Hello all,
I spent last week staying over at the Deep Blue appartments at Tangalooma on Moreton Island. Took the rods (no boat) and did a bit of surf fishing and jetty fishing on a few days.
Good live bait was hard to come by but on Saturday afternoon a little striped trevally was pinned under a balloon and sent on his way.
30 mins later the Tiagra 30 was screaming and the balloon was bolting. I've never fought a big fish from structure before and it was quite a challange thinking how we were going to land the thing as we had no gaff and couldn't bring the rod down to the beach on the southside (the fish went south) because of the new shed they've constructed on the jetty.
Anyway as it turns out I didn't have to worry too much about the landing as the tuna's fellow marine inhabitants helped me out here. 20mins into the fight and I felt the wack and the noticable difference in the fight. Lasted like that for about 5 mins until whatever had it - let it go. I then cranked like buggery for the last 200ms to wind in the still considerable weight.
By this time a large crowd had gathered on the jetty (as it was nearly dolphin feeding time) and you should have heard the gasps when my tuna broke the surface 10m from the jetty with a 11-12 foot tiger shark in hot pursuit. We dragged the near lifeless tuna over to the rickety ladder where the shark decided to break off the pursuit and mooch around about 5-10 metres out. Down the ladder I went to claim my prize while the Tiger slipped slowly back to the depths.
There was then a mad rush of people to the ticket counter (especially the Asian section) to try and get refunds for dolphin feeding that night
I didn't have scales but the remains were surely over 20kg and sushi was on the menu Saturday night and again tonight.
Brett
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