b'YELLOW TAILS Kali hooked up on her softbait tackle on a king.SOFTBAITSAnother great way we like to target and catch kingfish is on softbaits or small metal lures like Daiwa Kohgas. This method of catching kingfish is great fun as you are using light tackle. Hooking up to a decent sized kingfish on the lighter softbaiting gear always puts me through my paces and is a lot of fun watching the reel screaming out.My go to softbaits are now the Daiwa Bait Junkie 7" Jerkshad which I use on my Daiwa combo and Nathans uses a Daiwa Sol matched with 8 - 10kg custom Yeehaa rod. These reels are small but offer good drag to do the damage on landing the kings. We have found that using the softbaits work well fishing around the edges of the pinnacles and fishing away from the structure, as when weA quality jigging reel and drifted over the top of the pinnacles androd combo is required hook up on some good kingfish that weoffering over 10kg of couldnt stop them on the light gear.drag to battle kingfish.46FISHING IN GODZONE JAN/FEB 2021'