Hey Guys
With some magic weather hitting north queensland at the moment a GT trip was organised
out of Townsville with the Rob and Danny from Tackle world also one of there regular crew
Peter (super deckie
) who is also a member on this forum, we headed out from townsville
in robs 21 Contender almost a 2 hour run to our first spot.
once arriving we circumnavigated the first reef and found very little current and the bait was spread out and sitting down deep, not the ideal scenario but we still managed to find a couple
of smaller fish along with a nice trout ( dam fin fish closure !!) we also got a good laugh
watching danny get smashed up by a very large trout over a nice bombie, and spotted what we thought was a huge shark swimming on the surface so we motored over for a closer look at what turned out to be a whale shark about 4 meters in length, what an awesome looking creature, this
was a highlight for me having never seen one before, things were looking up
next we moved over to another reef system a few mile away and instantly found some good current and the fishing was starting to pick up with some more nice fish coming aboard mostly in the 8 to 12kg mark along with peter catching a huge barracuda for a bit of variety, after this the fishing started to fire up with the fusilier schools starting to pack up the fish started feeding more frequently and there were numerous hook ups which included a double hook up witch turned into a triple hook up as a school of gts followed the hooked fish all the way to the boat and then hung around while they waited for there mates to come back for a swim. the fish we encounted were a better size that afternoon and a couple were over the 20kg mark but the best fish was caught by rob as we were about leave when we had a school of fish underneath the boat his popper was sitting
in the water next to the boat when the biggest fish in the pack came up and smashed it !!
it was pretty amazing to hear the strike of a gt next the boat like that especially with only about 2 meters of line out he was lucky not to lose everything over the side as he wasnt even watching when it hit !!!! after a solid fight the fish was subdued and bought aboard quickly measuring its length to the fork it went 119cm and was a very solid fish that we estimated about the 32kg mark this was a solid end to a day that started slowly.
after this we decided to call it a day and made the run back to townsville, a great day was had by everyone and after a few attempts we finally got to have a fish together after talking about it
for over a year now, so i wanted to give a big cheer out to rob, danny and pete for a great day and hopefully not too long before we have another crack thanks guys
Poppers that were most succesful this trip were the 150 cubera, 140 ebipop and gt mania, also a
little sinking orion stick bait which drew strikes when the poppers produced nothing earlier in the day, rods used were xzoga, ripple fishers,yamaga and saltiga rods with stella and saltiga spin reels
cheers
