So me, Joe, and my buddy go out to sharkys the other day to kingfish.. just like any other day... We get there and bonita start showing up, we help a tourist land one and he gladly gives it to us... so we swim it out... four hours later - a screaming reel - and a hook set... as Hammer and JD Fagan will tell you the crab pots are a pain in the a$$ out there right now.. ( they had visited out there a week ago - JD Fagan got a nice 6 footer bull).. so Joe fought the fish for an hour around this crab trap, eventually getting it to break away... given this was in the middle of the day we had a lot of boat traffic to worry about and a lot of tourists crowding the rails.. against all odds we still managed to land the fish...
Heres me and my buddy Ben walkin him back out
I left all my stuff out there to go grab lunch.. and returned around 330 to try to get a kingfish.. 10 minutes after getting a bait down i got this guy
(around 50 inch about 25-30 lbs estimated)
Great day on the pier!
What do you guys usually use for the kings, and bonitas??
for kings... trolly rigs... (not illegal yet there -- probably soon)... for bonita free lined greenies or threadies.. gotchas can work.. or spoons.. use light flouro like 30 or 40 pound
Do you just drop for the bonitas or cast when free lining? Thanks btw I live pretty close to sharkys just havent made it up there yet. Not to mention I havent been having any luck from the piers as it is lol
nice king jimmy. there was 2 bonita caught today and a big ass tarpon. i almost got in a fight with that Russian dude today. im almost over the pier to much drama at times.
Way to go guy nice shark . I don't know how you got him with all those crab traps out there.I love to fish your pier. It one of the last piers that anything goes. Be back soon. 
Very nice report ,thanks for sharing with us.That's some good pier fishing you guys are lucky to have a pier where you can still shark fish.
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Just recieved a report of a tiger being caught last night.. around 7 foot .. off a beach 10 miles south of the pier.. water turned to $hit this morning tho.. i can get a pic up of it.. my buddy forwarded one to my phone.. just gotta figure it out...
send me the pic of the tiger and ill put it up for you.