As suggested in Andrew's thread, we have had a spot of pretty good weather in our part of the world so I finally got the opportunity to get the new TBL out for another run.
On Saturday we headed out to a new (for us) piece of turf a shade over 70nm offshore withe intention of doing a bit of everything. Whilst hard up against a reef edge and fishing for my tasty old buddy the coral trout, there were a few schools of bait starting to get a bit frisky. It seemed like a good time to change tactics so I assembled the TBL with a cubera 125 on the end and tossed it out into the crystal clear water where I could easily make out the bottom in 23m of water.
On the first cast I had a couple of bumps from a couple of pretty sizeable GTs that were easily visible, but I failed to hook up. On the second cast ( onto a different bait school) I got smashed on the first twitch. It was a really bizarre feeling fight which left all of us in the boat guessing, and then I got the lure near the boat and were we're all flabbergasted to see this...
Yep, that's 2 GT'S attached to the one lure. Some of you out there may have already been here, but I certainly haven't and thus far I haven't found anyone else who has. I was, and still am, stoked and bragging about it to anyone that will listen
I know they're not massive fish, but I'll still claim it as a win.
I know this will seem unnecessarily pessimistic, but I once again got robbed of really loading up the new rod. The two fish obviously panicked and swam in every combination of directions so there was no real power behind the fight, and the rod easily disposed of them.
Unfortunately the GTs went quiet at this location after this. Although we had another nice surprise when we stopped quickly at an island about half way home and the lures got swarmed by a pack that was easily in excess of a dozen
Sorry about the crappy pics, the only thing that was immediately handy was a mobile & we were all panicking that one might get off before we snapped a photo.
