Hi Luke,
Congrats on a great trip. Look like you all had a good time and the fishing was good.
Can you give us some details of the trip. Some of the weights of the biggest GT's? and how many caught? over how many days? etc.
Cheers Sam
Thanks Sam.
We always have a great time in New Caledonia. I'm privaleged to fish with the LPB boys regularly and Eric's company was awesome. We had many a laughs and good times.
We had very poor weather for a majority of the trip. Was blowing 35 knots from the SE when we arrived. This accounted for very low GT activity, however, we were able to come arcoss some decent fish - biggest maybe 35kg+
Fish responded to stickbaits despite good hunting conditions (swell, chop, wind, light levels) for poppers.
We had several tackle failures due to 1. loose line from windy stickbait actions, and 2. general wear on the braided line (a good reminder to change your knots/first metre or so of braided line connected to the shockleader after extended fishing. This was a good fish - at least 40kg, swallowing a Big Nambas. Bum
We had 1 sailfish follow a stickbait to the boat but alas not hookup.
We <3 NC. Coming up to my 8th year fishing NC