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My old man knows a old bloke (60 maybe) called Spiro that lives out at Port Pirie somewhere on an olive farm.
He fishes at night for monster kings and does alright. Last time my old man saw him a few years ago his last trip was 5 hookups, 4 bust ups and 1 king to 40kg.
Also pro fisho/ charter operator from down Cape Jervis way does alright on them around late march / april when the mullet start to run. He trolls dead mullet and claims that the fish avg 15 kg. Gotta get back down to South oz, maybee next Autumn after the heat when the nice stable weather patterns start and before the rain and make a stop off at Port Mac for SBT.
Howdy mate.
Your bound to have cracker sessions living only 80km from pt Augusta,you can fish there more regually.Its a 4.5 hr drive for me and can basically go once a month.
By the sounds of it Spiro has access into the power stations hot water outlet which is famous for mega big kings landbased and the roumor now has it its now banned even for the powerstation workers.
I now fish there a lot real early in the season before the big spawning kings arive but get good kings between 15 and 20kg plus mulloway and snapper.The crowds and interstate people arrive in there droves around August and its now really hard to get a strike.On average 25 boats a day in a small area with 2 rods out per boat is 60 live baits and your odds really dwindle.
Even with crowds like that the kings can shut down for days at a time .Ive had 100,s of massive kings crusing under my boat and straight past 15 boats and not even a care in the world.Haha sorry my point is the adventure bound guys put it across to the viewers it looks easy when actually its not that at all.
Interesting you saying about the kings at cape jervis its only just starting to leak out this year in Adelaide.Places like Rapid bay and Cape Jervis were spots years ago that had the lime light for kings until Pt Augusta Whyalla,Coffin bay and of shore Greenly and rocky islands got discovered that the attension now goes to those places and the other spots get forgotton about.
Eagle ray pt mac has fired once again this year and have recently come in close in the 70m depth range and had a mate of mine who is a crazy man i must say goes out to the shelf in his 15ft quintrex runabout that leaks like hell catch a few.
Well im of now getting ready to go for some big snapper in the morning hopefully
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Cracking king.
I used to live down in Adelaide and would spend my weekends sitting on the end of the rapid bay jetty with a live squid on a baloon for nothing. Then oneday i was at another spot just near there and a bloody 2 meter fish just swam past me and ignored my squid.
Never fished port pirie or port agusta. Did you get the jew on the downrigger?
Didnt get the jewies on downrigger.We get great kings down here but arent easy to catch.They can be really elusive.You no they are there its just a matter if there hungry or not.Was there for 3 days for 10 min of action basically.out of the 11 or so boats fishing traditional methods,it was the moving bait which done the damage.No one really downrigs here and i jumped on the opportunity before it takes of and it works really well.Going again in 3 weeks and the really big spawning kings are on there way.These kings look like dolphins when passing under the boat,there really dark in colour.
Yes the adventurebound guys put Pt augusta on the fishing map ,before that it was very quiet.
But as easy as they make it look they stay for a week and are competing these days with up to 30 boats a day in a very small area.
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Nice fish there mate.
But i think you have a problem if your calling them small.
Haha we are very spoilt down here in S.A.
Its a good king but small compared to what we get here.
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howdy all.
Thought i would show of my latest capture
Although its a small kingfish,i am pretty happy catching it on a live squid trolled on my downrigger.
It weighed 15kg and 112cm and fought really well for its size.
Also got some nice mulloway which was a suprise concidering we were targeting big snapper
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Hey Guys
Was wondering if anyone can suggest the best way to set up a Tiagra 30WLRSA?
Was aiming on setting it up on 24kg mono but am a little concerned about line capacity. From what I can gather it will only hold 580 yds of 24kg.
Use would be for YFT cubing mostly and marlin if I got lucky trolling. Saw something a while back that Mick Lyons does and that was fill it with braid (?kg's) and then top shot with 50-100 of mono? Has anyone done this and how much line capacity does it give you in the end???
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Henry
Maybe get a 50w if concerned about line capacity
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Live baits... squid... fishing 50lb gear
sometimes it's still not enough...
Fish off the boat close sydney heads
Gee must be big kings if 24kg aint enough.
You caught some big ones at the spot you fish?
