Mark Berg + Hodgy = Massive GT's
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:08 pm
Hi all,
I was supposed to post this before the show aired but with the birth of my beautiful baby girl it was delayed. SORRY. The second part to the show airs on Friday night at 6pm on the lifestyle channel. I just thought I would share a bit more information about it.
In May 2010 I was surprised by my wife and Mark Berg from Fishing Addiction, with the ultimate fishing experience of my life. I was flown to Hamilton Island and from there we headed out 150nm in a water plane to Elusive Reef and an 80ft NOMAD Fishing mother ship. Once there I spent the next 8 days fishing for massive GT’s, Spaniards, Coral Trout and any other species that would take a lure.
It was unreal, a dream come true. Day 2 while casting Wilson 150mm jet poppers I caught a 50kg GT, the first for the NOMAD fishing charter in 2010. I was so pumped. It was none stop action the rest of the week. Mark and I were catching GT’s so much that we set about breaking every record that the Nomad Charter Boat had. The last day we ended up catching 59 GT’s in a day between 3 blokes. That was 1 GT in the boat ever 10 mins. I was broken every night when we got back to the mother ship I nearly used a whole tub of deep heat and a packet of panadol. The pain didn’t stop me fishing because the lights of the mother ship attracted fish every night so me and a few boys would spend the night catching squid, sharks and other reef fish trying every different method we could think off.
My highlight of the trip other than the 50kg GT was a 28kg GT on 30lb braid in 1.5m of water. The fight went on and on, nearly 30 mins and in the end the reel broke and I had to finish fighting the fish with my hands.
I won’t tell you how it ends but I’ll say that I enjoyed everything about it.
I've also added a few picture of some of the other boys on the charter. the GT that is bigger than the 3 boys behind it was 59kgs (massive) Thanks HODGY.
I was supposed to post this before the show aired but with the birth of my beautiful baby girl it was delayed. SORRY. The second part to the show airs on Friday night at 6pm on the lifestyle channel. I just thought I would share a bit more information about it.
In May 2010 I was surprised by my wife and Mark Berg from Fishing Addiction, with the ultimate fishing experience of my life. I was flown to Hamilton Island and from there we headed out 150nm in a water plane to Elusive Reef and an 80ft NOMAD Fishing mother ship. Once there I spent the next 8 days fishing for massive GT’s, Spaniards, Coral Trout and any other species that would take a lure.
It was unreal, a dream come true. Day 2 while casting Wilson 150mm jet poppers I caught a 50kg GT, the first for the NOMAD fishing charter in 2010. I was so pumped. It was none stop action the rest of the week. Mark and I were catching GT’s so much that we set about breaking every record that the Nomad Charter Boat had. The last day we ended up catching 59 GT’s in a day between 3 blokes. That was 1 GT in the boat ever 10 mins. I was broken every night when we got back to the mother ship I nearly used a whole tub of deep heat and a packet of panadol. The pain didn’t stop me fishing because the lights of the mother ship attracted fish every night so me and a few boys would spend the night catching squid, sharks and other reef fish trying every different method we could think off.
My highlight of the trip other than the 50kg GT was a 28kg GT on 30lb braid in 1.5m of water. The fight went on and on, nearly 30 mins and in the end the reel broke and I had to finish fighting the fish with my hands.
I won’t tell you how it ends but I’ll say that I enjoyed everything about it.
I've also added a few picture of some of the other boys on the charter. the GT that is bigger than the 3 boys behind it was 59kgs (massive) Thanks HODGY.
