Throwing Haymakers At Hinchinbrook

[frangkie]

went up to hinchinbrook on the weekend to visit a mate and hopefully go for a fish if the weather would allow. the forecast was for rain and more rain.

posidon was kind and it only stormed at night. We fished around the close in islands the first day for a couple of trout but the fishing was pretty tough.

On day two we decided to fill the tinny with gerry cans of fuel and run the 60 km trip to one of the many coral reefs east of hinchinbrook island, after a long trip and compressed lower backs from smashing chop we arrived just before dawn.

We fished the bottom for a while for mixed results. Our next move was to troll swimming gar around the reef edge for macs or anything that would jump on. unfortunately the macs eyesight is that good that they kept snipping the baits off just behind or sometimes even over the hooks without hooking up.

we gave up on this technique after a while and decided to go chuck some poppers around some bombies with adjacent channels. This is where the action occured. My first fish came a little unexpected when the fish smashed the popper on the first bloop, he woke me up pretty quickly. after a few minutes of brawling we had him in the boat. he went 112 cm, if you look closely you can see the popper in his gob

A couple of bustoffs happened after that with fish arcing back around coral bombies.

The next fish came from trolling a haymaker slowly and giving it a massive bloop and pause. this fish fought a lot harder than the first so we were thinking it was going to be an absolute horse but was actualy a little smaller than the first. we suspect the deep hookset of the first fish took away somr of it's spirit. he went 99cm.

anyway here is a couple of shots

ps. does anyone know a length to weight ratio for gt's?

Edited January 16, 2008 by frangkie

[jewgaffer]

What a good GT that one is Alex Have to be 11-13 kilos that one mate, I reckon. It's one very solid fish all the same.

It's hard to apply a standard weight to length as the head and neck sizes vary making them hard to guage unless a side by side comparison is made with a weighed fish of similiar proportions.

On top of that gt's are heavier than most other species per metre and they're as solid as groper anyway.

Happy New Year to you and yours Alex and when I get back I hope to go out with you and Barker again, it's my turn to supply the boat and it'll be in this new side console boat I cottoned onto up here in Qld.

Regards mate! Good boating to get out that distance to the islands in your boat mate, and Alex that's absolutely first class fishing overall, I tell you .

Cheers Alex and regards for now.

jewgaffer

[frangkie]

thanks jewgaffer the offer sounds good.

[barker]

frangkie,

mate that takes the cake. bettin' against the forcasted bad weather to fly up there in the first place, then sixty kays out in the open tinny chocked full of fuel.

you and your buddy deserve those quality fish and more, good onya mate. just rewards for the effort put in.

the rat.

[frangkie]

frangkie,

mate that takes the cake. bettin' against the forcasted bad weather to fly up there in the first place, then sixty kays out in the open tinny chocked full of fuel.

you and your buddy deserve those quality fish and more, good onya mate. just rewards for the effort put in.

the rat.

thanks for the kind words rf, were gonna have to team up again soon.

Edited January 15, 2008 by frangkie

[Steve07]

A couple of thumper trevally there boy's,good effort on stopping them from getting to the reef.

[mr magoo]

cracking fish there mate ,made the trip worthwhile i bet

if you never go you never know

arman

[frangkie]

cracking fish there mate ,made the trip worthwhile i bet

if you never go you never know

arman

that is some good advice there mr magoo, cause you never know whats going to happen.

Edited January 18, 2008 by frangkie