Frustrating Kings

[Duncs]

I spent most of yesterday throwing flies at a whole bunch of pelagics around Peel Is and the Rainbow channel. The conditions were glassed out and small pods of bonito, Mack tuna, Spotties, Kings and a couple of Longies were scattered around. They seemed to be feeding on really small whitebait. Mostly they were easy to approach but bloody hard to get them to bite. The kingies in particular were rolling around on the surface oblivious to anything I chucked at them.
I tried all kinds of flies from tiny 'eyes' to big baitfish profiles. About the only thing I didn't try was a popper.

Anyone got any thoughts or suggestions on kingie flies? I've hooked plenty of them off the rocks on clousers but I am yet to actually land a decent one.

My main explanation was that the very small tidal movement yesterday and tiny bait meant that the fish didn't need to aggressively chase anything - perhaps the bigger tides next week might turn things on.

Cheers

Duncan

[vince]

Dunc it is the same story with me, made special tiny silver fly on #6 hook 3of them together resambling the bait fish I hooked one only, and after that couldn't hook any for a week.
I tried poppers they just ignore it, over here the bait fish are drifting underneath the jelly fish, I have seen kingys takeing bait fish under the jelly fish hitting so hard pushing the jelly fish out of the water, you will be successful if you can make the fly skip on top of the water, like lock style fishing. keep trying you might find the stupid fish that will take your fly.
cheers Vince.

[tim_flyin]

Hey Duncan,
I have had a bit of sucess on rat kings on the south coast of NSW. The only way I consistently caught them was on big flashy profiles, not retrieve at all. For some reason only the bigger kings responded to a retrieve, and after losing a brand new fly line sort of went off the idea.
I might have to chuck a sickie and catch up for a fish soon
Cheers tim