I regularly fished 22 and 23. When it’s on and they are of size it incredible fishing. I took a Pom and a Aussie who were bottom bouncers and showed them how to do the duck dance with jig. 27 drops. 27 kingfish. All but 5 legal and kept two 15 and 17 KGs. They were blown away. I went back th3 next weekend and similar action then not again for rest of season like that. Also cruising back to bar and find working birds or big schools on sounder and have a fe pumps can pay off. West coast swell like it is you can almost just hold the rod and the jig lifts 3m off the bottom ha 

Ok I haven't been to the 23, same track out as the 22?

There are a lot of kings out west. Mind you I am only guessing as I have seen a few monsters caught in the Manukau over the years and they seem to disappear in winter so they have to come from somewhere. The good guys seem to regularly get 20kg jobbies from the harbour but I'm not one of those. My personal best out west (poet Smudge) was 23 kg

tjm wrote: Nothing wrong with a 23 kg King Smudge

Yeh I think the lack of structure doesn't help, I have come across some pinnacles that aren't on the maps by chance but haven't bothered to jig around them yet. Judging by the large amounts of bait fish around last weekend no doubt there will be some good sized Kings around but catching them is another matter.

Will do,  ours have only been around the 10 kg mark from out there, the larger ones were from the east coast