Timid Kingfish
- scott__henning
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Timid Kingfish
I was out fishing yesterday and came across a large school (possibly several schools) of kingies. It's the first time ive ever had the chance to try and get one down here in victoria, but try as I might they were not interested in anything I had to offer! I know kingfish can be hard to entice sometimes, but it was very frustrating!
I tried livebait (yakkas), dead chunks of bait (yakka, pilchard), surface poppers, hardbodied lures which i guess look like pilchards, deep divers, and knife jigs.
I did have 1 kingie follow up the knife jig but he didnt get it, so that was also annoying.
Anyway does anyone have any tips on what else I can try to get these kingies interested? I want to try live squid, but I have never caught a squid before so that is proving difficult.
I tried livebait (yakkas), dead chunks of bait (yakka, pilchard), surface poppers, hardbodied lures which i guess look like pilchards, deep divers, and knife jigs.
I did have 1 kingie follow up the knife jig but he didnt get it, so that was also annoying.
Anyway does anyone have any tips on what else I can try to get these kingies interested? I want to try live squid, but I have never caught a squid before so that is proving difficult.
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Re: Timid Kingfish
could have tried some plastics, or the halco twisties?
i would have been happy with just seeing them around lol.
i would have been happy with just seeing them around lol.
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- scott__henning
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Re: Timid Kingfish
Heading back out tomorrow I'll take some with me. Yes I was the same, as frustrating as it was it was very exciting, there were hundreds in the water all coming right up to the back of the boatpurple5ive wrote:could have tried some plastics, or the halco twisties?
i would have been happy with just seeing them around lol.
- scott__henning
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Re: Timid Kingfish
:shutup: :mrgreen:Fishsnipper wrote:OK, you tell me where they are and I will give you some info. :icon_lolz: lol
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Re: Timid Kingfish
IF THEY DO THAT THIS TIME be ready with a baseball batscott__henning wrote:purple5ive wrote:could have tried some plastics, or the halco twisties?
there were hundreds in the water all coming right up to the back of the boat
- scott__henning
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Re: Timid Kingfish
haha ill have the flying gaff ready!
just got a payrise today, so thought i'd celebrate with a new snapper rod. got a LOX iridium kingfish rod, might have to give it a flick to the kingies, maybe they will be so impressed with my new rod they will jump onto the hook!
just got a payrise today, so thought i'd celebrate with a new snapper rod. got a LOX iridium kingfish rod, might have to give it a flick to the kingies, maybe they will be so impressed with my new rod they will jump onto the hook!