Since getting the new house at Sanctuary Point and the new boat (real boat)!! A whole new world has opened up in terms of fishing....

A week or 2 back now we (me and Vern) were fishing JB and the Kings were about... For a few hours we tried to catch them, landing a few rats and losing a heap of gear to the bigger ones, before finally boating a 80odd cm one on my Shimano Baitrunner with 30lb braid...

Even with a locked up drag these kings were giving us absolute hell and stealing all our tackle and its th first time ive had a hot session on th kings like that!!

Fast Forward 2 weeks.......... Ok 3 by the time I get back down there...

We have re armed ourselves! We will have another go, this time loaded with some heavier tackle including the LOX jig rods! All loaded up Loaded with 50lb braid and some new jigs we will be back out there to have another crack and see if we can win a few points back on them!!

Anyhow, after a few Tawny's (had a few rums first) and a heap of reading about kings and jigging and so on I came across an article from a "Ross Hunter"... A Particular section on it reminded me of something JG has always said about the girly fish...



Anyways, If anyone else wants to have a read Ill put the link up.. Found it am interesting article...

Spooled.com.au Kingfish article by Ross Hunter

So as you can imagine, im sitting out here, 6hr away from the salt water just dreaming about next weekend!!! Vern is sitting about 200m away from the water, probably still wearing his lox shirt and playing with his rod! (Fishing rod)!! (Many thanks to JG for helping to gear us up and to the Viva Guys for their great gear)

Will lets yas all know next week how it goes!!!

Quite often used to fish with Ross out of the Hacking. He has moved on and runs charters at times, out of Nelson Bay and Sydney on his boats (Billfish). He was a VG fisho back in the 70s/80s and still is. Saw him at Tackleworld a few months back. Wow he looks old. Hope I don't.

I keep telling ewe to book into a clinic & get off the F'n booze

Cant succeed in life if your no 1 goal is to have a drink & dream about things

Wi Yu No Risten ????

Not even Fed & his mates were that bad hang on they were plic would go sleep in the car windows up doors locked just so i wouldn't annoy him in the morns but i used to jumus up & down on the car till the plic came out

See Rosco never drank & caught fish well he did but nothing like ewe fruit loops

60's was a different era for all the old farts like Frank but even when i got into it in the 80's girls were thick as

30 kg fish were not that rare even off the stones

The Nob was telling me he nailed a 13 kg of the rocks in sydney the udda week

Just thinking back (seems like only yesterday) and remember that we used 30lb mono as the max on our jig rods and Penn highspeed 4/0's. Caught heaps of big kings and didn't lose all that many due to being busted off. They took plenty of drag - maybe didn't realise they were really hooked I hooked a 65cm king in BB a few months back on 12lb line and it had plenty of opportunity to reef me or go around a pylon, but in the end I annoyed it long enough to get it into the net. I am sure that if you put huge hurt on a king from the outset, it gets a shot of fishy adrenaline and goes so much harder. I hate seeing Andrew Clark from Adventure Bound, on a king. He looks like he is hooked up to 240v and has to stroke the rod at least 4500 times per minute. 50lb braid may help you, but then again........

Rum, if you need any tips, just give me a buzz mate... hahahahahahahahaha

He can out drink you any day of the week

Those TV shows are a joke, bunch of cowboys & their roping techniques scull draging fish to the boat

Yes I do remember a few encounters with the kings in the bad old days, the peak was a long way out then and the shelf was rearely visited as it was wasting fuel.
Ross hunter was a mate and would drive me mad with his guitar and made up songs ( he wasn't really all that bad ) but we used to rib him around the camp fires.
He made Broadbill boats at campbelltown and chartered off sydney, haven't seen him for 20 years or more.
Back then our main diet was kings early then some yellowfin to 200lbs then we would get down to our bream outfits and play silly buggers with 20-30 lb kings just for kicks, then come into the bay around 11.30 and get 20-30 lb of Tailor, back then half the bay used to boil with the tailer and every cast with the wonder wobbler or spoon would produce a fish. Was common to take home 2-300 lb of fillets.

Just read the article and he has given some modern tips as well as old style tips in the article.
One thing that bought back some memories is in the photo of the jigs the one on the far right is MY jig. I made thousands of these jigs in the 70's and still have a few now, still have one of the original moulds and an earlier prototype mould that wasn't used as it had less movement. Made from Zinc. I used to buy up all the old car door handles, headlight surrounds tail light surrounds etc and melt down the zinc, still have some old 60's zinc car parts under the house somewhere.
Thems were crazy days.

Give um hell spud

Paul

We used to do that every week with gear & techniques, I sometimes think the internet takes all the fun out of fishing.
Before the internet it was all trial and error, learning from our mistakes but now it's just put up a post asking what do I need to buy before they've even hooked a fish & lost.

Great stories from Ross Hunter.

Yea, thats true, i bet we still get busted off by them though.. Main point of the post was to put up the point about what you old timers say about the early days of kingy fishing where they were a pest at times, wheras today everyone is going chasing them..

We had a ball getting busted by them and look forward to doing it again.

Oh well that leaves me out of any meaningful discussions. I still have a few "Irons" in my tackle box. Look like coffins but were good on the kings,