The Incredible Hull Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hey Raiders, its been a while since I've written a report, I was glad to get out on the water today. Headed to Terrigal this morning, got to the ramp at 6:00am. Headed about 10kms east to a wreck to catch live yakkas, got around 12 or so big ones. Travelled another 30 odd kms east to a number of reefs. We had 2 x 250gram jigs down as well as a couple of livies. Was a beautiful day, 0.5m-1m swells, no clouds, 5-10knots of wind. I've never done jigging before, and I didn't expect it to be so tiring, particularly in over 100m of water. Arms were dead after a couple of drops, such a weak effort! Decided to give jigging a rest and stick to the livie rod lol It was a slow morning, the first kingy landed was on a jig, it went about 72cm. Second kingy landed went around the same size. We made a few more passes and getting donuts for the next hour or so... it wasn't looking good. We moved to another area, I think north east area, and my livie rod starts bouncing a little. I immediately aim the rod down directly towards the water, and the kingy took off like a bullet. I have never done this sort of fishing before, I.e. fishing for kings off reefs, so I had to turn its head and wind up as fast as I could. Unlike fishing in esturary with sandy bottoms where you can take your time, I almost gave up on this fight! I was spent and it was only half way up the 120m drop. Initially I had the rod under my left arm pit, but I was too buggered, so put the rod butt on my left leg to get better leverage. A couple of times I wanted to hand over the rod to someone else but I wanted to battle this powerful beast. Feeling like an eternity later, finally got him up, nice size kingy, he went 85cm. I was so buggered I could barley hold him up: I would also like to enter it in the COTM. Thanks for reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefisherman6784 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Wow 120metres isn't to easy to jig, especially for these hard fighting fish A lot of fun and a great tasting fish is the end result though so can't complain (if it's legal) There some great fish and a great effort Well done Cheers thefisherman6784 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydneyfisher12 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Great work nice kingy mate 85cm is a great size and I wouldn't off been easy 120m down 40km is a long way offshore for kingys what size boat were you in? Also getting yakkas 10km offshore that's far for yakkas Anyway great fish Cheers sydneyfisher12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REELCRAZY Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 quite a depth for jigging, add in a big king and im feeling tired already!!! well done. cant wait for summer and the kinggies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Well done mate. And I know what you mean by jigging on that depth of water. It's a challenge and works the arms real well. But you hooked up and landed a nice fish so all is forgotten. Great work cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Incredible Hull Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Well done mate. And I know what you mean by jigging on that depth of water. It's a challenge and works the arms real well. But you hooked up and landed a nice fish so all is forgotten. Great work cheers scratchie!!! Cheers guys. Yer it was crazy, jigging up rapidly for 50m and dropping it to the bottom, and repeat. After 3 or 4 times, it really wears you down, especially if you're unfit like myself! Here's a short video of the hook up, duno why my mate did not get all of it! Enjoy. http://youtu.be/llfkPUoOYJs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbdshroom Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Nice work Dave, looked like you were not sure yourself if you were going to go the distance in that video haha Top kingy mate, hope you get many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Incredible Hull Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Nice work Dave, looked like you were not sure yourself if you were going to go the distance in that video haha Top kingy mate, hope you get many more. lol mate I seriously wanted to hand over the rod haha but I kept telling myself, "I wana take all the credit of landing this fish!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anth Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Nice fish mate! Looks like Scotty's boat. If so, he's one of the best kingfish guides on the east coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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