Hi Guys
After the long wait May rolled around after waiting so long to go to the Three Kings, after reading reports and so on about the fishing there it seemed like it was never going to happen. I was trying to organize a trip there but finding it hard to get a crew together I soon found YeeHaa Fishing Tackle in New Zealand on the fishing.net.nz website looking for a couple of guys to join them so it worked out perfect for me.
We got very lucky with the weather for the trip as the trip before and after us got canceled due to big seas, this is not a trip you would want to do in big seas believe me.
We meet Lance the skipper of Enchanter and boarded the boat on the Friday night were we would stay in port at Monganui Harbour for the night, after a quick trip down to the local pub for a couple of beers and tea we were soon back on the boat where live bait was caught to take with us, apart from Colston who thought it would be a good idea to have a few more at the pub the night before and rock back up to the boat at 2.30am in the morning, well he paided the price for that.
The team for the trip from left to right, Colston, Brian, JP co owner of YeeHaa Fishing Tackle in Auckland, Lance the skipper of Enchanter Charters, Simon and myself with Steve the decky behind the camera.
This was home for our seven day fishing adventure at the Three Kings, Enchanter Charters would have to be one the the best live aboard charters in New Zealand with a skipper that puts you on the fish every time and the best deckhand you will every find where nothing is a problem, Enchanter Charters can be contact at the following website to arrange the trip of a life time
http://www.fishntrips.co.nz/index.html 
We had far to much gear between us as you can see, for some reason we thought we better take 3-6 combos each just in case, believe me after this trip the Three Kings is no place for tackle under PE6 so leave it at home unless you are prepared to leave heaps of jigs there.
Now I have far to many photos so I will just list a few on here, for a start I will get our best fish for the trip out the way as we all got our PBs on this trip.
I got very lucky, all the boys had a kingie of 30kg or bigger apart from me I was stuck back on about 25kg or so, when fishing out on the Middlesex Bank I hooked a freight train, at first I thought it was a bass as a couple had just been pulled over but when the colour of a kingie was seen after a long battle I new this was my big boy, I was unsure of the size but I new it was well over the magic 30kg mark, the boys were talking 40kg so after a quick photo shoot, we didn't end up getting the best shots as I was a very tired after the fight and so was the fish so it was important to get him back asap, a couple of quick photos then onto the scales, they started bouncing between 38-45kg and ended up between 41-42kg, he was quickly returned to fight another day, I was a very happy fisherman so I went straight to the chiller and grabbed a beer.
Tackle used was a Jigging Master PE8 reel, Jigging Master 450B rod and a Jigging Master 500gram rocket jig.
JP from YeeHaa Fishing Tackle in New Zealand with one of his big kingie's at just over the 30kg mark, there were around a dozen caught on this trip that were 30kg or above it was unbelievable.
Brian with his huge 45kg bass caught out on the Middlesex Bank, the bass dont look like the sort of fish that would pull string but believe me these things pull like a kingie of the same size.
Colston is behind there somewhere, also with another huge 45kg bass from the Middlesex bank. Colston was a very lucky angler who won this trip at YeeHaa Fishing Tackle since he brought so much gear from them, this was a trip of a lifetime for him as he also landed 3-4 kingies between 30-34kg as well.
Simon pictured here with his big 30kg kingie for the trip, this was Simon's first serious time out jigging but he had the right equipment for the job using a Jigging Master PE6 reel, Jigstar rod and a broken arrow jig.
With our PBs out the way I will add a few more photos of some more great fish we got over the week, we landed so many kingie's it wasn't funny, if you are looking to catch kingie's by the dozens over 20kg this is the place to be the fishing is the best in the world.
We had a few bass and one kingie to take home so we had a fair bit of work ahead of us filleting those, a bit of team work and we had it done in no time.
Thanks for reading if anyone wants any info about a trip like this please just PM me im more than happy to help. A couple of things to keep in mind is that it took us 14 hours to get to the Three Kings Islands and 16 hours to get home so if you are no good at sea this is not a trip for you.
Cheers Coxy
