Big kingfish
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Printed Date: 10 Jun 2026 at 9:44pm
Topic: Big kingfish
Posted By: Finnigin
Subject: Big kingfish
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2009 at 8:56pm
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HI, My delightful other half takes people for a walk out to the bungy jump site under the Harbour bridge everyday and today she reckons she saw a huge kingfish cruising around just as they started to walk onto the bridge. She did describe it as having a yellow tail and being a big long silver body. I thought it might be a shark but she was pretty sure in her description. She reckons that she told some of the boys fishing of the wall about it and they all went nuts and started changing there lures and pissing their pants!! |
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Posted By: ski da mofo!!
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2009 at 9:19pm
stepfathers been smoked on 2 trips fishin by the oil tanks lately too mite be time for some upper harbour popper action!!------------- BIG FISH IS WHERE ITS AT |
Posted By: rocko
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2009 at 9:23pm
 YeAAHH! livies o0f the concrete
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Posted By: Tagit
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2009 at 9:53pm
Casting across the marina entrance again huh!! You know that if you cut the corner a bit when leaving the marina you can sometimes get 5 or 6 'hook ups' at the same time
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ski da mofo!! wrote:Posted By: fatjimmy
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2009 at 8:20am
| i saw a massive kingie the other day in less than a metre of water in the bay next to meola reef. It was in there chasing flounder i think. hooking a kingie in less than a metre of water would be quite fun!! |
Posted By: mike555
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2009 at 10:38am
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Ok
Thats does it, I am out there
Look out for red zodiac and flying poppers
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Posted By: BeachedAsBro
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2009 at 1:13pm
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You're probably right about the flounder fatjimmy. Some years back, when we were kids, a mate of mine landed a huge kingie from the shore in less than 1.5m of water on a whole flounder. ------------- Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realise we can't eat money. |
Posted By: Finnigin
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2009 at 6:37pm
| She was back under the bridge today and the guys who work on there reckon that there's usually a few big kingies cruising around each day. I assume that they must be pretty onto it fish and thats why there so big. Over 1.5 metres she reckoned. |
Posted By: fatjimmy
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2009 at 9:12am
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how many pounds would the line have to be to not get snapped by the bridge piles? haha |
Posted By: cornikinaka
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2009 at 11:21am
| Im goin down there tomorrow to nail one of them |
Posted By: Fish Dish
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2009 at 2:24pm
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Let us know if you manage one Corni. ------------- One more Kingie |
Posted By: BeachedAsBro
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2009 at 7:20pm
Hey Corni... if ya need any gear mate I got some pretty serious rigs... Oh and I know a great gaffman  ------------- Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realise we can't eat money. |
Posted By: cornikinaka
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2009 at 9:52am
Yeah you got my gear too Beachedas, didnt get round to going, few reasons why main one cause other half decided to volunteer me for  nephew sitting on friday, the day I wanted to go. Pretty sure she cant stand me being on holiday while shes back at work, could take nephew but hed start whinging after 1 hour id say. I feel a few day 'business' trip to the coromandel is in order.
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Posted By: mike555
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2009 at 10:12am
| Went out last night and cast poppers and jigged all the piles under the bridge, looked very fishy with lots of current but no Kingy for me |
Posted By: BeachedAsBro
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2009 at 2:31pm
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Let me know when you up for the day mish Corni... Probably be bit **** for the next week though given the full moon this weekend. But I'ld rather be on a ledge than on the sofa. As for nephew sitting, if he starts packing a sad I heard they pretty good under a balloon anyway ------------- Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realise we can't eat money. |
Posted By: cornikinaka
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2009 at 3:28pm
| Dont tempt me |