George Miller
07-01-2009, 03:16 PM
While trolling a couple of deep diving minnow type lures around a wreck offshore from Bundaberg late one afternoon last week the skipper suggested that we try trolling a Tropic Angler lure for something different. The lure in question was a peanut model in the blue Hawaii colour.
As I fed the lure into the wash the skipper remarked that it should be pretty spectacular if this thing goes off. Well he was right!! The lure had no sooner reached the desired trolling length and I had secured the rod in a holder towards the centre of the boat when the No. 2 deckie yelled ‘holy flaming heck’ (actually it was something less printable than that).
I looked up just in time to see what resembled a small depth charge exploding some 30 metres behind the boat. The ratchet on TLD 15 was screaming and the Wilson live fibre rod had really come alive as the line disappeared from the spool at an alarming rate. I quickly informed the skipper of this fact and he advised me not to panic as there was 300m of brand new 15kg platypus pink on the reel. It was later discovered that this was not the case as he had clipped the lure on to the wrong rod which had more like 150 – 200m of not so new line on the spool.
Anyway the fight was under way and after many powerful runs and head thumps and a half hour or so battle the fish was at the side of the boat, a GT that pulled the scales to28kg.
The No.2 deckie who actually saw the hit unfold confirmed the skipper’s remark about being spectacular. He said that the lure had been producing an awesome smoke trail as it surfed down the face of the metre swell until the dark shadow suddenly appeared. The water then erupted and the little Peanut got pasted.
As I fed the lure into the wash the skipper remarked that it should be pretty spectacular if this thing goes off. Well he was right!! The lure had no sooner reached the desired trolling length and I had secured the rod in a holder towards the centre of the boat when the No. 2 deckie yelled ‘holy flaming heck’ (actually it was something less printable than that).
I looked up just in time to see what resembled a small depth charge exploding some 30 metres behind the boat. The ratchet on TLD 15 was screaming and the Wilson live fibre rod had really come alive as the line disappeared from the spool at an alarming rate. I quickly informed the skipper of this fact and he advised me not to panic as there was 300m of brand new 15kg platypus pink on the reel. It was later discovered that this was not the case as he had clipped the lure on to the wrong rod which had more like 150 – 200m of not so new line on the spool.
Anyway the fight was under way and after many powerful runs and head thumps and a half hour or so battle the fish was at the side of the boat, a GT that pulled the scales to28kg.
The No.2 deckie who actually saw the hit unfold confirmed the skipper’s remark about being spectacular. He said that the lure had been producing an awesome smoke trail as it surfed down the face of the metre swell until the dark shadow suddenly appeared. The water then erupted and the little Peanut got pasted.