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Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) => Reports & Expeditions => Topic started by: Peter Morris on July 12, 2011, 02:28:46 PM
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South East Queensland would have to be having one of the best Trevally runs of all time throughout our Rivers and Estuaries.
Juvenile GT's,Big-Eye Trevally,Diamond Trevally,Golden,Cale Cale Trevally,Longnose and Tea-Leaf Trevally are all in the mix providing for some fantastic entertainment on 4 and 6lb gear.
The special captures for me are the Diamond Trevally and not only are these fish pretty stunning to look at,but they go like hell on light gear and give a very serious account of themselves.They are still one of the rarer Trevally Species but enough make an appearance to make them a viable target.That swear word 'Soft Plastics' accounts for most Diamonds and I havent heard of any taken from the surface unfortunately.
Few pics from this winter so far.
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Cheers,
Pete
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Nice one Pete, looks like great fun - i've wanted to catch a Diamond for a long time now, interesting to know they are around in relatively decent numbers down there. Few questions - is that a hairtail?!? Third from the bottom - juvenile diamond? What's that popper in the close-up...awesome prawn imitation.
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Hi Travis,
Yes, Hairtail....They too have been around in numbers on the Sunny Coast this year.
Third from the Bottom is a Cale Cale Trevally....funny looking fish with a pronounced bottom Jaw.
Great little fighters.
The little Popper is a Zipbait ZBL popper.
They seem harder to find than a Gamma.
Pete
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Mate that is some awesome light tackle fishing there, great stuff....it makes heading to Botany Bay for some bream down here in Sydney downright depressing :(
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Third from the Bottom is a Cale Cale Trevally....funny looking fish with a pronounced bottom Jaw.
Great little fighters.
Cale Cale hey - you sure? Looks like the bastard love child from of a tryst between a Diamond and a Silver to me ;) ;D
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Very nice photos Pete
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Awesome light game action!
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Hey Pete,
Awesome photos and top fun on the ultra light gear! Those diamonds are beautiful fish to look at and go great on the light tackle! I caught one flicking small plastics in the harbour for frigates in Wollongong! Must have been somewhere at the southern range of their distribution?
Cheers.
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Sam, for guys like you and Pete who are going to be in Bugatti in August, the light fishing there can be absolutely amazing. Pete can tell you how many varieties they got in a day when they went out one day to only fish light tackle specifically
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Sam, for guys like you and Pete who are going to be in Bugatti in August, the light fishing there can be absolutely amazing. Pete can tell you how many varieties they got in a day when they went out one day to only fish light tackle specifically
Brandon is very easy to talk into a day of light tackle fun.....just as I am..
Sam, the light tackle stuff is pretty awesome as there are just so many different species on offer.
I think our list was Bludger,Gold spot and some very respectable GT's on light gear.
Shark mackeral,Spanish mackeral,Mack Tuna,Longtails,Pennant fish,Spangled Emperor,Green Jobfish,Cod,Longnose Emperor,Trout etc etc.....
Pete
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It's a great idea to have the light tackle with you because you can then have a lot of fun during the slow periods for GTs. The variety of fish on the flat when the tide is up can be amazing. The only difficulty is dragging yourself away from that when it is time to fish for GTs again!
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It's a great idea to have the light tackle with you because you can then have a lot of fun during the slow periods for GTs. The variety of fish on the flat when the tide is up can be amazing. The only difficulty is dragging yourself away from that when it is time to fish for GTs again!
When you say 'light' tackle, Brandon, exactly how light are we talking?
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I think 20-30lb out there would be as light as I dare.....you just dont know what you are going to hook thats the prob...
I got my bum kicked pretty badly by red bass in Vanuatu using 30lb but I did stop a couple.
PE 3 for me this trip.
Pete
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Sweet light tackle Pete.
I think the whole trev population has moved south this winter, conditions have been perfect here on 2 trips and not a word of a trev anywhere :(
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Brandon, Pete
No ones going to have to twist my arm to hard for some topwater light tackle fun! Friends and I had a go at chucking stickbaits on PE3 (Yamaga 75/4 - 5000SW) to the masses of 30 odd kg sbt's the other week down bermagui was awesome fun! Got some pretty cool video of all the action will have to bring up to show you guys at bugatti :D
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I use 30lb, Jay. I still get completely wasted but if you get lucky, you can land some pretty respectable fish with it. Last year, I got a nice GT in the 26-28kg mark. Red bass tend to do terrible things to you. :(
It's a great idea to have the light tackle with you because you can then have a lot of fun during the slow periods for GTs. The variety of fish on the flat when the tide is up can be amazing. The only difficulty is dragging yourself away from that when it is time to fish for GTs again!
When you say 'light' tackle, Brandon, exactly how light are we talking?
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Red bass do terrible things to me on PE10 at times!
I use 30lb, Jay. I still get completely wasted but if you get lucky, you can land some pretty respectable fish with it. Last year, I got a nice GT in the 26-28kg mark. Red bass tend to do terrible things to you. :(
It's a great idea to have the light tackle with you because you can then have a lot of fun during the slow periods for GTs. The variety of fish on the flat when the tide is up can be amazing. The only difficulty is dragging yourself away from that when it is time to fish for GTs again!
When you say 'light' tackle, Brandon, exactly how light are we talking?
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(http://s4.postimage.org/xmfyeg10/DSC_1737.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/xmfyeg10/)
A file shot of a typical red bass from the 04 heavy tackle marlin season.
Taken on PE 2.5 ..........the twisted 60lb fluorocarbon saved my sorry butt a few times :)
Aaron
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Peter,
The trevors are usually going nuts down the Goldie at night at this time of year.
Depending on their mood, it's either plastics to get down to them, with another rod rigged with a popper to capitalize on their surface blitzes.
Light tackle is way cool 8)
Aaron.
PS.......do you normally see that many diamonds???? There are a few times of the year when they are around down here, though they are far from commonplace.
Aaron.
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Those diamon trevs look unreal. Good fun on light gear too no doubt. Well done mate.
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Peter,
The trevors are usually going nuts down the Goldie at night at this time of year.
Depending on their mood, it's either plastics to get down to them, with another rod rigged with a popper to capitalize on their surface blitzes.
Light tackle is way cool 8)
Aaron.
PS.......do you normally see that many diamonds???? There are a few times of the year when they are around down here, though they are far from commonplace.
Aaron.
Hi Aaron,
This year has seen the biggest Diamonds I have ever seen in the river.
They usually are smaller fish around the 40cm mark but this winter there have been some very nice fish in the 65-75cm range.
They are still one of the rarer Trevally in the river.This winter I know of ten fish caught.
Pete
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Peter,
Perhaps the increase in Diamonds has been due to the La Nina/excessive wet we've had?????
August/September is prime time down the Goldie for them so here's hoping that they turn up in droves!
Some of the ones I have been connected to have been around 1m in length, though the rotten places that they hang out means only the tiddlers get caught!
Aaron.
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Nice catch Peter, pretty good variety of fish in that area there. Some things never change, that area always come up with the goods. Just from interest were all those fish caught in the the same day, week, month time frame?
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Nice catch Peter, pretty good variety of fish in that area there. Some things never change, that area always come up with the goods. Just from interest were all those fish caught in the the same day, week, month time frame?
Hi Dale,
All from the last two months....The Trevally action has been very consistent this winter.
Pete