queensland Popping for Kingfish at Point Lookout

[PlasticFantastic]

My initial fishing plans for the weekend were to just fish at Dunwich on Saturday morning for a few Trevs but after looking at the radar early in the morning I gave that one a miss. Instead fellow AFO member Gordo (Flash) gave me a call this morning at eight wanting to know if I was keen to go to Point Lookout for a fish. After getting smoked there about five times a couple of weeks ago I was keen to equal the score.

I was armed with the light plastics gear and could hardly manage a bite all day and Gordo brought along his dont argue popping combo meant for large GT's after one had a swipe at his popper on a previous trip. After the first couple of casts Gordo managed to have an army of GT's of about 50cm trying to eat a popper the size of a one litre milk carton with one bigger model hanging underneath the popper but not having a go. They tried again on the second cast and weren't ever seen again. So Gordo kept casting away and eventually got smacked by a Kingie that hit the popper like it was its last meal after Gordo tightened up the drag and figured out what had happened the fish was already in. The Kingie went about 5kg and had eyes bigger than it's stomach if you knew the size of the lure it hit.

All I managed was a Bigeye Trevally at Dunwich at the last moment before the water taxi arrived. All in all a good day out.

PlasticFantastic

[rosstralia46]

size of that lure looks like he was trying to knock the fish out and know wat u mean about the kingy having big eyes for its stomach. anyway good report mate

[Angus]

Hell yeah man!!!

As someone about to spend another week there thats awesome!!

Angus

[RyanG45]

holly hell thats a big popper nice catch aswell

[fishingnut]

kingy off the stones.....great work

[flash1980]

nice report mark would have liked the gt that was hanging around but im happy to have got a kingfish on a popper

[Master Sardines]

AWESOME work there... well done!

[Lumox]

Top stuff,great catch off the stones, the bigger GT would of been interesting!

[Do$tylz]

.....oh man.

Well done.

[tugger]

thats a great kingie off the rocks and thanks for sharing

mark

[Scope]

Phenomenal fish there mate - That popper looks about the size of a buddy bottle!

[waldo]

Hehehe looks like one of those beer can poppers they use for 25kg+ trvors up north. Nice little kingy that.

[Keen-as-fisho]

Very nice kingy, thoughts are the same as the others about the beer stubby popper :woohoo:

[wesfish]

awesome kingy on popper! if you never throw you never know :laugh: go the big poppers!!