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Jay Burgess:
I noticed when we were GT fishing on the weekend that after a couple of hookups it was no point flogging the same bit of water because subsequent strikes were pretty rare. Is this normal for GT's?

Quite often moving to another spot when it went quiet resulted in hookups instantly. I also noticed that if there was no strikes or hookups on the first half-dozen casts it was worth moving also.

Brandon Khoo:
Jay, that is very common.
After a few hookups, it is common for the fish to get a bit spooked. If you give it a break for about half hour, you'll find that the fish will have recovered and be on the bite again i if they are still there

Luke Wyrsta:
I would call GT hunting a very active form of fishing in terms of searching and working fish. If you have a spot you want to work, start 100m or so upwind or with the wave direction to work the spot, then once you've gone passed it and covered some ground, then maybe drive around and start again if the structure/current looks promising. Otherwise, just keep trucking on. Put your motor "just" in gear to get an idea of the pace to fish spots (someone at the helm all the time if you can) - that's all that is required. No hits or follows, keep moving on. If its just a small fish, keep going - the bigger fish will make there prescene known when they want to so theres no point pounding the one area for more than a couple of minutes or half a dozen casts as Brandon mentioned.

Stephen Polzin:
I fish bait schools, and generally only get one fish off a school and move on.  I've experienced a few double hookups though, so if you're out with another fisher, try to both cast at the same time to a new spot.  Can trigger some frantic activity.  Also, if you get a hookup keep watching the water as the fish nears the boat.  Quite often the fish will have a follower that wants to eat what your fish has got.  A couple of trips back I had a second fish follow my fish right to the side of the boat and my mate simply slapped a popper in front of it with no more than 1 metre of line out.  When they're hot they're hot! 

Jay Burgess:
Cheers guys thanks for the replies, good to know that it's all normal and I was doing the right things to locate fish  ;D

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