namesay Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hi everyone. I went out fishing with my 2 children. The oldest is as keen as mustard to get out for some kings as he has to go to school and misses out on our mid week forays. The idea today was to get son numer 1 into as many fish as he could handle. We went to get some squid and things were a little easier today as we got out supply pretty quick. That egi max is doing its thing. We only prospected around 2 spots and that got us 8 or 9 squid. There were a lot of boats in the harbour today and all the markers were pretty well full with people who have anchored. So I decided to look for the kings somewhere else. In one of th bays I found a big school of bait and some larger fish -kingfish hanging around them. I took these photos just for you Big Steve. You can see the kings hanging around a bait school in the first sounder picture. We got several from this school before moving onto the second picture. The kings here are hanging around an underwater structure. We also got a few from this area as well. That Furuno 585 is like an underwater camera. Can see EVERYTHING! The Dual screen is great as the 50khz gives the width and the 200khz fills in the details directly under the boat. There was one fish which dwarfed all the others in one area but I just couldn't tempt that guy!!! ANyway my second son was having a nap in the Noble's cabin so son number 1 had ALL the strike. He was having a ball. Even yelled and whooped when he caught a tailer! The kings we got today weren't very large. Most were 65-75cm fish but this didn't matter to my son. To him ANY fish is a good fish. Typical of the fishing this summer, we got almost a dozen kings. I was busy netting fish, setting out baits and getting the downrigger up and down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pk-fishn Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 mate that looks like a top sounder there some awesome pics there its shows things so clearly!!!! cheers pk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namesay Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 (edited) The squid were doing wonders as king after king would hit it. I ended up trolling squid strips and they were still hitting these baits with gusto! He must have reeled in about a dozen kings ...mostly by himself. I think he will have sore arms tomorrow! The smiles says it all After all the fish he got today, he was one contented little boy! All in all we kept 4 kings and alone tailer. I was tempted to downrig this tailer but it didn't live long enough in the live bait tank! WE ended our session when we ran out of squid. It was 10am when we packed up. ANother good day on the kings. Cheers Kelvin Edited February 18, 2007 by namesay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricks Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 hey kelvin did u know i was your long lost son so when are you taking me fishing for kings hehe. well done mate always look forward to reading your reports. congrats to your son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costello Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Nice haul again mate, no doubt about the benefits of a good sounder. Your sons will be pro's by the time they're teenagers! Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Nice report Kelvin,and well done to your son great catch penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dicko1 Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 top work once again kelvin! that sounder is awesome, compared to my garmin ff120 that thing is a movie of whats below!! your kids are super lucky, im nearly 21 and still trying to nail my first king! makes me feel kind of crap actually! keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luringbream Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Great pics of the sounder and very detailed indeed. If only my sounder was that detailed I still can't work out how to use the bloody thing!! Nice fish! DAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Kelvin, Love the sounder pics, again. Going to make a decision this week on mine. Leave some for me, just got a new downrigger and tryied to work it out on Sunday. Congrats on another great day. Cheers Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mako1 Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Great report Kelvin. Good to see your kids having a ball on the kings. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_steve Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 well done kelvin, thanks for the sounder pics mate, ive played with mine a LITTLE this morning and so so sos so sooooooooo many options to play with,, ill take some pics of mine in action and compare thanks again steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namesay Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 I hope the little tutorial has helped. The furuno is just the best piece of electronics I have put on a boat. Cheers Kelvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 nice reprt kelvin. top sounder you have there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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