Clint: I headed west today with four clients fishing our way to the new Anchorage. We had run in tide for a couple of hours and the boys were keen for GT action.The first reef we hit had some great current on it and Joe was first up into a fish but this one got the better of him busted him on the reef. I did the drift again and we hooked and landed another two GTs it was a great start to the morning. After that we saw a heap more fish pulling the hooks on plenty the action was hot. Peter D finally managed to get a solid hooked up and landed a nice fish in the high twenties his biggest for the trip and a great way to finish his last day. Things went quiet for a while but I found a sneaky ledge that was copping the last of the run in. Peter C hit the spot first cast we all watched a huge frame engulfed his lure this was a propper one. I powered off the ledge and the battle was on this thing just did not want to give up. With a sore back and a high nerves the fish was boated a real brute of 40kg. What a week for the big guy with two 40kg fish in a week, one caught on the first hour of his trip and the other on his last day. It does not get any better than that! The GTs had lock jaw for the rest of the day only seeing a handful of fish. Though we trolled a cracking ledge and cleaned up on the Spanish getting a heap throwing in some shark mackerel also.
Nick:-With a couple of hours of run in tide we managed to find a few spots holding some fish to start the day off with. The wind was still moderate and fishable as the tide slowed we had an early lunch and waited for some water to flow. As the tide started flowing out we started seeing a lot more action. The one ledge we stopped at Tom managed to provoke an ariel strike from a 15kilo plus spanno with his stick bait and then two casts later...thanks for coming another spanish taxed him! On with another stick bait and again we managed to get some more aerial attacks, the one for the day was a spanish that came T top height out of the water beam onto us and he was coming in to the boat no two ways about it, somehow he manged to put his flaps down and just missed landing in the boat by a meter or so!! I had already made an escape route to get out of this thing's way! Awesome to see.
As the day progressed the wind got stronger and the fishing was steady with Tom and his father Ray battling it out all day with Ray leading 5-4, Tom managed to get another GT right at the end of the day near the mothership equalising the score but not five minutes later Ray came back with another good fish and putting him in the lead again 6-5...father wins!! Great day today boating 13 GTs, nice trout, spanish, gold spots and a beautiful Diamond trevally.
