Tairua, New Zealand, Kingfish Jigging Day Trip - Photo Gallery 7 July 2009

Andrew with the first kingi of the day on the Zest Curved Slider 400gm purple jig

Skirmatas sticking it to a SOLID kingi on his JigWrex400 and Stella 20000, Zest Deep Slim Blue

And a BEAST comes to the boat!!! 23kgs on the scales a trophy fish for Tairua

Andrew with another one destined for the smoker.  YeeHaaa Red Pencil

And another one around 12kg about the be released

Back into the ocean

Michael "Shark" Gordon hooked the first fish of the day on River to Sea 400gm pink jig but got wasted on a seriously big fish first up, locked up Jigging Master 450 and Stella at full drag to keep the fish out of the reef (BIG! fish) but snapped the 150lb trace.  A few consolations though and some fish for dinner

And Paul Dyson nailed his first legal kingi and first ever kingi on the jig in style on the JigStar 350 and OJ4000p.  Broken Arrow 300gm jig

The sharks got in on the action and a few of the bigger hooked fish were lost to sharks and this mako ended up being hooked on a jig he took a liking to as well....

Even though they destroy a few kingis they are just awesome creatures.....

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