Botany Bay Fishing

5 minutes ago, ellicat said:

A couple of good sessions by the looks. Conditions looked pretty nice as well.

What size rods and line do you use ?

Hey mate had one overkill setup for the 1m+ kings which was 80lb mainline with 100lb leader on the saragosa setup
the other was a 60lb baitrunner setup
and not used on the day of the video is a 40lb salina 3 setup
as for rods 8-12kg setups and the rod that the saragosa is on is like 18kg.

Generally for kings this size its best to play it safe around the 40lb mark is good, although it depends heavily on where your catching them in terms of structure and depth etc.

Just now, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey BBF

Good video! Those are some solid kingies.

For some feedback, maybe you could put your speaking a bit louder (it's just that I need to decrease it for the music, which was nice by the way, and increase it for any speaking).

Thanks for posting.

Cheers Hamish

cheers mate, awesome feedback!
first vid with commentary so im definitely looking to improve

Jeez, havent the kings been firing lately in the bay,

We went out on 2 separate trips on the first trip we caught a total of 7 kingfish keeping 5 with the largest going 83
Then on the second trip we caught a total of 6 kingfish keeping 3 with the largest going 85. We have been fortunate enough to avoid the plagues of rats with the majority of the fish being over 75cm.

Live Squid ofcourse outperformed all other livebait by far, roughly 4 - 1 when compared to live yakkas. Both days we managed fairly high numbers of calamari first day catching 6 and the second day catching 9. Around 3 hours each day catching live squid to only have the kingfish smash them all within 30-40mins.

As always would love any feedback on the video as im always looking to improve!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9HMXhLzSaU&t=4s&ab_channel=BotanyBayFishing

14 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Nice video mate - popular spot by the looks of it!!  Well done on the two kingies - what depth and what size gear out of interest (ie. line breaking strain)?

Yeah its one of the more busy spots in the Bay unfortuantely. The first day i was running 45lb line with 50lb leader, My dad was running 80lb with 100lb on the first day and on the second day i went upto to 55lb with an 80lb leader. The depth was 12-18metres i dont actually remember  but it wasnt too deep or too shallow, there is like a hard kelpy reefy bottom there (that doesnt show up on the sounder) We have lost two anchors there 

1 hour ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Hey Botany Bay Fishing

Yes, that would be great. I am like you except my one metre kingfish is a one metre threadfin salmon.  

Cheers Hamish

hahaha yes im sure they would be  whats the fight like on those threadfins

Thanks alot guys!! They put up such a good fight!!! cant wait to crack a 1m+