b'Jigging the wreck at 130m off the Hokianga.HOKIANGA TESTon the twelfth crank on the They have reel bling factorreels handle, the jig was hit and sure look the part, and Ihard, and I was locked up on was keen to try them out.Ia good fish.The fish gave me was hoping to get out locallya good work out from 130m COLOURS: Purple, orange, lime, pink andoff Mayor Island over winter,and several minutes later we blue.There are also four sizes available forbut with poor weather ithad a fat 10-11kg king on anglers from: 200g, 300g, 400g and 500g. meant limited chances.Inboard and into the ice box for early July I travelled to mythe smoker.Northland hometown inMuzza repositioned the Dargaville and with easterlyboat and found the solid The writer scored two kingfish onwinds, my uncle Muzza andsign again, I sent the jig back the Torpedo jigs on successive drops,I headed to the Hokiangadown and again was hit just both were kept for the smoker. to launch his 7m cat to getoff the bottom by a better over the bar and enjoy somefish as it took longer to bring winter fishing. up and took off again in the We decided to go wide toclassic run of a king when it 300m to look for a hapukasees the boat.We gaffed it first up and after a coupleand put another fat 11-12kg hours of trying, we couldntfish into the bin, two nice get through the schools offish in two drops and we gemfish which we kept forhad enough for our families, the smoker.We then cameso we decided to head into into a mark at 130m wherethe 50m mark to catch a shipwreck provides goodseveral snapper.structure for large schoolsAfter fishing I checked of kingfish which was wellthe assist hook which was known to locals.Anotherfine and still sharp after boat was fishing alongsidelanding the two fish, the jig as both anglers were hookedhad done the job in quick up on kings, and the sounderprocession, and I noticed showed solid sign near thewhen dropping in the clear bottom and up to about 20m15m+ visibility that the jig has off it. a nice side dropping action I rigged up with a purplewith plenty of bling from the 200gm jig and sent it downquality paintwork.The local to the bottom, I started toHokianga kingfish obviously work the Torpedo jig up andthought so too.FIGZ /FISHINGINGODZONE77'