topwater kings
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Category: Saltwater Fishing
Forum Name: Popper and Topwater Fishing
Forum Description: If you're into a bit of action on top, this is the forum for you
URL: https://www.fishing.net.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=126448
Printed Date: 07 Jun 2026 at 4:49pm
Topic: topwater kings
Posted By: segador
Subject: topwater kings
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 6:52pm
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first topwater session for the season straight into the action all fish caught on carpenter rods and lures,anyone looking at getting into this type of fishing i highly recommend getting yourself some carpenter lures we have tried a lot of lures and while most will catch small kings always seems the carpenters get the bigger ones 20kg  25kg  29kg  |
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Posted By: Fishy11
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 7:19pm
 Vested interest maybe Don't get me wrong Carpenters are great but i've out fished anglers who were using them next to me plenty of times, with lures worth half or a third of a gamma, bluefish etc |
Posted By: robdunk
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 7:31pm
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Amazing where did you get those beauty's from? Good work |
Posted By: segador
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 7:54pm
i make no money from fishing I'm in construction
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Fishy11 wrote:Posted By: robdunk
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 8:21pm
| Would love to catch ones like that on a stick bait, Keen to learn more just a novice at present |
Posted By: segador
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 8:25pm
if your in auckland go into yeehaa fishing and talk to luke he got me started
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Posted By: alan syme
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 8:26pm
| Nice fish, well done! |
Posted By: robdunk
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 8:48pm
| Will do thanks, chucked some nomad lures around waiheke channel marker buy this morning few half hits but no takers, nothing big though. |
Posted By: muchalls
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 10:52pm
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Total novice here, my only top water Kingi this year (from 2 visits to a buoy en route to spot X) was caught with a Shimano Ocea Pilchard pattern, rigged with VMC singles. However, n=1: anecdotal, not evidence, as they say. But it was a nice first for me. 
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Posted By: segador
Date Posted: 03 Dec 2017 at 10:59pm
| gotta start somwhere mate 🤙 |
Posted By: Titahi
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2017 at 12:07pm
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Lots of options with Carpenter lures........ 
------------- "I love standing by the ocean and just knowing what its for" |