frankp Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) After all week preparing ourselves for a browns trip for blue eye we ended up changing our minds late to stick to the estuaries and try and land some afternoon kingies. We pushed off from kymeegh boat ramp at abot 1.30 with the intention of getting any squid if there were any around since the squid in the bay can be so bloody hard to get. Anyway after getting to our spot we dropped our jigs to find that squid no longer than 15cm would follow our jigs and not touch them, we did have rather large jigs so we changed them over to the 2g's and wthin an hour had 12 squid including arrows which i had seen in botany before. With enough squid on board we heading to our favourite kingie spot and proceeded to downrigg for no more than half a minute before the live squid got absoluetly smashed. I took charge of the rod with this fish pushing drag of close to 9kg, with the fishing so close to structure and this obviously a good fish I started to apply too much pressure and well the hooks pulled, the hooks may have been too small. We put out a second and third squids and quickly pulled in 2 fish at 62 and 65cm. We downrigged for another half an hour without a touch until 5.15 when the the big hit came, this fish was pulling drag like the first fish we lost but with my brother taking the rod and the fish luckly running away from structure we landed an 85cm kingie that had the both of us hugging and screaming. This was our first kingie over 80cm and was worth 2 years of hard work and fruitless sessions of no fish trying to adapt to a new way of fishing. I would have to say that the key to this fishing is fresh bait, we had a few other people fishing the same area without a touch, we later found out that they had brought squid. What an adrenalin rush. cheers Edited May 31, 2007 by mrs rzep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 What a ripper King,the iceing on ur fishing sesh penguin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zrealist Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Good on ya. Looks like your persistence has paid off. Top effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costello Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Congrats on the PB mate, you look stoked! (as you should be) Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankp Posted May 21, 2007 Author Share Posted May 21, 2007 Congrats on the PB mate, you look stoked! (as you should be) Cheers, Mark thats a picture with my brother he was over the moon like i was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDiko Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Awsome work mate, what a Kingy Wish I gave Brown's a miss on Sunday. IFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandro_69 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 not an absolute legend???? well done mate! you must be proud! congrats!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy C Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Great report and photo. That's worth all that hard work you put in for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hook'm Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 All i can say is AWESOME!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Very well done, fresh bait nearly always equals kings.......nice pic also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharky Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Nice king mate and its great to see persistence pays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingsRule Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Great looking fish mate Persistance pays , thats for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfish Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 nice fish mate well done! now for a bigger esky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankp Posted May 21, 2007 Author Share Posted May 21, 2007 nice fish mate well done! now for a bigger esky! although we were talking about getting one of watto's ice boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 well done on finally landing a king over 80cm mark. good work for getting squid in botany,i know it can be a little hard at times in botany to get squid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Congrats on the Kingy Now that you have put all the hard work in, you need a bigger esky. The Watto's ice box will be 20% cheaper on Friday afternoon !!! Cheers Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insolent Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 Top Kingy from the harbour , what tackle were you on? Good to see a happy fisho. Cheers Evil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattieman Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 That's a superb Botany king! WELL DONE. Flattieman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzassj6 Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 very well done mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankp Posted May 21, 2007 Author Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) Top Kingy from the harbour , what tackle were you on? Good to see a happy fisho. Cheers Evil we were using a daiwa saltist reel loaded with 50lb braid and a t-curve rod, its a beaut of a rod/reel. we bought this to stop the bust offs that have been happening and well at least give us a chance. like i have said before we have learnt so much and every step we got to there were new steps to learn and improve on and that even included the gear we were using and mind you we are still learning. but i just love it. Edited May 21, 2007 by frankp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark* Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 well done mate, a great king good to see ur hard work pay off for u and ur brother. great work regards mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abiasin Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 well done boys, great kingie on the bay. not many can pull them in that size in the bay. top stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSHISWET Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 After all week preparing ourselves for a browns trip for blue eye we ended up changing our minds late to stick to the estuaries and try and land some afternoon kingies. We pushed off from kymeegh boat ramp at abot 1.30 with the intention of getting any squid if there were any around since the squid in the bay can be so bloody hard to get. Anyway after getting to our spot we dropped our jigs to find that squid no longer than 15cm would follow our jigs and not touch them, we did have rather large jigs so we changed them over to the 2g's and wthin an hour had 12 squid including arrows which i had seen in botany before. With enough squid on board we heading to our favoueite kingie spot and proceed to downrigg for no more than half a minute before the live squid got absoluetly smashed. I took charge of the rod with this fish pushing drag of close to 9kg, with the fishing so close to structure and this obviously a good fish i started to apply too much pressure and well the hooks pulled, the hooks may have been too small. We put out a second and third squids and quickly pulled in 2 fish at 62 and 65cm. We downrigged for another half an hour without a touch until 5.15 when the the big hit came, this fish was pulling drag like the first fish we lost but with my brother taking the rod and the fish luckly running away from structure we laned an 85cm kingie that had the both of us hugging and screaming. This was our first kingie over 80cm and was worth 2 years of hard work and fruitless sessions of no fish trying to adapt to a new way of fishing. I would have to say that the key to this fishing is fresh bait, we had a few other people fishing the same area without a touch, we later found out that they had brought squid. What an adrenalin rush. cheers It sure paid off guys all that hard work and effort.Top kingy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankp Posted May 21, 2007 Author Share Posted May 21, 2007 thanks for all the support guys but hard work and persistence does truly pay off even if it does take 2years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 love the before (squid) and after (kingy) shots top kingy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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