jsab5558 Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Went out this morning wit three other mates in search for some surface activity early and anchoring up for some kingies later in the day. This seemed a sure bet from all the posts over the last week about the red hot activity in the bay! On the water at 6 looking everywhere for birds and anything on the sounder, this lasted till about 9am and with no one wetting a line yet. It is getting a little frustrating. so we decide to anchor up at mollinex point with a few other boats and try our luck with the kings. For bait we had frozen gars, live yakkas, soft plastics and some chrome lures. The rest of the day looked promising with an early hook up on bonito . How we were wrong The next 2 hours was spent flicking plastics, un weighted and weighted yakkas and gars and the occasional spinning. Still zip, then a good run to what we thought was a kingy but at the surface we sen it was a salmon going 68cm. This got the mood on the boat again and everyone was keen to get a line in. The next two hours we had another two hook ups but both dropped at the boat one kingy and one salmon. That was enough for me and we alled in quits at about 130pm. Im no expert in the bay more of a harbour fisherman, did anyone have luck out there today i saw a yellow twin hull boat clean up on kingys but couldnt see the bait they were using. I think im going to stick to the harbour just for now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhype Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Went out this morning wit three other mates in search for some surface activity early and anchoring up for some kingies later in the day. This seemed a sure bet from all the posts over the last week about the red hot activity in the bay! On the water at 6 looking everywhere for birds and anything on the sounder, this lasted till about 9am and with no one wetting a line yet. It is getting a little frustrating. so we decide to anchor up at mollinex point with a few other boats and try our luck with the kings. For bait we had frozen gars, live yakkas, soft plastics and some chrome lures. The rest of the day looked promising with an early hook up on bonito . How we were wrong The next 2 hours was spent flicking plastics, un weighted and weighted yakkas and gars and the occasional spinning. Still zip, then a good run to what we thought was a kingy but at the surface we sen it was a salmon going 68cm. This got the mood on the boat again and everyone was keen to get a line in. The next two hours we had another two hook ups but both dropped at the boat one kingy and one salmon. That was enough for me and we alled in quits at about 130pm. Im no expert in the bay more of a harbour fisherman, did anyone have luck out there today i saw a yellow twin hull boat clean up on kingys but couldnt see the bait they were using. I think im going to stick to the harbour just for now Hi there Jas - Bad luck on your kingy adventure today .. you did not land any because they were all swarming around my tinny ! I did a quick 2 hour session this morning on the Bay and also parked myself at Molli point. Must say .. it was some of the best fishing I have encountered!! Ended up with 12 kingfish hookup and landed 8 of them... had double and triple hookups - landing 3 fish in 5 minutes at one stage! I was by myself so you can image what was going on in my head and in the boat !!! The kings ranged from 58cm to 65cm with only 2 being legal. Plastics and squid did all the damage with plastics accounting for most of the larger fish. Also managed a few 45cm+ tailor on hardbodies as a bonus. I'll put up a post later tonight with photos when I have a bit of time. Better luck next time! Cheers Trung / DHYPE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 The bay was full of rat Kings today we caught many around the drums and at the oil wharf. We couldnt get away from them, squid, yakkas, prawns, pillies and chicken breast did the damage for us. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brickman Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 bad luck on the kings i think you need to have baits in the water on first light they seem to go off the bite by 9.30 10.00 i do'nt fish the bay but that's been the story at my kingy spot further north cheers gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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