Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Reports & Expeditions
4 days of Whitsundays
Cy and Kerrin Taylor:
Hi,
Here is some photos from a recent 4 day excursion through the Whitsundays outer islands.
Our goal was to find new areas as we searched the drop-offs, rocks and passes, marking in any interesting features on GPS.
We used a Catamaran as our mothership, and towed our boat as the fishing vessel.
Kind of like a mini-Nomad setup!
The main lures we used were the Nomad Dogtooth stickbaits, which were toothed by a range of large fish.
Cy and Kerrin Taylor:
We were amazed at the hook-up rate on the single Owner Jobu hooks on the Nomad stickbaits.
All days, GT would smash the lures but the lure would keep falling out about 2 seconds after the strike.
On one day, we got around 7 strikes from big fish and landed 1.
This GT came from a large bommie, rising out of 40 metres of water!
Cy and Kerrin Taylor:
We also landed some big Longtail Tuna on the stickbaits too.
You would see heaps of Mack Tuna surface feeding in 40 metres of water, and you had to pick the longtails out from them and cast to them!
They are an awesome surface striker! White-water goes everywhere!
Cy and Kerrin Taylor:
We also found a lot of other options too!
Casting large soft plastics to the deep reef edges was awesome fun!
Large Coral Trout, Sweetlip, Tuskfish and Red throat Emporer were some of the catches.
Cy and Kerrin Taylor:
Our best place that we found for GT were large rocks which rised out of the deep.
Places like Minstrel and Jester rock on the outer Whitsunday islands were great areas and we found that they were more productive when the current was strongly flowing.
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