b'Whangaroa harbour offers good T he mighty king akaKingfish put up a great fight! Whetheroffer great jigging spots, think of places shelter to find your live baits.yellow tail kingfish,its a 6kg fish or a 16kg fish, you canaround White Island, Mayor Island, aka kingies to manycount on them putting up a good fightAldermens and of course Northland.anglers. Kingfish areand giving you a run for your money. Jigging for kingfish can be harder and known as a semiEspecially if youre not prepared to battlea tiring way for anglers from constantly pelagic fish and arethem. One of the things I like aboutworking the heavier jigs (over 200gm), most commonlyfishing for kings is the many differentbut at the same time its so rewarding.found in Godzoneways you can catch them.Heres aAnd when its on its on! Where everyone around coastal watersfew of our favourite ways to fish/ on the boat is hooked up from dropping where theres high currents near rocks,target kingfish. jigs down, the buzz is insane! My go to jig from shallow harbours and aroundwould be a 250gm knife jig usually a pink reefs or pinnacles down to 200m deep.JIGGING or purple colour which I work using my Kingfish are a predatory fish that prey onJigging for kingfish is one of mine andShimano Stella 10,000 reel paired with other fish and can eat live fish weighingpartner Nathans favourite way to catchan Abyss rod.I would also recommend several kilos!They use their speed andthem.Jigging for kingies works bestwearing a pair of jigging gloves if your strength to catch bait fish and swallowin deeper water around structure likeanything like me and get your hands them whole.There are many reasonspinnacles or reefs.Our go to spots arecovered in blisters! Nathans go to jigs are why kingfish are one of my favouritethe pins out off Whangaroa in the Farheavier 300gm knife jigs either in a green fish to catch, but heres a couple reasonsNorth, we fish this region often but thereor orange colour on his Jigging Master of why. are many places around the country thatoverhead reel and rod./FISHINGINGODZONE45'