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Giant Trevally

Caranx ignobilis

Where and when to catch Giant Trevally in Queensland: the QLD season, the spots in our guide that hold them, and where to find QLD's current size and possession limits.

Size
Up to 60kg+, commonly 8–25kg
QLD season
Year-round (best Nov–Apr)
QLD spots
28

QLD Size & Possession Limits

QLD limits for Giant Trevally are set by Fisheries Queensland and change from time to time, so we link them rather than copy them. Check Fisheries Queensland's limits before you fish.

Western Australian limits don't apply in Queensland.

Where to Catch Giant Trevally in QLD

Gold Coast

Barney Street Platform (Sundale Bridge) Budds Beach (Nerang River) Coombabah Creek Jetty (Turana Street) Currumbin Creek Mouth Gold Coast Seaway South Wall Marine Stadium (The Spit) Nerang River Platform (Weedons Crossing) Snapper Rocks Southport Broadwater Parklands Pier Tallebudgera Creek Mouth

Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Amity Point Jetty & Rock Wall Tangalooma Wrecks (Moreton Island)

Sunshine Coast

Cotton Tree (Maroochy River Mouth) Mooloolaba Spit Wall Noosa National Park Headland (Boiling Pot) Noosa River Mouth (Noosa Spit) Point Arkwright Point Cartwright

Fraser Coast

Inskip Point Kingfisher Bay Jetty (K'gari) Urangan Boat Harbour Wall Urangan Pier

Bundaberg & Gladstone

Auckland Creek & East Shores (Gladstone Marina) Burnett River Town Reach (Bundaberg)

Capricorn Coast

Causeway Lake Emu Park (Fishermans Beach & the Point) Fitzroy River — Queens Wharf (Rockhampton) Rosslyn Bay Harbour Breakwall

How to Catch

Best Baits

Live mullet, live tuna, large fresh fillets — though GT fishing is overwhelmingly a lure pursuit

Lures

Halco Roosta 195 poppers, Shimano Orca stickbaits, Hammerhead and Carpenter sinking stickbaits, large surface walkers in 150–200g

Rigs

Heavy spin gear — 80lb braid minimum, 130lb fluorocarbon leader, single inline assist hook or a strong inline treble. Solid rings and split rings rated to 200lb+. Crush the rod butt against the gimbal — you'll need every bit of leverage.

Identification

Also known as GT, geet, lowly trevally

A slab-sided silver-grey trevally with a steep blunt forehead, a high-set eye and heavy scutes armouring the tail wrist; big males go almost charcoal-black. The reliable check is the breast, which on a GT is scaleless apart from a small patch of scales just in front of the pelvic fins. Bluefin trevally are smaller-headed with electric blue fins and blue-black flecks. Golden trevally are yellow with rubbery, toothless lips. Brassy and bigeye trevally are more streamlined with a large eye and a dark spot on the gill cover. Everyone shortens the name to GT, or geet.

Giant Trevally elsewhere: Western Australia

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