Decided to go out and prospect another new shallow water kingfish spot yesterday, weather was set to be perfect so the goal was to try and catch the wife a monster shallow water king.
Got out early and found some good schools of kawahai and had some fun loading up the tank with some ''treats'' for the kingies.
Headed over to our new spot anchored up and got the burley running set out two nice livies under balloons as only in 6.5m over water.
We were all set with baited anticipation....
After a couple of hours one of the livies started getting a bit nervous and sure enough we could see a big green back shadowing the bait, with the excitement levels rising we were ready for what was an amazing strike, the kingfish was locked onto the kawahai and at one point we could see the kawahai clear leaping out of the water with the kingi going nuts behind, after some big splashes and wakes of water we were on and the wife was hanging on for dear life as this green back took off like a freight train!!
It was well hooked with a bkk circle hook and I was just laughing seeing the wife in pain getting railed by this fish, doing well though and after about 10mins of line going in and then out we got it close to the boat and I could see it was of fair size and was definitely going to be a PB, so the nerves increased as I wanted to see it landed for Emma's sake.
Knots and hook held up (whew! as I wouldn't of heard the end of that one!) And we got her onto the boat high fives all round and and she hit 20.5kg bigger than her last PB of 17kg job done and extremely satisfied we put the monster back to fight another day.
Not to miss out we fished a bit longer and i managed to catch another great fish going 12kg which came home to the smoker, another great prospected spot that hit the mark. Who needs snapper fishing when you can have fun slamming kingies all summer long!! Liked!!