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Title: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Ben Rivers on March 04, 2012, 01:50:52 PM
Hi Guys,

Any idea how much this fish would weigh? Didnt have time to get the measuring tape out after the fight.

Fish was caught at the Swains last week on a Cubera 150.

Cheers Ben
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Peter Morris on March 04, 2012, 02:02:10 PM
18-20kg ish..?

Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Allan Chan Hian Lian on March 04, 2012, 02:09:10 PM

(http://s16.postimage.org/gxzh5n601/SAM_2934.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/gxzh5n601/)

This is 13kgs weighted, just a guide. ;)
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Brandon Khoo on March 04, 2012, 02:29:52 PM
I'm with Pete - 18 to 20kgs
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Ben Rivers on March 04, 2012, 04:20:37 PM
I'm with Pete - 18 to 20kgs

Only a Pup!!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Mark Harris on March 04, 2012, 05:36:49 PM
Nice straightforward pic Ben... that makes it easier. If I had not seen Pete and Brandon's answers I would have said 20/21..... but I am sure they are both much better weight guessers than me!

Nothing wrong with 20 kg class GTs... still good fish Ben.
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Ben Rivers on March 04, 2012, 09:35:05 PM
Nice straightforward pic Ben... that makes it easier. If I had not seen Pete and Brandon's answers I would have said 20/21..... but I am sure they are both much better weight guessers than me!

Nothing wrong with 20 kg class GTs... still good fish Ben.

I thought it would be a 50kg the way it was pulling, then I saw it was a normal size ... I'm pretty sure I'd never get a 50kg fish in the boat!!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Graham Scott on March 05, 2012, 08:46:02 AM
Hi Ben,
I was watching the weather for your trip (wasn't much help sorry). How far did you get?
It looked like it might have been Ok by the end of the trip?
Looks like it was successful regardless of the weather.
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Travis Heaps on March 05, 2012, 10:50:43 AM
The rear half of that fish is solid plus the tail is bending away from the pic.  With out being swayed by anyone elses guess I would have said 22kg  :)
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Ben Rivers on March 05, 2012, 10:21:00 PM
Hi Ben,
I was watching the weather for your trip (wasn't much help sorry). How far did you get?
It looked like it might have been Ok by the end of the trip?
Looks like it was successful regardless of the weather.

Weather was a bit challenging at the start of the week, but got periodically better as the days went on.
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Mark Gwynne on March 05, 2012, 11:14:30 PM
I'm actually with Travis. Before he posted I guessed 22 myself. Either way it's around that 17 to 22 class. Nice fish mate.
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Ben Rivers on March 02, 2013, 09:57:35 PM
Any suggestions on weight of this one?
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Travis Heaps on March 02, 2013, 10:15:14 PM
25kg
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Darren Cook on March 03, 2013, 09:59:47 AM
27kg
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: thomas + williams on March 03, 2013, 11:18:22 AM
That's a fairly thick fish! 25 at least!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Ben Rivers on March 03, 2013, 11:44:06 AM
Another Photo of the GT
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Brandon Khoo on March 03, 2013, 01:19:09 PM
85-90kg?
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Travis Heaps on March 03, 2013, 01:29:25 PM
85-90kg?

Nah, you're thinking of the photos the Japanese anglers take.
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: thomas + williams on March 03, 2013, 02:54:14 PM
Where did you head out to the swains from? I remember heading out from stanage bay as a kid and baiting for trout and there was some absolute horse gt out there. Even eating good size trout on the way to the boat!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Ben Rivers on March 03, 2013, 03:11:46 PM
Where did you head out to the swains from? I remember heading out from stanage bay as a kid and baiting for trout and there was some absolute horse gt out there. Even eating good size trout on the way to the boat!

