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Dream session good to know the kings are firing Cheers Ryan

Congrats on joining the hood club Vandal!

Well done buddy! I always seem to catch the best fish of the day at the last minute too, persistence pays off they say Did you finally purchased a new stacer? Cheers Ryan

Well done, Mark! Landing such fish with a 7ft stick already require some effort, let alone fly gear. I just started salt fly with a 10 weight setup and catching a king like that in the Habour is all I can dream of (and a combo like yours too, sage and galvan $$ ) Did you use a sinking or intermediate line and sight casting at the kingies? Would love to learn more from you if you have the time. @SquidKing Combo: the fly in the photo is a clouser, one of the most widely used saltwater fly patterns, I am not sure if MGJ did any special modification to it though Ryan

What a great read Jason I love testing my gear too, luckily we have got some space in the backyard, it is always a good idea to have someone read the scale for you Before I never thought the saragosa can dish out such heavy drag with its tiny drag washers but now noticed its listed max drag is 44lb. Did you use stock drag or carbontex washers? From what I have been hearing it may not be long before you get to test your max drag this season. Cheers, Ryan

Dream session Jim!! I reckon you did your best fishing solo. Those kings are seriously fat, all I see is nice fatty fillet for sashimi How heavy was your leader? Ryan

Great effort Andrew, it was really windy on Sat and I thought Sunday would not be much better. Love the underwater photo. Cheers, Ryan

Great read Andrew and well done on finding the dollies, cannot wait for the pics Glad to know the LJs didn't give you a hard time, hopefully the kingies will concentrate enough for us to give winter jigging a shot soon. Cheers, Ryan

Actually it was a much cheaper rod ~150 bucks, however one of the best budget rods you can find out there in my opinion. The one I was using is a 15kg or PE3 Ugly Stik Bluewater Jig Spin, all fuji components (alconite guides, sic tip) and a great blank, more give than most full carbon rods but still has plenty of back bone unlike the normal ugly stik range, easily lift 6kg dead weight and run 8 kg drag. I have caught my fair share of kingies on that rod in Botany and Jervis Bay and will recommend it to anyone looking for a entry-level parabolic action jigging rod, there are heavier models to suit other needs as well. A bit more about the gear we used: Ugly Stik as mentioned Silstar 15kg rod Bairunner 8000D and 12000D Powerpro braid to 40lb and fluoro leader to 50lb Gama and Owner live bait hooks Of course you can get away with much lighter gear and have more fun tackling the rats but we prefer to have a better chance against the bigger fish especially when fishing that close to structure. Cheers, Ryan

Thanks for the positive feed-backs guys, really appreciate it. Yes it was a tad cold but we were prepared so the wind was not much of a problem, sunset was beautiful Monch [: To Charles, you are spot on, I simply forgot what those little pickers are called. The meat looks pretty good and we do fillet them for yakka bait sometimes, talking about revenge ^^. Molineaux Point is our favorite spot for kingie in the bay if you have been following my posts, but I agree even though there are always heaps of boats around I have not seen many hookups. Early Nov we get good runs of trevally there as well, since we started targeting and catching kings consistently from last year most of the larger hoods were caught around the point and close to the deeper channel, we also got a few around the oil wharf and only one good run at the runway while Scotty's charter boat got many good kings there. The water is not too cold yet so get some livies and wet the line, its still worth getting a shot for them before winter and I hope everyone fishing the bay gets screaming drags. Cheers, Ryan

Congrats Nice report and great photos

G'day Raiders Yesterday my uncle had to work in the morning and only have half a day off so out with the great weather we went out at 2pm with my mate from uni. Gathering bait at the usual spot was harder than early in the morning with the large number of dart-like black fish around (I don't really know what they are called exactly) but we managed around 8 bait size yakkas and some larger ones. Drifting at the sticks area produced a few breams and my buddy was quite happy with a nice trevally first time out on a boat. The wind eased and we went to anchor close to trevally alley at 4pm, the yakkas were deployed with confidence when bait schools could be seen on the sounder. My first bait got smashed but failed to connect, my uncle casted the next one out and bang! after a short fight one 75 cm king was in the boat. Close to high tide I could tell something took the yakka , what felt like dead weight turned into a little jew, my second one ever. Got another hit later when my mate convinced to me to take photo and I could not grab the rod in time for a strike The action slowed down and we decided to head home for dinner. After witnessing the kingie fight my mate is now pretty excited about getting his first one

Congrats mate I am actually quite surprised you did not get one earlier in the season with the live squids but persistence finally paid off, well done landing the fish with some help from the good mates. Gotta say I enjoy the report too Cheers Ryan

Those are some serious swimming rockets dogtooth , I cannot stop thinking about the size of the unstoppable fishes that busted us big time down in Jervis Bay in February and you just gave me a glimpse of them . How far down the coast did you go and how was the water temperature? A bit off topic, I just got myself an Ocea Jigger 4000p spooled with PE8 and looking for a rod to match it, the T-Curve Deep Jig 400 is my 1st choice but I would appreciate your opinion on any other alternatives. Regards, Ryan

Thanks everyone for the positive feed-backs. I think this is a very fine description of the so-called "the sticks" area by woodchOp from another thread: woodch0p * * BREAM * PipPipPipPip * Add as Friend * PM this member * Group: MEMBERS * Posts: 77 * Joined: 26-August 08 * Location:Woodpark Posted 16 March 2010 - 05:59 PM The sticks are about 80m give or take west of The drums where The oil tankers pull up. There are 6 red marker poles There (four in a square formation and 2 offset), which is where it gets its name. Can't miss them. Position yourself about half way between The drums and The sticks on a run in tide and you should get some pretty decent results. Regards Daniel