Piss'n'Broke Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Hey Went out this morning with Greg in search of a late june kingy in mid harb! Didnt expect too much with the water being so cold, so we had all our rods out!!! Wouldnt you know it,,,, its my darn 12LB flat/rat combo that took the brunt of todays kingy effort!!!!Four hookups,, of which I got dusted by 2 in a matter of seconds, , pulled the hooks on another(wasnt gonna get done AGAIN),, and lastly the most cruel of all was having the fourth kingy spit my squid back at me 12ft under the boat,,, ah BUGGA!!!! Greg also dropped one! So tally KINGYS 5-Zip! Us- or ME I should say,,,,, SLAUGHTERED! Was all good fun though,,, Hey Jase hope you liked the 3 sec singing of my drag over the phone this morning before ,,,, PING! The lesson learnt here for me was dont use light line amongest structure,,,,, moorings, etc! DAN D&G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan L Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 ouch . . . . that stinks however, i would much prefer to have hooked fish than gone home without turning a reel and now you know that winter kingies dont give second chances! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arpie Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Don't you hate it when that happens?? It happened to me a few times when fishing for bream with live worms - didn't get a bream, but got busted off 3 times by jewies in the one session!! Only using 10lb line, so no contest, altho I did get a soapie in! Also, fishing for tailor off the rocks once, I saw a bunch of tuna come thru - tossed a pillie out to them & hooked up .... all over in 2 secs flat - had forgotten that I had the drag done up, to haul the tailor up the cliff ..... the rod bent almost in double, then, TWANG, busted off. Nearly had the rod pulled out of my grip, tho! Wouldn't have been able to land it anyhow! Plan for a monster & you get a tiddler, plan for a tiddler & get a monster! I am sure they are looking ...... Cheers Roberta Bad LUck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishyfingers Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 tis better to have hooked and lost than to never have hooked at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingsRule Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 At least u were getting some runs , Better luck next time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abiasin Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 unlucky boys, good to see the kings still taking baits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Dan Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Better luck then me, didnt get one run at all yesterday. cheers Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 55 Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Damn that sucks guy's but ....... after the success you guys have had this year it's not that bad as you at least got hook ups Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offtap1 Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Good report Dan, too bad the kings were camera shy, still must of been some mad fun, its great there still around in MH. Cheers Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piss'n'Broke Posted July 1, 2007 Author Share Posted July 1, 2007 Hey Dave Your not wrong Great fun!!!!!!!!!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz An update as well all Greg just got in from fishing today with another Raider, they got another 3 legal kingys 63-70cm,,,,,, Only one was kept for a feed!!! Pity to hear you didnt get any yesterday Kiwi Dan as the bite was hot for a hour or so till the tide bottomed out. DAN D&G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southerly Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 (edited) Hi Dan, Great stuff. I fished this morning, had to tie off to a yatcht to hold position. Few cuttles, no squid. No decent hits, got a few trevally on light gear, all released to fight another day. Nice to be on the water. See you on the water, Southerly Edited July 1, 2007 by southerly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 So they are still around?? Unbelievable. Did you get squid or did you pull the "Kiwi Dan Freezer Burnt Servo Pillie trick"? Cheers Cephalopod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Dan Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Pity to hear you didnt get any yesterday Kiwi Dan as the bite was hot for a hour or so till the tide bottomed out. yeah i think i made a bad decision in choosing my times. I headed straight to Manly when the tide was high to try for squid and tried a few other places in the harbor but didnt come back to MH until the wind got up. By that time the anchor wouldnt even hold so had to borrow a nearby mooring. Did manage to find a school of sharks though which we played with for a while landing 3 or 4, they were a lot of fun!! Ceph, I was all out of my 4 times refrozen pillies so i have started a new batch after the weekends efforts!! cheers dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piss'n'Broke Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 Ceph We used both fresh squid caught that night and pillies! and some other odds and ends It was the pillies that got smashed the quickest over the squid., Had a few yakkas down as well as these were almost on par with pillies when comparing strike rates D&G Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Ceph We used both fresh squid caught that night and pillies! and some other odds and ends It was the pillies that got smashed the quickest over the squid., Had a few yakkas down as well as these were almost on par with pillies when comparing strike rates D&G Very interesting.... I am definetly trying pillies this weekend. Were they definitely Kingy hits?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piss'n'Broke Posted July 2, 2007 Author Share Posted July 2, 2007 I wouldnt say it if they werent mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 I wouldnt say it if they werent mate! Sorry champ.. I forgot who I was speaking too.. So who will be the first to land a July Harbour King? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Sorry champ.. I forgot who I was speaking too.. So who will be the first to land a July Harbour King? Ceph, Kings are in the harbour all year round mate...just not in any great numbers and they are much more lethargic..(did i spell that right).......we pulled up a few a couple of weeks ago and one went 88cm..but it didnt fight at all....fought like a undersized rat... This time of year you will find they dont put up much of a fight and are much more picky in the baits they take... I know Kelvin normally nails some massive ones this time of year in amongst the MH wrecks and holes.. Its officially too cold for me now for harbour fishing.....went for a squidding sess on Sunday and frozeeeeeeeeeee my a.ss off......will only target YFT for the next few months.....plenty of squid around though we got 3 in less then 15 minutes in the middle of the day... Pittwater also holds some good size kings in winter.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piss'n'Broke Posted July 3, 2007 Author Share Posted July 3, 2007 (edited) COUGH Ceph the July club has already started!!! Cmon mate! I wanna see you get sum yourself soon.... When are you heading out next with some "clients" ceph? All the best D&G PS At last count Greg has nailed over half a dozen July kingys to date mate! Edited July 3, 2007 by Dan and Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gretsch Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 COUGH Ceph the July club has already started!!! Cmon mate! I wanna see you get sum yourself soon.... When are you heading out next with some "clients" ceph? All the best D&G PS At last count Greg has nailed over half a dozen July kingys to date mate! Sorry lads.. I have been a bit slack... Looks like we are squiddin, yakerin, pilliiing and Kingying all year round... I am hoping for a jewie by-catch one of these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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