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Was up a fraser for a couple of days, fished the breaksea spit for one morning, the rest in the bay and at rooneys.
I was after those big fraser GTs on poppers. After about hour of popping, I got blasted by a huge GT that blew me off in less than 20secs on 12kg of drag. Got a couple of follows but no takers. Then finally hooked up. The water was millpond smooth, and a huge hole appeared where my popper was. After last time I had turned the drag up to 14kg, which was almost too much. I had to squat to balance the load. After a 5 minute tug of war and a couple of quick burst towards the reef, it popped up beside the boat. Tried to weigh it, but my scales bottomed out at 30kg. A couple of quick pics and back in the water. It swam off like nothing had happened.
The rest of the trip was trying to get a billie off Rooneys. Lots of bait and the stacks of Mac tuna and Watsons leaping bonito. Got a couple of good sized spotties, but no schools of them yet.
Also got blown away jigging. My jig rod will never be the same again!
We spent a week over there not long ago and although there were huge bait schools we ran into nothing but clean water with the pushers. If it had not been for the casting at mack tunas to break up the monotony it would have been hard to take.
We are heading up that way again over New Year to try again. Hope I run in to some of them there GTs
Holly Molely,
I thought we had caught some good GT's. Mine were live bait size compared to that. Congratulations. PS. What type of poppers were you using??
Cheers Fritzy
Hey George great fish. Where did you launch from or did you go out from Harvey Bay. What depth of water were you fisihing in and was it reefy bottom were you caught the GT.
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