Jigging Action from Aldermen Is and Cuvier - Early Oct 2011

Report from Carl

This one is the tale of two different four day kingfish trips!  The weather really mucked the first around, the next week got all four days in.   Regardless, we got all the fellas some nice fish.

Mark Bonellos group was up first and when they arrived it looked like all four days would be canned, strong northeasterers right through. finally on their last day before flying out we got a gap in the weather, not ideal seas and not weather we'd normnally go in, but we snuck out and got the boys what they came for, some big kingis!  Mark with a real solid fish to show the boys how it was done!

When one fish bites at the moment generally we're getting other fish piling into the action too...double time

Mark jigged hard all day and got the line share of fish on jigs,well done mate, hopefully we get a kinder forecast next time you're over mate!

Ramoun and the boys were next up.  The first day we headed to the Aldermen Pins.  Glynn was up first feeling the power of a solid Aldies kingfish

Ramoun was next and stoked with a solid 18kg king

Sondal brought over a new Accurate reel - the Black Dog - and he got railed on a fish close to 30kg that was no match for the Black Dog and Smith Nirai, we got it boatside and one touch on the leader and it was gone......to say we were gutted was an understatement, ah well....we got Sondal a consolation photo with a 22kg Cuvier model a few days later!

The boys were keen on some plastic action and we spent a bit of time the next morning casting some softbaits around the back of Penguin and Slipper, a favourite little haunt in about 8m

A sweet 10 pound snap on a 4" Nuclear Chicken grub was the result along with a dozen others for the pan

The boys in their element

Back out at the Aldies Glynn got into some kings on the jig once again, this one on his fav. blue and pink jig

We jetted in to nab some more snapper on the softbaits and just had to drop into some solid sign halfway back from the pins, a screaming 10kg Slender Tuna on softbait rod was the result for Glynn

The next day it was off to have a look at the Mercs and Cuvier.  We pulled a few kings out of Crackerjack, all spewing up little squid, a good sign that it is all about to fire up there, and Tobes called up to say the kings were biting at Cuiver.....I hadn't had a good crack at the kings at Cuvier since Kim and the boys were here in Autumn so we put the hammer down and we were amongst it, Glynn with the first of many

The boys jigged hard and got most on jigs

Most of the pins had good kings on and this solid beast came from one of the shallower ones for Glynn on lumo and pink jig

Plenty more fish on jigs followed then, one last one for Sondal before we snuck into the Mercs for some softbaiting

Nothing huge but over half and hour most we got a nice line of fish to take home for dinner at Koropuke, good fun

One last day at it and we shot back up to Cuvier. Sondal got bent as on his softbait stick on a nice king

The trusty T Curve holds together for Glynn ;-)

With Tony decking for me and a spot in the corner I snuck a sneaky jig down on Ramoun's 350JM hoping to jig one up for the fellas.  I came up solid on a freight train and the fellas wouldn't have a bar of me handing it over, a nice fish in early 20's the result, which we tagged and released

More quality fish followed over a great afternoon of fishing, Ramoun here with another nice fish

The orange spear was the hot jig for the afternoon

Sondal cracks into another fat fish on the jig

A nice double to finish off four sweet days fishing from the Aldies to Cuiver. Cheers boys!

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