FINALLY THE WEATHER BACKED OFF

After weeks of cancelled trips it was good to finally venture out wide to see what effect it had on the kingies. The closer reefs looked promising with good shows of bait but swirling currents made it hard to hit the spot consistantly and I just had a feeling we should move on to another spot. The move was right as the current was flowing from the north and a good drift direction over the reef. The first drop saw mutiple hook ups on big kings taking drag. Unfortunately one large fish was lost due to a braid cross over but a few were boated. Interestingly we jigged up two small albacore in close well off the reef, it's been a while since I've caught them in so close.

The fish weren't there in big schools but they were caught randomly throughout the day. I like it when it's like this as schools of fish up to 80cm can be annoying, they stop you from catching larger models. One client even caught a trevally,which is a rariety these days as the southeast trawl boats seem to have wiped the large schools out.

All up we caught about 12 kings in the 8 to 10kg range and a couple of 4kg models. The beginners on the trip did the best, it looked like the slow jigging was the best method and the green and gold spike jigs out performed the rest. More photos are posted on the web site. I'll have to improve my photo taking as the fish wre 10kg models but only look small in the photos.