leatherjacket Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 (edited) Hi all, I had been dying to go fishing for four weeks - I was like a junkie who was shaking with withdrawls. Finally on Good friday I made it onto the harbour and headed out to squid spot #1. I stayed there for 15mins, but no luck - I attribute this to the murky water. Then onwards to squid spot #2 which was closer to the heads and therefore clear/cool salt water - First cast and and I'm onto a small specimen That was it, no more. I tried for 30 mins but no more luck. I changed colour and size. But they wern't on the chew... Plan B - Yakkas. Back to Clifton for some yakkas and only got the one Anyway, I had a bag of pillies and a coulpe of 5/0 snapper snatchers... At Clifton I put out 4 rods off my small boat - a bad move! After a hour I was about to nood off when I heard my bait rod scream zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....zzzzzzzzz.... Jumped up and grabed it! I'm on and its going hard! A kingfish? The rod is 2-4kg wilson live-fiber and the reel is a 4000 diawa with 10lb braid and 30lb leader with 6/0 circle and the livie. The line went left and right like a torpedo was at the other end and then it took me around one of my other three lines and created a mess!!! After about 2-3mins I landed my first Bonito. It was about 50cm and 1.5kg. I blead it and have the eye fillets in the fridge for a BBQ tomorrow. I hope it tastes OK, but I heard they are a strong tasting fish and are better as bait than eating? Any suggestions. Sorry, no pics. Cheers, Leather Edited April 11, 2009 by leatherjacket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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