This photo is out of some video footage where we found a huge concentration
of big GT.
As you can see, we are hooked up casting from the rocks!
We had 3 Nomad Ulua's, a 90, a 120 and a 150.
At the end of the session we only had the 90 left and we were shaking from all of the strikes we had!
All three of us each had a turn at the GT from the rocks, Kerrin was first with the 150.
He hooks up over the bommies and breaks off a GT around 25kg.
Then, I cast out and a half way through the retrieve the 120 Ulua is taken by a GT of about 22kg. It runs around the rock we were fishing from and cuts the line on the sharp coral.
We then tell Coen to have a cast with the Ulua 90.
He makes a long cast across the bommies and works the lure back with a good retrieve.
A GT strikes and misses the lure, so Coen keeps working it back. The GT comes back and strikes again and takes the lure front-on.
Coen sets hard and the fish pulls him along the rocks, heading out towards the bommies.
Amazingly, the fish stays away from any sharp objects in the whole battle and eventually we tail the fish near the rocks.
It was Coen's first GT on stickbait and was probably around 21kg, a great capture from a begginer on slippery rocks!
We had a blast on this trip and Coen got what he wanted; a GT on stickbait.
The outer Whitsunday islands are an amazing place to fish, the water is so deep and fishy! There is so much places to explore.
Each time we go out there there is always something new that we find and the whole section of the outer islands look stunning.
Cy and Kerrin Taylor
Whitsundays QLD
