Monster 30kg Kingfish Off My Kayak In Auckland Harbour!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2019
- We made a last minute call to head down to the local kayak fishing spot at 5pm in the evening to hopefully get some dinner. The water at my chosen spot was real shallow, only about 3 meters at low tide with a muddy bottom. Snapper were biting all through the change of light and I managed a total of 4 keepers with the biggest being 53cm before hooking up to something powerful just as the sun went down. The first run pulled 50 meters of drag and towed my kayak and anchor 100 meters across the bay before the fish dived downwards. Fought the fish for a total of about 30 minutes but only managed to record 11 minutes of it. You must be careful when night fishing off a kayak as it is difficult for boats to see you and accidents could happen very easily. The fish ended up being a huge Yellowtail Kingfish rather than a big stingray or shark, which is a pretty rare catch within the Auckland City Harbour, as big kingi s generally prefer deep open water. Was very happy to be able to release the fish without it having any hooks or sinkers still attached to it, unlike what would've happened if the line was to be snapped. Estimated 1.35 meters long and 25-30 kilograms.
Kayak:
Kingi Kayak Ultimate 3.95L
Gear:
Shimano 10-15kg Aquatip rod
Shimano Baitrunner 8000D reel
8kg Sufix monofilament line with 60lb Black Magic leader
Black Magic 5/0 KL recurve hooks
Camera:
GoPro Hero 6 Black
Music:
Fluffing a Duck by Kevin MacLeod - บันเทิง
EPIC battle bro. Thats massive for the harbour and off a kayak. You wont ever forget that encounter. And some decent snaps to go home with too. Well done and good on ya for letting it go. Awesome.....
Thanks bro yea far out was definitely not expecting that 😂 probably used up all my fishing luck for the rest of the year.. don't be surprised if I don't catch anything for a while 😂
@@saltnfreshwaternz1974 lol. I see your almost on a 1000 subs, that's awesome bro. Bet this vid gets you over that mark. Well deserved too.
damn thats a solid king for sure! its a shame that the gopro had to go flat at the worse times
Thanks mate! to be honest, nothing much really happened after the battery went out. just mucked around for a little bit before sending him back.
Great effort!
Thank you!!
Awesome!! Great vid!
Thanks mate!!
Haha thats insane mate! Well done!
Yea haha thanks!
That’s what fishing is all about well done !
Indeed, all about luck 😂
Good stuff young fella.
Fat Freddy Maori Hunter cheers bro
Holy Hell bro, that was a epic fight!!! That was a monster kingy from your kayak.. best video I have seen in ages, looked like a 30kg monster bro, and nice to see it live. Ka Pai 👍🏾 👍🏾
Cheers bro. That spot is where I first started kayak fishing, so to be able to catch a decent fish out of there is very special to me!
Wow solid catch!
Cheers
Bro awesome fish, one for the memory book for sure.
For sure mate! Cheers
Oh man that must of been so hard fighting that monster backwards, congrats man 👍
Hell yea man thought it was a big shark the whole time haha! Cheers
Wow... what a beast! Good job even though you couldn't take him home!
Old Lady Angler Yea really wanted to get a proper measurement on him, but nice to see him get to swim away as well! Cheers!
What a stud!
Cheers!
Outstanding effort.
Got to love the fight these fish are capable of,nothing like having that reel screaming and thinking..shit I've got to try and stop this!!.
Well done on releasing it to fight another day
Exactly haha especially on the first couple runs. Was an intense fight trying to prevent him from towing me into any structure or passing boats while not over-tightening the drag! Really wanted to have him up on my lap for a closer look, but decided to remove the hook with the fish in the water after seeing how difficult it would be.
Mean fish !!! Yeah he was 25kg plus bro easily 😃 you’re a legend
LoveOutdoorsNZ Cheers bro feels so good to finally tick that one off! All luck on my part though, you're the real mvp.
Salt n Freshwater NZ Nah you achieved more than a lot of Yakkers have haha. A lot of luck for me too with the amount of foul in and craypots where I caught mine
Awesome vid bro... Kaapaaiii 🤙
yo cheers bro!
Sick bro
Cheers bro
Excellent job on the fight. Shame you couldn't get him up for a pic. Obviously a very big King and i know how hard it is to drag one up onto a kayak. How long was the fight time ? Pretty insane for in the harbour too !
Thanks mate!! Yes very difficult to safely land such a long fish, especially by dragging up the tail side. Total fight would've been around half an hour - hooked him in 3m of water and got towed out into the channel. Didn't get a chance to mount my gopro until it slowed down so the first half of the fight was not recorded
Guessing you own a gaff now then. What a great kingi man! That would've been epic enough in daylight let alone in the dark. I was waiting for the monster shark to come up and swallow it hole with all the noise and light🤣😂
Haha you're right! Thanks alot man was definitely my best catch to date. Lucky there was no shark 😁
Amazing bro wish u took it home and showed us lol
Cheers!!
NiceDude epic catch
Thanks bro!!
Grab the effing tail. Looks like you went home pretty tired but on a hi. Good fishing vid.
Cheers bro! Too heavy for me! also had to consider the stability of the yak
Epic fish, must be absolutely stoked. Instead of cutting out the snapper fights would like to see them as well, especially the bigger ones.
Good video!
James May Thank you for the feedback, I will definitely keep that in mind for my future videos! In this one I cut out some footage in order to keep the video shorter and to the point, so people won't close the video halfway and miss the big kingi!
@@saltnfreshwaternz1974 No worries, I figured that was the case!
Great fish in bud....some buzz in the pitch dark.
Cheers mate!
Holy shit nice fish and video bro
Cheers bro do you get kingis over there?
Salt n Freshwater NZ Yeah i haven't caught one yet and there only small ones down here
That’s crazy mate! Is it this autumn?
This was last night
shiiit, Auckland harbour is all good! On Saturday we went to a mussel barge in the Coromandel, caught some mean snaps. 8 pounders in fact, what gopro do you use?
Oh nice bro that's a good snap! I use the GoPro hero 6. Cheers!!
did you have a metal drop down anchor or one of the drag shoot types?
grapnel
Chur mean bro!?! I couldn't go "mute" when I court my kingi, I felt like I won the lotto!!! Awesome that's how we roll.
Cheers bro and congrats on your catch! I have only ever caught a handful of kingis myself so was super stoked with this!
Nice work! Would you have eaten it if u had a gaff?
Hanoi Tripper Thanks mate! Possibly would've taken it, depending on how likely it was to survive upon release.
Yoooooo what’s happened to you my bro I used to love your vids!
sometimes life gets in the way haha, i broke my back in a car accident a year ago haven't been able to hold a fishing rod since .
nah jokes bro. still been out there just as much but just lost interest in recording and editing vids. will be back one day!
@@saltnfreshwaternz1974 shiit had me goin for a sec 😂 nah that’s chur you do you man keep safe and tight lines 🤙🏽🤙🏽
That could have feed a small village
haha maybe! but sometimes it's better to let them go back
@@saltnfreshwaternz1974 was a joke G