Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

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: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by col1 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 4:32 pm

Surely 2 or 3 60+ fish is enough that's a lot of fillets, while we're at it I'd like to see flattie and pinkie minimum's increased as well not much meat on either of those at that size

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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by Nude up » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:12 pm

col1 wrote:Surely 2 or 3 60+ fish is enough that's a lot of fillets, while we're at it I'd like to see flattie and pinkie minimum's increased as well not much meat on either of those at that size
I am with you on pinkie and flatly limits,they should be 30 cm at least

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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by cheaterparts » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:17 pm

hornet wrote:Do we want to lose this fishery as we once did many years ago through over fishing ?
Limit is 5 a day per angler minimum size 60cm that's a lot of flesh.
Do we need a limit such as our Bluefin have ? 1 per day / angler
Is 1 kingfish per angler at 60cm enough for a feed ?
A charter boat with 4 anglers can legally catch 20 kingies per day... excessive ?

http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/fisheries ... l-kingfish
you are probably asking the wrong people --- why not ask fisheries they are the one that do the science and also the ones that set the bag limits

1 fish for many would be plenty however someone that only fishs once a year could quite easy find 5 fish ok ' at the current bag limits are king stocks reducing or getting better - Fisheries must think it is sustainable at 5 fish per day if it wasn't they would reduce the bag

now if you banned all fishing from motor boats that would work much better for fish stocks - I doubt I'll ever get my bag chasing them by kayak
My kayak PBs
Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Tail Tuna 86 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 44 Cm hood - Cobia 117 cm


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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by cheaterparts » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:20 pm

Nude up wrote:
col1 wrote:Surely 2 or 3 60+ fish is enough that's a lot of fillets, while we're at it I'd like to see flattie and pinkie minimum's increased as well not much meat on either of those at that size
I am with you on pinkie and flatly limits,they should be 30 cm at least
don't know just size flatty fillets are a good size snapper bait -- snapper love it and the picker don't get it off the hook as quick as other bait
My kayak PBs
Gummy shark 128 Cm - Elephant fish 85 Cm - Snapper 91 Cm - KG Whiting 49 Cm - Flathead 55 Cm - Garfish 47 Cm - Silver Trevally 40 Cm - Long Tail Tuna 86 Cm - snook 64 Cm - Couta 71 Cm - Sth Calamari 44 Cm hood - Cobia 117 cm


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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by Nude up » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:24 pm

cheaterparts wrote:
Nude up wrote:
col1 wrote:Surely 2 or 3 60+ fish is enough that's a lot of fillets, while we're at it I'd like to see flattie and pinkie minimum's increased as well not much meat on either of those at that size
I am with you on pinkie and flatly limits,they should be 30 cm at least
don't know just size flatty fillets are a good size snapper bait -- snapper love it and the picker don't get it off the hook as quick as other bait
I have never had any luck with flathead fillets for bait it would be the last thing I would use they taste so good

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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by Redhunter » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:27 pm

Why decrease the bag only now? The fishery is better now than it's been in decades, and only getting better (thanks to a crack down on the pros as 4L has already mentioned). This doesn't mean they're easy to catch though. 5 is fine, however 25 between 5 anglers on a boat is excessive. Boat limits need to be implemented...

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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by CarlG » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:28 pm

Nude up wrote:2 a day is plenty if you are lucky enough to hit a purple patch let them go there fighting ability is way up there, the more fish more people will get a chance to have a crack
x2.
Last time we hit them up, we only kept 2 between 3 of us, that was tons.
All the others went back.

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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by Redhunter » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:31 pm

cheaterparts wrote:
Nude up wrote:
col1 wrote:Surely 2 or 3 60+ fish is enough that's a lot of fillets, while we're at it I'd like to see flattie and pinkie minimum's increased as well not much meat on either of those at that size
I am with you on pinkie and flatly limits,they should be 30 cm at least
don't know just size flatty fillets are a good size snapper bait -- snapper love it and the picker don't get it off the hook as quick as other bait
They can make great snapper baits agreed. I've also found that a small piece can also help bring gars unstuck when they are a little finicky too.

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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by dazz999 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 5:39 pm

2 should be plenty for a feed

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Re: Is 5 Kingfish at 60cm per person per day to many ?

Post by rb85 » Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:36 pm

Personally I would keep enough to eat fresh therefore 1 maybe 2 I don't see the need to change limits unless fisheries science suggests it should.

Charlie Micallef stated on a Facebook page about lobbying fisheries for restrictions on large female gummies. The big girls are breeders but the gummy shark population isn't at threat so i disagree with him unless fisheries foresee a reason based on science not passion to place further restrictions.

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