Hello all,
I havent been fishing for months but I booked a jigging charter for Saturday with 2 mates the father in law and the brother inlaw and we weren't disappointed.
We set out at 6am from Terrigal and made our way out to the first mark. The skipper was telling us how well they have been doing catching 50 the day before so on and so on. At first we didnt know what to think, was he just saying that because thats what we wanted to hear or was he for real. Well I can honsetly say now he was FOR REAL!!
We arrived at the spot and he instructed us to drop the jigs. We were fishing 3 at a time in 100m of water and the very first drop we had a triple hook up within 30 seconds of fishing. From there on it was the most amazing fishing action I have ever seen. Kings were hitting the deck 1 after the other for at least 2 hours, every single drop produced at least 1 king with double and triple hook ups regularly.
The average size would have been high 80's, biggest of the day went 96cm, none of a meter unfortunately. There were a heap of fat kings and not 1 undersized king, the smallest for the day went around 73cm. We brought home 30 kings, boated more then 60 and would have been hooked up to over 90. At one stage I thought I was into my first hoodlum but it turned out to be a massive seal which had latched onto my king. I got it all the way to the boat but before it finally let it go. We were getting that many hook ups you could tell if you had a contender for the 1m mark or you thought you might have a chance at biggest fish of the day and were a little disappointed if you new it wasnt.
It was an absolute top day on the water and to cap it off Mighty Manly won as well as my beloved All Blacks!!