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The First GT

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Greg Burt:
I caught my first GT today and what a thrill ;D, so I thought a bit of reminiscing on losing you GT virginity would be interesting ;).

Greg Burt:
They might have been small but when it came together my "YAHOO" could have been heard for twenty miles.
 I fished some reef areas and a bommie off Caloundra Queensland, Gary Howard and Neil Griffith had mentioned held GTs, after about two hours of positioning and casting I hooked up on a popper at the back of the bommie, caught the second one at the same spot having one cast for the road about an hour later, and used the auto pilot to get me away from the reef.
What a thrill, after taking in info from this site, as I had never done popping before, using my own made twisted leaders [thanks Bernie] and just me and the auto pilot.
 STILL SMILING, now for the big ones.

PS: Didn't weigh them but measured for quick release, 1st 580mm 2nd 600mm

Jon Li:
Greg ,

You are " hooked for life " now with GT popping !

Jon .

Brandon Khoo:
it's a hard one for me because I cannot honestly remember when I actually caught my first GT. I caught stacks of them over the years on bait and metal spoons and slices before starting to fish for them on poppers but we never caught the big ones (20kg+). A 10kg fish was an absolute beauty. On poppers, I was fishing for these using 10-15kg mono in the mid 80s. I have a vague recollection that we were using Shakespeare reels back then which were similar in colour and shape to the Stella today.

I suppose my first decent fish on a popper was around that period when I landed a GT that would have been around the 16-18kg mark. The fish took me something like half hour to land. A lot of broken reels and popped spools over the years!

I generally don't regard a GT as a real GT until it is about 20kg in weight. YOu can hardly call something giant when it weighs two kilos!   ;D

Brandon Khoo:
Greg - btw, congratulations on your first GT. It's a good effort to drive and catch a fish at the same time. It's great to have put everything together yourself and gotten the fish!  ;D  If there are fish of that size around, there is a reasonable possibility of a much bigger fish there.

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