King chaser Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) Long awaited fishing trip, weeks in the making began at 530 am putting in at terrigal boat ramp. No wind, overcast and swell was sitting on a comfortable 1.2 metres. We set out for Texas reef and got their a hour or so later. Jigging with 180-250 gram jigs were the order of the day. First few trips to the bottom only brought in some pesky barracuda like fish, not sure what they are but there in plague proportions. By this time a number of other boats arrived and it was five of us trying to get amongst the northern peak. We were marking a few fish here and there but they were not schooling and was the odd fish here and there. There was a good show on the sounder but all on the bottom (90m mark) so I don’t think they were kings. Come 11am and we hadn’t seen one boat pull in a king. In we came to a closer reef off the entrance and pros were pulling in Bonnie’s one after the other. We seen one pro pull in 10 Bonnie’s in 2 minutes. We figure it looked good and anchored up in line and sounder was going crazy. Trying to mimic these pro’s we flick hard bodied lures but could only mange 2 Bonnie’s. Not sure what these pros were doing differently but we couldn’t pull them in despite the sounder going nuts. We were running hard bodies of different colours on Fluor to braid into the school, scratching our heads and with angry wife’s at home we called it a day with Bonnie’s on the menu for tea. no kings only a couple Bonnie’s but better than any day in the office Edited October 22, 2017 by King chaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest123456789 Posted October 22, 2017 Share Posted October 22, 2017 2 hours ago, King chaser said: Long awaited fishing trip, weeks in the making began at 530 am putting in at terrigal boat ramp. No wind, overcast and swell was sitting on a comfortable 1.2 metres. We set out for Texas reef and got their a hour or so later. Jigging with 180-250 gram jigs were the order of the day. First few trips to the bottom only brought in some pesky barracuda like fish, not sure what they are but there in plague proportions. By this time a number of other boats arrived and it was five of us trying to get amongst the northern peak. We were marking a few fish here and there but they were not schooling and was the odd fish here and there. There was a good show on the sounder but all on the bottom (90m mark) so I don’t think they were kings. Come 11am and we hadn’t seen one boat pull in a king. In we came to a closer reef off the entrance and pros were pulling in Bonnie’s one after the other. We seen one pro pull in 10 Bonnie’s in 2 minutes. We figure it looked good and anchored up in line and sounder was going crazy. Trying to mimic these pro’s we flick hard bodied lures but could only mange 2 Bonnie’s. Not sure what these pros were doing differently but we couldn’t pull them in despite the sounder going nuts. We were running hard bodies of different colours on Fluor to braid into the school, scratching our heads and with angry wife’s at home we called it a day with Bonnie’s on the menu for tea. no kings only a couple Bonnie’s but better than any day in the office Nice report thanks for sharing. Did you have a burley trail going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King chaser Posted October 22, 2017 Author Share Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) 12 hours ago, flatheadluke said: Nice report thanks for sharing. Did you have a burley trail going? For the Bonnie’s? Yea we did block up a few pilles mashed some also. Probably not steady trail though, just every so often. Edited October 22, 2017 by King chaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam bros Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 Bad luck on the kings What size were the bonnies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smasher Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Next time you catch a smallish Bonnie, rig up two 6/0 sized hooks, 20cm apart, wire trace between them and wire 1m up the line to a swivel. One through the nose and one through the tail and let it run. You might hookup shark or something else big! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King chaser Posted October 30, 2017 Author Share Posted October 30, 2017 7 hours ago, Smasher said: Next time you catch a smallish Bonnie, rig up two 6/0 sized hooks, 20cm apart, wire trace between them and wire 1m up the line to a swivel. One through the nose and one through the tail and let it run. You might hookup shark or something else big! Cheers smasher, I’ll definately give this a go. On 29/10/2017 at 10:52 AM, sam bros said: Bad luck on the kings What size were the bonnies? Not bad size around he 35cm mark Sam! Enough for tea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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