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Few kings 20 Jan 2020


JonD

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Haven't been able to wrong lately on the kings, especially finding the bigger fish among the rats. As mentioned in another thread on  Montague island there are simply a heap of boats following boats out there at the moment. This is fine but the fact you have 50+ boats motoring and running all sorts of powered transducers certainly has an effect on the fish in my opinion. Rather than learning to use sounders to find fish I guess people are just lazy and would rather rush around a boat that has hooked a rat.

The benefit of having a rib as a fishing boat is that most people think you are just out there for a joy ride. The fact we stay away from the crowds must also confirm we are just out there bobbing around for fun!!!

After a morning of constant hooking into fish from 85cm + I was amazed by the amount of people back at the ramp saying there were only rats out there. After my daughter finished her shift on the charters we headed back out for an afternoon session. Once again we simply found bigger fish on the sounder and dropped straight onto them. By late afternoon the bronzies were taking far to many jigs not to mention a few good kings over the metre, so we called it a day and went in for a few urchins and abs.

Estemated 40-50 fish, none lost to seals but the bronzies did hit us hard late in the day.

 

The hordes.

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We were getting them mostly in the 85-95cm, however we did pull the hook   (Snapped the hook rigging) on one well over the metre at the boat. After the first few fish we didn't bother measuring any more but I wished we checked the last fat one in the bottom king photo but he tossed it back as soon as I took the photo. It was certainly a hectic session.

Headed back out there to take the kids for a snorkel with the seals this morning. Couldn't help but drop a couple of jigs straight onto kings again, released them and left as soon as the followers honed in on us.

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Hi,

You talk about the Hordes of boats, looks like the Spanish Armarda.

I use to fish at Narooma in my teen age years.

Is the old theatre still there with its wooden floors. Use to roll Jaffas down those floors on Saturday Afternoon.

Cheers.

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5 hours ago, Rebel said:

Hi,

You talk about the Hordes of boats, looks like the Spanish Armarda.

I use to fish at Narooma in my teen age years.

Is the old theatre still there with its wooden floors. Use to roll Jaffas down those floors on Saturday Afternoon.

Cheers.

Do you mean the kinema, if so it's still much the same!!!!

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On 1/29/2020 at 10:43 AM, crusher87 said:

Hi Jon, what sort of jigs were you using? 

Pretty much any jig, even homemade stainless bars with hooks and little rubber squid were working well. If they get picky the black magic flipper jigs have been deadly on them, these are a pretty slow action lure that the kngs seem to prefer over high speed jigging at the moment. 

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