Barwon Heads offshore

Yellowtail Kingfish (Scientific name - Seriola lalandi), Kingys, Kings, Hoodlums, Bandits or "Rat Kings" are a strong, exciting gamefish that strike savagely at a wide range of lures, live baits and dead or cut fish fillets. Victorian Yellowtail Kingfish reports right here.
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Barwon Heads offshore

Post by lauxyboy » Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:27 pm

Gday lads,


Bean a while since I’ve put a post up but we headed offshore yesterday for another Kingy bash after getting on a school on New Years Day,


On the water at 5am and first fish on deck at 7:20, after heading out through the mouth of the Barwon river on a full flood tide in calm conditions,old reliable just squeezed under the bridge, best mates little boat tricked out with all the best Kmart has to offer and whatever else we can put together to get us fishing :thumbsup: :thumbsup: , lucky we haven’t forked out the $100k for the 7m Barcrusher yet or we’d have had to wait for the river to drop,

Plan was to head straight out after other times fishing the river for a few livies then getting no result from said livies.

Straight out for a flick around the Canberra for no result and the swell came up within half hour of being out, 1.5M rolling swell 15secs apart, but glassed out, not too good but definitely not bad,


Headed out to 50m of water and burleyed hard and started to drift, was drifting **** so we did a bit of Macguyver work and threw in an old burley bucket on 3M of rope and bingo perfect drift, who needs a $100 sea anchor,

Got excited when we saw fish in the burley trail, first hook up not long after and about 7:20am, next 5 hours was non stop Kingy madness, 25+ fish boated, kept 3 all just above 650mm mark, biggest fish was about 800mm at a guess, 10+ fish were keepers, all caught on $42 Kmart Jarvis Walker whiteys in the 8ft variety with 600 junker reels, brilliant fun, had to work for every fish with about a half dozen dropped, by catch was a coota, a big arrow head squid on a salmon slug,

What a fu$&@ing day, wind swung south easterly at about 1pm so it was time to head in for a swim and bulk cans off mothers milk off the ice(Carlton Draught)

Filleted the fish and listened to some tunes, came home and realised me and the misso had forgotten our 12 year anniversary, whoops, good day on the water

Few videos, shithouse photography looks like Michael J Fox was filming for us, but first go of the cam on the stick

Cheers Lauxy

https://youtu.be/elb8IIXKtdw


https://youtu.be/YDm4c2Cnfeg

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by Kimtown » Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:22 am

That's great stuff mate and love the mcguyver initiative! Never thought to do that myself but now I'll keep it in mind when drifting for flatties offshore!

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by smile0784 » Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:04 am

What a day lol
Awesome effort.
We all hope for days like that.



Don't know whose worse you for going fishing on your anniversary or the wife for forgetting lol

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by Lightningx » Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:40 am

Top day on the water mate!
Well done! :thumbsup:

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by Yota » Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:42 am

Love it when a plan comes together.
Great report. Excellent results.
Don’t worry about the anniversary there will be plenty more to come.

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by purple5ive » Wed Jan 30, 2019 2:27 pm

WELL DONE MATE!!!
Not many can boast of so many kingie captures in one session.
Cheers

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by j_pap » Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:49 pm

lauxyboy wrote:Gday lads,


Bean a while since I’ve put a post up but we headed offshore yesterday for another Kingy bash after getting on a school on New Years Day,


On the water at 5am and first fish on deck at 7:20, after heading out through the mouth of the Barwon river on a full flood tide in calm conditions,old reliable just squeezed under the bridge, best mates little boat tricked out with all the best Kmart has to offer and whatever else we can put together to get us fishing :thumbsup: :thumbsup: , lucky we haven’t forked out the $100k for the 7m Barcrusher yet or we’d have had to wait for the river to drop,

Plan was to head straight out after other times fishing the river for a few livies then getting no result from said livies.

Straight out for a flick around the Canberra for no result and the swell came up within half hour of being out, 1.5M rolling swell 15secs apart, but glassed out, not too good but definitely not bad,


Headed out to 50m of water and burleyed hard and started to drift, was drifting sh*t so we did a bit of Macguyver work and threw in an old burley bucket on 3M of rope and bingo perfect drift, who needs a $100 sea anchor,

Got excited when we saw fish in the burley trail, first hook up not long after and about 7:20am, next 5 hours was non stop Kingy madness, 25+ fish boated, kept 3 all just above 650mm mark, biggest fish was about 800mm at a guess, 10+ fish were keepers, all caught on $42 Kmart Jarvis Walker whiteys in the 8ft variety with 600 junker reels, brilliant fun, had to work for every fish with about a half dozen dropped, by catch was a coota, a big arrow head squid on a salmon slug,

What a fu$&@ing day, wind swung south easterly at about 1pm so it was time to head in for a swim and bulk cans off mothers milk off the ice(Carlton Draught)

Filleted the fish and listened to some tunes, came home and realised me and the misso had forgotten our 12 year anniversary, whoops, good day on the water

Few videos, shithouse photography looks like Michael J Fox was filming for us, but first go of the cam on the stick

Cheers Lauxy

https://youtu.be/elb8IIXKtdw


https://youtu.be/YDm4c2Cnfeg
Thats awesome. Those 8ft white Jarvis walker rids are excellent for a cheap rod, cast really good too.

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by lauxyboy » Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:49 pm

Really was a trip for the annals, we’ve had some brilliant fun this year, getting our bag of big gumbos off the Dina, kingys galore, all in a boat that has kept us fishing all for years on the minimum,


It’s been a season to remember, and I’m sure we’ll look back and laugh when we’ve got the 7.5M plate boat with twin ducks gutsas on it,

All about having a crack and a laugh

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by lauxyboy » Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:50 pm

Somebody tell me how to post a few pics and I’ll putuo a coupla other trips out the front on here

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Re: Barwon Heads offshore

Post by Nude up » Wed Jan 30, 2019 7:09 pm

Nice work, will the new boat go under the bridge or will you have to launch at queenscliff

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