Curtain Kings

[Creek_Vermin]

Went over to curtain on sunday morn in sloppy conditions for the first time. Plan was to berley up and see what followed while dropping some baits on the bottom. Within 45 mins(and 2 cans) we had 2 nice kingies in the trail. Over the next hour we hooked five but only landed 1. It was the first trip out in the bay in my bros galeforce so we learned a few things and it wasn't a complete waste of time. Conditions were great for the ride home. Cheers.

[chicken]

Nice fish keith but 2 cans in 45 mins are you slowing up?

[Creek_Vermin]

Yeah it was a bit bumpy mate and the 30 the night before didn't help

[chicken]

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[elephrez1]

GREAT WORK

[shabss]

thats some good king there
where is curtain

[Creek_Vermin]

curtain artificial is on the inside of moreton island just north of the tangalooma wrecks. first time we have been there and wont be the last

[Adamy]

It was the first trip out in the bay in my bros galeforce so we learned a few things and it wasn't a complete waste of time. Conditions were great for the ride home. Cheers.

Not a complete waste of time??... a kingie like that would have kept me smiling for a year!! :D Good on yas!!

[Poodroo]

I'm with Adamy. To date I have not landed a kingy let alone a monster like that. Well done. Was far from a waste of time that's for sure. [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]

Poodroo

[ON-THE-CHEW]

What gear where you using to get that one in, theres a lot of structure down there that the kingies would love.

ON-THE-CHEW

[charleville]

Nice nice fish. ;)

What sort of boat - Galeforce but how long etc, please?


Congrats on the fish. :)

[Smailesy]

nice fish Keith next time invite the cowboy he is dying to get out there mate did angry man catch anything

[Creek_Vermin]

On the chew- was just using an okuma baitrunner with 25lb mono. the first one we hooked smashed me when i tried to lock up but let the 2nd one run a bit. As my name suggests i'm used to creek fishing for flatties and jacks and only use braid so the mono felt like absolute crap but i set the rig up for floatlining and unfortunately braid sinks

Charlie- G'day champ. My bros got a 4.8 galeforce with a 90 e-tech. Top boat and doubles up well in the river. We're planning some offshore trips and are confident it will go well.

[bidkev]

Nice one mate. You did well to pull it out of there on that tackle. I've had a copuple of small uns on float tackle fished half depth, but whenever I've fished down they've bricked me.

kev

[Hornblower]

Good fish mate, gotta be happy with that ;) ;)

[Creek_Vermin]

Smailesy- No the angry man dipped out this time. Must of used up all his luck at turkey. (lucky bastard) The only time he got angry was when we made him stop at the bottle-o to get another box. Too nice a day to get angry mate. Cheers

[StevenM]

CV thats is a cracker of a kingy mate

Cheers

Steven

[longtail]

nice kingie mate , top spot there at curtain


Jason.

[lattic]

Gotta be happy with that virgin run. Nice kingie.

muz

[shabss]

did you weigh it

[DaveSue_Fishos_Two]

That's a great Kingie CV! Nice looking day too by the look of the pic.

Cheers

Dave

[White_Steenbras]

Lovely King there mate, bet he was worth hooking and landing.

Cheers Barnesy ;)

[novice23]

Great fish mate!
I'm yet to make the trip to curtain, but i am always hearing reports of large cobia that frequent there. That's the first i've heard of kingies. Good to see them showing up in the bay.
A quick and probably dumb question... does the reef break or chop right up? I have seen it quite a few times from the beach whilst camping on the island and there always seems to be alot of white water around and no boats on it?

[Creek_Vermin]

chubby-12kg

novice-the waves definitely weren't breaking when we were there but the weather was good. Maybe on a bad day in close might get a bit messy. we were after cobia as we also heard reports around there but we never saw one. Hopefully next time

[marlinqld]

Can,t complain about a kingie like that................. i could catch one like that each trip out and still be smiling ;D

[gregdeeth]

great kingy, havent heard many reports from that bay area, always good to hear about somewhere different.

[slymo]

That is a nice fish. Well done. :) :) I have been diving there a few times and always thought I would like to fish it as well.

Novice, I think it would be unlikely for waves to break over Curtain. From memory all the wrecks are in 20 to 30 metres of water and don’t come anywhere near the surface. I could be wrong.

Slime

[shabss]

have you eaten it yet
was it tasty
haven't tasted a kingie yet

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[Creek_Vermin]

chewed real well mate. A lot better than I thought

[bidkev]

Great fish mate!
I'm yet to make the trip to curtain, but i am always hearing reports of large cobia that frequent there. That's the first i've heard of kingies. Good to see them showing up in the bay.
A quick and probably dumb question... does the reef break or chop right up? I have seen it quite a few times from the beach whilst camping on the island and there always seems to be alot of white water around and no boats on it?




Mate, the white water is probably when there's a king tide. There's a helluva tide race there and she does lump up over the shallow bits when it's wind against tide.

kev

[Rainbowrunner]

top fish mate,

We went there last year chasing cobia but all we could get was kingies like that. ;) Were you using livies?
The tide does roar through there tho and we found small tides and at the ebb was the only way to go.
we were only landing 1 in 10 at the most before they would do us in the wrecks. They do chew well too, better than cobes i reckon.

[Jiggit]

great hood mate, do u know if they travel further south in the bay..

[LedZeppy]

I can't see the photos, only people going "Nice Fish" hehe.. I'm missing out!!!

[cuzzamundi]

great effort on the kingies mate! just wondering, does curtin reef go right up to cowan point?

cuzza