Fun morning trolling live baits for Kings on the Gulf
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- čas přidán 27. 01. 2019
- A fun few hours trolling live Mac's around for Green backs....
This time of year Pea and I love to chase a few King fish, Snapper fishing gets a little tedious sometimes and it's great to catch a few string pullers to get a bit of fun back into your fishing.
The plan was to catch a few livies off the bay and head out the back of Tiri to tow a few around the pins and reefs, I grabbed an anglers mate live bait tank from work to use and to see how well they worked - we drifted for a good 15-20mins with no results on the Mac's so plan B came into effect.
When we fish the bays for snapper we always catch live Mac's in the berley trail, so we dropped the pick and and set a berley for them. It's a great way to catch them if your finding it hard to get them. With in 3-4mins our first little bites started then the Mac's started to come aboard. I filled up the little PVC bucket while Pea fished on.
Soon we had 15-20 in the bucket with the little air pump going - the great thing with the bucket it has a zip up mesh top on it as well as a full see through plastic cover. This is great when you want to fully change the water, all you do is zip up the mesh tip out the old water for the new in one scoop.
We headed for Tiri and around half way we stopped and changed the water - the livies looked good but changing the water really helps to look after them, there's nothing worse catching them for an hour then arrive to your spot with dead baits. Once we arrived we changed the water again, but this time floated for a few mins with the zipped up bin in the water to get them swimming forward as well as replenishing the water. Pea set his first live bait out and we started our first troll - first pass of a pin Pea had interest and then line started to peel, bail wire over rod loaded up and we were into our first King of the morning.
It's wasn't big but it was a good little string puller and that's what we were here for, the inner Gulf holds plenty of 10-15kilo fish to catch. Pea got it under control, boarded then released - it was a nice fish to around 85cm. Our second pass Pea had set up another and going pass the pin he had another pick up, most times when trolling and smaller fish about they fight over it and mouth it a few times. This time the Kings won and Pea wound in to hook up another Mac, the bin was working perfectly for us but we kept changing the water after each pass of the reef.
This time I set up a live bait as well and passing once again Pea hooked up again - it was another nice string puller and another nice King around 90cm. We passed a few times with the Kings playing and pinching our baits, they are very cunning and hard to catch sometimes but that's what fishing is all about and keeps you interested. This time on another pass I hooked up to a nice fish, they weren't big fish but for the Gulf there not to bad.
Fight with it for a good 5-10mins I boated a nice fish around 95cm, Pea got smashed while his rod was in the holder (he hates filming sometimes 🤣) We lost a few more and caught a couple more until we ran out of baits, with our morning excitement done we finished of the day trolling a few lures among the birds with Pea hooking into another little King.
It was a fun day with a great plan coming together - we kept just the one as they have plenty of meat and you don't always have to take home your quote to have a magic day out on the water with a mate....
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Thanks for a great video!! All the best for 2022!
Honestly love it when real people shared these real and awesome videos.....I actually came to that area today...didn't catch anything but I enjoyed knowing that you guys are sharing what real kiwi fishing is all about....choice brada.....chur
Cheers n1
It's been great and enjoyable to share our adventures with you guys and great you are enjoying them - it's a good spot on it's day and should start to fire late spring early summer then the other side late Feb into early Autumn :-)
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awesome stuff! seems like a mean day
Well done Jason, I know how much prep you had to do before you even put the boat in the water.
Yep gotta prep well when your trying to target green backs on livies...
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Recently found your channel and I love watching your videos. I see potential and I think you'll grow into a pretty big fishing channel! Tight lines !
Cheers man
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Good stuff
Hell yeah fellas! Taking back a good feed there. As always, good stuff brother and I'll catch you in the next one 👍
Yip good feed off just the one and we sneaked in a few Snaps on the way home to :-)
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What combo were you using?
That's my old combo which was a Penn Torque 25N - had that on a Pioneer jig rod.
@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing cheers👍
Hi. I wonder what bait you'd recommend for snapper and kingfish when live baits aren't available. I normally go to rock fishing here in South Island. Thanks and tight lines!
Hi H
There are many baits to use for Snapper and mainly comes under personal pref but it's good to have a few different baits with you. We like to start with oily baits such as Pillies as these get smashed about and has good sent and forms it's own little berley. Once the Snapper turn up you can then chop and change - I like fresh Kahawai or Yellow tail (Mac's) Whole squid work well.
Live Mac's are great for Kings and Bigger Snaps where most of the smaller fish leave it alone until it gets a few nibbles taken out of it then it's fear game. You really want o have a livebait for the kings so berley is your key to get them coming in - not sure in the south but most times Kahawai are the first to turn up in the trail and put under a balloon is perfect for off the rocks.
Dead piper are great to cast and retrieve slowly rigged so it swims or thrown in the current and jerked about a bit, obviously a stickbait set up ready to go is always a good option off the rocks. Throw it around the ledges / corners white wash etc. King fish will take a mau mau occasionally or Trevally (remeber size on the Trev) even when using for a livebait.
Your biggest friend for off the rocks is berley and more berley.
Hope that helps and tight lines
@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing Thank you so much, mate! I've been only using small raw prawns and mussels, but it hasn't been quite successful in the last couple of weeks.
I will try those baits especially pipers and berley when I head to the fishing next time.
Again, thank you so much for your advice!
mean bro, thinking of heading off the bays this week on the kayak, any suggestions for a launch site?
Haven't been along there for awhile but I would either launch Waiake and play around Tbay off the point or launch Campbells and sit out bout 300mtrs south end....
Good luck and tight lines
@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing cheers will look into that when the wind is nice, went out o Kauri point, landed a 50cm moocher not far from the hole there, faired better in the shallows
@@poozandweeez - Nice - try coming back up towards Chelsea sugar works - less current but can be just as good fish...
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How were you hooking up your live baits and setting the hook?
We hook them 2 diff ways - 1 through the nose side ways or 2 under the chin and back out through top of the nose - we troll them pretty slow, pretty much just put the OB into gear and that's it so they swim really well.
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@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishing do u free spool them then put the drag on?
@@matthewslatter8791 - yip give them time to take it - they will play around with it trying to get it head first - let the line out as they play with it but not to fast so it's still swimming and keep the boat moving forward - if you use a re-curve hook which is better just tighten up slowly let the rod load up then lift to set the hook - If using a J hook just gotta strike when you feel it's hooked up....
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what speed are you trolling at?
I just kick the boat into gear at ideal speed (roughly 2-3knts) - don't want to kill the live bait just want it swimming nicely...
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Hello. Loving the videos. Do you know any good spot off little barrier for king fish?? Also are you doing any trips. Been on several charters and still no kingfish :(.
Only another note I am a video editor and videographer if you wanted and help with your videos I would be more happy to help??
I have my own CZcams channel. El finchy productions
Matt
Hi Matt
just love sharing the little adventures - use to be plenty of good spots off little Barrier for top water, jigging and live baiting. Haven't fished there for few years now so not sure how good it is now?
We use to quite like the NW corner to the NE corner - you have the little reef on the NW corner you can troll livies around and top water then mid way along the North face there is a couple spots you can jig and the NE corner have caught them on top water...
If in your own boat Leigh Reef is a great spot....
With my movies and editing I only have 2-3 gopro and a cheap editing package on my lap top that likes to crash every now and then :-) If I look at getting a little more serious I may give you a yell on it....
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@@Reel-Kiwi-Fishingthank you got coming back to me a appreciate it. Sorry I from not round here. Where is the north west and the north east corner??
Yeah sure... well I can put one together for you free is you want? And see what you think?
Ragards
Matt