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Brilliant day out mate and well rewarded!

Soooo good. I bought a couple of the jogs you referred to a year or so ago but have yet to give it a proper go. Cant wait!

I was at the office yesterday longingly looking out my window thinking "I bet Bob is out there slaying kings".....and I was correct!!!!!! Well done!

HAHA - I learned it all from you Bob!!!

Hey Lukeh - PM me too. I am quite often looking for crew. Generally chasing kingies, dollies or flatties. Cheers D

Worth the wait and all the effort Bruce! Well done!!!!

I had never heard of Minnie Water but looks like it needs to be on the list. What an epic range of fish. "Put the downrigger away" - hilarious!

Awesome. I love a kayak croc. Well done!

Sooooooooooooooooo sick Jeff. Love it! Made my day on this rubbish morning.

Great catch mate. I am still trying to nail a keeper this year after a million micros! Time to get back out there!

Yep - only need 1 kingfish to feed my family. Happy days.

Hey Raiders, Headed out Sunday with MD to chase kingies. Launched at Roseville around 545. It was already pretty busy..... Headed to get liveys at Bradleys and there were boats everywhere, but most were fishing quite deep. We tucked in nice and close and filled up on yakkas in no time. They went particularly nuts when I put some old chicken bones in the burley pot. Heading out of the heads in a decent swell but nothing too hectic. Got to Longie and literally before I had put a livey in the water MD hooked up and had landed a rat. His livey had been in the water around 3 seconds! Good start. The next hour was pretty much non stop action. We caught about 10 kingies on liveys and unweighted squid. We had plenty of rats in the burley trail and there was a lot of bait fish around. Got one nice keeper and got dusted on my brand new Saragosa 10000. Drag was about 2/3 and I was completely smoked. Initially I could barely get the rod out of the rod holder. The line was headed towards the prop, managed to stop it and get a couple of winds in then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz pop. Game over. Unfortunately we only got the one shot at a monster. Came home in pretty sloppy conditions. North Head was a complete mess. Fished the harbour for zip and called it. We were then met with an insane ramp but thankfully most people were pretty chilled. Not a bad morning. Plenty of kings about! Cheers D

Great stuff Bob. We had a good kingie session at Longie on Sunday too. Plenty about.

Siiiiiiick mate. You deserve it. Let me know when to be at Palmy wharf.

Great work Bob..... can't wait to get back out there

Lovely flatty Bruce.

Good luck on the next outing Bruce. I am keen to see some donkeys!

Nice one - cant wait for the weather to relent!!

Too funny. That was our abandoned Thursday plan! Looks like the plan wasn't a bad one. Great work. First report from Longie for a while so good to know there are kings about.

Beautiful Bob. I defo need to come on a jewie hunt soon. Never caught anything decent.

Hey Raiders, Headed out with @Reel'em and a good mate who is currently out from the UK on Thursday morning. The forecast looked wet, no doubt, but swell and wind manageable. Up in the 4s and thankfully it was not wet when packing the boat with the last bits of gear. Plan was to head to the FAD off Dee Why looking for dollies and then head into Longie looking for kings. Launched at Little Manly. Unsurprisingly no other fishos launching, but there were a number of surf boats which I have not seen before in the harbour. All good though. We were in the water and off to the livey grounds by 530. Liveys were consistent without being ravenous. Filled the tank in about an hour and almost stayed dry, with the first squall coming though around 645 or so. In the CC there are not many places to hide even with the T-Top, hence we got a little wet without it being too bad. Headed out of the heads and were greeted with what could only be called absolute rubbish.....stiff NE wind and an annoying swell/wind chop with waves every couple of seconds. We headed about a km out before calling it. We were only managing to do about 10 knots and were all getting seriously soaked. Instead of heading back into the harbour I thought, why not catch dinner quickly at a flatty spot about 2nm south. Questionable call but we slowly motored down and set up for a drift. Pretty bad decision. The wind was blowing and we were drifting at 2+ kn even with the drogue (not sure where the light easterlies were but we were copping 15 knots+). I had two serious braid tangles before even getting baits in the water. We were bouncing all over the shop, it was pissing down and we were generally hating life. Interestingly, as we decided to pull up we had a dollie attack one of the flathead baits. In go the livies and we boated two dollies instantly. We were in the middle of nowhere so not sure if the dollies were using the boat as a FAD??? In came the bottom gear and out went a couple of lures. We trolled around and caught half a dozen more ravenous dollies who couldn't get on the lures quick enough. As seems to be my luck right now, the biggest dollie was 59cm! By now we were absolutely drenched so decided to troll back up along south head and see if there were bonnies about. Essentially we trolled from Bondi up to the South Head. We picked up two smaller bonnies and one 65cm bonnie that gave a good account for itself. We also caught a sergeant baker (??) and a rat king. Interestingly ALL caught on the one lure with the other lure going untouched. I have to say this white lure has been absolutely deadly on all species lately! We were all glad to be back in the harbour though the squalls continued. We headed to two well known spots and soaked livies and threw around some fresh SB fillets. Caught two rats on liveys and had a couple of hits of what looked to be decent fish. Just as we were about to pull up stumps my rod gets a much bigger hit and before I know it we have a decent king on and a battle with my overhead rod heading under the boat. Managed to wrestle the fish in and whilst not a monster, it certainly didn't need measuring. High fives all around. 1 minute later the same thing but a much bigger fish. Had it on for about 2 minutes and then pop! Urghhhhhhhhhh. Lost it. Check out the photo below. That is a straightened Mustad Demon light gauge circle hook. I have never ever seen that before on a king in the harbour. Good news is that my uni knot held!!!!!!! The fish went quiet and to be honest I had to race back to my desk. Back at the ramp by 1130 after an eventful morning - wet, tired but happy. Interestingly we didn't see a single other boat fishing all morning. The harbour was completely empty. Bonito tataki below and kingie on the menu for the weekend. Cheers D PS - hoping to get another window this weekend for a harbour sesh but jeez it is raining heavily right now!!!!!!!!!

So good mate. Well done.

Hey mate - have a listen to the Australian Lure Fishing podcast - episode 309 - all about rock fishing for bonito in Sydney. There are also show notes with tackle etc. https://doclures.com/sydney-bonito-marki-mark/

Hey mate - we were at the FAD SE out of Sydney Harbour.

Cheers mate. Yeah. We were at the FAD SE of the harbour. Wasn't too bad.