gmandile Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Hey Raiders, Managed to get the boat out on Sun morn after a few weeks of sitting looking at rainy skies... Headed out on Botany bay around 5.30 Sun morn, and straight out to catch some livies. Half hr trying for squid and yakkas with no luck so moved on to another spot and soon had a tank full of yakkas. No squid though... Headed oround to a little spot south of the heads and put a couple of livies out, but no action apart from the washing machine from the pretty large swell rebounding back off the rocks. Back into the bay, and anchored up and put the burley pot out. About 20 min later, a couple of the rods go off at once, and all hell breaks loose. Had a kingy on one of them that managed to swim around the 2 other lines that were out, as well as the burley pot and the anchor rope. I know kings fight hard and dirty, but that's starting to get a bit ridiculous After a couple of minutes of crazy action where we tried to untangle 3 lines and anchor and burley pot with a rampaging king still firmly hooked on the other end, we ditched everything and just hauled him in by hand and got him on board. Not the only handlining incident during the day either was it Ribs? Got it on a Lucanus jig. Went 70cm, so not huge, but still very tasty! Think we may have had another one on one of the other lines too, but lost it when the first one went crazy and tangled everything up. Back for more kingy action soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ribs Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Good post Greg, it was worth the giggles seeing you haul the King in by hand whilst thousands of dollars worth of rods laid idle......also nothing wrong sneaking in with the hand line while your mates are bagging all the livies in 1 corner of the boat ! ! Kings are back Gentleman, start your engines ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevo-72 Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Go the botany kings ........great report.Love the CATAlINA out fit awsome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooked-Up Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 hehe funny, ive had some "MOMENTS" with the kings too bud, ive learnt the hard way one rod per fisho and you gotta be ready, seeya out there man, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
night_rider Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Great result to of handlined her in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pongrass18ft Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Well earned catch mate , bringing it aboard with tangles galore. Nice work hooking up on a lucanus jig before the leather jackets got to it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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