b'YELLOW TAILSCatching kings on softbaits is a favourite approach for Kali.Look for good sign in deeper water around reefs for the ideal place to jig for kingies.Hooking up to a decenta jig, when jigging you feel every bit of the hook up. We also sometimes live sized kingfish on thebait in closer around the coast or the lighter softbaiting gear alwaysentrance of Whangaroa harbour when the sea is too rough to head out to the puts me through my pacespins where we usually jig for kingfish. and is a lot of fun watchingTop live baits we like to catch are blue koherus, big yellow tail jacks or the the reel screaming out."trusty old kahawai. Another reason kingfish are one of my LIVE BAITING favourite fish to catch, is because there Finally, the most used method by Kiwiare so many ways you can eat them and anglers over the years and still a greatleave little wastage of the fish behind method we like to employ to catchtoo. The main ways we usually cook our kingfish is live baiting. We tend to livekingfish are; smoking the kingfish in our bait over the pins once we are tiredBradley smoker, where we coat the fish from jigging and cant jig anymore!and soak it in a brine for a few hours, let With live baiting it is more relaxingit dry then put them in. With the smoker way to fish as your rod is usually in theyou can pretty much smoke the whole rod holder and a hook up isnt quite asfish to make sure theres nothing going satisfying as when you hook up hard onto waste. 48FISHING IN GODZONE JAN/FEB 2021'