Pickles Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 (edited) After a previous day on the Hawkesbury catching Flatties and Jewies, I was missing the pull of noble Seriola lalndi (Yelowtail kingfish) so headed to my favourite haunt - Sydney Harbour, even though conditions were predicted to be less than Ideal. I knew fellow raider “Gordo retired” was going to be out and was going to join him at the fads chasing Dollies, but every time I rang to touch base he said “got to go - fish on” and thought he was trying to avoid me. Turned out he was right. I had newbie Ian with me and the day started pretty slowly with plenty of Yakkas, but very few squid. Our first drop at South head resulted in a blinding run, but busted off (shallow reef and drag not tight enough - Ian learned a lot on Thursday). We tried the North and God answered our prayers, boating three sub 70 kings. The smallest a baby, going 57 (photo), but put up a good account of itself. The wind picked up and seas getting sloppy so we came into Clifton Gardens and saw another fisho’ (Ross) there, who was drifting, but had no livies down. So I flicked him 6 little Yakkas (we’d used all the squid by then) and encouraged him to start a Fish Raider account. He said he often goes on, but doesn’t post anything, so Ross if you’re reading this, sign up bro and welcome aboard. Another good day with mates in Gods great outdoors. Edited March 7, 2021 by Pickles Spelling 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I've got to have another go at the Kingies! Such fun. bn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish-aholic Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Every time I read your report I just go “wow! What an amazing day he had”. You are a true King Slayer. Hats off to you mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Great report. Nothing like a day on the Harbour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordoRetired Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Promise I was not trying to avoid you, every time you called it bought me luck, like it was divine intervention. 🙂 Glad that you had a good day. The 2 Kings we got were both under sized, but even so they do go hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross_P Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Hi Pickles, Very nice to meet you on Thursday and thanks very much for the yellowtail, You encouraged me to sign up so here I am. I tried a little longer at Clifton with no luck so I went out to the old man's hat, few drifts with the livies and hooked a couple of hard fighting 60cm kings, great fun but no dinner. Collected my crab pots from Rose Bay later and only 1 female with eggs returned. Has been very poor with crabs this year, not sure why? Cheers Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingie chaser Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 On 3/6/2021 at 1:46 AM, big Neil said: I've got to have another go at the Kingies! Such fun. bn Who need kingies when you can catch Mako's instead BN, even more fun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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