Jimmy nail, Boulder and I headed out for a day on the Briney with Carl and Tony at Epic yesterday and after some lumpy weather a day or two prior, a mighty fine day it was too. 

The plan was to smash a few kings early then tow a few teasers around and then see if we could switch one on 10kg or on a stickbait.  Part A went absolutely to plan with Jimmy and Boulder landing a couple of fish in quick succession that were called in the +20kg bracket and a few smaller fish too but all good scrappers and serious tussles. Jimmy had a Canyon reel or two to try out and they certainly looked and did the business. Heaps of drag and solid kit.

So then it was out with a teaser or two and off we trolled. And towed.  And trolled some more.  We heard Bruce Ellwood’s daughter hooked and boated a nice stripey at the Hook on their 6.1 centre console Extreme (sounded like it went 131kg – nice work for a junior angler) and John Neighbours on infinity tagged and released one just south of the hook.  And we continued to tow our teasers around for quite some time.  We did get one random shot but it didn’t stay so will forever be an identified beast that didn’t like the look of a very sharp looking crew on Epic maybe…. 

Back to the spot for a few more kings and the bite was still pretty hot with mostly large aggressive string pullers scoffing livies like kids with jelly beans.  More bent arms and it was all on. We landed a very healthy king that had been previously tagged which was a first for me.

On our way in, a couple of hook-ups and one to Sea-Cruiser  with John from Yeeha on it about half a dozen stones’ throw from us.  Isn’t that always the way?
Anyhow, it was a day of great company, an awesome crew and another bloody top day out Carl and Tony. Thanks heaps and looking forward to catching up again soon.

And a few pix to really tell the story....

those are solid kings!

Your king was originally tagged by Tobes last year in June m8 up at the pins

we got three tag results back in the last week, most had put on about 5 kegs in 2/3 years. with your one there might have been a mix up between cards in a flurry when tobes measured originally as it went backwards, good result seeing it come back in good nick tho 

Grunta   that is a sensational fishery down there [/QUOTE wrote: repped <

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Now that's fishing!
great pics, cheers guys

Great Pics, nice one James way to blood those new Canyons

Nicely done as always Carl, some great fishing to be had, the place is just magic for sure...Shame the Marlin didn't bite like the Kingies on Sunday James.....

Awesome! I'd love to hear the audio that would go with that last pic . Probably not for the ears of the faint hearted!

Nicely done Guys and by the look of it, some great fishing. Any caught with Jigs?. How did that hs15 perform Jimmy?