South West Arm Kings

[dave nagy]

Last weekend I stayed up the arm on Saturday night.

Getting there at about 5ish and tying up I turned the engines of to see three guys in a tinny about 50 foot of the stern hooked up hard.

5min late a king of about 70cm is in the net and we all cheered them on.

Now the water was chocolate brown from the rain, but the bait was on FIRE.

As they were fighting I noticed fresh pillies about 4-5inches long on the other rods in the rod holders.

10 min later they were on to another king about 50 cm this time.

I was watching what they were up to.

They had a electric motor mounted to a piece of timber g clamped to the bow rail got trolling.

They had caught fresh pillies which was the bait that was busting up behind us in bait jigs. These were lip hooked and slow trolled back through the bait bust ups.

Another 10-15 min later massive hookup. The result was a king of about 1m.

Not bad for about 1 hour fishing.

I was keen to get into them but everything I had was no match for the pillies.

The three boys with beers in hand let all of them go.

I just sat back and watched it all unfold and it was awesome to see and just of the back of the boat.

Everyone was into me to get out there but I didn’t have a bait jig (Homer Simpson “DO”).

I went to the grogery a little later in yowie bay and the frigret mackerel we going berserk around the Christian camp.

The hacking is on fire with the fresh/chocolate water. I thought that the water would turn the fish off. Man I was horribly wrong.

the secret is the fresh pillies.

Sorry no pics