Having had a late
night the night before I was tossing up as to whether to head out for some
fishing. I wanted to check out a spot on the Manukau Harbour that was tide dependent and it would be another 2 weeks till I had another chance to have a
look.
The wind has been
dying off way to late this year and conditions looked good so I headed out.
Conditions were
great but I couldn’t get round to where I wanted but managed to get a good rock
ledge.
I threw in a few
pilchard chunks and got to fishing stripping hard to see if there were any
kahawai then slowing it down. I changed flies to new untested fly and had a few
snapper in the bag. They were undersized so threw them back. Then something big
hit. As I was fishing for snapper that’s what I thought it was but after the
first good run into the backing I thought maybe it was a kahawai. But I was
struggling to get it back under control. Every time I got some line in it would
be back out again. Finally I started gaining some ground and then I saw a flash
of a yellow tail near the surface. Kingifsh! Whoo hoo!!Holy Freakin c#@P!
I managed to get it
close to the rocks but it was so heavy I was still struggling a bit. A
bait-fisho next to me(yes you heard that right) helped bring it onto the rocks
and also had a camera to take a Kodak moment before releasing.
I have been wanting
to catch one of these but never would have thought I would catch one on a size
2 Clouser blind fishing an area I have never fished.
I am absolutely
stoked and now looking forward to doing it again!
