Devstated on the GC sand pumping jetty

[RAT-KING]

I took a newby fishing off the sand pumping jetty. We arrived around 4:30am and immediately started to jig up some livies the plan was to score some livies and drop them straight back down in search of a kingy or two. After 7 am still no success the water was shallow and could see the bottom, when two tuna swam past they looked around 20kg, So game plan change and started floating the livies out under floats arounf 20mins later we were standing there and heard an awful noise it was my reel screaming like ive never heard before, I ran towards my rod but my mate beat me to it after me telling him dont touch, dont touch, DONT TOUCH, DONT F*CKING TOUCH!!! He grabbed the rod and struck with the reel in free spool, of course no hookup and our last livie now dead so we ventured back to Brissie with no fish...
Oh well next time.
Simon

[Feral]

So how long did it take your mate to swim back to the shore after you tossed him off the jetty?

[MudRiverDan]

Do you fish casting out to the south?
I went there once and didn't like having to stand and cast over a huge pipe.

What do you jig up and what kind of jig?

Pity about the Tuna.

[matt fraser]

Nothing worse than a rod grabber! especially one who has no idea.

[ddobson]

Funny now but on the day a few thoughts would have ben going around no doupt lol. Would have been hard to land that over the pipe to but its always the ones we loose are the ones we want as no one wants to see keepers they want monsters and that would have been a great fish. They run hard to and dont stop so would have been hard to stop as mine took line for about 800lm before he slowed down. Better luck next time. DD.....

[Coodgee]

What did you plan to do with a 20kg tuna once you got him to the surface? A long way up to haul a 20kg fish.

[RAT-KING]

Hey Dan was fishing right at the end of the jetty, the livies were yellow tail scad and i used a 6 hook daisy chain jig.
Yeah DD i probably would have been spooled, but I dont eat fish its all for sport thats why i only chase the fastest and dirtiest fish, so getting spooledi all part of the fun!!!
Coodgee, by shear luck if i could get it to the surface you by theory could walk it down to the beach.

[hungry6]

If you can land that 20kgs tuna of the jetty, that would be a herculean effort, dont be to hard on your mate, pity about the lost,now you just have to go back and get the ther one that was swimming with him.
I've seen them strip 500m+ of 30lb and fall ino the "NTBS" catagory. With LBG, hooking them up is only 25% of the picture.
If you fish the southern side of the jetty, you can walk the fish up to the beach, hard but do-able, the easiest way and we have landed plenty of large jew with a cliff gaff, they are cheap and even the fish is abit green, the gaff ensure landing the fish, if you are not intending to release it.

[RAT-KING]

Yeah Hungry your totally right, and landing a tuna without a rope gaff would be near on impossible,
but as i said Its all about the fun I'd rather not land a fish if the only way to land it would be to kill it.

[scarby]

Yeah Hungry your totally right, and landing a tuna without a rope gaff would be near on impossible,
but as i said Its all about the fun I'd rather not land a fish if the only way to land it would be to kill it.

Agreed. Most of us go fishing for the excitement and fun, otherwise the fish market would be a quicker
(and usually a cheaper) option.