KINGFISH AND JACKETS!!!!

After the previous charter of little fish hopes weren't high for today's trip but conditions were perfect! With lots of fish caught earlier in the month and this being the first good weekend in ages, the ocean was a parking lot. It seems like everyone had taken up jigging! But there was worse to come! The current had stopped, the water was green and cold, full of algea and ferrocous leather jackets! The option to fish out wider was taken but fish were just as scarce. One lucky jigger caught a nice big squid on a knife jig. The other jiggers decided to swap to bait fishing and caught some long finned orange perch. The afternoon saw us return to closer grounds and all the other boats had given up after losing all their jigs to the dreaded jackets.For the next couple of hours kingfish were slowly added to the esky but you had to be careful of the jackets.It was obvious that the boats before us had lost lots of jigs as we were jigging up jigs with 60m of braid, must have been an expensive trip out for many. A quite day fishing overall but not too many jigs lost and some also recovered - looking forward to more current and the dismise of the leatherjackets.