framedtrash Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 set off around 10am from bayview ran into some fisherman at the boat ramp and they told us it was not worth going out nothing was biting and there was no squid around so without taking there advice we headed strait to our secret squid spot and loaded a nice squid on first cast which was followed by a even larger squid a few min later my mate lands him and gets a good inking we stuck around for another 30min but didn't have any more luck we then went around to Portuguese beach and i dropped out my squid and starting having a few flicks with some SP's all of a sudden the water comes alive with thousands of little bait fish getting smashed by something so we switched to our smallest SP and start flicking into the bait balls and start pulling in frigets ( i think thats what there called) few min later my mate is onto some thing big line is peeling off his reel like there's no tomorrow after a good 10min fight we finally see whats doing the pulling and its a good 65cm kingie but this is where it gets sad as we where pulling the fish in the braid got caught on this little bolt at the back of my boat and cut the braid loosing the fish after a few tears we start flicking back into the bait ball then all of a sudden the bait fish decide to hide behind my prop as i look down i can see this 70+cm kingie just swimming around my boat without a care in the world i quickly rig up a whole squid and drop it in front of him and he doesn’t even care he just looked at it and went on doing his thing he was swimming around the boat for about 4min wasn’t even going after the bait fish was just slowly swimming around the boat picking little things off the surface there were a few other boats fishing around us now all pulling in frigets and 2 boats we saw pulled in nice size kingies so at the end of the day we went home with some frigets and a good feed of squid sadly only got the one photo my phone was dead and mate only took 1 photo BTW whats a good way to cook these frigets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abiasin Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 great work on the frigates mate, they sure are fun to catch. not sure about how to cook them but i use them for bait, great bait for flathead and jew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisho.sid Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Mate i was out at Pittwater as well. Similar to you guys, lauched at Bayview and out to our squid location, managed to get only 1 after trying for about 2 hrs. We then tried yellowtails, could see them but our baits were being eaten by other small fish before the yellow tails could get to it. Well with 1 nice squid, we tried our for our kingfish. The sounder at one stage went off, and while trolling our squid i saw plenty of kingfish below us but wouldnt take our bait. Sorry to say - no kingfish. Not sure what im doing wrong but good to see you guys at least caught something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framedtrash Posted March 22, 2009 Author Share Posted March 22, 2009 yeh after getting the squid and other baits alll of the fish we caught we off soft plastics even the guys catching the kingies on other boats where all caught using small SP's they just didn't want any thing to do with fresh bait i had a good size squid floating on the nose of a good 70cm kingie and he just looked at it went to the surface and ate like a fly off the surface then just kept swimming around the boat if i had a spear i could of got him or if i had a few more beers i could of jumped on him well there's always next weekend might even take a trip into the harbor and try my luck there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooklineandsinker Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 i bet you won't make that bolt mistake again which lost your descent fish seems you had a good day anyhow by the way do frigates fight well as ive never caught one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framedtrash Posted March 24, 2009 Author Share Posted March 24, 2009 HAHA funny u should mention about making the same mistake with the bolt its actually the 2nd time its happened lost a big pike the same way a few weeks back but i thought the problem was fixed the real problem is that i dont keep a net in the boat at all times that problem has now been fixed tho along with the bolt frigates fight rather well for there size they like a 2yr old on a sugar high cant wait to get out again this weekend might have to get out there after work some time too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaune Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 i had a good size squid floating on the nose of a good 70cm kingie and he just looked at it went to the surface and ate like a fly off the surface then just kept swimming around the boat mmmm Kingy on dry fly. Now that would be something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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