I got a DVD a few days ago titled "Hooked" by Dave Butfield. It's a good DVD in that before he goes fishing for each species, Dave Butfield will actually talk through the tackle etc which they use and then off they go. It's quite entertaining and the guidance is very useful.
There is one segment on fishing for GTs off Exmouth. They're casting over an area that have GTs stamped all over it with shallow bommies everywhere when the bird he is fishing with hooks up. She must be fishing something like 6-8kg of drag because the fish strips off something like 50m or more of line. Amazingly, the fish doesn't cut her off! I was absolutely incredulous that she could let a fish of that size (20kg plus) run that far or even 1/5 that far and survive. I've fished areas that looked a lot like that where any line out is death. Anyway, they chase the fish all over the place in the gameboat before landing it. It's a good segment and the areas is just beautiful.
The only ridiculous part is that at one stage, she is holding onto the rod with one hand and states that she has about fifteen kilos of drag on the reel (yeah right). A 70kg fish could not take that much line against fifteen kilos of drag!
I don't think Halco would have been very impressed though (even if I was) - at the start of the segment, the salesperson from Bluewater in Exmouth recommends that you change the hooks on the big Roosta poppers. Nice to see independent advice being given!
