My uncle is flying in to stay with me the week of July 26 - Aug 4th. He loves to fish but doesn’t get very many opportunities. I would really like to put him on a big King. I have a 19 foot boat and two trolling rods. I hear that time of year is the best for near shore Kings. MI is my first fishing option (closest), however I often travel to Little River and Georgetown. Any advice from the experienced King fisherman on here on bait and general area to fish would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Originally posted by "Miller Time"My uncle is flying in to stay with me the week of July 26 - Aug 4th. He loves to fish but doesn’t get very many opportunities. I would really like to put him on a big King. I have a 19 foot boat and two trolling rods. I hear that time of year is the best for near shore Kings. MI is my first fishing option (closest), however I often travel to Little River and Georgetown. Any advice from the experienced King fisherman on here on bait and general area to fish would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Bill Perry and out of Little River, City of Richmond out of georgetown, and about any reef 10+ miles off of Murrells are going to hold Decent sized kings. I would go fish then now and find out which ones you like best. City of richmond is by far the best if you ask me but it’s a little farther than the rest.
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The general recipe is, ~20# mono with small treble hooks on light wire, 2# drag, drifting menhaden over reefs.
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Originally posted by Ona MissionThe general recipe is, ~20# mono with small treble hooks on light wire, 2# drag, drifting menhaden over reefs.
Roger that. I’m rigged up for them correct then. This year was my first year attempting to troll for Spanish and I’ve been doing well with them when I go out and target them, especially around the 3 mile reef in MI.
Will the 3 mile produce Kings late July and August? I don’t venture much further out then 3 miles in my 198 DLV Skiff. I know some pier fisherman that say they catch them fairly regularly that time of year, so I would think they’d be within 3 miles? Also, have you had any luck on the large spoons?
Try skipping a ballyhoo with a skirt at the end of your motor bubbles at three mile or a little closer to shore. A Spanish on the same rig will catch bigger kings but is a little harder to rig. A treble hook stinger on either rig will hook more fish, as always the key is to be where the fish are. This is old school fishing but it worked then and it will work now. Any diving plug 4 or 5 inches long trolled will also hook a king, just put it out before before putting out the ballyhoo. Good luck.
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“MillerTime” The last two years have been slow on the Kings at three mile, I have been going to Belkie Bear and MB Rock to get them. Maybe this year things will be back to normal and you can catch them off the beach & at 3 mile. Find a school of Menhaden, cast net a few and slow troll around the bait ball. Menhaden is my bait of choice next is grennies then frozen cigar minnows. If the weathers right head to belkie. I have not heard of any being caught inshore yet. Im headed out Sat. to try. Good Luck
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Kings will often be in the schools of Spanish near shore in the summer. Pull Clarke spoons for spanish, and ballyhoo on a Sea Witch for kings. When you catch a spanish or 2, rig them live and slow troll them around the bait pods. Look for the birds. Where there are birds, there is bait, and spanish, and kings and blues and little tuny, and jacks, and who knows what, but if you fish the birds you will find fish.
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The tide line at The Georgtown jetty is a good bet. Slow troll menhaden.
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I haven’t personally seen any kings this year off a pier but I went 1 for 3 last July on them and saw quite a few more in pogies and window shopping the baitspread.
Last Saturday the 6th there was a pogie bonanza, maybe 30-40 small pods in a constant parade. Myrtle Beach State Park caught a #23 and Apache Pier got a small snake around #10.
The kings I’ve hooked and seen off Springmaid Pier have all been smokers. The one I caught last year was a shade under 30 pounds and the smallest I saw hooked.
But from what I’ve heard the Belkie Bear is where it’s at, charter boys talk about hitting a limit before 9AM, and I’m on a pier watching a greenie swim in lefthand circles like he’s in NASCAR lol.