Pickles Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Second trip chasing Kingies in Sydney harbour was on Sunday. Weather wasn’t going to be as good as Sunday and the prediction was correct, a brisk Southerly sprang up about 10 am, but we had boated 18 kings by then, so were please. Lloyd (originally UK) had never caught a Kingfish before and was over the moon about their fighting capabilities. Rob had caught kings before, but never experienced a “rat attack”, with all rods going of at once. They were all caught in North harbour and on fresh squid (left over from Saturday) and live - small yakkas. They fish were leaving the big ones and only hitting the tiny little ones. Balmoral wharf is crawling with these little yakkas and it takes 20 mins or so to fill the live bait tank - trick is to use no 12 “mosquito” hooks. Quite a few fish stole the bait and were not hooked as, although they were numerous, they were in quite a finicky mood. Amazing how they can get the bait off without a pair of hands. We only kept a few for a feed and all the rest were released (of course) The rats seem to be getting bigger as winter approaches and water temp has dropped to 21 - 22 degrees, so they will go out wide soon to overwinter on the off shore reefs, with only the occasional hoodlum hanging around. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Great report and well done with the Kings top photos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmk1962 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Well done. Thanks for the tip re live bait. Cheers Zoran Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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