Kingfish Help

[jahajo]

hello

i am new to catching kings and just wondering what people are using for bait and how they rig them

if any1 knows any good spots to catch them that would be helpfull also

thanks Hazza

[netic]

hello

i am new to catching kings and just wondering what people are using for bait and how they rig them

if any1 knows any good spots to catch them that would be helpfull also

thanks Hazza

Mate live squid is the go and Sydney Harbour is the location

[jahajo]

Mate live squid is the go and Sydney Harbour is the location

thanks for your help

[Josh88]

Hey Hazza,

As Netic said, squid are the go. Try and get quite a few and use different parts of them, e.g. send out a small live one, cut another up and put on the head, guts on another one and strips on another.

This way you will find both what they feel like eating and the sort of mood their in, in terms of how aggresively they are feeding.

The rats should start to move into the harbour as the water warms up more in the next few weeks or so, this will mean that the channel markers will start to become loaded up with the kings and they can be targeted with bait and lures in this situation but it can often be very busy when fishing around popular spots in the harbour.

Also, keep an eye out for birds working as it'll be a sign of fish on the surface, a lot of the time they will be kings, especially when the rats move in, in big numbers.

Good Luck

Josh

[jahajo]

Hey Hazza,

As Netic said, squid are the go. Try and get quite a few and use different parts of them, e.g. send out a small live one, cut another up and put on the head, guts on another one and strips on another.

This way you will find both what they feel like eating and the sort of mood their in, in terms of how aggresively they are feeding.

The rats should start to move into the harbour as the water warms up more in the next few weeks or so, this will mean that the channel markers will start to become loaded up with the kings and they can be targeted with bait and lures in this situation but it can often be very busy when fishing around popular spots in the harbour.

Also, keep an eye out for birds working as it'll be a sign of fish on the surface, a lot of the time they will be kings, especially when the rats move in, in big numbers.

Good Luck

Josh

Do all the channel markers usually produce fish?

[Josh88]

Do all the channel markers usually produce fish?

All of them can from time to time but some probably are more renowned than others.

You'll figure out which ones these are when the action starts to really heat up and everyones out chasing them and parks within a few metres of one another around the one marker.

All can be worth a try though, if its quiet, try sending something with a good action/size down to the bottom and ripping it back up like a 9inch sluggo or send a popper or unweighted sluggo across the surface around the marker. Do this a few times and you will soon know if there are kings there or not. Move on until you find them, i'd wait a few more weeks though before you expect any great success.

Josh

Edited October 29, 2008 by Josh88

[jahajo]

All of them can from time to time but some probably are more renowned than others.

You'll figure out which ones these are when the action starts to really heat up and everyones out chasing them and parks within a few metres of one another around the one marker.

All can be worth a try though, if its quiet, try sending something with a good action/size down to the bottom and ripping it back up like a 9inch sluggo or send a popper or unweighted sluggo across the surface around the marker. Do this a few times and you will soon know if there are kings there or not. Move on until you find them, i'd wait a few more weeks though before you expect any great success.

Josh

thanks for your useful info josh will try these spots over the kingy season

Hazza