howies Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Planned ahead this time as I wanted to get out early on Wednesday, so Tuesday afternoon I headed out to west head and loaded up on yakkas, tried for some squid but no luck. To keep them alive I hang a clothes basket of the swim platform overnight It keeps them fresh for the morning. 4.30 I was up and out heading round barenjoey headland at 5.45, arrIved at long reef around 6.30 as the sun came up there was already 6 or so kayaks trolling around the wall with a few hits as I anchored up. I burleyed up and dropped a snapper rig down with some pillys and Lunds squid and instantly got smashed and lost my rig. I set up the heavy leader and sent down a yakka and after about 5min that was smashed but no hook up, the next one landed me a 75cm king, at this point I sent down the squid on another rod, every time I was smashed instantly and Reefed which I would think were large hoodlums with the fight they put up. I caught a couple of rats too, Now out of squid I went back to yakkas which I landed a few more in the 60-70cm mark, the biggest king at 77 was hooked on a micro jig which I foolishly used on my egi rod which resulted in the rod snapping in half and me fighting the fish with the butt end with one eyelet left and the the other end down near the Kingy, I had 4 legal on ice now in just over an hour . By this time around 20 boats had arrived mostly charters who were downrigging and drifting the wall. In the burley slick I had created you could see the kings swimming underneath it so I floated out some pillys unweighted and they were getting taken too but by now only rats were around. packed up and headed back by 11.30 intotal I landed 12 kept 4 67-77cm and was reefed 3 times. after years of chasing kings and only catching one legal so far, this was one morning I will never forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattGb1989 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Well done mate, sounds like one hell of a morning and some good looking kings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regan Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 nice feed of kings there good to see they are getting around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARC H Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Nice Mate there an awesome fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryR Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 sweet ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk1962 Posted August 24, 2017 Share Posted August 24, 2017 Great job and great report - persistence pays ! Enjoy the kingy cutlets ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebenos Posted August 26, 2017 Share Posted August 26, 2017 Dam!!!! Sucks about the egi rod they usually don't come cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reel' em in Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 Nice catch mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag117 Posted September 6, 2017 Share Posted September 6, 2017 What a day! Well done mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike89 Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Forget the rod mate that's a morning you'll remember forever! Great to see the big fellas start to show up in decent numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigma Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 Well done mate! Days like this can be few and far between. You won't forget that anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papafish Posted September 11, 2017 Share Posted September 11, 2017 well done champ! you nailed!!!! they should be more consistent when the days gets warmer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raging Posted September 19, 2017 Share Posted September 19, 2017 Going to head out to long reef for the first time this weekend. Anyone have a gps mark recommendation they are willing to share over DM ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsswordfisherman Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 On 19/09/2017 at 9:24 PM, raging said: Going to head out to long reef for the first time this weekend. Anyone have a gps mark recommendation they are willing to share over DM ? http://www.fishraider.com.au/Invision/forum/54-gps-marks/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raging Posted September 20, 2017 Share Posted September 20, 2017 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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