Kingfish 4 : me 1

[jay83091]

Hi experts,

I was fishing from the rocks yesterday and hooked up something quite heavy and strong out of no where. It felt like a kingfish as it dived down straight away and cut my braid line against the reef.

How do I fight kingfish in the beginning? This is my 3rd time loosing a good hook up in the same way. I couldn't even pull it or fight it because it was pulling down so hard. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I am using 50lb braid + 40lb leader

Cheers

Jamesy

[Guest]

Kingies from the stones are worthy adversaries and you dont get a lot of the bigger specimens out.

Try upgrading your leader to 100lb and just lock up the drag and hold on.

STOP EM OR POP EM

Cheers Stewy

[BigKing]

Yes 100 lb leader and very long say 6m - 10m depending on from where u r fishing.

Good luck

[Maiders]

And maybe change the braid to mono - braid has near zero tolerance when it comes to abrasion.

[Little Hooker]

I got smoked on friday downrigger a squid 1mtr from the bottom of structure... 60lb with 100lb leader lasted about 5 sec b4 my leader when pop... you win some you lose some. Im jus goin to lock up my drag next time so i dont give them a head start.

[General Zod]

How much drag does ur reel have? Lure or bait?

[jay83091]

I have considerable drag on my reel and it still managed to pull line off it. (Saltist 4500)

I use lure most of times