YUGE tweed gt

[breamnut]

took dad out for a fish this morning around 9mile reef hopefully for a mackeral or wahoo.
we trolled some halco 190's and screamer lures for around an hour without a bump untill one of the rods hooked up, it ran for about 80m or more before slowing down and i thought it may have been a mackeral untill it bite through 90lb wire!
5 min later we caught a yellow fin tuna around 7kilo on a screamer.
a few other boats caught some tuna aswell before leaving. obne of the halco's on the 24kilo outfit (tyrnos 30 and livefibe m10) kept doing flips and wouldnt swim straight and as i was crankin it in a huge boil came behind the lure but turned at the last second and about 5m a massive bowwave follewed by a huge hit (looked like someone through some big bricks on my lure) and then floowed by a screaming run.
i had the drag pritty bloody tight to stop it getting on the bommie*(which we were right over) so the rod tip spend more time in the water then out.
after about 5min of brutal tight drag skull dragging my pb gt hit the surface.
after a few very quick pics we speared him back into the water.
we actually saw some big something swimming around the reef this morning but couldnt tempt them on any popper of plastic im guessing they were gt aswell.
hooked onto anohter tuna aswell before something decided to eat the swivel and bite me of.
ps dad took pic and i get tell u now it was much bigger then wat it looks in photo, forot to measure it as i wanted to get it back into the water in top condition

[whatscracken]

Thats a cracker GT mate, well done.

[frankgrimes]

Well done mate! Gotta be pleased landing that beast!

Mick

[Jeremy]

gotta be happy to catch a fish like that on a lure that is not swimming straight!! Well done on the quick release also.

What were the swell and sea conditions like? Was the water dirty or blue? Thanks

[Cobia Kid]

haha. i haved dreamed of a fish like that..
aswell as u r pulling in the trolled lure, i have always thought it would b sweet to be smacked while pulling in a lure u were just trolling :P

[Pistol_P]

AWESOME GT nathan,

Paaaa....I gotta go all the way to Fiji to find them and you get one in ya backyard...>:( >:( ;D

Now you know where to go and throw some BIG poppers..!!!:-X

Pete

[breamnut]

AWESOME GT nathan,

Paaaa....I gotta go all the way to Fiji to find them and you get one in ya backyard...>:( >:( ;D

Now you know where to go and throw some BIG poppers..!!!:-X

Pete
hahaah i will swap you tweed for fiji:P
jeremy- the water was slightly stained from all the fresh,the bar wasnt to kind and alot of boats didnt go out cause of the swell.
thought i might add some pics of the lure afterwards, it straight out of the bow before this

[vertico]

were you out there friday morning? trolling lures

[breamnut]

hahaah i will swap you tweed for fiji:P
jeremy- the water was slightly stained from all the fresh,the bar wasnt to kind and alot of boats didnt go out cause of the swell.

its amazing how dark those big reef gt are.
wat do u rekon the weight was? we think around 20-25kg
vertico-it was today we were out

[Angla]

That fish looks huge in the picture.

Sound like a good day was had on the water

Cheers
Chris

[vertico]

yerh as i read from your report, but we thought we saw you out there friday

[wind rider]

good on you good fish.

cheers mark

[BLOOEY]

BLOODY CRACKER Breamnut. Love to score one of those. Beats breaming. Ben

[Pistol_P]

its amazing how dark those big reef gt are.
wat do u rekon the weight was? we think around 20-25kg
vertico-it was today we were out

Yeah I reckon around 20kg...

GT's are hard to put a weight on I reckon.....But more often than not people over estimate by quite a lot.

Pete

[stessco]

great fish they pull so hard

[Tewantin]

What a bloody beauty!!!

[Dantren]

Congrats - That's a trophy fish for sure!!!!!!

Don't they love the GOLD...............

[skipalong]

monsta mate a memory foreva at that size

justin

[breamnut]

yerh as i read from your report, but we thought we saw you out there friday
unfortunently i wasnt but a few mates got some great fish friday.
what boat are u in?

[gaintsquid]

Yuge beast Nathan, your mad. Intense.

[levinge]

NICE!!!! I think I see a "made in NQ" tattoo on it!!!

Classic catch there matey, well done..

[jackextracter]

Nice one mate, gts like that are always a welcome surprise we get a few like that up north while targeting fingermark there always a good bycatch, im with pistol p around 20kg mabye 23kg ,cheers.
ps. did u measure her? and i have been told dont know if its true but some of the ones u get that are really dark in colour are actully on heat.

[breamnut]

nar i didnt measure it i only had it out of the water for around 30sec. i dont know im guessing it is so dark because of the reef it lives on.
thanks for the reply's

[setthehook]

well done mate thats a hell fish!

[Thunderbird]

so that's what it was. we came over to have a look.
nice gt.

[richos]

nice fish!
But the story keeps changing every time i hear you re-tell it to someone in the shop!

[business class]

because he didn't catch it his dad did;D :P soon it will grow and become 30kg on 5kg line LOL LOL! It would be around 15kg i reckon, you should of put some hooks in it and towed it for a real fish!!!:P

Cheers
Matty

P.S nice fish bye the way bud;)

[breamnut]

hahaahh yer whatever matt, you do want that rod credited dont you? lol8-) i might say that you high sticked it...

[business class]

ha ha ha ha, I can't catch fish remember;) what is high sticking :-/ :P LOL!!!!!!!