Bloo62 Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Got an invite from Brent - a fellow schooly - so hit the water at 0500 and headed straight for some squid. We found them quite plentiful, hope I can repeat the performance next time in my boat.............. With about 10 in the livie tank we headed to downrig Nth Head. Along the way saw a school of fish feeding, threw plastics and metal slices at them. Brent managed a good salmon on the plastic, but they wouldn't take metals. Set the downrigger and eventually a good hit came eventually and my son boated a massively fat 65cm sambo. A bit disappointing as we were sure we were onto the first king of the morning. Tried for a while more along sth head and the wedding cake for zippo, so thought we would try MH as we headed back to Roseville. After reading some good reports of kings in MH from Kelvin and Netic we hoped to find some. Tried everywhere and were about to head for the ramp when eventually Brent said "this spot looks promising" and bang......downrigger goes off, drag screams off the reel and it is a good King. I motored out from the mooring while Brent tried to tame the King. It headed staright for some structure on the bottom, but Brent managed to drag it off - it certainly made a mess of the 100lb leader, shows why you don't fish light leaders - but finally a fat 75cm king comes on board. We repeated this for 3 more good Kings all over 65cm and a thumper 33cm bream which talk a small squid we were downrigging on a large treble!! The kings next to it make it look like a tiddler. All in all a great day out. Look forward to the next one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Well done, some very nice fish there mate..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 top session there mate ,well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namesay Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Good to hear you guys got some nice kings. Good onya for using some sensible tackle. Losing fish is NOT good for the health of our kingies. Better to land them, dehook them then release them or keep them for the table. A fish with several meters of line hanging out of its mouth is a death sentence!!! Sounds like it was more fun than my recent jigging trip!Cheers kelvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ophet Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Nice one, goes to show that you should never give up. Good size kings to kickoff the season, well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johblow Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Dude! your legs are missing! Nice fish :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Well done on some top fish there mate,top effort penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domza Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Dude! your legs are missing! Nice fish :-) great bag of fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squidboy Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 great bag of fish Excellent Catch mate, looks like a bad days fishing turned into a fantastic one. Looks like the weather this week is turning for the worse. Hope to be out in MH on the weekend for some Kings too!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riggem Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 well done good bag of fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo62 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Share Posted December 19, 2006 Thanks for your comments guys . Out of interest, when cleaning one of the Kings, we found a whole 33 cm whiting in its stomach that hadn't been there for long. And it still wanted to take a thumper squid!! Greedy thing deserved to get caught. Bloo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmoshe Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Hungry little bugger that one. May be time to put a whiting out as a livie if they are chomping on them now. Cheers, Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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