3 Things You Can Do To Catch More Kingfish This Summer
- By: Wyatt Parcel
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Summer is here and the kingfish bite is hot!
And in this new video, you’ll learn quick tips to help you catch kingfish including:
- Where to find kingfish
- Best rig for kingfish
- One thing to make sure you have on the boat
- And more
Check out the video below!
3 Tips To Catch Kingfish This Summer [VIDEO]
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Where To Find Kingfish
The most important factor when fishing for kings is putting yourself in the right spot.
You’ll need to find hard structure like wrecks, reefs, and even oil platforms.
Kingfish will stay close to this structure to find food.
You can find GPS coordinates by state to find wrecks and reefs here.
How To Troll For Kingfish
Slow trolling in circles around hard structure often provides a more consistent kingfish bite.
And by varying your speed while trolling, you can cover different water depths to find where the fish are feeding in the water column.
Best Rig For Kingfish
A triple stinger rig will give you the best chance at catching kingfish.
The third hook will increase your hook-up ratio and will help you land more fish.
Since kingfish are known for striking at the middle of your baits, having hooks down the body of your bait will allow the fish to get “stung” much more easily.
The One Thing You Must Have When Fishing For Kingfish
Make sure you have a gaff on board.
Most anglers may try to tail grab a kingfish but things can get a little dicey when the sharks come up to play.
It’s much safer for you and the fish to use a gaff.
You’ll want to aim right behind the gill plate to preserve the most meat and have better control of the fish.
Click here to see how to gaff a fish.
Conclusion
If you’re new at trolling for kingfish you’ll want to know where to find them, what rigs to use, and make sure you have a gaff with you.
This is a relatively new topic for us so we’re looking forward to hearing what you’d like to see for future tips about nearshore fishing.
And if you have any other nearshore kingfish tactics, please let me know down in the comments.
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Great video. I used to do a lot of trolling for kings but got away from it chasing red snapper. Still great fun when the weather cooperates.
Thanks – what rod, reel, line were you using? This info is helpful on every video
Hey Richard!
I was using 30lb mono, a Abu Garcia Ambassador Reel/Bass Pro Conventional Reel and a Shimano Scimitar Moderate Action 7’6” for both reels.
Great stuff Wyatt!!!
Thanks so much Pablo! Glad you enjoyed this tip!
As usual, great video production, Wyatt… and concise, straight-to-the-point presentation!
You covered several crucial strategies and tips, and I would only add two more:
1. Keep two planers in the water at two different depths, one on each side of the boat, so you can work both depths simultaneously. Drop lines on both planers. Because the planers “fly” below the boat at their tied depths, your lines can be shorter, which greatly reduces the possibility of your two lines tangling when you turn. When you hook a fish on one line, as long as the line breaks from its planer, you can keep both planers (and the other line) in the water without tangles if you reel your catch to the surface quickly. (You can also keep a third line on the surface without crossing lines while motoring, but if you hook a fish on one of the planer-dropped lines, you should have a third person on the boat reel in the topwater line to get it out of the way.)
2. Oversize your tackle and line so you can reel in your catch quickly… before the sharks and dolphins chomp it in half! Seriously, I’d say a large percentage of my mackerel hookings have resulted in “half” a catch!
Thanks Andy! I totally agree with you on the planers… I will be making a separate video for these as I believe they deserve their own dedicated tutorial, and someone who’s new to nearshore trolling might see them as a bit intimidating (but they’re very effective!)
Thanks so much for watching!
thanks for the tips on king fishing
2 questions:
thanks!
For live baits, you’ll likely do best free-lining them, but you can use weights to control the depth… just know that that bait won’t live as long and will need to be changed more often!
Where would you target kings at Keaton Beach Fl.
I would target nearshore wrecks and reefs like the ones I highlighted in this video! Be sure to check out FWC’s GPS Coordinates page that we put together and troll circles around one of those forms of structure with a rig similar to the one shown, and you’ll likely get into some action!
The GPS Coordinates Of Every Public Artificial Reef In Florida
Good video. More near / off shore info is appreciated
Absolutely Andy! There’s more on the way, so stay tuned!
Really good info Wyatt. Thank you.
Thanks so much Ben! Glad you found this tip helpful!
Really liked the info in the video myself and friends like fishing for bigger fish inshore and nearshore well out to 20 miles. I run a 24 ft Carolina Skiff and I’m base out of the 10,000 island area of Florida. Is king fish out here? I have not seen any in 3 years of fishing here . “Man I want to make this another fish on the list of the boat and grow my fishing experience. “
There defintley are kings your way! You don’t need to run out 20 miles, but rather just troll circles around nearshore wrecks and reefs like the ones I highlighted in this video… here’s that coordinates page to get started!
The GPS Coordinates Of Every Public Artificial Reef In Florida