Downrigging The Cliffs
Out last week with the plan being, run 25 miles northeast to the deep reefs where the big kingfish live. Some encouragement with a marlin head right in the middle of the boat ramp:
Kings on the Jigs
Out on Sunday from Bayview boat ramp in Pittwater. Top crew aboard being old mate Drax and new super keen guy, Jeremy. Straight to the Valiant Wreck to load up on live bait. Lots of transducer interference from nearby…
Holiday Fishing
Christmas started early with an invitation from Drax to fish the Colo River, just west of Sydney. Green is launch spot, red is fishing spot:
Kings 'n Mahi
After a fantastic day on the wide reefs last Thursday, I couldn’t resist another run on Tuesday. The clincher being the ideal weather forecast. With the weather off Sydney being (mostly) absolute crap this winter, the…
‘I don’t think it’s that big, Andy!’
At BCF last weekend and bumped into a fan of the Facebook page. We got to talking and, being a generous type, he told me about a special mark they’ve been fishing which held a stack of kingfish. In 140 metres of water…
First Kingfish
Son Chris called last week to ask if I could take a couple of his mates fishing. A few quick questions and I found out they hadn’t done a lot of fishing – and they’d never caught a kingfish. With good weather scheduled…
NOW IS THE TIME! For a one metre Sydney kingfish
My tired old ticker started thumping like a trip hammer when I spotted this pic on Facebook last week:
Fishing Cape York
Fantastic buzz to step off the plane in Cairns last week, and super excited to be back for the first time in maybe twenty years. Back then we used to tow the boat to Cooktown every year:
Kings on Jigs
Down to Church Point Marina this morning at 4.30am (Sunday, 30th July) and loading my jigging kit on to Zac’s beautiful Cobia 24: