Small boat GT fishing in Mackay

[Nathan Tsao]

HO NIIICE one Andrew, and solo mission too, you the man!!!

[Andrew Susani]

Andy, I am not sure who would cater properly for GT fishing here, apart from Nomad when they have their mothership moored here.  I would have thought the trip north to Mission Beach/Cairns/Cooktown would have far better GT locations for the Townsvillians!  I will definitely be doing a week long road trip up that way one day.  The wind here is so annoying that planning anything ahead can be very much a lottery 

Nathan, I am give you some more proof that I am not such a gumby    after this next lot of stickbaits I am painting up, I will make a couple for you and Charles 

[Charles Cintron]

Andrew nice fish! Haven't fish with a electric trolling motor in a long time definitely helpful if your by yourself I've always wondered how effective they would be when on a big fish?  Anyhow my fishing spot is too dangerous too be out there by yourself unless its dead calm and even then i think id pass. Hopefully we'll be posting more pics from Hawaii were switching boats and sea trials start tomorrow lol.

Keep the pics coming

Aloha

[Graham Scott]

Nice fish Andrew,
I know how tough it gets single handed from a small boat....and on one of your own lures!
Doesn't get any better. Well done

[Guy Durham]

Nice fish Andrew. I was wondering how you went. I saw your boat tied to the pontoon at the ramp when I was putting mine in on Saturday. How thick was that fog!

Unfortunately I didn't end up having a pop. I went out to the reef and got a feed. I planned to hit some points for GTs while I was there but it didn't eventuate.

A couple of mates of mine popped around a few of the islands and got a couple of decent GTs in. Good to see the fish have woken up and gone from nothing to something in recent weeks. Pretty keen for it to warm up a bit more so they start firing again.

[Andrew Susani]

Swell and wind were a bit ordinary yesterday morning but a mate and I persisted through the crap, to one of our better spots.  Another 2 mates went out with us in a new boat - I got some good action shots of them.





It took a fair amount of work but I finally raised a small GT, only to have 2 more materialise from the depths in a pursuit for the popping prize.   Phil had his lure out near mine and luckily for him, the pack leader took a liking to it and smashed the crap out of it, right in front of us.

Phil had to use all of his 92kg to get leverage on the fish, it was quite fun to watch.  The gimbal didn't fit him so he did it the hard way    After about 4 or 5 mins he had his first big GT in the boat, and was stoked.





The lure was jammed sideways inside it's mouth, and was quite destroyed!  Everything still hung together though    Good times.

[Jay Burgess]

Those action shots look great! Love the way the water looks...

[Andrew Susani]

Thanks Jay, things are really getting warm here, I expect the fishing will pick up a bit too    There was a bit of an upload problem with that first pic, all fixed now 

[Charles Cintron]

Nice pics Andrew, that lure looks ready for retirement!

[Matt Born]

Was that one of your Poppers Andrew?  if so that's a great catch, and good testament to the strength of it! - otherwise still a great catch!! haha congrats

[Andrew Susani]

No Matt, not one of my poppers... I am still waiting on a mate to sort out a lathe so we can pump out a few... when we do I hope they will last a little longer than this one 

[troy roberts]

Hees a gt i scored 2 weeks ago after many bustoffs and not knowing what was doing it 22kgs 30lb line soft plastic loomis 844 and 4000 twinpower big fight and a lot of luck

22kgs

[Ali Saadi]

Great report and nice photos!