King’s out of Mayport 28 May

SeaBoss

Left out of jetties and no bait found South but plenty birds.  I then went to MR area and trolled deep diver, pencil baits, and and a rattle jet.  Caught one King on deep diver.  Lost one on daisy chain.   Decided to then drift with ribbon fish and lost another one.   Headed back to STJ and while I was waiting for storm to pass decided to troll again lost two more Kings one on rattle jet and another on daisy chain.  Bonito where everywhere and used a Clark’s spoon casting to them and caught several.   End of day was a Jack Crevalle that weighed every bit of 30+ pounds.   

demersalangeler

 Sounds like you had a reasonably good day & thanks for the report capt. The bone heads are fun when their like that. Wore out many white bucktails on a yellow tail rod like that. 

 Why do you think you're hookup to box ratio was not good? Drag to tight?

SeaBoss

Lost one definitely cause I broke the rule of getting excited and tightened up on drag like a dummy.  Small #4 treble hooks on ribbon fish looks as if I only had the last one in him and pulled out.  Other than that 🤷🏻‍♂️.  

Cracker Jack 45

Those thin #4 trebles will rip right through skin if you foul hooked him anywhere.  Absolute must for light drag.  That stinger hook saves a lot of hookups.

demersalangeler

SeaBoss said:

Lost one definitely cause I broke the rule of getting excited and tightened up on drag like a dummy.  Small #4 treble hooks on ribbon fish looks as if I only had the last one in him and pulled out.  Other than that 🤷🏻‍♂️.  

 
 Yup, thats happened to me plenty of times. Plus it can be easy to lift the rod a little to much and take the give out of the tip, or add his wight. 
 
 I like to run real loose drag like 2 or 3 lbs. No kidding. I want to pull line off only holding it with my fingertips & thats with a bend in the rod. Let him go for that fast run, let that tiny heart overheat & reel him in. You can always put a finger on the line to increase the drag. momentarily, but not when it's running. 
 
 Did you get cut off on the daisy chain's, or rattel jets?

SeaBoss

Rattle jet is what I tightened up drag on but didn’t get cut off on anything.   Pink/white color Rattle Jet and made my own daisy chain using green/yellow skirts with a green/orange/yellow bullet head.   

creekgeek

Well at least we are getting dome better reports of near shore kings. I need to get out there this week. Thanks for posting.