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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

lol, thanks for reminding about the regs Andrew. I was just joking about that and you are the only who noticed. The fish are there and I will be out again during the week, I hope you will have time for a session soon despite all the work. Regards, Ryan

It sure was hornets, especially when you don't have to be waiting in a long line back at the boat ramp. Monday conditions is looking great, I hope you guys will get into some big fish, Nathan. Screaming drags ans sore arms guys! Thanks for the replies. Cheers, Ryan

Happy Easter Raiders, hope you are all having a great times with friends and families Yesterday trip turned out to be our best kingfish sessions so far this year, simply because everything went according to plan, there was not too much boat traffic around, no undersized rats and all new gears are christened . Me and my uncle joined a friend at the foreshore boat ramp just before 6am, although it was sprinkling a bit, I had a good feeling about the day as it would be mostly overcast and the late high tide around 12 means we have plenty of time to gather some yakkas and possibly squids to fish the run in tide. Straight to the bare island area we went, the swells gave us quite a ride in the dark. The day was looking even better when we got 3 nice squids in a n hour, I am getting some smaller so-called micro jigs later as twice I saw the little buggers grab my jig in the shallow weed bed and jig barbs could not touch them as they keep grabbing the head of the jig and release it on the slightest pressure you put on the line. I wanna say thank you to Aero for his 1.23m King post as it encouraged to the drift around finding bait schools in instead of fishing from anchor most of the time like usual. The first fish was caught downrigging the whole live squid on 2 hook rig near Molineaux Point, the second squids went down and got smashed but no hookup, we were all felling robbed. With only one left we cut it into strips and downrigged the head, my uncle and his friend subsequently pulled in 2 fish on squid strip, all 3 fish were better than average in Botany Bay and went 70ish. When the bite slowed down we fished The Sticks for a 3 trevs, 2 breams and as always the little snappers are everywhere you go. 1 hour before high tide we had a full tank of yakkas and tried our luck at Molineaux Point again, this time at anchor. The southerly wind got stronger and it was a little choppy but our sessions down in Jervis Bay trained us well. When fishing JB I learned not to use anything less then 80lb for leader and even 40lb line seems too thin now. However being the only one kingie-less on the boat was so I went with 30lb flourocarbon, first yakka down and he went limb in 10', I pin another one on and dropped it down, half way to the bottom suddenly the line went off the spool much faster, I gave it 2 seconds then closed the bail arm.Strike! and I'm on, after 3,4 runs at medium drag and some additional thumb pressure the fish went into the net, 80cm and fat at 4.3 kg, high-fives all round and I sent the photo to a mate who could not go. We stayed for another hour with no bites and decided to go home for a feast with friends later in the evening. The plastic was just happened to be at the right spot on the photo, it was actually pinned to guide of the rod behind the fish. The king turned out to be a female with 2 small roe sacks and a gut cavity full of fat, I found a partly digested yakka and 8cm snapper in its stomach. Guess we have another choice of live bait now Final tally: 4 kings, 3 trevs, 2 breams anf half a bucket of yakkas too large for bait. To sum up if you have had trouble finding the fish, try catching your own fresh bait, look for bait fish on the sounder and you success rate will definitely improved.

Great team work guys, what a monster especially in botany bay.

Great session guys! Now I know what I will be doing this easter holidays

Congrats on catching the kings Matt We fished botany bay this morning too, got a few runs but no hookups using yakkas. The kings seemed to be only interested in playing with our baits, not eating them. Then moved on to drifting around Kurnell and got 5 good sized breams, one of them went 39cm which Im pretty happy with Zephi's tips on catching yakka are simply spot-on This is where we often gather out bait, burkey at anchor and you will fill up the bait tank in no time.

Yummy catch and I'm so hungry already. Cheers, Ryan

My PB Cephalopod, 41cm mantle length, over 2kg and a few smaller ones Tight lines, Ryan

What an amazing report Well done guys!

Congratulations Nathan, you finally scored your first yellowtail rocket I still remember vividly catching my very first king last year and can imagine how great you must have felt when the effort paid off. Next time bring a camera and I reckon the big one will show up smelling the fame of being on your report up here With a bit of luck you will not have any problem landing a good size king on your set up. I am going out tomorrow morning fishing Botany Bay, hopefully will catch something decent for a nice report, caught 5 kings last week but they were all undersized. Tight lines and screaming drags! And Merry Christmas! Ryan