A New Trevally Annihilator

We were set for our usual weekend getaway and Skipper Chen was supposed to give the green light. This time round, we have a Singaporean deckie on hand. However, Chen had to pull out as he was too dead tired after a hectic work week and little sleep. But he urges me to bring Jiaming out and so he being an awesome mate, helped me prep Brooker and I was off in a jiffy to pick up my deckie. Jiaming was dead set keen to land his first Sydney king and hopefully it'll be this trip.

We got to Tunks a bit late but nonetheless it was quiet on a Saturday morning. However, it was bloody freezing! As it was at the highest tide, launching was easy. Got to squid ground and there were already the weekend crowd working that area. We quickly anchored at the usual corner and didn't want to waste much time. It was getting colder and colder for no apparent reason, and the wind wasn't helping much either! To top it more disastrous, the outgoing current was horrendous, racing fast which even made my paternoster hard to reach the bottom. Jiaming was 1st to react with a cuttlefish on his kmart jig. However, that was the end of that wonderful jig, donated to a snag. I had a few 'huggy' cuttles but they simply would not get jag on the spikes! It was getting desperate and soon the 'window of opportunity' came. We left later than usual with only ONE cuttle to ride on the whole session!

With only a small little cuttle, it meant only 2 piece of meat after u separate out the 'surf board' (bone structure which can be used for bird food). I had to further strip that 2 piece into a 4 piece! So I took a piece and rigged it on blackhole combo and hack the idea of rigging the bottom JW. This time I only had a size 4 baitholder hook and just lightly pin the strip hoping it'll drift naturally. Not sure how long it took but it wasn't that long before blackhole went ballistic. I picked up and fought this bugger. Yep, the blistering 1st run on a slowly tighten drag sure gave away the tell-tale sign of a kingie run. But honestly speaking, this king so far wasn't as impressive as the previous I've caught. Didn't remember if I did check whether Samurai was gonna be spooled but all I could remember is, the king surface up quite fast. Then, Jiaming saw a king came up with my hooked one and I quickly asked him to drop his strip down. I then power steer my king over the other side of the boat and tried to net it myself since he'll be busy enticing the other king. It was quite a mayhem time I remembered but it doesn't really matter and soon I self-net a 63.5 cm Yellowtail Kingfish!

Well, at least it proved that kings do take cuttlefish! A pity the other king wasn't interested in Jiaming's offers but as soon as he dumped the berley, a school of kings surfaced! They were rummaging through the berley trail and I asked Jiaming to try cube pilchard instead. However, all methods fail. The kings were soon gone and what a bummer we couldn't fool those bloody kings!

Anyway, to compensate Jiaming's uneventful day with tricking the kings, he was totally destroying the local trevally population! HE became their WORST NIGHTMARE! Trevs after trevs he striked them like it was child's play. I was also having my fair share of fun, whilst testing out the Gamakatsu circle hooks I just bought. They were amazing hooks, as sometimes when you leave the rod on the holder, the fish will 'auto hook' themselves! Good thing too about circle hooks is that it always hooked to the side of the fish mouth, thus reducing the risk of swallowing it. Good news is, the trevallies are starting to run more and headshake less, yahoo!!!

Ronald