118 Kingfish gaffed in 2 minutes 45 (VIDEO ATTACHED)

 Paul gets the first metre fish this season coming in at 118cm.

 Gaffed in 2 minutes 45 and in the boat in 3 minutes

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Unbelievable weeks Fishing

 After a few donut trips the bigger fish arrived this week. Better late than never.

On Saturday a 94cm Kingfish was caught and on Friday many keepers. Paul landed 11 keepers and Mark a 93cm model. They werent picky on friday taking everything from yakkas, slimies.

Sharks like New Shiny Orange Kayaks

Not a good day to have no battery in my shark shield

Massive Snapper

Henry travels to Port Stephens and bangs this 90cm snapper on his 550 ski.
Well done mate.
This would have to be a record from a ski in NSW?

Not quite a metre

 Finally after a month of stuffing around with pesky sharks I landed a fat 98cm kingfish.

 Water was warmer, current was strong and bait was very nervous.

After spending the first 40 minutes looking for bait I paddled wider to the bombie and got drilled       straight into the reef. Loaded up the second yakka and almost immediately felt the lining peeling away to find another decent shark on the end of the line, for the second cut-off. I loaded the 3rd yakka and headed wider towards a massive bait school where I managed to land a 98cm king. All in all the fight took 6 minutes

   

Next Stop 140

Another good fish was pulled in Friday by Paul.

It went 132 cm weight 16.7 kg on live bait.

That makes it 2 fish over 130cm over the last month

136cm Monster King Landed

Sorry there is no video this time.

Camera fucked up and went into hyper lapse in the panic and vision was recorded at 5b times normal speed (unusable)

Got the early vision of the livey and a pretty uneventful day but unfortunately it ran out of batteries at the worst possible time just as the fish struck.

I managed to get some photos extracted from video on my other camera but this is the best I've got.

The fish was exponentially harder than my previous PB fish (124 cm ) but on an Accurate Valiant spooled with 100Lb it was up in 10 minutes.

I got a lot of luck. Despite originally swimming towards the bombie it made a huge mistake by changing direction and heading north. I reckon it was on its side mid water for a couple of minutes before i could make any headway with the line. In between it continued to take line and pulsate though I managed to keep it mid water. I wasn't 100 percent what I had though the fact that it hadn't come to the surface early was a good sign. To see the colour at depth after being towed 3/4 of a kilometre north was amazing.

Anyway happy days. The fish was way too big to put in the hatch. I had to put in on my lap and paddle the whole way in.

Steve nails a 1.1m and a 0.98m Fish

Some great fishing was had by Steve over July on livebait

Another metre fish was recorded, as well a one just shy of 1 metre.

December hoodies.

1.150m Yellowtail Kingfish 

Live bait did the damage. 

Banging da big ones.

Live bait did the damage.
1.130m YellowTail Kingfish.

Tuesday Morning Mayhem

Some crazy early morning action.

All on live bait.

Paul 1.21M 1.12m

Mark 1.21m

Ding Dong the witch has gone!

Yellow Tail Kingfish. 1.110m. 

Long wait,short story.

Bridled yakka of horse proportion.Sourced Stealth side. 

14ft of water with ground stood. 

Initial call.....Bronzey then eyeballed silver slab.YeHa game on. 

One rod,one bait,one technique..........lock it up and hang on.

Love the Accurate.

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

Same Spot different day

Monkeys off my back this year with a 1.17m king and a good size  snapper 67 cm

 Both were caught in essentially the same spot with the same bait with and a larger kingfish dropped.

The snapper struck 5 minutes before the southerly hit

Both took about the same time to land 4 minutes with the King on 80 and the Snapper on 30lb

Love the speed of the 550

video to come 😳

Breaking the 1.0m drought.

Up well before sunrise to beat the hoards collecting lives from the local wharf. 

Paddled out to the grounds then deployed live bait for two off 0.72m and one off 1.000m on the knocker, yellowtail kingfish. 

6.85kg for the larger specimen. 

Power boat came screaming over.....school disappeared.....Ahh, Sunday mornings. 

Straight from the horse's mouth

Report from Steve -slightly edited :)

Water felt heaps colder today as I packed my wifes thermals. Dunno about vis as it was cloudy but I was back to the beach at 7.15am.

10 knots west wind, decent swell. Got in line with point x in ...9m of water.

Yakka was in for about 10 minutes. Got hit and turned it after the first run.

Came in easy until I almost had it at the the leader  then it went ballistic.

I locked it up and went hard on it but it was nowhere done and went closest to flipping the ski i've been during a fight. It went hard under the ski near the end.

3 blokes watching nearby yell out. Is it a bonito? WTF

Nice on Steve that is either 4 or 5 metres in a year ive lost count. Came in at 1.01m

Arrawarra Mackerel

Had a awesome four days last week at Arrawarra chasing Mackerel.

Conditions were amazing except for 1 day with several good sized mackeral caught and heaps of livies around (yellowtail and slimies)

Thanks to Wayne on the green stealth for the tips.

Another Good Size King

This time to Paul coming in at 0.95m

It has to be the best season in years for Big Kingies at Long Reef

Another Big Fish for Steve's Bar and Grill

Comes in at 0.98m

Not counting legals and rats that makes it 2 metres, 2 ninety kings and 1 86cm snapper this season alone

Great Fishing

Grasshopper this is getting embarrassing all these trophy fish

Exhibit C Species: Stonker  Pagrus Auratus

Caught: Long Reef on Live Bait

Weight: 8kg (record Sydney Kayak Fishing Snapper??)

Length: 86cm

Age: Approximately 20-40 years old (DPI NSW growth chart)

Anyway congrats on your 3rd trophy fish this year you are da man (2 metre kings and the snapper). Kicked everyones butt this year.  It was well deserved you put alot of time in sourcing live baits at all ungodly hours of the morning.

Just pity the old lady couldn't get you to open your eyes for the photo (nice background though)