G'day all
Went away for my Bucks weekend to Terrigal and spent Friday morning on a charter out of Terrigal for what can only be described as the best Kingfish action I have evry seen or heard of.
After waking to a windless morning, sun just peaking over the horizon, I knew I was in for a special day. Six of us boarded our charter at six am and headed west from Terrigal Haven!
At our first spot, we had been there for about 45 minutes, for one snapper and a couple of sweep. We were on our last bait before we were about to move when one of the boys rod is nearly pulled from his hands! Bingo, after five or so tentative minutes bringing the fish from 40-50 metre sof water, we get colour, it has another big run, before being netted. A solid start going just leagl at 66cm. Not huge, but a kingy all the sam and a cherry popped for the angler.
Well all rods went back in, baited with pillies and bottle squid. Then all hell broke loose as we had four to five boys at any one time hooked up to a kingy! The size also started to grow, and soon we were regularly pulling up 70+cm kingy's, one after the other.
You may think this is a bit fisy, but the photo below will show you just how thick they were. We lost over 60 sinkers for the day as some just pulled to hard too quick and were bricking us up. So we started jigging with knife jigs and also some Bozo soft plastics on big TT jig heads.
It took a couple of jigs and bang, we were on again. A mate, MAD MICK, using a red and white 300gm jig made the call that he was on big time. After a huge fight, I nearly fell over at what I was seeing, he had jagged not one, but two kingy's on teh one kinfe jig, one on teh top hook and one on the bottom hook!!!!!
Both went legal size and the skipper of the charter went and sat down for4 a while not believing what he had just seen.
Anyway, the biggest for the day went 76cm, we ran out of sinkers, live bait and basically my arms were now touching my toes from being pulled so hard.
The tally was 70-80 kingfish, kept two fish per angler and threw the rest back for me to chase again this weekend. Best start to a Bucks party ever, and my thanks to the skipper for putting us on to such a special patch of reef!!!!
Cheers Dodge