Kings off Sydney

[Baby Karlos]

On Friday we put trolling for Marlin, Tuna and Dollies on hold for a day and headed out before sunrise with the sole intention of getting stuck into some kings. Managed to pick up 15 yakkas before heading onto the artificial reef and colours. Worked both areas for 20 mins but there was nothing around except for baitfish and the serial pest, jackets, so moved on to long reef checking all the bommies, reefs and wrecks along the way. Halfway there stumbled on a tonne of baitfish and some decent sized fish at depth on the sounder so rigged up a couple of yakkas and dropped them down. Immediately - bang - hooked up 70cm+ jewie but 10m from the boat the line went dead - had been bitten in half by a shark. Continued to work the area for half an hour and only got two small snapper so moved on to long reef.

Shortly after arriving at long reef we found a truck load of yakkas bubbling on the surface so we rigged up three yakkas and threw them in. Triple hook up - three rat kings ranging from 59 - 65cm. Sounder was a ball of red with decent kings so continued to work the area, which ranged from 15 - 30m deep, for a couple of hours. Finished up the morning landing 8 decent kings and dropping 3 monsters.

Kept two kings (67cm and 69cm) for a feed and threw all the rest back to fight another day. Awesome summers morning on the water.

[mr.e.p.d]

Love the sounder shot. That's what you live to see! Good work only keeping a few and throwing the rest back.

[damian]

Great report. Well done

[erroll]

great work there mate. Thats a great read, you should frame it!

CHeers

[Baby Karlos]

Managed to sneak a quick morning fish in last week so headed out long reef way given the success the week before. Arrived with plenty of yakkas but the fish were showing no interest in them (did manage to catch two huge squid with them though) so we started burleying up and dropped a couple of pillies and some squid in. In no time hooked up to a nice 67cm King followed by a few rats. Were plenty of fish on the sounder and we saw every other boat in the area landing rats. Did see one boat nearby us drop an 80cm King beside the boat because they didn't have a net - devastating!

Another solid mornings fishing for Kings off Sydney.