Aitutaki GT Fishing
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Popper and Topwater Fishing
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Printed Date: 01 Feb 2026 at 8:59pm
Topic: Aitutaki GT Fishing
Posted By: footey
Subject: Aitutaki GT Fishing
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2018 at 10:47pm
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Have trip to Aitutaki planned later in the year and keen to do some fishing for GT- appreciate any recommendations on who to book a trip with Cheers |
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Posted By: jac
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2018 at 8:42am
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Mike Tekota on Blackpearl charters or Itu Davey of E2s Way |
Posted By: murrayt
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2018 at 1:18pm
| #2 for Mike and Black Pearl - fished with him multiple times over the years - well set-up, good gear and a great guy. |
Posted By: alan syme
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2018 at 3:08pm
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Mike and Mere at Black Pearl are brilliant operators for GT's casting topwater onto the outer reef. Etu Davey and his team are also excellent. I have fished with them both on numerous occasions, top people and very knowledgeable.
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Posted By: Marknado4000
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2018 at 7:47pm
| I'm heading to raro in April, no chance of getting to Aitutaki unfortunately. In 2018 are there any operators open to jigging and topwater yet? |
Posted By: footey
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2018 at 8:45pm
| Thanks for the feedback guys- you given me a great starting point - cheers |
Posted By: JUST ANOTHER FISHERMAN
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2018 at 8:59am
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Awesome land-base fishing, both inside the Lagoon and fishing from the outer reef. Just follow you nose and fish where the swell is flat, Be careful of the current on out going, Fishing heavy drag, GT will bite at you feet Here is couple links of what we produced in 4-5 days fishing. https://vimeo.com/232600572" rel="nofollow - https://vimeo.com/232600572 https://www.justanotherfisherman.co.nz/blogs/blog/grip-grin" rel="nofollow - https://www.justanotherfisherman.co.nz/blogs/blog/grip-grin ------------- www.justanotherfisherman.co.nz Mr & Mrs Style Ltd. Design / Production / Merchandising. Small run fishing tees and Graphics available. |
Posted By: footey
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2018 at 9:17pm
| Great video and link - thanks for posting. Makes me want to be there now |
Posted By: FishMan
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 6:38am
Great fishing by the Style crew  But do be aware that it is quite common not to have any ledges fishable. A big ocean swell is normal and will wrap right around the island. Any of those ledges are extremely dangerous if the swell is up. There are some safe ledges inside the lagoon that will produce GT's. Also try the sand channels in the middle of the night. Some serious GT carnage goes on there when people are sleeping.
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Posted By: Grunta
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 11:54am
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Here's a vid I did with Mike when we were up there... |
Posted By: footey
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 8:37pm
| thats a great video of the GT. thanks for posting |
Posted By: jac
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 9:18pm
| Try n respect the corals to, especially when walking out to the edge |
Posted By: Cheeko
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2018 at 1:45pm
| A mate and I fished with Itu Davey last month whilst over there on a fly fishing mission. We landed four GT's and Itu has a SERIOUS blue water fishing boat with plenty of casting space for 2-3 anglers. |
Posted By: NomadAngler
Date Posted: 23 Apr 2018 at 5:42pm
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I've fished with Mike and Itu, can happily recommend both.
Itu has a more rounded knowledge of the place, so if you want to target bonefish as well, go with Itu. Mike is more of an offshore guy. If you're just after GTs, both are great.
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Posted By: NomadAngler
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 10:21am
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And a tip, upgrade your hooks. I found out the hard way and straightened a few trebles on some good fish. Go good quality 4x hooks or "tropical strength". Just remember to set the hook well because of the larger gauge.
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Posted By: jac
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 11:16am
| Owner st-76 are the business💪 |
Posted By: out2sea
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 11:48am
| I was just using St-76's in Oman and missed a lot of hookups, I could tell I was striking hard enough because the points of the hooks were bending, The guide changed me over to some lighter gauge hooks(no idea what they were) from one of his lures and I landed a 20kg fish, pretty frustrating when the fishing was extremely slow for the time that we were there and I missed 6 or 7 fish on the last day 2 of which the guide called for easily 35+kg |
Posted By: jac
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 12:09pm
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I've had similar issues 'points bending' with Gamakatsu gt recorders. Yes must have been frustrating missing when so few opportunities present them selves for such magnificent fish '35kg+' |
Posted By: ET487
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2018 at 11:07pm
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I never had any st 76 bends. I also not striking so violently as you saw on many videos about GT fishing. Some guys strike up to 5 times. What for? A big GT take a popper or stick bait with such a speed you hardly need to strike as the heavy drag will set the hooks . |
Posted By: JoshW
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2018 at 3:40pm
| Sometimes it works like that but its not always true, at least not in my experience wit them. Big GT's have very strong jaws, they can easily bite down hard on a big topwater lure, pull line off a locked drag without the hooks ever really going in... the multiple strikes are attempts to dislodge the lure from the jaws and get the hooks to grab |
Posted By: Metal Float
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2018 at 12:00pm
| I've never had an owner 76 treble bend and I won't use any other treble. VMCs good for one decent fish then they start to bend. Striking: I don't really, just lift my tip to try and turn the head asap. I can remember pulling a hook on a GT. Either they attack and don't hook up, run me into the reef or I have a good day. Same goes with crushed barbs that way you get 50% of your reefed lures back and it doesn't make a difference to whether the hook pulls or not. |