21/03/07

Modern Fishing’s Editor, Daniel Tillack fished New Caledonia with me last month with the aim of catching his biggest GT. Knowing how good the GT fishing is in New Caledonia I knew Daniel would crack his biggest fish to date, although he wasn’t convinced. I thought I’d let Daniel and our guide stir the fish up as I was under pressure to make sure Daniel got his mark!

As confident as I was, I didn’t think Daniel’s first hook-up would be the PB, but it was! Daniel was casting up against a cliff face only 10 minutes from our resort when a big GT woffed Daniel’s popper at the boat. The trick was to give the fish as much stick as possible while we head to deeper water. This fish was a biggen and we didn’t think we were going to see it when 20 minutes into the fight Daniel’s arms were shaking and he was cursing our centre console didn’t have a game chair! After some words of encouragement from the crew Daniel finally had the fish to boat.

At 36kg this fish was Daniel’s biggest and fortunately I was true to my word.

Anthony Pisano