Top Water Kingi! Spring is here

A quick report from a trip I did yesterday! The conditions we beautiful when I got up and looked at the ocean, too good not to put the boat in for a fish.

I packed mainly for bottom fishing for the table, snapper and red snapper, and once out was doing reasonably well on them.

Was busy catching table fish and I kept hearing a big slapping noise. “What was that?” I thought in the back of my head it sounds a lot like a kingfish surface feeding.

All of a sudden the three schools of surface fish around me came together as one tight bunch and I saw a huge fish bust through them! with a huge slap. I was in two minds whether it was a thresher shark or kingi. A couple of casts later and I was hooked up to a kingfish that was way tougher than me on the day and he stole my favourite stickbait.

Not to be beaten. I tied on my only other option, a minnow swimmer, as soon as it hit the water in the middle of the school it got inhaled. and I won this battle after a long scrap. Just love this prototype reel in testing for OKUMA New Zealand loads of throaty drag and line capacity. Fizzing! It feels like spring has sprung!