Hi there all
Just like to share some pics of a recent trip me and my mate glenn took to Lucinda, last month. We spent 10 days based at the Lucinda caravan park, with the intension of doing as many different styles of fishing as we could. Everything from chasing jungle perch, sooty grunter, mangrove jack in the freshwater, to barra, jacks threadfin in the estury's. However the real fun didn't start till we got our first good day of weather which would allow us to get out to brittimore reef, where we both had the best days fishing in our lifes.
The morning started out slow as we had never been out to this reef before, a 1 1/2 hour run in the boat from lucinda in the pitch black as there was no moon. Less than ideal for ya first trip to a new spot. We got to the reef as the sun rose and were pleased to see that there was not a breathe of air. We mucked around for a while with plastics until we could see the first sign of what we were looking for, big gts cruising the top of the reefs edge and flats. The first popper went and an instant hookup, about a 4kg red throat emperor. Then we knew we were in for a good day.
Whilst i was mucking around with that fish, glenn was smashed by a big gt as his popper sat idle over the reef, busted up. Ha ha. That was to be the last time for the day i laugh, as it turned out i was to loss more lures and drop more fish for the day than glenn.
From then on we had endless encounters with Gts between 15 and 35kg, from solo fish cruising the flats on top of the reef to packs of fish. Amongst all these we caught endless amounts of reef fish, coral trout, cod, spangled emperor mackrel.
Conclusion for that day at a wild guess, myself and glenn estimated we each landed around 80 fish each, all on poppers.
And to add to that we were seriously under gunned on the bigger fish, as we were both using daiwa 4500 outfits.
The following day the locals sent us to a spot that they promised we could catch 30 kg plus gts all day long. They weren't joking.
Fish in the smaller size's kept us busy until the big girls started to show up. What a sight this was as we approached a headland, i looked up and all could see a was a mass of black darkness swimming towards us. I yelled at glenn as my lure went through the air as he had not seen them yet. My lure hit the water and all i could think was i was about to get worked. I put he rod between my legs and wound my 4500 maverick as fast as i possible could. Looked up to see half the pack make a bee line for my popper(half the pack -15 to 20 gts what i thought were originally between 20 to 30kg) and then get inhaled as one of them shouldered about four from the side, this was clearly a bigger fish. This fish had about 150m on me in about 10secs i had no choice but to clamp down on the spool and try and slow him up. Not a hope straighten the spilt ring.
However glenn was struggling to get a rod ready as he was in the middle of retying when this happened, so he picked up his lighter spin rod (3000 daiwa sol and 8kg rod) and through whatever was on it. Result was 1 1/2 hrs of chasing this fish until we got him to the boat. Glenn's PB a 37kg GT. Seriously enormous effort on that gear.We followed this school of fish or they followed us for the next couple of hours landing another 5 of these fish.
Heres just some of the photos off my camera, with some other fish i didn't mention. (more photos to come off glenns camera)
Would love to here if any other guys out there fish these areas for gts and if anyone fish's any of the surrounding reefs.
