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Warwick Joyce:
Hi all, well the weather was great here the other day so it was out to see if we could get our arms pulled off by a few solid gt's. We decided to check out a couple of islands in our area which have escaped us on previous trips and try the jigging thing out as well as launching some poppers and sticks around.
As it turned out the GT's were quite shy this particular day, we had plenty of good follows but strikes were rare. At one point Travis hooked a long tom and it was going nuts on the surface trying to free itself from the popper when a monster GT decided it was going to eat the whole lot at once popper and all! Unfortunately A few minutes into the fight the hooks pulled, it was such a good fish too! I had a monster grab a stickbait about 7m from the boat only to spit it straight out again, this thing was by far the biggest trevally I have ever seen it must have been near 8 to 10 inches across the shoulders! Ah well next time hey.

A little later I landed my first GT on a stickbait, stoked with that!


Also as this was our first go at jigging I landed a nice Spanish and Travis got a nice Cobia. Patrick lost a monster Spanish after it sliced through the assist cord.


The trip home saw us stop at an island that had produced some solid fish before and we were not disappointed. There were 3 or 4 schools of these trevally slicing the surface everywhere, I'm not too sure on which type they are maybe someone here knows? Closest I could find was a Turrum, they all seemed to be the same size.

Peter Lowe:
That sounds like a great day out - well done.

Some nice pics too.

Interesting those other trev's, never seen them but I bet they were fun.....Just goes to show their is always something new ah.....



 8)

Greg Burt:
The Trevs are Bludger Trevally, we catch a few on the top of the Barwon Banks off Mooloolaba were we target big Spaniards.

Brandon Khoo:
yep, they're bludgers all right - they go real hard!!

Warwick Joyce:
Yeah I looked around on the net and the Turrum was as close as I could find, it said they were also known as gold spot trev, yellow spot, bludger, I guess it comes down to where you are and what the general local name is. Definitely by the pic and description I found it was a Turrum.
Do they get much bigger than that? They also seem to be a schooling fish.

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