This is a pic of a black king that me and a mate landed out at Murphys reef on the Sunshine Coast .. The day was a day full of surpirse we started the day with getting a flat tryre on the trailer at around 4am on the Bruce highway. Then arriving at Kawana boat ramp at about 9 am so it was a late start to the day. We then manged to get a few small reef fish, then Jon was good enough to land me a great sizeing whip tail witch as we all is know is not the best live bait but well we thought well we will give anything ago.. The live bait was hooked upto a gang of 3 by 5/o's on a T.L.D 20 two speed on a Gary Howard M10 rod... after a few hours of getting a few Squire and parrot.Then all of a sudden the live bait took of screaming into the distance,we were both unsure what it was at first.

After a half an hour of tag teaming this fish he came up and gave us a look at him we were both said were are we going to put him. You must under stand we are only in a 14ft tinnie . At first we thought it might be a shark so we went for a knife but that was soon put away, and the pumping and winding begain again as it was one of those fish that we were not going to let go easy.After about one hour he was up next to the boat and now we had a to find the best place to gaf this creature from the deep. The gaf shot was a great one at that right under the gills. The rod was put to the floor and we both draged it over the stern of the boat. That moment was full of high five's. The rest of the day was as it always is a few more keepers and a happy trip home..The black king went 23kg's. When he was cleaned we were shocked to find a whole sand crab in his gut.

We both have no question about two speed reels after that day the reel was second to none the rod was just a dream .. Please remember this fish was landed useing 13kg Platapuss pre test.. We both agree that light line fishing is the way to fish for all fish ... We both hope you enjoy our story as much as we enjoyed catching the Black King.

Jon M and Andrew A

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