Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) > Reports & Expeditions
Black GTs are like London Buses...
Mark Harris:
The harry monk all over my shirt in this pic has absolutely nothing to do with me though.
dante green:
--- Quote from: Trevor Skinner on June 09, 2013, 02:50:32 PM ---....you wait for ages for one and two turn up at the same time.
After a succession of bright silver fish at last a couple of big black mamas (down Luke)
Sorry to tell you this, but those aren't black gt'ss. Black gt's has a deeper slant forehead.
Regards,
Trev
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Mark Harris:
Dante - a black GT is not a species.. it is a colour variant of GT.
If you mean Black Trevally (caranx lugubris)...... that's a completely different species of fish and is not being discussed here.
Trevor Skinner:
--- Quote from: ed nicholas on June 09, 2013, 06:56:45 PM ---Awesome fish Trev. We landed way more Black Geets through April than at any other time of year down here and alot of them were heavily laden with sperm often squirting it out on deck adding to the projectile vomit, sh*t and slime that covered us from these beasts.
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Ed,
On second thoughts and to save considerable embarrassment to Mark, you could rename your boat 'The Barasti'
Trev
Nick Bowles:
Eish Mark think you caught the wrong end of the stick there! Think I remember seeing Mr Luke with an excited GT as well trying to blame the poor fish!
Same story as where the big GTs come from, black GTs are a bit of a mystery and seems to be something to do with spawning in Oman but then in Seychelles almost all of the fish are silver/white so also think the whole environment they hunt in is a factor to some extent. Chameleon type scenario. Seychelles mainly white flats very silver almost white GTs, Oman/Hawaii/Tokara deep water with volcanic or dark structure and the fish are generally darker. Agree with Ed, there is a lot about fishing for GTs but not much we now about them! Hopefully we can understand them more in the future!
Another good one to discuss around the fire!
Cheers,
Nick
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