....serving anglers worldwide          It was early February on a magnificent tropical island in the Great Barrier Reef. I was walking along the beach spinning little metal Halco lures on my 2kg outfit, hoping for a Trevally or Queenfish to add to my already perfect day. The day was beautiful and the shore was lined with schools of Hardy Heads just waiting to be chomped. I must have only been spinning for a couple of minutes when one of my casts proved successful. My line became very heavy as if  I'd picked up some seaweed on the retrieve in. Fifteen minutes later my once healthy spool of 2kg line wasn't looking so great as 200 meters of line was heading out to sea at a slow pace with God knows what connected to it. With only about 5 meters of line left on the spool I was only a few seconds away from being completely spooled. The fish gods were with me that day as  their was a fellow fishing in a tinny not too far from shore. He must have been watching the events on the beach because when I hailed him over he was there is a flash. I jumped in the boat and off we both went it pursuit of the "thing" that was attached to the end of my line. With me gaining line for the first time in the fight I was feeling very confident. After another five minutes of hot pursuit I finally got a glimpse of the "thing". This was no bit of seaweed, it was a Queenfish and of such a size like I'd never seen before. I estimated the weight to be 13kg! It had been fowl hooked in the side which explains the unusually fighting characteristics. It certainly a daddy of a fish. Another five minutes went by with the fish circling the boat and becoming very tired. The fish was continually out of reach of my hand. Anyway, as the title reads I ended up losing the fish when the trebles finally wore a hole in the skin and my lure dropped out. Bummer! The trip back to the beach was spent in total silence as we were still coming to terms about how big the Queenfish was. The first thing I did was get in contact with a mate and found out what the record was for a Queenfish on 2kg. The land based record was 3.6 kg and the saltwater record was 9.8kg. The fish I was connected to 30 minutes ago was certainly a record!   FISH ON!  
Roddo - Fisho from Hell - September, 1998
 

 

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