Late Season Kingfish

[cobby]

Weather forecast scared everyone off from post dawn service trips I think.

Got me stuffed how they can be so wrong on a very consistent basis yet claim to be so right about weather patterns a decade or longer into the future

[nickb123]

were these inside or out mate? i was fishing inside a few weeks ago and sounded some up smashing the salmon and bait fish, but 20 minutes earlier had snapped my bigger rod and only had real light salmon and flatty gear on me i was fuming haha

[scott__henning]

Nah these guys were offshore. Only heard of the odd 1 or 2 getting caught inside. Tough to nab em when they are schooling with salmon as the salmon nearly always get to the lure first haha

[Rod Bender]

....managed to bag out by lunchtime on a day where the forecast was horrible but the actual weather was perfect!
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Good to see you had the brains to assess the weather on the day. A lot of guys would have written the day off with the forecast and planned other things...then thought at the end of the day..."geez, the weather wasn't too bad, should have went fishing"! Great effort!
cheers
Jim

[Flathead37]

Nice Kings there Scott, what lures were you getting them on? Kings on the surface is so much fun. Mick :a_goodjob:

[Uluabuster]

Good fish mate, caught any on jigs ?

[Scraglor]

....managed to bag out by lunchtime on a day where the forecast was horrible but the actual weather was perfect!
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Good to see you had the brains to assess the weather on the day. A lot of guys would have written the day off with the forecast and planned other things...then thought at the end of the day..."geez, the weather wasn't too bad, should have went fishing"! Great effort!
cheers
Jim

I agree Jim. Last saturday it was meant to be terrible, i poked my head outside about 3:30am to a dead calm warm morning. we were on the water by 5 haha. Turns out wpb was glassed out all morning, and no rain at all. Helps to be able to pop down to the beach and have a look, so glad i moved down the peninsula

[scott__henning]

Good fish mate, caught any on jigs ?

most of them were caught on jigs, 80-100g knife style jigs just on light gear. awesome fun!

[scott__henning]

Hand a few days off so I've had a few more days on the kingies, and it's been a blast!

Would have landed 40 between 2 of us to 80cm on Thursday, and Friday was a bit tougher but still managed 10 or so. Awesome fishing having an absolute blast!

[scott__henning]

Can't stay away, the fishing is just too good. Snuck out again today in perfect glassy conditions and nabbed a PB 88cm kingie, and we were bagged out by lunchtime!