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Great report J! and congratulations on the first Jew! she's a beauty!

That's a great looking metre king Brian! and great effort in getting it in on the 15kg outfit. Suppose we'll be seeing you around Sydney more often then?

Awesome kings mate! Well done!

Good effort on getting your brother onto the king! Shame conditions held you back from going outside for the hoodies. Hope I get over this dam flu to try and head out this week

AWESOME job CJ! you did a lot better than most of us in boats today Congrats on the jewie PB! well done!

was out today as well, am glad it wasn't just me that found it tough. spent almost 2 hrs for a couple of squid, toughest it's been for a while. took them outside and did a few passes but the swell was making it tough. ended up feeding the squid to rats inside the bay. lucky the 1 bream, 1 flatty, 1 trevally and 1 whiting saved the day. went home with at least a feed.

good one dwan, top report! but where was my invite to the ABT?

Well done on picking up some nice kings, especially inside the bay, we've seem to only pick up rats when inside.

That's one big squid! Well done mate!

You mean the risk of injury to your mate! hehehehe

LOL! I caught both of mine on live bait

well done buddy! wished I had been out there with you guys, definitely be out there next week, see if we can get onto them again. so what colour jig did the trick today for the squid? thanks again for the fillet, the sashimi went down real well!!

Awesome report Chewie! Great kings! Bet u thought that massive hookup of slimies was a king in itself . Just a question though, are u guys sounding out the slimies or just happen to stumble across them? I use to remember getting into them quite easily a couple years back in the bay, they were everywhere! But I haven't got onto one at all this summer (if u can call it that .

Thanks Tony for the insight, you're always an abundance of knowledge that part about the spraying the water onto the surface, I guess that will cause some kind of white wash, which I do believe kingies like to hang around, so that would be a top idea. Now to hook my Karcher power spray somehow to my boat hehehehe And about the acoustic, read somewhere that kingies are attracted to the sound of a downrigger cable making the hum noise when downrigging, so maybe the acoustic sound is something like that maybe? Another theory I've read about why fish are most active in early morning and dusk is around the angle which sunlight hits the water, apparently they can see baitfish better from the bottom when the light is coming onto the surface at a lower angle?

Wow! A gummy in the bay? Think that's almost unheard of, well done! Heard they're great eating too! Would love to see a pic.

Awesome kings! I believe I have the same rod in the overhead, waiting on my saltiga LD35 to arrive to match it, and hopefully put it through its paces with some monsters.

I've also got the 4500B loaded up with 50lb braid, and it use to be my kingie setup, you'll get away with it for kings up to around 85cm, anything bigger will be tough! and I have been smoked in the past by these bigger models. These days, my rig are the saltist and saltiga combos, and possibly a stella in the pipleine, just got to convince the hehehe

The live bait tank is definitely a must, but as you can see sometimes having squid still doesn't land you those big kings. Having said this however, we did mark a lot of activity on the sounder but they just weren't interested. We even put a yakka down, but still no takers. The only difference between last week and this week was that we were fishing a falling tide this week, we all know that tides affect feeding patterns inside estauries, but does it also affect fish outside in deeper waters? Anyone have any comments on this?

The area being so close to the heads will get the brunt of a swell, just be careful when crossing through of the bommie when in swelly conditions. Head around by going towards north head first then coming back in.

Hi raiders, went out with Formosan today, (in my boat this time). Hoping to replicate our successes of late in landing big kings. A little bit of a late start, got to our squid grounds and straight away we were onto them, netted 10 in around an hour. Headed out to our usual spot, whacked on a nice medium size squid and we started our usual routine of downrigging, not one hit after a few passes, but the next pass ended up being a nice fat salmon. After about a dozen passes we ended up with only 3 salmon, decided to stop wasting our squid on the salmon, we headed inside, ended up with a double hookup of rats. Well, guess we can't get onto the hoodies every week, but wasn't too bad a day anyway, and ended up with a heap of calamari rings, I've been getting quite a bit of PM's on squid jigs, colours, sizes... so I thought I would post a pic of my arsenal, the 3 in the middle of the picture are my gun jigs... they never fail me! All but 1 are yamashita's and range from 2.0-3.0. But the main thing is to have a wide range of colors, Formosan got his share of squid on a clear body white.

Hi mate, shame about losing those big kings, but I'd be definitely be using heavier gear than the baitrunner 4000's which have a max drag of 7kg. I think you did pretty well in bringing 90cm ones on it anyway. I, along with mates use Daiwa gear and we've been able to pull up hoodies using the Saltist reels.

Yep, first one came torpedoing towards us when we cleared the reefs, was quite happy as it meant I had less line to wind in, we saw leader and colour (estimated to be 10+ kg), then it woke up and changed directions back the other way, then gone, at first we thought it spat the hook, but then on closer inspection, the hook snapped. The second one that busted us off didn't give us a chance... just the zzzzzzzzzz.....zzzzzzz.....zzzzzz and then gone and a whole heap of

You know the answer to that Luke

Ok then I'll go into the detail of the bust offs, 1 snapped the hook in half and the other one was just simply unstoppable!! . Think next time, we'll just use our anchor rope to fish and just haul them outta there! . Was a great day buddy, do it again next week

that's a great catch redpumpkin!!! a big upgrade from the tarwhine and yellowtail from the previous outting!