Im Hooked!!!!

[clayton86]

Finally made it out fishing in Kuwait and omg im hooked forget fresh water these fish are beasts I need help identifying them though.

I only got video of mine ill try to post it im not sure how but ill describe it best I can. I thought it was a cuda it was long and slender but no teeth pointy mouth though silver with like tiger stripes almost. i caught it on a sabiki rig screwing around trying to find the depth till my drag started singing.

then I caught a queens fish i think it was the coast guard called it kings fish from what i looked up before they were queen. that came on a deep diving jerk bait

Then theres the shark first fish of the day bit a spoon it was sweet my buddy caught it though

[SirSnookalot]

Cool !

[clayton86]

I did a google search I think the one I lost on the Sabiki rig was a Kingfish and the others were the Queenfish they were schooling pretty good ill get a double before i leave for sure if they act like this. we also seen some fish that looked like angel fish then some that looked like rockbass or google eyes but they were black and white tiger stripes. one of the guys caught one on a piece of bread then hooked it threw the tail and tossed it out. he was using an UL with 6lb test we seen a shark go for it next thing a know his spool was bare and his head was hanging low lol.

Thats one thing I gotta learn is i cant muscle these fish like I do bass man feeling them run and shake there heads that drag singing. What kinda shark is that if you can tell from the pic

[MCS]

Looks like a young Black Tip Reef Shark....nice work on the good day of fishing

[SirSnookalot]

Unless they have different names for fish there you didn't catch a kingfish on a sabiki. The queeenfish is probably a queen triggerfish. Might be a little blacktip reef shark, just so many different species of them. There are blacktips(deep water and pretty big) blacktip reef sharks ( smalland close to shore) and there are reef sharks( up to 200# and off reefs)

You muscle those fish and you won't land them. You must trust your drag and let those fish run, steadily increasing the drag if needed, but don't over do it.

[clayton86]

most the sharks were around 2 -3ft that one was maybe a little over 2ft id say. The kingfish or what ever it was it looked like identical to this here but much darker vertical lines i wish i could get the video to up load so u can see it but it says its to big even though its like 15 seconds long.

[clayton86]

thats exactly what the other fish schooling looked like but with bright bright yellow fins like in the drawing one they hit like a freight train and just ran with it. the shark surprisingly didnt give up much of a fight we cranked him right to the top and walked down to a lower part of the pier and yanked it out maybe a 5 min fight if that

[SirSnookalot]

It may be something in the mackerel family, kingfish have a different pattern, almost looks like a wahoo. A sabiki rig is use for catch bait like sardines, not likely a sabiki rig could hold a king or wahoo, hooks are too small and the line is 7#, they do make bigger ones though. Whatever the second fish is, it's awesome, that's a pretty stout rod too, good for what you are doing.

[clayton86]

what is this lure also we picked one up gonna give it a shot

[clayton86]

also my sabiki rig im looking at the package now hooksize no.08 mainline(lb) no.20 Branch size(lb) no. 12

i had the first few bit off and the sinker part was gone along with the bottom few hooks its down to 1 hook the 2nd one down lol all the others are bit off I seen one hanging out of its mouth when we tried landing it but it was hooked in the belly when the fight was at the end the mouth hook was just dangling u could see it had been bit off from the main line only the belly hook was holding it on

oh and the pic thats not of us i found that searching trying to figure these things out ill tr and get good pics next time(in about 5hrs) were going at sun up before our 12hr QRF shift

[Bluebasser86]

what is this lure also we picked one up gonna give it a shot

Looks like one of the jigs they use to catch Humbolt squid with.

[clayton86]

here ya go these are from this morning I believe these are "queenfish" correct me if im wrong cuz im clueless we got em jigging spoons off the pier mine was the smaller of the two they sure do put up a fight

[MCS]

_{Nice fish. The vids work.}

_{I tried to look it up myself there are plenty of pictures of queenfish and it looks like what you guys got, but not a lot of info the most info are from australian websites.}

_{http://www.sea-ex.com/fishphotos/queenfis.htm}

_{http://www.barramundi-fishing-adventure.com/nt-fish-guide.html}

[clayton86]

Anyone able to tell from the video what the other fish was I wanna try to get another one for a pic instead of a video we never landed it that's our other problem because as you see in the video were about 20ft up from the water

[SirSnookalot]

You need a pier net

https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTzSvR5teIgOjeWoxY9yjVLj80hrqBzos9sUYvITn0j5L9kVkjrBw

[clayton86]

You need a pier net

https://encrypted-tb...ITn0j5L9kVkjrBw

where can I get one of them and how much do they usually run

[SirSnookalot]

I don't know about Kuwait. but it's pretty standard equipment that can be bought in most tackle shops that cater to saltwater fishing. The same need would apply to fishing off a freshwater pier, some local shops may carry them and they can always be bought on line, priced 30-40$

[clayton86]

I found it at BPS for 50 they sell nets here but there these short little things. The shops here sell the cheapest of cheap stuff there rod and reel combos make cheap walmart stuff look like top dollar shimanos and there lures come with the cheapest finish and hooks only good for about 1 fish every lure we have is only a day old and hooks are bent and rolled over tips its all junk. I ordered a bunch of spoons from BPS last night and some line, a big rattle trap, 10 sabiki rigs. Im gonna see if some of the gus wanna pitch in and order a net.