King spinning
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Re: King spinning
Great report Doug. Despite the fact you didn't achieve your target species...the pics are brilliant and worth posting!
Cheers
Jim
Cheers
Jim
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Re: King spinning
Try the Nomad Riptide 200mmDougieK wrote:scott__henning wrote:Need to go bigger again :thumbsup:
One thing with the kings, you might have better luck with a southerly, which will push all the bait and therefore fish in close to the rocks. Will make it harder to cast though.....
You’ll get one eventually!!
I've got a few of them just not this year.
If you had to recommend a couple of comically oversized stickbaits for local kings, what would they be?
Or the Chug Norris 150mm
That’l get em going!
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Re: King spinning
Doug would shore slow jigging work? Good way to target finnicky fish I hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAd3JJ-KfsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAd3JJ-KfsQ
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Re: King spinning
My understanding (although I am very much a novice when it comes to kings) is that they like a lot of noise to get them fired up so unless you’re slow jigging a cowbell it might not be enough to entice a bite.Bayrock wrote:Doug would shore slow jigging work? Good way to target finnicky fish I hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAd3JJ-KfsQ
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Re: King spinning
Look like perfect conditions.DougieK wrote:Fished the scary side of schank today spinning for kings and floating a squid strip on the low tide / wind change. This location is a rock boots / life jackets / time your walk in and out kind of place.
Zero action on the squid strip.
Casting bigger stickbaits as per the previous advice from Scott I hooked up hard about 10 minutes after I got there and ended up with another god damned salmon.
An hour after low tide despite the dropping swell the some water started to come over the ledge I was on. I tied the bait rod off and kept casting.
Aaaaaaaaaaand.... no kings. Ended up with a few nice salmon and observed the usual degree of mental capacity, people in jeans / thongs trying to fish. Running around in bare feet on the ledge. Fishing with 7 foot rods etc. I'm amazed more people don't get killed down there.
Casting a pe 6 10 footer all day is exhausting.
Nice salmon mate
It the but of the rod jammed Into to rock or do you have something else there
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Re: King spinning
It's a hard spot to fish landbased, most definately not one for the unwary. Nice effort all the same..