Kingy Kid
I have just been to Lord Howe 1/11 - 8/11. A great time.
While there I went out with Green back charters and had a great afternoon fishing.
We were about 10 kms out - catching livies, watching the dolphins and preparing to catch kingfish.
6 on the boat fishing was fairly crowded and would suggest you try to have only 4 otherwise everyone is along one side of the boat.
Between the 6 of us - we all hooked into kingfish that hit the bait like a runaway train and are chased by sharks. I have 2 bitten off by sharks and ended up pulling in a 6' shark. All up 4 kingfish boarded with one have two bites out of it (sharks), 6 sharks pulled along side and released, 3 black cod pulled in and very quickly returned to the water.
It turned out very rough on the way back and we bounced our way back into the lagoon where David (I thnk that was the skippers name) cleaned the fish giving the scraps to small sharks, after which he took the fish home and filleted them dropping off a nice supply to all those on boatd.
A great afternoon.
I did notice that some rock fishermen were taken out by the small glass bottom boats and deposited on ledges, I believe just at the edge of the lagoon or maybe outside it. They report great fishing and had brought all their own gear, where on the charter it was all supplied.
I had hoped to fish off the pier that was unfortunately in the process of being refurbished but it had big fish hanging around and available to catch if you were lucky. It will probably be finished when you go.
I hope you have a great trip.
If you want to ask anything please feel free to contact me - PM is OK or reply to this and I should get it.
Cheers
Claire