kris Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 KRIS KATCHER FINALLY CAUGHT HIS FIRST LEGAL KINGY !!!!! Hello fellow raiders... I headed out yesterday morning with a few mates at 3am for a serious session targeting fresh bait in hope to get some kingies... Here it goes Got to a park near the Iron Cove Bridge at around 3am and started squiding... It was extremely slow and not a squid insight as the tides were king highs due to the full and new moon week. After a good hour of hunting for squid, I came across a cuttlefish. Their aggressive nature helped my hook up and was in the bucket within seconds. Mean while the sun had risen and my mate was on to a Kingy on peeled prawn on his 2 kilo line and unfortunately the depressing PING of the line snapping was heard. With adrenaline running through all of the boys it was time to get more hook ups and try and land these machines. I sent out the cuttlefish with many attempts to set it correctly. It was my first and only cuttlefish so i had to be smart about how i hooked it.. Noticing that the cuttlefish would not sink and continued to stay afloat, I decided to take control and remove the backbone of the fish and save it for my 2 female budgies at home. With the cuttlefish finally set, I moved onto catching my first garfish and again my only garfish as the excitement of catching it resulted in the nasty tangle of my sabiki rig.. I sent out the garfish in hope for a kingy, as they eat pretty much anything. (I've seen whiting come out of Kingies before when other successful anglers have cut and gutted them) To cut a long story short, I hooked onto a Kingy on the cuttlefish rod and the fight lasted 10 minutes and covered 50 meters of the park avoiding rocks and oysters. END RESULT 80 CM KINGFISH ..........MY PERSONAL BEST............ 80 CM Kingy Sydney Harbour Bridge Kingy I'VE CAUGHT MANY RATS OFF BOATS ALTHOUGH CATCHING A KINGY LANDBASED IS 100 TIMES MORE SATISFYING HAPPY FISHING AND THE KINGIES ARE THERE even though there is a current deficit of live bait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catchin Jack Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Nice going on catching that landbased, and look at the bottles, i can see a COTM comin on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stricko4 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Well done Kris. My one & only kingy capture was also land based & it is always a real struggle to land them when fishing from shore of a pier. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightstalker Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Well done. Persistence and live bait pays off again! Nice king and nice singlet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay83091 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's an awesome fish! especially landbased!! Did you catch it near the Cove Bridge? Just awesome! Well done mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanger Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Top work on an lb King!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Well done Kris, landbased kingy, Respect dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aussie007 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 good on ya my PB is 85 and kingys that size really fight hard top job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishmaniac Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Well done on landing your first legal king. The upper reaches of the harbour and MH seem to be the go at the moment with the warmer water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat570 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 good work bud, was that off that lil wharf were all those piers are infront of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle ray Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 good work mate. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kris Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 I am not sure of the name of the park, but looking on the map it looks like it may be Yarulbin Park... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAfisho Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Yep looks like Yurulbin Pk to me haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boy53 Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Nice mate. I'm still chasing for my first kingy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 well done there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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