A close friend of mine Brandon Khoo organised an annual GT Tournament with Nomad Sportfishing Adventures at Elusive Reef.

The week consisted of 12 anglers, Kasey Leong, Martin Excel, Ken Best, David Huang, Sunny Fan, Cai Caiyang, Brandon Khoo, Dominique Draux, Luke Peters, John Campbell, Chris Young (Crusty) and I.

Like always on a Nomad fishing trip everyone flys into Hamilton Island the afternoon before the fishing starts. With only a select few of us already knowing each other we soon met up with the rest of the crew down at the tavern. After a few ales a meal and Crusty finding his long lost son, we soon continued drinking back at the apartment. With half of us on an early flight out to the reef in the morning there was definatly going to be a few sore heads in the morning.

Morning soon came and off to the reef we were. With a forecast of rain and wind to 30kts we were lucky we could actually get out to the reef. After a quick breakfast and a coffee we jumped on the boats and off we were fishing. The first day fishing was full of dramas, Ken managed to drop his Seven Seas rod and Saltiga into the water, which was luckily retrieved the next day. There was also a broken Carpenter rod on one of the guys first cast.

Without writing a paragraph for every days fishing ill just summarise the whole week.

The fishing was hard work and slow at times but after alot of persistence we managed to find the fish, there was plenty of GT's within the 20 - 25kg range and often coming across bigger fish 30kg+. We also encounted alot of other species while chasing GT's, I remember fishing one spot with Kasey and Brandon the Red Bass were everywhere hooking and landing about 5 in 5 casts to myself. There was also numerous Mackerel caught upto 30kg. Also some pretty weird catches for the area, which included a Mahi Mahi and a Yellow Fin Tuna while casting at fusiliers.

One of the highlights of the week was a day where John, Cai and myself set off fishing with Damon, We travelled about 20nm to the SE to start fishing a new area where we had not been. It would have been about mid morning, Damon decided we would motor inside one of the reefs and have a look at the blue holes. What we were about to see was amazing, crystal clear water about 2 - 5mtrs deep scattered bombies and GT's upto 50kg+. We managed to hook a few of these beasts but they are just too smart swimming towards the boat we couldn’t manage to set the hooks properly but the sight we had just seen was well worth it.

On the last night it was awards time.

Ken Best managed the biggest GT of the week which was between 42 - 45kg.

Martin Exel won the prize for the week’s best angler.

Luke Peters won the prize for most improved angler.

Myself for best other capture - 30kg Mackerel.

Kasey for best fish from the mothership, numerous big spanglies and a Nurse shark

There was also numerous novelty awards which were the 'L' Shaped award which went to Cai, and also a MC award which went to John. :D

This ended up being an awesome week the company from all the guys couldn’t have been better, and much thanks to Brandon for his efforts in making this happen.

Kasey you may add anything I have missed. Please stand by for photos. Rob