jordan.widz Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 G'day raiders, Went out on Pittwater today to try find a few kings for my dad's birthday. We started of early morning collecting squid for baits found all of them chilling out in the deeper water today off west head which was surprising as the bottom is mostly sand and not much weed. We had a good looking live well of squid within an hour and a half so we put the big sucker on the downrigger and trolled another rod with a lightly weighted squid strip. We were marking solid kings on the sounder but they just weren't interested in out fat juicy calamari, they would even follow the bait right to the surface but not hit it so we decided to do another pass with a smaller squid and that worked a treat and in comes the first one for the day for my dad. We kept downrigging throughout the day and ended up with 3 kings from 68cm to 78cm. Towards the end of the day we were almost guaranteed a hit every time we marked one up on the sounder but not all stuck due to the size of our squid, the rats would just smash the bait and miss the hooks. Can't wait till the water warms up now and they become really active, water temp was 18.2 degrees and they are already around, things are looking good for summer! Cheers, Prawnstar Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoingFishing Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Well done mate awesome catch and nothin beats fishing with dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Good to see your still out and about! Nice kings there mate and thanks for the report! Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydneyfisher12 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Nice bag of kings there mate Can't wait to fish pittwater this summer just need to find those squid Cheers sydneyfisher12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefisherman6784 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Great catch mate This summer is shaping out to be an awesome one I'm sure they were fun to catch and looks like a beautiful day on the water too That second pic king looks huge Well done mate I'm sure your dad was happy Cheers thefisherman6784 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farizzy Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 nice work mate. cant wait to dong my fist king on the yak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikei000 Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 Nice catch! I was took my kayak out yesterday morning too at first light. I caught some squid at about midnight and trolled them( dead) on poor mans downrigger for literally about ten kms, not a bite! And I had a metal lure shallower too. Anything I wasn't doing right? The only things I can think of is that the squid were dead and it was before high tide? But I did see a guy get busted off by a kingie which was entertAinment enough for me. I'm dying to catch my first kingie any tips would be great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan.widz Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 Nice catch! I was took my kayak out yesterday morning too at first light. I caught some squid at about midnight and trolled them( dead) on poor mans downrigger for literally about ten kms, not a bite! And I had a metal lure shallower too. Anything I wasn't doing right? The only things I can think of is that the squid were dead and it was before high tide? But I did see a guy get busted off by a kingie which was entertAinment enough for me. I'm dying to catch my first kingie any tips would be great Hey mate yeh I reckon the live squid worked a treat, they last about an hour or two on the downrigger before they die then we use them as strip baits. And the kings are still pretty timid atm so small squid down deep worked best. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikei000 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I might give that another go during the week if I get a chance, if that doesn't work might berley up and swim a yakka. What is better you reckon high tide or early morning? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan.widz Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 I might give that another go during the week if I get a chance, if that doesn't work might berley up and swim a yakka. What is better you reckon high tide or early morning? CheersI don't have much experience with kings in pittwater but my mate who does reckons the tide change is best and that's when we did best on Sunday. Early morning is a good time to catch squid but. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikei000 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Yeah thanks for that, I'll have another crack within the week and fingers crossed have a photo or two haha cheers mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat_souvlaki Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 (edited) Hey mate congrats on the great catch! Im looking forward to getting onto my first this summer. A couple of quick questions on sending out the squid on the downrigger, do you use a single hook on the end of the tube or a sliding snell? Also do you have any problems with the squid spinning in the water? Regards, John. Edited October 3, 2014 by fat_souvlaki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordan.widz Posted October 4, 2014 Author Share Posted October 4, 2014 Hey mate congrats on the great catch! Im looking forward to getting onto my first this summer. A couple of quick questions on sending out the squid on the downrigger, do you use a single hook on the end of the tube or a sliding snell? Also do you have any problems with the squid spinning in the water? Regards, John. Hey mate I use a sliding snell rig with a treble as the stinger. And yeh the big squid will start to spin once they die which is a bit frustrating so I usually cut them up into strip baits after that which still work pretty good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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