JonD Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 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. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 (edited) Can only dream of pulling in stuff like that. Nice going Jon & crew 😁 Edited January 20, 2020 by kingie chaser 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackfish Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Great stuff JD and crew. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Nelson Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Some nice fish there mate and top quality photos. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Nice fish again, and a toothy mongrel bastard to upset your fishing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Top effort JonD - dreaming of “little kings” of 85cm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Well done some top kings love the photos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobycb Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Nice work team! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Nice kings there, well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keflapod Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Crikey JD how big are those hoodlums? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonD Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) Great report and Super Pics. Edited January 21, 2020 by Rebel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenno64 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Congrats that is fishing I dream of!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunaSickle Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Nice! Some crackers there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonD Posted January 22, 2020 Author Share Posted January 22, 2020 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!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Can't remember. It was the only picture show in town. Narooma is just a great place. Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crusher87 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 Hi Jon, what sort of jigs were you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 You always take great photos Jon! I wish I had a good camera man for some of my fish! Lol 😝 cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonD Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
61 crusher Posted February 1, 2020 Share Posted February 1, 2020 Like the comment about the rat pack following the rats around, another great report, photos & fish 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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