King Fish Botany Bay

[Whittley]

Hi everyone,

I have been viewing posts for sometime now and have read about the kingfish in Botany Bay. I have always failed to catch one and I have tried many ways.

Took a friend out on Friday as we are both still on Holidays. We trolled from the mouth of Botany Bay to Bondi Beach. We caught approximately 20 Bonito kept only a couple but it was fun.

Stopped at Wedding Cake Island and bottom bounced for a while and I caught the Morwong.

Wind came up so we headed back into the Bay fished drifting across the channel for a while (previously caught good size flatties etc) but did not get a bite.

Finally went to the runways and found schooling yakkas (1:00pm in the afternoon) so we threw out the hand-lines and caught a few for bait.

Put a yakka out on a rod and about 10 minutes later I pulled in my first Kingfish from Botany Bay. Have caught many in Narooma but for the life of me could not get one here. Monkey off my back now, very happy.

This is my first post, thanks for all the other posts with tips etc, they have been great.

Kingfish 80cm

Morwong 40cm

[Jewhunter]

Very nice 1st post Whittley!

Well done on the bonnies & a bloody good 1st king from the bay. Nice mowie to boot as well.

to Fishraider & I hope we see many more fishy reports in the future.

Cheers,

Grant.

[hornets]

Top king mate!!! . One better than me as all I have caught in the bay is rats & I have banned it at the moment & am hitting outside .

[fishsong]

nice kingy mate. Yet to catch a kingy but will hopefully catch one soon...

Do you mind me asking what setup were you using?

Cheers

[blower]

Well done mate, couldn't bag a trick myself in the AM,

looks like the broad daylight was the go.

[Aqua Naut]

Yep that's one Kingfish that found the way in.........Well done. That is the first I've seen caught at the 80cm mark for quite a while. Lets hope the others find there way in too.