Head out on Mothership from Gladstone. Some definite monster GTs out there. Bust me off every-time!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: thomas + williams on March 03, 2013, 03:25:35 PM
What were you chasing out there? It's a pretty incredible place!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: thomas + williams on March 03, 2013, 03:43:29 PM
If your into catching a few monsters and your from Gladstone it's definitely worth heading into shoalwater! It's a very incredible place!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Graham Scott on March 03, 2013, 05:13:52 PM
What do you call Shoalwater?
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Brandon Khoo on March 03, 2013, 06:32:03 PM
It's a bloody long way from Gladstone. Not just a matter of turning the corner!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: thomas + williams on March 03, 2013, 07:58:02 PM
Yeah I'm aware of that, if your on the cap coast and don't mind towing a boat in the 100km of dirt to stanage it is very accessible!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Graham Scott on March 03, 2013, 10:40:40 PM
Shoalwater Bay is a funny place. When I used to go there it was the mud and mangroves at the mouth of Head Creek and a bunch of other creeks.
Now "Shoalwater Bay" seems to go north past the Marbles, across to the Percy's and down the east coast past Island Head Creek , almost down to Yeppoon.
Still a fantastic place to fish mainly courtesy of the limited access thru the military training area.
Stanage Bay is a bit confronting, 165 km north and 40 years back
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Travis Heaps on March 04, 2013, 08:02:23 AM
Shoalwater Bay is a funny place. When I used to go there it was the mud and mangroves at the mouth of Head Creek and a bunch of other creeks.
Now "Shoalwater Bay" seems to go north past the Marbles, across to the Percy's and down the east coast past Island Head Creek , almost down to Yeppoon.
Still a fantastic place to fish mainly courtesy of the limited access thru the military training area.
Stanage Bay is a bit confronting, 165 km north and 40 years back

That's courtesy of Nomad I think Graham.  Not that they charter there any more but if you google "Shoalwater Bay" the first thing you find is "military training area"...makes for a less attractive proposition to the common trailerboater than if it had been advertised as the Marbles or similar imo. 
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: David Noble on March 04, 2013, 09:37:25 AM
I did my time with the military, got to work a bit at the area at Shoalwater during navy clearance divers live bomb detonation training. Most of the explosive training we had to go to the bunker as shrapnel could (and did) enter the camp site.  Went out a long way on the zodiac one time to see the 500lb bomb 'go bang' from offshore, good 70 meter water spout!
Back on the beach in the tidal zone where the bangs occured, it looked like a war zone dotted with craters and strewn with dead fish. (threadfin, etc)
Any GT or other fish would have got quite a head ache, it was quite disturbing....

A few dugong got blown up also...

Totally off topic, sorry, back to the Swains!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: thomas + williams on March 04, 2013, 09:56:21 AM
Yeah during bombing you could feel the blasts through the water for miles! It would have to send those fish a bit silly for a while! The fishing down that way is unreal when you can access the area.
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: Graham Scott on March 04, 2013, 10:47:10 AM
Hi David,
I assume you are referring to Big Bang Bay at Triangular Island....good spot for Coral Trout!

Strong Tide Passage is about my favourite spot ever, even named one of my boats "Strongtide". In spite of a bit of Instant Death from explosives, there is no doubt that the lack of general access to the area is the greatest environmental protector that an area can get. It is far and away the most pristine and fish rich area I have experienced on the east coast of QLD. 3.5kg mudcrabs, remember catching Trout up to 3 kg in a small mangrove lined creek that runs dry at low tide, thought that was awesome, until the next trout got eaten by a 30kg cod, or trolling along the beach at Supply Bay and went past one isolated bommie in about 2 metres of water only to have the bommie casually swim over and destroy my barra lure.

Guess we are getting way off topic here..

Nice Swains GT Ben,
I reckon 24.25kg!
Title: Re: Approx Weight - Swains GT
Post by: David Noble on March 04, 2013, 02:19:34 PM
Hi David,
I assume you are referring to Big Bang Bay at Triangular Island....good spot for Coral Trout!


Yes, Triangular island, was there in 1999.

Swains GT, err put me down for 22.5kg!