We had 5 days of fishing the north of NC with LPB - around the same areas Brandon fished a few weeks back. Rudy told us the areas Konishi landed the monster fish but unfortunately the conditions weren't the same.
We had very strong winds and rough conditions for the first 3 days - making fishing tough. We fished the deeper outer barrier reefs in the morning and had to fish the lagoon in the afternoon.
On the 4th day we had glassy calm seas with no wind and no fish.
On the last day we fished an area Rudy called the "mythical place" where the big ones lurked. Despite having wrong wind directions, we had a great last day with some good size gts showing up.
All in all, we had a great time despite some trying conditions and kudos to Rudy and Sebestien for their hard work.
Best fish was Kerwin's 45kg GT on the last cast. We had a couple close to 40 and a few over 30. Plenty of smaller gts, reefies and crazy airbrone macks to keep everyone entertained. These macks love the Orion plug tropic! My wife Jac and I had big macks on the end of our lines but one bite off and another got sharked.
Sharks were a huge problem for our trip. They took everything, from poppers to jigs to madai! Night fishing was pretty fun with madai and rubbers landing some nice groupers and coral trouts. Light jigs and lures resulted in a couple of barracudas and macks.
We had a huge GT hit Yow's gt bull with no paint on. It came charging some 2m from the back of the boat with a few smaller ones in tow. It engulfed the gt bull and sawm off into deep waters. We knew Yow had a great chance of landing this fish but after 10 minutes into the fight the fish floated and we soon realised all Yow had left was a huge GT head. Rudy estimated it to be around 55kgs!
