Penguin-Eating Kingfish!!!
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
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Printed Date: 27 May 2026 at 8:19pm
Topic: Penguin-Eating Kingfish!!!
Posted By: Gatekeeper
Subject: Penguin-Eating Kingfish!!!
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 7:16pm
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Took the mates for a spin yesterday and hauled in a few good big reds and a few kingys. One of the bigger models i got we decided to keep for a feed and after dispatching it gutted it and put it on ice. On examining its very full stomach content (which is a little odd as most of the time they throw it up when hooked) we found 3 mackerel and one very dead Blue Penguin!! Was a first for me finding a bird in one but have heard of shear-waters being found in them but not penguins. What wild and wonderful items, animals, or just strange stomach content have you found in your kingy's? Anyone heard of penguins in kingfish below?    ------------- There is never a better time to go fishing than now, live the day |
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Posted By: Dan V
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 7:18pm
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That is both fascinating and disgusting. How big was the kingy?
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Posted By: Gatekeeper
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 7:20pm
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Was about 115cm, id say mid 20kg mark and hit like a freight train ------------- There is never a better time to go fishing than now, live the day |
Posted By: of2fsh
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 7:50pm
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Had a kingi that had 4 snapper in its stomach, best was 27 cm and fresh enough to eat, caught in 70 Mtrs on the sand behind horn rock middle of winter ------------- 2009 and 2010 BERKLEY SOFTBAIT COMP CHAMPS,Runner up 2013 ( solo),winner 2013/14 longest kingfish nz fishing competition |
Posted By: petethemeat
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 9:14pm
Might make myself a penguin-style jig!  ------------- 
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Posted By: Diver Dan
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 9:32pm
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Have found all sorts in kingfish - commonly leather jackets and flounder, but also butterfish and gurnard ------------- Proud member of the Glen Innes Spearfishing Club |
Posted By: cirrus
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 10:02pm
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Wow penguin eating Kingy. Are Kingis morphing into Kingzillas. |
Posted By: Gatekeeper
Date Posted: 03 May 2015 at 10:02pm
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I had a few stuffed choker with blue cod. No wonder they are in short supply. Might need to make up one of the Rat lures the yanks use to run across the rivers etc for Pike as a topwater lure. ------------- There is never a better time to go fishing than now, live the day |
Posted By: Tagit
Date Posted: 04 May 2015 at 9:54am
Just thinking about the live baiting opportunity 
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Posted By: fish i
Date Posted: 10 May 2015 at 2:01pm
| Have found kingfish inside of kingfish. They eat whatever moves when that switch flicks on. |