Cid

Fantastic report guys and an awesome video. Well done Richo on your first GT. Go the Hedgehogs! cheers, Cid

Wow, what a ripper of kingie! Congrats on a great catch. Go the Outbacks!!! cheers, Cid

Top effort, guys. Well done. You really had some horses in that bag, Andrew. cheers, Cid

CJ, some great fish there and well done on the bream PB. cheers, Cid

Terry and I launched in to the pre-dawn gloom accompanied by some lazy drizzle that we hoped would disappear. Thankfully it did and Terry and I had a cracker of a morning. First cast and Terry comes up tight on a good tailor and my East Coast popper is smacked all over the surface by a hoard of them but none of them would hook up. Next cast it's chased down again until it's finally nailed and the culprit takes off for the heads. Hmmm, me thinks this is not a tailor and after a 12 minute fight on 6lb braid, I lift in my new PB Kingie from the yak. 79cm's to the tip and I have a grin from ear to ear! Top it all off with a few trevally and bream and it doesn't get much better. cheers, Cid

A fellow yakker, Terry, and I have been working Botany Bay for Kings the last couple of weeks and have managed to land our fair share. We've been working the usual haunts (the Drums, HWO and channel markers) with 6" sluggo-style SP's and the action has been fairly consistent with mornings being the best. But can we land a legal one? No way! We've come very close with a couple of 64cm specimens and I'm sure I've landed the same 63cm model about 6 times! All great fun though and I know there are bigger ones out there as last week I bumped into Kenny who'd just landed an 80cm beauty from the drum I was heading towards. If only I'd been 5 minutes earlier... cheers, Cid ps Merry Xmas everyone!

G'day Andrew, Well done on 5th place. For a while there I thought you and Mark were gonna hold onto that 3rd spot for a podium finish. Good to catch up and a great bag, too. cheers, Cid

G'day Marty, That's a cracker of a bream and on your first cast, too. Simply sensational. Welcome to the wonderful world of kayaking. It doesn't get much better really... I'm looking forward to seeing future catches from a yak as I'm sure you'll want to keep at it. cheers, Cid

Hooo-eee! A couple of sensational fish there, Windy. Congrats to you and Chopper and a great report, too. cheers, Cid

Hi Ben, Congrat's on your first...and hopefully with many more to come! In fact I hear on the grapevine that you got an even bigger one today. Sensational, buddy. We'll have to catch up for a fish soon. cheers, Cid

Great stuff, Andrew. Two prime EP's there. cheers, Cid

G'day Stylo, The Hobie has a hole for a mast and I've removed the centre post of a tripod and it fits in perfectly. It's just far enough away to get the fish in the shot but still close enough for me to reach. cheers, Cid

Whooo-eee, Greg, that's a thumper! What'd he go? 60 cm's? cheers, Cid

Thanks for the comments everyone. To answer some of the questions, I was fishing around the Hotwater outlet but the fish were scattered a bit. There was lots of surface action over a wide area (not confined to any structure though) and I figured that bigger things may be lurking below the tailor schools. The baitfish were about 3" long. I have a Hobie Sports, Roberta and she's a great fishing platform. I've been out in the middle of the Bay in pretty choppy conditions and even up to a km or so off the heads, when the conditions are right, of course plus I always wear my PFD. cheers, Cid

Cracker bag, Greg. 5 kilo's plus is awesome. That's the sort of bag you want in a comp. Oh, hang on...you guys get bigger bags than that in a comp! cheers, Cid