Sailing off GC

[Spaniard_King]

Hi,

Headed out for some Mackeral action but had to settle for this instead, took a whole bonito slow trolled. The largest fish we have ever landed, taking into account my Haines is 2.25m wide which makes the fish about 2.3m from mouth to the v of the tail

Anyone hazard a guess at it weight???

Garry

[Spaniard_King]

water pic

[mackmauler]

great fish, bet it gave you a good workout, leave the weights to jeffo, howd you go getting it aboard we leave em in the water over 40kg as it aint real good for the fish without a forklift LOL, swim off ok?

[Spaniard_King]

Yeah Rob,

did give us a work over we were very carefull gettin her into the boat, only long enough for a few pics. She swam off gracefully after we swam her for a good 10 min

[Steven78]

Well Done now thats what we call a fish

[blue_rogue]

Great fish, Was the bait dead or alive,

[Spaniard_King]

Live bonito about 10 inches long

[Burley_Boy]

Fantastic stuff, makes me happy that I live in this place!
Were you actually expecting to pickup mackarel at that time or had you switched tactics to entice a strike by this fella?
Great photos.

[jeffo]

bit hard to tell with the photo... but id have a guess at 50-60kg. top fish. heres hoping i can post a few photos of some tomorrow night

[Smithy]

2.3m short length is around 60kg on most length to weight charts. Good fish for the Gold Coast. A few big ones appear of the Sunny Coast every now and again but that is the best I have heard of in recent years down there.

[Heath]

Bloody vermin, stealing your mackerel baits

[Spaniard_King]

Heath after that experience, they are only vermin when you hook them at anchor

Garry

[3Vs]

Well done Gary. Beautiful fish.

[Anne-T-Dote]

woa!! Garry, did that make a whinnying sound when it came up for air - coz it's a HORSE!!! Awesome fish mate, just a shame that it's SO big the photographer had to get in front of the wind screen to be far enough away to fit it in the picture. DOH!

[Spaniard_King]

macca and it's also a shame he wasn't tall enough to be photoing it over the windscreen (my 10 YO son), non the less we have some memories of it

Garry