Boxing Day Special - Hoodlum eats a fly WTF

Kingfish 1.24m approx 18 kgs

As impossible this is to believe the fish below was caught using a clouser minnow on 30lb fluro.

I have no idea why it chose to smash the fly rather than take a nice fresh 8 inch squid strip on my other 80lb rig but it did.

Half an hour fight beats my PB by 5cm

Happy days! 

Ho Ho Ho

Some excellent fishings been had by Paul and  Steve with some nice metre fish

Pauls been absolutely kicking it out of the park with countless legals and heaps in the 90 range all on live baits.

Paul's went 103 and Magnum's 101

Another hoodlum for "The Chef"

Yellowtail Kingfish... 1.200m in length.

Live yakka did the damage. 

Great effort once again Steve !

The full story

It had been an uneventful morning.

I'd dragged baits around for a couple of hours with no sign of kingfish.

I'd had enough and was paddling in when my livie got smashed in shallow water. I knew straight away that this was a serious fish but there was'nt much i could do in that depth to stop it getting me on the reef as it towed me towards the swell zone . I eased off the drag and was eventually able to angle it out and pull it into deeper water.

I was'nt sure of the extent of the damage to the leader so it was a nervous fight but 15 minutes or so later and a half a k away from where i got hit, i got the fish up.

Then my gaff shot bounces off. I drop the gaff in the water (luckily it floats) and the fish goes apeshit and lunges back under the right side of the ski, while my rod in my left hand gets pulled across my body with incredible force and i almost lose that too. Probably luck to not go for a swim.

I didnt miss with the second gaff shot.

118cm ?? and a new PB (Steve I reckon if that was square on the mate it 1.20)

Photo taken by an old lady.

A puff of wind turns the fish on.

Pauls turn this time. 

Long reef. 

Live yellowtail. 

50/80lb braid leader combo. 

Yellowtail kingfish at 1.020m in length. 

Great effort!

Yak Spearfishing- a very steep learning curve

Thanks firstly for the edits Pants

Well its been about a year since I started  but Saturday was the day that I finally saw and nailed a decent Kingfish on the spear. Other than seeing a few rats in my previous trips I had never seen any decent kingies and certainly not seen any in a big school.

After 3 months of poor visibility I was hopeful that Saturday was the day to dive. It had been following 3 days of solid southerlies so I thought the odds of clear water was probable. So I packed my spearfishing and fishing gear just in case the water wasn’t clear and headed out.

First stop was the wall.Visibility was like excellent at 25m but the northerly current was strong so I decided to come in closer. I tried the point for about ½ hour without seeing anything  then headed south along the bomby line.

On the way I managed to shoot a small mowy.

Then out of nowhere in the shallows  to my left appeared a massive school of “metreish” kingfish who appeared to be attracted to my flasher. I was startled to see them and they were too.

They were moving fast and I wasn’t going to miss this opportunity.  

I also wasn’t going to try and cherry pick the biggest in the school so I simply picked the closest fish aimed my riffe euro and fired.

Thankfully it connected with the kingy trying its darnest to get to the bottom I grabbed the line and released the gun and reasonably calmly came to the surface. This action however whipped up a frenzy to the other kingies who thought they were in for a free feed.

I climb on board with the line in  hand 

There was no way I was going to handle the fish at the surface nor was I going to chance the opportunity to lose the fish by removing the spear.

So I threw it in the hatch with spear attached and cut the line from the stomach area . 

The shot wasn’t by any means perfect  hopefully I will hit it closer to the middle and closer to the gills. 

Frickin stoked went 95cm