Nice kings aswell mate.I love fishing for them too
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Im in awe of those big doggies
Not much else to say but thats nuts,killer photos of loaded rods.What a trip that must have been
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Yozuri hydro magnums seem to work and rapala cd 18s are a good starting point
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Nice one mate.
They are greedy when in fedding mode for sure
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adelaide kingfish 23kg on 10kg got this after a mate and i lost 13 in to 1hr sessions
Gee photos came out pretty ordinary.
First fish is 23kg
2nd fish is 44lb
3rd is 15.2kg
And in my last post i was saying i was going to try downrigging.Well on my first try i got 2 fat rat kings and a 17kg king which hit the live squid when i stopped trolling and started lowering the anchor.I lost 4 fish aswell and it was the only methord that worked.
The pics are to large to upload,ill try my best to get them up
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adelaide kingfish 23kg on 10kg got this after a mate and i lost 13 in to 1hr sessions
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Nice king,well done mate!
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DONT TELL THE MRS is gold hahaha
i certainly dont tell mine ,onley if she new she would staple my balls to the first thing she could find
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any pics?What was the weight?
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Mate you wont no till ya try.
Fishing light expect to be smoked that is what its about,giving the fish a better chance.
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Gee guys this browns place seems like the place to be atm.
You guys certainly pull some great fish from there
Keep the reports comming.
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the guys at my local tackle shop tested 20lb fins braid on spring scales and broke at 30lb.
Where to other line classes broke close to there rating.
Fins is a great braid.
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Hi Raiders...does anyone know when the Shimano Baitrunner D series would hit the aus market?
http://fish.shimano.com/publish/content/gl...Biatrunner.html
THANKS!
Matt
Wow i would like to no to ,they look good.Ive got a 3500 but it hasnt worked the same since i got smoked and spooled on it
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on my kingy rigs i use 10/0 gamagatsus cheep and they wont let you down.
For mono i only do 20 twists for bimini and 30 twists for braid.2 meters of leader at 80lb jinki and 1 meter of flurocarbon at the hook end.
As for swivels i now only use crane swivels because i recently used a ball bearing swivel and the ring snapped of on a big king,but thats a trust issue and im sure it was a once of thing.
As for landbased down here in adelaide most guys use 50 or 37kg mono and a full wind on leader of 200lb with leaver drag reels.
In saying that a 30kg king here is just the norm and thats why we fish heavy heavy.
Good luck if ya hook a big king of the stones your going to need it
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Mate i wish i was you.Those GTs are bloody solid.
Excellent report,good on ya
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love looking at kings great fish
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check the pixels man the more the better im not to sure about this model but dont go buy it thinking because its colour its better than grey scale it doesnt work like that my grey scale will out perform a lot of colour sounders due to its big pixel count good transducer to if your fishing really deep water
mick
some stats on the colour sounder for you
* QVGA High resolution screen: 320 x 234 pixels.
* Alarms - battery, shallow, deep, water temp & rate of change.
* Display Modes: Sonar, Zoom, A-scope.
* Output power: 200 watts RMS.
* Power consumption: 225mA
* Water Proof: IPX7.
* Useable Depth: 150m
* Voltage: 12v DC.
not sure wat sort of money your looking at paying but they can be bought ner for $380 aud
cheers mate
I got it for 150 and it works well,Ill find out next weekend how good it really works when i hit port augusta.
Thanks for your reply mate
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Howdy Raiders.
Does anyone here have a navman 4350 colour sounder on there boat?
I no of one second hand for sale pretty cheap and want to no if they are anygood.
Ive had a few humming bird sounders which im not over the moon about.
Cant trust them esspecially when ya get on to a school of snapper and the sounder says theres nothing there
Would like to here your thoughts
Cheers Rezzy
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far out those bream are monsters.
The bream fishos here in south oz would die to catch bream like those
great catch fella
Downrigger King
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Guys when i say its small its not because im ungreatfull its still a good king.But seriously its a pup compared to the kings we get here in the spencer gulf and ive been very fortunate to catch a few really big kings and compared to those its quiet small in comparesen.
The all tackle record for kings is 43kg caught by a guy who is also south australias leading kingfish tagger at Pt Augusta.But a good mate of mine boated a king of 45.5kg on 15kg tackle in 2008 and didnt bother in claiming the record.Actually the fish here are getting bigger each season and has been 100lb fish boated every year for the past 3 yrs.And i would hate to imagin how big the fish are that win there freedom.