*%^&** ! - tackle failure!

[Benzeenees]

Fished off Moruya Heads with John on Sunday. Perfect coditions. Started the day with a live well full of yellowtail and smallish (perfect sized) slimies. Light wind, little swell - headed for the kingfish spot at 45 kph. Plenty of fish on the sounder but they didn't want to play. John had a cou[ple of half hearted takes - but both dropped the bait. Tried a few other spots for flathead, snapper, anything! No luck. Back to the kingfish. Had one take but the bait was dropped. Then, late in the day, a big grab and line was taken at speed. I set the hook and had to hang on - it felt like a good fish. Got it up to about 5m below the boat and then - it was gone. Pulled my line in and the heavy duty snap link to which I had connected my leader had broken! The air turned a bright shade of blue!

Next day - still no luck with the kingfish, but 8 good flathead to 53 cm, a small mowie and a 1 kg snapper were some consolation.

Edited July 9, 2012 by Benzeenees

[sydangler]

Bad luck about about the king mate. I don't trust those snaps I avoid using them if I can. The less parts of a rig that can fail the better.

[Cannon85]

bad luck with the kingie mate, do you launch from batemans?? i get down there a bit when im not working, wondering if you have any hints for catching the kings down there? as never seem to have any luck i generally troll or downrigg to the south of BB with yakkas (cant seem to catch any squid either) looks like a good area and see some good arches on the sounder but never get hits any help would be appreciated

[Benzeenees]

We go out of Mossy Point. Big boats can find it a bit shallow at absolute low - 0.4m. We fish off Pedro Point in about 50m.

I thought the king I lost might have been about 90cm - it was certainly putting up a decent fight. But thinking back on it, perhaps it was more like 100cm. Or even 110cm . Maybe would have been a world record!

[Extradry]

Hi Benz

Nothing tests your tackle like a king, fewer components the better

Cheers

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