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Central Queensland, 24/01 - Gentlemens Hours

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Travis Heaps:
This is me thinking out loud but i thought i'd post it.

For this trip plus the day previous -

Fuel- 150litres of fuel @ $180
Food - $90
Misc - (oil, water etc) $30

Grand total - $300.

Per person per day $50.

Myself and Warwick are booked onto a Nomad tour come July at $4500 per head which = $642 pp/pday.  I seriously doubt we can have 12 times more fun per day on a charter than what we had on our own trips.  IE - make the most of what you have, chasing GT's is not just for those that can afford expensive charters...you read and you sometimes wonder though.  My view is that the more posts like ours and Jordans from this weekend - ie all GT's small or big, then the more we learn.  :) 

Angus Hulme:
Top work there fellas. You guys are getting into some nice fish there.....a bit of angling envy here! ;)

Graham Scott:
Travis, Warwick,

Great report and a good couple of days fishing. I went out on Saturday to lend a hand on a jigging charter. We raised a bit of a mixture but nothing fantastic, however the guys didn't try all that hard either. We caught a few AJ's and trevs then went to a high shoal where I thought they could jig spanish but after the guy with bait started pulling red throat and trout all the jigging stopped pretty quickly.
Ended up with lots nice reef fish. I took home a 6kg amberjack for Aust Day BBQ. We also missed all the rain, being 35 miles offshore helped.

As we thought, looks like the GT's are pretty close to home judging by the photos.
I still haven't found a jig that beats a taipan for catching spanish Mackerel. Most of my knife jigging near spanish mackerel ends in disaster.

On the popping front, I set myself the target of catching a CQ whiting on a popper. Been walking the beaches around Zilzie.  Missed the first 6 strikes until I added a second split ring to the back hooks. Current score is 2 whitng plus a mixture of flathead, long toms, moses perch etc. Took 5 trips to figure out what had a chance.

If whiting grew to 20kg......

cheers,
graham

Nathan Cefai:
Good work mate,a few solid fish there!! ;D

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