray saltywatertackle.com
Belep Island, New Caledonia
Hot’s Drift Tune jig saltywatertackle.com
Unidentified jig saltywatertackle.com
Tanzania
Unidentified jigs saltywatertackle.com
Diego Suarez, Madagascar saltywatertackle.com
Raivavae, French Polynesia
Unidentified jig saltywatertackle.com
Raivavae, French Polynesia
Unidentified lure saltywatertackle.com
Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama
CB One G2 jig saltywatertackle.com
Madagascar
Unidentified jig saltywatertackle.com