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Title: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Cy and Kerrin Taylor on April 24, 2009, 02:52:28 PM: Hi,

Here's some recent captures of GT caught in the Whitsunday islands.

All fish were caught on debarbed Nomad Ulua's stickbaits, Nomad Cubera poppers, Halco Roosta Haymaker poppers and a Carpenter Anthias popper.

The outfits that landed them were an 8000 Shimano Stella with a 10kg - 15kg T-Curve Bluewater spin rod, 80lb Fins braid and 120 to 150lb leader.

We've found that pausing the stickbait or popper more often in the retrieve is a good way to improve the hookup rate as the GT bite with more accuracy.

Most of the GT were caught with a 'pop, pop, pause' type retrieve on the poppers and a downwards stab of the rod with a sharp stop on the stickbaits. This makes them move about very fast on the suface and also keeps them from tumbling over.

We have upgraded our GT outfits to a 10000 & 180000 Stella SW with a Tcurve GT Special & a 15kg - 25kg Tcurve Bluewater spin rod. They are awesome outfits! One image is attached of them.

Thanks,

Cy & Kerrin Taylor
Whitsundays QLD
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Andrew Poulos on April 24, 2009, 03:38:50 PM: Great work there !!
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Peter Morris on April 24, 2009, 03:50:44 PM: Solid fish boys. 8)

Lucky to have the whitsundays as your backyard.

I am jelous.

Pete
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Geoff Volter on April 24, 2009, 07:55:07 PM: Plenty of beef there- well done fella's!!
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Andre van Wyk on April 25, 2009, 01:11:43 AM: Top Shelf work boys.... Very jealous!!!

More please, thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Cy and Kerrin Taylor on April 25, 2009, 08:43:19 PM: Thanks for the replies!

Yeah Pete, it's great to have the islands so close! Sorry for making you jelous! 8)

There has been a few bigger fish that we've lost recently too - hopefully the bigger outfits will stop them!

Casting from the rocks can be productive around the islands too although they can be very challenging to land in some areas.

A big GT of over 35kg struck our popper recently while casting from a rock and we hooked it well. It was only connected for about 20 seconds though as it broke the braid after heading over a reef drop off into deep water - nothing we could do!

C&K
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Nathan Cefai on April 26, 2009, 11:32:41 AM: Boys well done,a big difference in fighting those barra haha well done once again Gents!!
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Cy and Kerrin Taylor on April 26, 2009, 08:03:51 PM: Thanks Nathan,

Yes, the GT are much stronger than barra! They must be one of the strongest fish in the saltwater!

It would be cool if GT could jump - that would be amazing fun hooking a leaping 40kg GT! Ha ha!

C&K
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Matt Harvey on April 27, 2009, 05:02:19 AM: Nice report and photos fellas.
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Angus Hulme on April 28, 2009, 11:37:15 AM: Quote from: Cy and Kerrin Taylor on April 25, 2009, 08:43:19 PM
It was only connected for about 20 seconds though as it broke the braid after heading over a reef drop off into deep water - nothing we could do!

that is the disturbing norm when it comes to my GT efforts in the Whitsundays! Some serious GTs in the area

Very hard to stop when fishing off the rocks though.

Great work there C&K, thanks for sharing.

Cheers
Angus
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: Cy and Kerrin Taylor on May 01, 2009, 12:10:21 AM: Hi Angus,

Yes, some places are easier for landing them than others!

The hardest challenge is when they swim out of the shallows and over the reef drop-off or down-current and straight past some sharp coral bommies or rocks - very hard to stop! We've decided to fish these areas in a boat from now on!

C&K
Title: Re: Recent Whitsunday GT captures!
Post by: jay currie on May 07, 2009, 07:25:51 PM: Some very nice fish there boys. Is this area always this hot? and how far are you travelling to get to the spots?