jetty popping

[John Campbell]

  hey guys just thought i would share with you some pics from a couple of morning sessions throwing
  poppers around at a local coal loading jetty over the weekend, this is the first time i have
  fished this area and what i saw was impressive  in 2 morning sessions totalling about 6 hours
  fishing we caught 11 gt ranging from 15 to 20kg with the biggest one estimated at about 25kg
  there were plenty more there and we never went more than 5 or 6 casts without a strike , we only
  got blown away once but it was from a beauty  we never had a chance when he smashed the popper
  5meters from the pylons


                           

[John Campbell]

        will learn how to use this computer one day


        here are the pics



       
       
       
         
       

[Luke Wyrsta]

Awesome work there John!

Need to upsize some of your poppers I reckon!

[Jay Burgess]

Our Iron Ore wharves in Dampier (WA) have their fair share of GT's too. Last time I was working on the dolphins there was bait everywhere and I saw an estimated 40kg GT. Later that day my mate called me back to tell me that he saw one much larger  Average size would be around 15kg though with plenty of queenies and small macks too.

[John Campbell]

     hey luke  the popper in pic was one we were using on the queenies they were smashing up the
     bait out wide of the jetty awesome fun, we were using cubera 150s and jai poppers
     did manage to snap that little popper on a smaller gt later that day !!

     hi jay sounds like we fish similar type of country except we about as far away we could be in
     australia (i live in ayr north qld) its hard work when a fish nails the popper next to the
     pylons, i have a friend who works on the jetty and sends photos on his phone of when the gts
     are hanging around usually when the weather is good on a weekday and i am at work   
 
     was a good weekend of practice for shoalwater in a couple of weeks only booked in last week
     so might be a little underdone in the fitness department


             cheers john

[Neale Bird]

what dates are you headed to shoalwater john?
 

[John Campbell]

     hi neale  i am on the 6th of feb trip, only enquired about it last week and finalised
     everything today so not too much time to prepare

     

[Damien Phillip]

Some nice fish there John! Great work

[Neale Bird]

I'll meet you next week then   

[John Campbell]

    sweet, can't wait to get down there and start donating some hardware to the gt population 
    with you 
    just hoping the weather is good for us

[Neale Bird]

yeah same im a little worried about that too but its out of our control

[Nathan Cefai]

Good looking fish and good report

Welldone!!

[John Westcott]

Thanks for sharing your Report John,
Very jealous, would be awesome to have that sort of action close to home!

[Peter Agapiou]

HEY LOOKS LIKE ABBOT PIONT....?WELL DONE

[John Campbell]

    thanks guys  yeah it is pretty handy being able to drive a couple of hours either side of home
    and have some incredible fishing


     hi pete yes that is abbott point have you fished there before ?