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Day 12 (14th Jan) 70cm caught by drkcld, background is not accurate.

Hey guys, i havnt posted here in a very long time, as I was too busy fishing, but i decided to share with you guys what happened in the past month. We managed to work out how to catch these kingies out from their usual hiding spots. And have been landing a kingy or two everyday, including once decent jewie. It is suppose to be a long thread, but I decided to cut to the chase and show you the photos. It was all caught in sydney harbour landbased. Dont ask me the spot as it is getting closed down soon. Our season started like this...... Day 1 (December 12th) 70cm kingie Day 2 65cm Day 3 66cm kingie, no photo Day 4 55cm kingie on stickbait (released) a bigger kingie pulled the hook on the stickbait. Day 5 70 and 75cm kingie on Xmas Day Day 6 Weighed it and it was 6.5kg @ 92cm on Boxing Day ! Day 7 (january 5th) 70cm & 75cm kingies landed after 1 hour of fishing. Also lost another kingy, and 1 BIG jewie, bigger than the last one. Day 8 73cm king Day 9 (Jan 8th) 72cm kingie and a mate lands a 76cm one, no pics of his one though. Day 10 (10th Jan) 72cm kingie, lost 3 other kingies to structures. some guy lands a 45cm surgeon, we gave up on them after landing a fair few of those sizes in spring. Day 11 (13th Jan) 70cm landed today, one of our mate's first landbased king. Well done. Hope you enjoyed the thread as much as we did fighting these kingies. We got a handful of people onto a landbased king for the first time, and they all enjoy fishing now. =) Last year we were fishing for nilch, hook up after hook up but only landed 1 out of 100 hookups. But we had our trial and error for a whole year or 2 and managed to get them now. However we wont kill our limit with our new found skills. I'm probably going to release anything thats under 70cm now... I dont know where the 60cm models went. Credit goes to my friends and I for being such dedicated fishos with a job haha.

very niceeeeeeeeee kingie man! thats soooo thick

hey mate just wondering what was the biggest surgeon you caught that day? or the average size

hey nankook thanks for advertising about surgeons again, I am really excited that you are. I think i found what you lost the other day. =) A 60cm surgeon and his friends

how big was the surgeon?? did you measure it?!

nice one braidbuster! wow you manage to land them, i was going for them yesterday. You know those big 60cm ones, kingfish sized surgeons lol. Yeh i was fishing much heavier than you and still couldnt land them properly. If you want to tackle these fish, you will need really heavy drag pressure. the one i lost yesterday managed to pull my xx strong hook.

this is the first time i ever seen a dory report on fishraider ever! great catch they are really rare. They are amazing looking fish

I ate big fat mullets upstream near the storm water drain section from the cooks river before. They tasted very yummy. But then again its very toxic

was this landbased or by boat?

i was thinking since when was leatherjackets this slimy?

i recommend you don't go to that spot during winter. As I have came home with nothing for the pass 3 times there

i've saw penguins near the harbour bridge last week

first time i went there the waves was hitting over the rockwall! Thats how bad it could get and you can get drenched in no time. Thats why always check weather before you go.

lol arent we all? That kingie looks really skinny.