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Title: Over 30 KG giant kingfish
Post by: Mark Armistead on December 19, 2010, 06:31:13 AM
The fishing has changed a little bit in the past few weeks. The fish are now moving onto all of the shallow reefs and inshore, which means they are thinning out a bit. Good news is what they lack in quantity they are making up for in quality.
I had a group out a few days ago on a certain reef, lets call it spot X and we had some huge fish follow in the lures but not take them. Two days later we were back there and in the rougher conditions the big fish didnt follow they simply smashed the lures. We ended up with a couple of 20kg fish and then rory hooked up to the over 30 kg beast pictured. All of these fish were hooked and played out in 8 to 12 metres of water, it was a lot of fun thats for sure.
I now have Richard Foong here and fishing and weather are a bit tough, getting a few and broke a hook on a good one yesterday(bugger).

(http://s3.postimage.org/14w5axqv8/030.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/14w5axqv8/)

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Title: Re: Over 30 KG giant kingfish
Post by: Greg Burt on December 19, 2010, 07:32:12 AM
Having seen Tony's video's of the the captures I was amazed at the lite PE5 and PE6 gear they used, certainly bent those rods :D
Title: Re: Over 30 KG giant kingfish
Post by: Brock Arifovic on December 19, 2010, 01:40:46 PM
Bun,

Any chance you can put the link up for the video here for us to have a look at please?

Mark, care to share with us the gear that Greg is talking about?
Title: Re: Over 30 KG giant kingfish
Post by: Mark Armistead on December 19, 2010, 01:51:39 PM
Here is a link to the footage.
The light rod being used are carpenter Blue chaser, i will soon have a shipment of the heavier models on my front door. Cant wait.

TEAM YEEHAA-Carpenter 84/18 22kg kingfish stick bait (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_syE2v39Rw#)

Enjoy
Title: Re: Over 30 KG giant kingfish
Post by: Anesh Patel on December 19, 2010, 09:04:24 PM

Nice work Mark!!!