Kingfish1999 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 (edited) Hi all, got to tunks last night at 6ish as I had work. Got there and no other boats. Went to sugarloaf bay to sleep on the boat. Got three yakkas and two slimies before bed. Got up at 7 the next morning and went to the heads straight away but was a bit tough so went to watsons to try for squid but it was quite windy there aswell. Decided to go back to middle harbour near balmoral. As soon as we got I the spot the fish finder was going off. Had a really good burly trail going castes out with a tiny but if pillie and hooked a 49cm trevally first cast was so stoked. After a few trevally it quite then we say a rat kingfish in the trail and it pretty much hit the motor it cam that close. It swam off I castes a tiny bit of pillie and within ten seconds it cm back with line hanging out of its mouth wind of slack and I hooked it. Almost cut my off on 3lb braid on the moorings near by. Had about 5 long hard runs and struggled to get line back on my 2004 daiwa sol haha. Got it near the boat tried to net it missed mad a massive run back down again got it up and got it first go was so stoked. First kingfish in two years, ended up being 55cm small but great fight and stoked. Caught about another 8 bream, 15 trevally and one leatherjacket. Has a great day to be out little wind and is many fish! Thanks for reading hoped you like it. Will post photo of kingy when my phone charges up Cheers Ethan Edited May 25, 2014 by Ethan13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tw9635 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Would of been great fun on 3 lb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Sounds like a great day on the water. Plenty of fish caught on light gear What did you do with the kingy? Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish1999 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 We released it without any harm to it, swam off like a rocket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish1999 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Would of been great fun on 3 lb! Oh yes it was very even with the bream and trevally. But the king won by far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefisherman6784 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Great job mate Nice day on the water Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Pete Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Sounds like a great day on the water. Plenty of fish caught on light gear What did you do with the kingy? Cheers scratchie!!! We released all the fish we caught (I am Ethan's dad). We kept the leatherjacket in the live bait tank in case we got a few more but ended up releasing him as well when we got back to the boat ramp. Even the yakkas we got in Sugarloaf that survived in the live bait tank overnight got released when we had no need for them. All in all it was a lot of fun on very light gear!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scratchie_junior619 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Even the rats are great fun mate! Great work! Cheers scratchie_junior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther Pete Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Thanks Scratchie, Ethan still has a smile on his face from the fight the kingie put up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimDinh Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 sensational, what an effort to bring that king up, well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasksta Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 King is a king mate! And a rat on 3lb must be equal to a hoody on 30lb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Thanks Scratchie, Ethan still has a smile on his face from the fight the kingie put up!! That was my son replying Pete! Sounds like a great day had by all and I could feel the excitement in Ethan's report. Well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish1999 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Even the rats are great fun mate! Great work! Cheers scratchie_junior Yes there are fun and I saw it take the bait and run was so excited couldn't stop shaking haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellcorner Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Sounds like an awesome day ethan13! I enjoy fishing middle Harbour, always have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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