Did someone mention "Kingfish?"

Yellowtail Kingfish (Scientific name - Seriola lalandi), Kingys, Kings, Hoodlums, Bandits or "Rat Kings" are a strong, exciting gamefish that strike savagely at a wide range of lures, live baits and dead or cut fish fillets. Victorian Yellowtail Kingfish reports right here.
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Re: Did someone mention "Kingfish?"

Post by DougieK » Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:22 am

Looks like the sun is well and truly up, fish early mate.
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Post by Wolly Bugger » Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:25 am

There was one bloke, who had maybe 6-8 rods out, he took up at least 3-4 car lengths effectively blocking any one else. Another bloke had his sway in front of his car, so it looks like a few pulled all nighters

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Post by Wolly Bugger » Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:27 am

DougieK wrote:Looks like the sun is well and truly up, fish early mate.
We were there at first light, took the photos afterwards

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Re: Did someone mention "Kingfish?"

Post by CarlG » Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:29 am

Wolly Bugger wrote:There was one bloke, who had maybe 6-8 rods out, he took up at least 3-4 car lengths effectively blocking any one else. Another bloke had his sway in front of his car, so it looks like a few pulled all nighters
That's what we did..Doug had morphed into a piece of railing by the time Ads and I got there..
Go hard, or don't go.
Or go sort of fairly hard, but not so hard as to want to do strange things with kingy heads..

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Post by DougieK » Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:33 am

I literally spent 4 days on that break wall. The boys had the presence of mind to park 10ish metres behind me and we spread out in between the cars. I don't htink i saw a fish landed between about 10.30am and 8pm
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Post by Scraglor » Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:03 am

I thought I got onto a Kingy yesterday. I was out chasing whiting in westernport, and had a massive screaming run, got it to the boat to see a silver and yellow torpedo shaped fish coming up, lost my ****. Turned out it was the biggest bloody yakka I have ever seen in my life. Would have been the better part of 50cm.

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Re: Did someone mention "Kingfish?"

Post by CarlG » Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:18 am

Scraglor wrote:I thought I got onto a Kingy yesterday. I was out chasing whiting in westernport, and had a massive screaming run, got it to the boat to see a silver and yellow torpedo shaped fish coming up, lost my sh*t. Turned out it was the biggest bloody yakka I have ever seen in my life. Would have been the better part of 50cm.

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I'm trying really hard not to laugh Scrags..

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Re: Did someone mention "Kingfish?"

Post by Buckle&scream » Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:02 pm

Scraglor wrote:I thought I got onto a Kingy yesterday. I was out chasing whiting in westernport, and had a massive screaming run, got it to the boat to see a silver and yellow torpedo shaped fish coming up, lost my sh*t. Turned out it was the biggest bloody yakka I have ever seen in my life. Would have been the better part of 50cm.

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Lol that's a big yakka!!

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Re: Did someone mention "Kingfish?"

Post by DougieK » Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:28 pm

Scraglor wrote:I thought I got onto a Kingy yesterday. I was out chasing whiting in westernport, and had a massive screaming run, got it to the boat to see a silver and yellow torpedo shaped fish coming up, lost my sh*t. Turned out it was the biggest bloody yakka I have ever seen in my life. Would have been the better part of 50cm.

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How much freaking yakka did you hook?
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Post by 4liters » Sun Jan 31, 2016 1:43 pm

Scraglor wrote:I thought I got onto a Kingy yesterday. I was out chasing whiting in westernport, and had a massive screaming run, got it to the boat to see a silver and yellow torpedo shaped fish coming up, lost my sh*t. Turned out it was the biggest bloody yakka I have ever seen in my life. Would have been the better part of 50cm.

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lol
Didn't know yakkas grew that big, was it one of those Cowanyoung or something?
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