Kingfish Advice

[fishyfrost]

Hi everybody,
Im from the Ballina, Evans head region do a fair bit of outside fishing off evans. Just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on chasing big kingys. What kind of techniques do you use and what kinda area i should be fishing. What should i be looking for on the sounder. should i be out wide or in close and so forth. Any advice would be helpful. Cheers

[tailorboi99]

On the sounder I'd look for good reef with plenty of hiding spots etc. Techniques I would try would be dropping down a live slimy mackeral near the reef and you should get a few fish

Good luck and cheers Tom

[Poodroo]

As tailorboi99 suggests they usually hide around reefy structure. They show up on the sounder pretty distinctively as well. Are you trying to get them on plastics or bait? I caught my last one by initially trolling a large soft plastic. We could see them on the sounder and my uncle requested that I wind the line in before setting the sea anchor to drift for snapper. I decided to let the plastic drop and then wound the line in quickly then dropped again. This action must have excited the yellowtail kingy into striking. The result was one broken stradic which broke off at the base when the fish went for one last strong run to get away from the boat and one nice kingy on the deck.

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t315/Poodroo/YTKingfish12-9-07.jpg


Poodroo

[fishyfrost]

cheers
nice kingy in the pic
I think we will be doing more baiting for them. How do they look on the sounder?

[lukesparky]

if you like watching fishing dvds try dave buttfields fingfish secrets its a good watch and you will find out everything you need to know from it

[Braddles]

Mate thats a top yellow tail king fish..... How the hell did you get him up and in with a broken egg beater like that?

Must have been some choice words and a lot of team work! Well done..

When I first seen this post - I assumed king fish as black kingfish (cobia)..... I have caught yellow tail jigging out at the 50's off southport, but I find they taste crap.... I then read a dpi research paper about how they are endemically infected with a parasite that is harmless to humans, but results in degreadation of their flesh when heated (cooked) - to produce a milky, sloppy flesh that tastes crap.... This must have accounted for the fish we were landing as some people rave over them..

Personally I prefer the big black king fish / cobia - much nice eating and go as hard, if not harder in a fight...

Regards,

Brad.

[fishyfrost]

yeh braddles i assume cobia have a similar fishing technique to yellowtail kingfish. i caught a 7 kg cobia bottom bouncing.. abit unexpected.