Sat Arvo Middle Harbour

[oldsalty]

hey all,

Went out for a look on saturday avo to see if we could find some kings that had been reported lurking around middle harbour. After a couple of unsuccessful trips in october and some crappy weather i didnt have my hopes up.

Headed of to round up some squid and found them in ones and twos at afew different spots with the wind making it quite tricky.

My mate with a better one

With about 5 squid in the well we headed into middle harbour.

We started downrigging and hooked up soon enough using a whole live squid. The fish faught up high in the water column and when near the boat and did a semi jump and manage to throw the two hook rig! I didnt get a proper look at it but suspect it was a salmon. Damn, where were the kingys!

Hit a couple more spots for no luck and had a real battle seeing anything at all going on on the sounder. Finally heard that familiar knock of something banging up the down rigger so i pulled it out of gear and the hook finally set. I pulled it out of the holder and gave it to my mate to land our first king of the season. He just barely made the new 65cm limit but an important fish none the less!

The were more fish there but we found them not to agressive and couldnt crack the code as to what they wanted. They mouthed and harrased our baits without hooking up and werent to aggressive on whole live squid or strips on the down rigger or drifting. Another boat near us pinned afew on heads which we were out of. After a couple of missed hookups it got dark and we headed in.

In the end it was only the one fish but the start of what should hopefully be many more to come,

Bring it on!

[sanger]

Nice work mate! We have also found the kings quite hard to tempt the last 2 weekends with live squid presented on their noses only to be snubbed for strips! Thats kings for you though!!!!!

[tomahawk1999]

Good report,

at least you got a few squid and had some success.

I was out Sat morning in MH and found the squid rather thin, we only managed 2 arrows.

D/rigged them and missed 2 half hearted hits

Got pretty wet but at least it was better than being at home.

Cheer's Rod.

[gretsch]

We were out on Friday and only managed one loner of 68cm. He took a nearly live squid head and just smacked it.

They seem to be few and far between at the moment.

The weather forecast for the next 6 days is looking very bad indeed.. it will dirty up the system too!!

I hope the good weather comes on soon!!

[oldsalty]

We were out on Friday and only managed one loner of 68cm. He took a nearly live squid head and just smacked it.

They seem to be few and far between at the moment.

The weather forecast for the next 6 days is looking very bad indeed.. it will dirty up the system too!!

I hope the good weather comes on soon!!

Would u agree that dirty water is no good for pelagics like kings?

[sparkles]

Just to throw my 'two bob' in!

I have found that sydney harbour after a big rain, is a fickle beast. It can put fish off there nromal habits, and make it harder to use techniques flicking soft plastics.

But then again, I have seen some raiders just this year pulling decent winter kings out of the brown murk, with servo pillies and prawns.

But yes, In my opinion it can put them off.

Arch

[abiasin]

awsome mate, sounds like a good day to me squid and kings, perfect combo.