Hi to all first post so go easy
The planning for this trip started around six months ago, i met up with a few friends and we were telling stories of fishing as you do and got onto the topic of popping. (Living in the top end of Australia there isn't a lot of focus on GTs let alone targeting them on top water.)
I the guys I was talking to had a spot that they were doing an annual trip to and the invite to tag along was thrown out !
The initial plan was to head for a land based spot on the Coburg peninsula where on previous trips they had caught nice sized gts of up to 20kg
not monsters by anyones standard but for us this isnt a bad size.
The plan then changed and the thought of heading out to the remote islands off coburg was just too tempting so we decided to take two boats and head out and see what was ready to smash out lures.
After the 9 hour drive on some of the worst road i have ever driven on we made it to camp. The weather was not playing the game with a nice storm front rolling into the bay so we unpacked and waited it out and decided to head out into the chop after a beer. Finally we are here !!!!
Day 1
Still some stormy weather hanging around but a few of the locals were on patrol
jacks Gold spot
average size brassy
we had fun catching small trout that would come out in small packs to hit poppers, saw some good sized spanish mackerel but failed to hook up and had fun with loads of queenfish.
day 2
we were looking like not having enough fuel to keep doing the 70km round trip to the outer island so we picked one a little closer with hopes of finding some bigger fish
Zaneos Chinaman popped out of 4 metres
Blue fin trev
afternoon cool offs were a must !
Day 3
final day and we still hadn't found a BIG Gt
Jacks nice brassy
An intense battle to get this fish in the boat with a 60 kilo Queensland Grouper trying to inhale it !
In the end we didnt find the big gees but saw some awesome things and had the best time and no major problems with the boats an added bonus !
Im sure they are out there and i cant wait for the next opportunity to get out and continue the search.