Big Spano

[BLOOEY]

Hit the water this morning at 5am up the sunny coast, hoping to get a fish in before the wind and rain started. Found some mack tuna working the surface and spun one up on a slug. Pinned him on (all 2kgs of him) and towed him around for a bit. One almighty surface strike later and i was onto a big fish. Some time (around 40mins)passed and several long powerful runs later i had a horse of a spaniard in the boat. Went 145cm and guessing around 20kg. What a blast. Had a dead tailor chopped in half after that with no hookup before it got a bit too rough for my tinny. Ben

[supertinny]

Good stuff Ben. I like what you did with the tuna.

[fishfreak01]

Thats one big bait and one bis spaniard, well done

[BLOOEY]

Ta guys. Supertinny, after being bitten off a few times lateley a new tact was in order,1.5m of 90lb 7strand wire ahead of the live tuna seems to work!
Fishfreak, the one in the photo is about half the size of the one that got the spano! Huge bait and massive hit. Ben

[skipalong]

mate were you in the centre con? thought i saw you out there well done top fish.

[frankgrimes]

Great spannish Ben - Well done mate!

Mick

[Fish_gutz]

nice work Blooey top spanish. Cheers Andrew

[jayvee]

awsome spano mate, we were out off mooloolaba aswell this morning and trolled up 3 spano's and a spotty in about an hour aswell. all on hardbodys. biggest spano went 11.5kg's. looks like we're in for a top season, cant wait for the big boys to start commin through.
JAYVEE

[BLOOEY]

Yep skipalong 4.5 bluefin warrior c/c. I reckon the spearos in that area were doing alright! How did you fare?
Jayvee. Great catch mate. Interesting you got them on hardbodys. Have been giving them a fair go lately for not much, but a switch to dead bait gets results,and a switch to live gets even more. Any tips on lures and speed? Ben

[-spiro-]

Mate well done thats a top fish

[Horse]

Great fish Mate
You can't beat a livey out on the end of your line

Neil

[FireFly]

Great fish Ben

If you don't mind me asking...(I'm new to trolling livies), what style and size hooks do you use and does the Stinger have a majority hook up? Also what size wire are you using?? Would about 4-6knots be about your troll speed?

Thanks Mate!

Rob

[Angla]

That is a great conversion.

Give the cat some first won't you.

Cheers
Chris

[jayvee]

BLOOEY- anything you can troll at speed (lively lures mac baits,rapala x-raps) we were trolling at 6.5 knots, but a little quicker would be even better. we noticed the long toms jumping out of the water everywhere to so assumed they would be feeding on them and put lures out that closest resembled them! go a shallow diver and a deep if your running 2 rods. the deep got all the hits except for the big spano which took the shallow diver

JAYVEE

[indy]

Great fish mate the pic says it all, my mate got three spanish in the same area a couple of weeks agao on the red and white halco's.