First King - land based harbour

[mitchie18092]

Got nailed by a stingray yesterday arvo in rose bay and ended up in hospital for a few hours so no more wading the flats til I get myself some waders!

Decided to head down to a local jettie this morning instead with my mate. Was there at first light - first bait in the water was a dead yellowtail under a float which got demolished after about 5 minutes in the water. Had it pinned through the head and the rest was eaten. By that time had some livies in the bucket so threw one out. Another 5 minutes and the float goes under - went to strike it and only got the head back.

A while later my mates bream stick starts screaming but got takes straight into the moorings and it pinged. Same thing a half hour later but he managed to hold onto it for a good few minutes before it spat the hook.

There were fish boiling everywhere but once the sun was up they didn't seem to take much interest in the livebait. Once the tide slackened things went quiet for awhile but kept persisting with some unweighted prawns and finally got a good take.

Didnt feel much weight and called it for a decent trev, but once it came up and idled onto its side I knew I was a king. Had about 20 mates with him aswell! Mustn't have known it was hooked because as soon as he saw the jetty it took off for shark island... 10 minutes later back and forth with a few sketchy moments around the pylons, my mate managed to grab the leader (only 10lb mind you) and lift him up.

Was just under legal so had to put him back but was super stoked to get my first under the belt - all the better on light gear!

Had another bust off after that and a few trevs. Going to have another crack tomorrow.

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[Stimo1076]

Hard luck about the Ray getting you Mate, But well done on the Kingy would have been fun, Good luck for tomorrow

[dynabolt]

Hope that you are feeling better after the stoush with the Ray. Good work on the kingie. Did you have to lift the kingie from up high or were you close to the water?

[mitchie18092]

Was a super high tide so not far, had my mate climb halfway down the ladder and grab the leader. Popped as soon as he came up

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[mitchie18092]

2 in 2 days. 5lb braid 6lb leader

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[dynabolt]

Another good looking fish there! Well done on such light tackle.

[fat_souvlaki]

Well done man , good size too!

Same bait on that second one?

Regards john.

[mitchie18092]

First one a peeled prawn, second a yakka cube. Both unweighted - wouldn't have a sniff of the livies today

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[fiveflies]

Lovely work there and its great to see landbased fishers getting into the big fish...

[adamski]

Congratulations man! Great effort getting 2 in 2 days. Hope you're alright after the run in with the ray, I'm steering clear of the flats at RB til I get some waders too.

[APEX]

Great stuff mate! Awesome work hope to grab my first soon too!!!

[gianniz]

welldone mate.

Stingray looks placid but when disturbed they can be scary.

I went diving and when returning to shore, I was busy looking straight down looking at little critters.

When I looked up, this bullray size of a car bonnet was about a metre from my face and it had the striking pose with the tail up aiming at me! I nearly shit my pants! Whats more terrifying was the water probably a metre deep and 5 metres from the shore so totally caught me by surprise.

So yeah becareful of the rays