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Topwater Caranx Ignobilis: Giant Trevally (GT) => Reports & Expeditions => Topic started by: Andrew Susani on January 15, 2012, 01:24:34 PM
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I know most if not all of you have been there, I just wonder how many have had a camera on hand to capture that special moment of anger, disappointment, despair, and comprehension of the financial loss which has just been experienced.
I managed to get this rather crappy screenshot from video the other morning, when Mick and I experienced some "score-levelling" by some big fish in shallow reefy tiger country... we used to have a good hookup to landing ratio!
(http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o301/andrewsusani/IMG_2853Contour03.jpg)
Please share your moments of similar emotion ;D they always make for the best stories ;)
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let's see the video! ;D
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Yes, there may be a compilation video made up this week, but unfortunately this one discloses a few locations in the background... ;)
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It was a mixture of awe and pure anger. Two bustoffs in 2 cast. Silly thinking I could pull them from that spot. But very fun.
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You could photo-shop that to show some steam coming out from his ears ;D
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Love it
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Looked like me yesterday, thought i would see how my 250 Gamma worked.
First eva cast with it, Got slurped up by what looked to be a GT from Oman.
Which then peeled off my line like it was free spooling, and kept going, going and going.............. then GONE. >:(
On my ass on the floor of the boat, I wasn't worried about the financial lose, nor my smashed console screen, I was gutted about losing that monster. :'(
I would of given 10 Gammas to get that fish in my boat.
Although i did hook a fish on that gamma, i didn't really get a chance to see it in action, It all happened so quick.
Anyone want to sell a 250 Gamma
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Looked like me yesterday, thought i would see how my 250 Gamma worked.
First eva cast with it, Got slurped up by what looked to be a GT from Oman.
Which then peeled off my line like it was free spooling, and kept going, going and going.............. then GONE. >:(
On my ass on the floor of the boat, I wasn't worried about the financial lose, nor my smashed console screen, I was gutted about losing that monster. :'(
I would of given 10 Gammas to get that fish in my boat.
Although i did hook a fish on that gamma, i didn't really get a chance to see it in action, It all happened so quick.
Anyone want to sell a 250 Gamma
Sounds epic Karl... where were you fishing?
Not too many 250's floating around out there that collectors will want to let go of!
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Looked like me yesterday, thought i would see how my 250 Gamma worked.
First eva cast with it, Got slurped up by what looked to be a GT from Oman.
Which then peeled off my line like it was free spooling, and kept going, going and going.............. then GONE. >:(
On my ass on the floor of the boat, I wasn't worried about the financial lose, nor my smashed console screen, I was gutted about losing that monster. :'(
I would of given 10 Gammas to get that fish in my boat.
Although i did hook a fish on that gamma, i didn't really get a chance to see it in action, It all happened so quick.
Anyone want to sell a 250 Gamma
Sounds epic Karl... where were you fishing?
Not too many 250's floating around out there that collectors will want to let go of!
Dampier archipelago mate.
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Sitting on the floor, feeling dejected after the 3rd (maybe 4th) bust-off in New Caledonia 2007 :-[
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Looked like me yesterday, thought i would see how my 250 Gamma worked.
First eva cast with it, Got slurped up by what looked to be a GT from Oman.
Which then peeled off my line like it was free spooling, and kept going, going and going.............. then GONE. >:(
On my ass on the floor of the boat, I wasn't worried about the financial lose, nor my smashed console screen, I was gutted about losing that monster. :'(
I would of given 10 Gammas to get that fish in my boat.
Although i did hook a fish on that gamma, i didn't really get a chance to see it in action, It all happened so quick.
Anyone want to sell a 250 Gamma
Omani sized bus GT's in Dampier 8) YEEEEOOWWW!
Spewin about the loss brother! :'(
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Ha ha ha...
Andrew,
We have caught a few Classic bustoffs on vid.. Believe me its Even Worse When a Knot pulls because you have been too lazy to retie :o
It is awesome seeing the anger in another mans face when he gets beaten solidly by a brute of a fish in heavy current.
Seen ya out there once or twice, and If it is the same spot that I think it is we have been bust off there by two fish in a row too.. Them GT popper collection is looking mighty Fine!!!!
Anyways tight lines and catch ya on the water
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Nicholas,
Were you watching us last week before that storm came over.
Good to see another mackay resident out there.
Regards,
Mick
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Mick,
Nah not last week, recognise the boat and sneaker up the front, from one or two of the spots we have fished previously and seen you guys there.
Was wondering if it was locals or a passers-by.
If we see ya out will pull up and say huzzit, you will find there are a bunch of us chasing them here for a good few years.
Enjoi
Nick
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Inshore fishing is one of Mackays best kept secrets, we mostly get passed by the trout killers on their way out to the reef, who dont look twice
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I have no photo but it would have been priceless for sure, devastation is an understatement after I was dusted last week.
It was the maiden voyage for my latest rod (Lightcast 73H) running PE 3 on a 5k Twinpower and using a well used Skipjack 60 lure (should have retired it a long time ago). It was my third cast at a rock bar when a 20kg odd fish smashed the Skipjack hard against the rocks, he must have been in only 1m of water :o needless to say the fight was very short lived (maybe 10 seconds) due to insufficient drag pressure and very shallow water.
My co-pilot, at first gasping at the size of the fish when it hit, proceeded to roll around in hysterics laughing at me and my expression. Gutted :( Not only was it the first fish hooked on that rod but a sentimental lure donated to the GT gods :(
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Ha! This is a priceless thread :) :)
Oh, the bitter pill of disappointment. I think fortunatley for most of us those moments of utter dispair are seldom caught on camera.
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Rather than facial expression, it is usually my choice language that gets others going. I normally don't swear very much at all..... except when a fish beats me! That happens quite often of course.
The best example was probably early last year at my local spot when after a terrible day's fishing of nothingness, I had resorted to casting small sinking stickbaits and was about to pack up altogether. Suddenly the line started fizzing off my SOM NL 16000 spool like nothing I had experienced before. No matter what I did it would not stop. Anyone who has a SOM 16000 will know how much drag it puts down when screwed right in. I was literally very close to being pulled off the boat before the line finally ran out. I was swearing so loud and for so long it was echoing off the cliffs 8) .
For what it is worth I suspect a bus-sized Dogtooth. This was only about 1 KM from where a 70 kg doggie had been speared.
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For me, Bassas de India last year.....
Last light, chucking a 200gram Ulua into the surfzone on the reef, off a tiny little inflatable... my Ulua got swallowed sideways by a Behemoth of a fish.... RF 79H, PE 10 on the Stella 18K screwed down as far as it will go, and the fish never even slowed down..... ran about 40 metres till he found his freedom in a bommie and sent the 200lb leader back to me looking like it had been through a shredder..... All in all it took maybe 10 seconds....
I didn't even have time to register what had just occured, that truly mammoth GT I have been hunting for a long time, had just schooled me in a way that until it happens to you, you actually have no idea what its like...
I don't remember if I swore, or what.... I seem to remember just being bewildered.... first thing I did was check my drag to see if I had maybe not buttoned it down properly... Well, when I realised that I actually couldn't pull any line off the reel, then I started to wake up to what had just happened....
Funny thing is that bust off is what will bring me back to Bassas without a doubt.....
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This thread is closely tied to the thread about why we love fishing for Gt's. It's the one that beats us at the game that drives us to go back for more!
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I lost an Ulua 60 fishing off the rocks today - my first ever upmarket lure purchase from about 5 years ago snaffled by a big cod. I think it was a big cod anyway, saw a bit of brown as it powered down into the bommies, plenty of drag but it was like I'd hooked a truck !