Well well, what a start to the day we had, hang on, ill have to go back a few steps to set the scene properly

Jay got to my house at about 0430, we had to have the boat on the water by 0500 to beat the tide, remembered the clears this time which was a good thing. The wind was comming from the south west at about 15-20 knots. The sun wasnt due to rise unti about seven so we made most of the way out to our spot and and then dropped the anchor for a half hour or so. First crack of light and we were off again, moved around and found a bit of ground to bomb a few casts, we were looking for some GT's. Without any luck on the first half donzen casts we moved to the ever reliable rock for a quick cast. Jay was using his new favourit lure, an orion bigfoot 170 sinking stickbait and i had just switched up to one of my new craftbait GT2's. I didnt even get a cast in and Jay was on, bastad. It was hooked well and i moved the boat into some deeper water, a 20 odd KG GT surfaced, i netted it and it was one to us, pressure was off nice and early, wooo hooo!


Orion Bigfoot 170


The first of the day

Well jay was in a bit of a purple patch and it was my turn to get some revenge. My first cast with the GT2 got a MASSIVE hit, but unfortunately no hook up. Second cast and it got swiped again, this time by a mackie that came screaming towards the boat estimated to be over 20kg, unfortunately it pinged me, not happy my new craftbait GT2 on the second cast of its life, GONE!!
But you just have to love crushed barbs, we spotted the lure floating 50 meters or so away on the surface a few minutes later, stoked!

Ok my lure was a bit battle scared but good to go, i was rigged up and we did a drift through an area that has produced a few fish for us in the past. Again i got a masssssssivvvvveeeee hit from a fish in some rpetty shallow water that probably would have resulted in death to my lure yet again. We kept the drift going and it wasnt long before i hooked up again, this time i landed it, a solid Pilbara GT on the Craftbait, my new favourite lure!!!


Nice Pilbara G Train


Thanks Kasey!

Anyway we moved back along got some really good hits in some new ground which is promising. I was just about to cast and jay bl..dy hooked up again, it dogged him pretty deep for a while, but it did come to the surface eventually. jay had switched to one of his craftbaits on the back of my success and came up trumps, well done mate


Number three


Another solid Pilbara GT



Anyway we popped a nice ledge for a half hour or so. we didnt really work to hard, just enjoyed being on the water. The wind had eased and life was just getting better. I managed another trout about 55cm on popper again, actually had two trout arguing over the poper was pretty entertaining. We had quite a few trout take swipes at our stickbaits today




Nice trout for the missus

Anyway the tide was starting to slow down and so were the GT's. I managed one more gold spot that had a large bronzie hot on its tail for most of the fight. It glassed off for the trip home while we enjoyed the last of thos bl..dy xxxx beers. Thank god they are gone





Cheers

Brad

Awsome fish, great work, and love the photos

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Once again Brad Ripper photo's, stonker trevs and a good write up
Keep em coming

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lucky the fish jay is holding didn.t buck. by the photo looks like the hook would have driven straight into his elbo

GDAY BRAD- JUST WONDERING WHERE YOU BUY YOUR ORION SINKING STICKBAITS FROM??? CANT SOURCE STICKBAITS IN DARWIN GILLIES RECALLED THERE VERSION AND THEY KILLED THE PIG @ SCOTT REEF LAST YEAR, AND i HAVE A TRIP TO ROTE ISLAND IN INDO. COMING UP AND NO STICKBAITS LEFT ALSO THE CRAFTBAITS THE ONLY ONES I CAN FIND ARE ON EBAY AND THEY ARE $100 US +_ POSTAGE.

ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED
CHEERS GLENN.

Gettin' some good Trevs there fellas well done.

Gloomis, sorry i didnt get back to you sooner mate, didnt actually see your question. Get orions from the US mate. They can be difficult to come by and expensive at the same time. Anglers pro shop stocks them i just got a batch of the 140g stickbaits, better be quick they usually sell out pretty fast

cheers

Brad

The good old GT..chicken of the sea and "vermin" 4 some of us..

Nice write up and all but I for 1 want to eat the fish after it has pulled my armes out of thier sockets...yes they fight hard ....yes they give you a work out.....BUT so do fat chicks.. its always fun till ya mates find out...hahaahhahaa


stinking bl..dy trevs..

nice trout ...very flash

I'll run away now

Monster lures for monster fish..well done fellas.....

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tworods

sounds like your doing a bit of sport fishing now with a comment like that

if you dont want to catch anything you cant eat, dont ever go billfishing for big blues or even saily's or blacks, forget ever jigging for massive amberjacks, YTK's or dogtooth tuna as well
they pull bl..dy hard but you wouldnt eat them so it is poitless hey?

haha

each to their own, i would love to take you to some of our popping ground and after you have caught a 30KG fish in 2 meters of water see if you still have the same opinion,.

by the way you can eat marlin.......just ask dodgy


all in fun mate

hmmm 12.15 am and quite a few bottles of red may of infuenced this post i recon

top fish men, if it was up to 2rods he would keep the trevors and throw back the trout cause trout are over rated anyway

keep em coming fellas

Harmsey