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Title: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Patrick Cooper on April 13, 2011, 07:49:26 AM

Hi Guys,

Quick report, fished Kadavu with 3 mates last week for a few days. We had fantastic weather and though it was hard work we managed a few nice fish and broke in a few GT virgins. We popped for 3 days and spent a day chasing marlin. Though no marlin were to be found but we managed to raise a sail and saw a few bust ups from YFT, some of which we landed on skirts, but unfortunately we didn't manage to land any casting. We managed a few reefies jigging as well, though we were a bit on under-gunned what with only bringing PE4 jig outfits with us. This resulted in us being monstered by some beasts of the deep. If I was to go back a PE8 jigging outfit would be a must on my packing list. Interestingly the most successful popper which accounted for about 5 or 6 fish was also the cheapest onboard a Kronik big boppa 150 which was going to be left at home. Baby runbohs were popular too, although 1 fish and they were pretty much useless.

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Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Ben Furness on April 13, 2011, 08:54:10 AM

Looks like comfortable fishing weather, flat seas and overcast. Nice pics.

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Tim Richards on April 13, 2011, 09:45:34 AM

Looks like a great trip mate,

Tim

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Fabio Ward on April 13, 2011, 10:14:32 AM

Nice pics. Some friends and I did the same trip a few weeks back, fishing was pretty slow though. Was the skipper Adrian around while you were there?

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Andrew Smart on April 13, 2011, 10:46:54 AM

Nice trip,you go the weather!

I cant wait to get abroad and chase some gt's

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Patrick Cooper on April 13, 2011, 10:50:15 AM

Thanks yeah the weather was a big bonus..

Adrian was on holidays... Joe was our skipper with Michael as the decky, both top guys and a lot of fun.

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Vincenzo Caccico on April 13, 2011, 05:28:07 PM

I think that Joe is one of the best skipper i have never work and fished! ;)

Nice photo.

Vincenzo

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Fabio Ward on April 14, 2011, 11:33:01 PM

Yeah unfortunately he was on "holidays" when we there as well, I was looking forward to meeting/fishing with him.
Joe did a good job as skipper though.

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Raymond Yong on April 15, 2011, 12:47:57 AM

Well done, nice......... ;)

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: allan hsieh on April 16, 2011, 04:50:12 PM

Joe is an awesome skipper, you are lucky to have him the whole time. Nice pics

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Jason Zhou on April 16, 2011, 10:28:31 PM

Nice fish, well done mate! ;)

Title: Re: Kadavu GT's
Post by: Nathan Cefai on April 17, 2011, 03:05:33 PM

Well done mate,good work.. ;D