Mr Fukui's Monster Tonga GT from the ROCK !!!!!

[Mick Cunningham]

Check this out .. this was caught off the rock .

check out the background on the 2nd photo

[Eric Tai]

OMG!! 

Is there gonna be a video of the capture on tv.shimano.co.jp?

[Tri Vi Ton]

holy sheeet! i seen this dude before on shimano dvds... he has forearms like popeye

[Jay Burgess]

looks like he's using a sea frog too 

[Aaron Concord]

Awesome G for anywhere, let alone the rocks!!!!

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall for that fight.

Aaron.

[Ewan Macleod]

http://www.tongafishing.com/newsletter.htm

The pictures of "where we fish" from that look amazing too, deeeeeep water very close in!

[Kasey Leong]

Ouch! I'd imagine not many people would dare casting SeaFrogs off a place like that!

[Brock Arifovic]

Kasey, that would depen on who you are & the stock that you have.

[Luke Wyrsta]

Ouch! I'd imagine not many people would dare casting SeaFrogs off a place like that!

Live a little man...it's GT fishing afterall!!! 

[Kasey Leong]

Ouch! I'd imagine not many people would dare casting SeaFrogs off a place like that!

Live a little man...it's GT fishing afterall!!! 

Calculated risks mate. Obviously the better and more experienced you are, the more favourable your odds!

If you've ever fished the Oysters at Exmouth (and if memory serves me right, you've been there before Luke) you'd understand what I mean. Goes to underscore how incredible a 38 kg GT capture in those conditions is.

[Eric Tai]

http://www.tongafishing.com/newsletter.htm

The pictures of "where we fish" from that look amazing too, deeeeeep water very close in!

Damn, it sure looks bigger than the 38kg reported in the Tongafishing newsletter.

[Peter Lowe]

Good find Mick,

Now that, is a GT, 38kg - whatever......

That is awesome.....


 

[Nathan Cefai]

Wow  what was the weight and length,was it released ??
Great fish,top work to the angler especially from the stones!!

[dave lovegrove]

mmmm  .... Tonga eh?.....

[Andre van Wyk]

Epic fish....Seriously amazing angler....

Here is another great shot:

and two more...



Interestingly I read that Tonga report, and they claim the woman's World Record for GT's is 45 odd kilos..... but I thought that the record came from Bassas de India ( an Atoll off Mozambique ) caught by Elinor Bullen of Durban South Africa, in 1984, a fish of 53.5 kilos..... I'll scan a pic of it and post it... she was on a mission to break the Womens World Record for GT's.... and she did.... anyway, thats a little off topic, but thought I'd add it... Elinor is now head of ORI ( Oceanographic Reaseach Institute ) tagging program and is the person single handedly responsible for the Tagging programs here in SA..... my useless fact for the day!