Targeting a new species?\u00a0 Chasing that trophy fish or even just learning a new way to target a fish is not at all easy unless you are blessed with some ridiculously good fishing and zero company ha-ha.<\/p>\n
I set a goal recently to target big kingfish on topwater, I had only ever caught maybe less than 10 kings in my life and mostly all rats.<\/p>\n
\u00a0My biggest king before this being maybe 8kg and I caught that fish by accident after it ate a tailor that I had on. <\/span><\/p>\n So, in 4 trips I went from not knowing anything about targeting kingfish to catching two over 130cm on poppers which was my goal.<\/span><\/p>\n I thought I would run through the ideas and thought process that I used to be able to tick that box. <\/span><\/p>\n These are similar ideas and concepts that I use to understand all species of fish that I target, in particular, new fish that I have absolutely no idea about where to even start.<\/span><\/p>\n The main long-term objective needs to be set first. What did I want to achieve? My goal was a big kingfish on topwater.<\/span><\/p>\n I had a fair idea from social media and friends sending me texts that there were kingfish around.<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, it\u2019s important to do some research to know what your targeting is there and active that time of year. The same applies to any species.<\/span><\/p>\n You aren\u2019t going to go Murray cod fishing in a lake that you haven\u2019t already heard there are cod in. <\/span><\/p>\n You would also want to go when you hear it’s prime time to obviously increase your chances, fishing can be difficult enough without having the odds stacked against you.<\/span><\/p>\n It would be like trying to catch your first ever barramundi and going fishing in the midst of winter.<\/p>\nThe Goal<\/h2>\n
Understanding the species<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n