Hopefully we'll find some hungry fish.
Hungry fish. Welcome to this episode of Addictive Fishing y'all. We're fishing
right off of Tampa Bay. We got Captain Chris Camps with us again this year and kind of
took him out of his element a little bit. He's more of an inshore tarpon guide, inshore
redfish, snook, trout, kind of guide but we heard the kingfish were in I said hey man
let's go do some kingfish, so hey here we are, we're gonna see if we can show you a
couple.
>>It's rod bending drag screaming action, I'm in buddy.
>>Well I'm gonna click us in gear. And just barely get us going. I know on the east coast
I like to do about three or four mile and hour. I'm not sure what it is over here.
>>Here we typically just bump it in and out of gear just keep the baits apart, keeping
them swimming. We don't want them skipping on the surface or going too fast.
>>We got something coming up, looks like...
>>Boom, there's one!
>>There he is! Fish on baby! There's one!
>>Yes sir, nice bite! What a take!
>>What I tell you dude soon as they hit, straight up in the air. Might want to bring that one
in, I don't know. Woo, why do you think they call them smokers huh?
>>Nice! Holy cow, look at that! Looked like a decent fish too.
>>Yeah it did look pretty decent. Well that didn't take long did it?
>>No sir, first baits out. Love it when that happens.
>>Oh you got to love kingfish man. Once they're in, they're in!
>>And he wanted it too. He hit it once, came up a second time and blasted it.
>>Did you see it in his mouth when he was chomping on it?
>>Yes sir, that's awesome. Love it.
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>>Ah, hope to see a forty pounder on the end of the line.
>>Listen he was every bit of twenty-five, thirty. Looked like a solid fish.
>>Well he's good for the smoker. So we brought you out of your element just for a minute.
>>A little bit, I specialize more inshore doing the snook, redfish trout, tarpon near
the beach and stuff but yeah it's nice when the kingfish are in you can come out and get
them on
>>You can do a twenty pound kingfish with your first drop with a bait.
>>Coming at us now.
>>I got the hook right uh, right there.
>>Yeah I didn't want to touch it until we could see him. You know how it is.
>>Oh you already saw him he was ten foot in the air. [laughing]
>>That's right. There he is we got color.
>>Yes sir a little green color.
>>So you're saying you want to invite this guy home for dinner?
>>I like it when you don't have to measure them.
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>>You're only allowed to keep two these days. That looks like a nice one.
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>>He's doing a death roll.
>>Go to the other side?
>>I think we'll invite him. See if you can get him right in the head. He is spiraling.
One kingfish brother! Nice gaff job. Capt Chris Camps right off of Tampa Bay. Even if
he's not in his own element he'll still put you on some kingfish when they're in.
>>Cool kingfish. Oh watch your fingers there. you dont-
>>Yeah he's got some chompers for sure these guys don't mess around. He destroyed that
bait though didn't he? That's awesome, lets get him on ice.
>>On the Ice baby, good job brother. Lets get him in the box.
You know it's not a matter of if it's going to happen out here, it's like when it's
going to happen.
That's the way it's been today. Can't beat it.
>>Welcome back folks, we're still sitting out here in the Tampa Bay channel I'm gonna
show you how we're rigging these things right here. Eagle Claw makes a great little kingfish
rig that's pre-rigged and all I do is pin that one into the side That's the stinger
hook, and I go right into the nose with the front hook. Simple, simple rig tied with a
little swivel right there to forty pound test and uh basically all you want to do is toss
him out, about yay far, stick it in rodney's mouth and let rodney do the work.
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>>Is that that bait right there?
>>Oh, whoa, whoa! That something just come up?
>>Oh! Come on baby eat it eat it, eat it.
>>There he is, came back a second time. Got to love that.
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>>So like I said Blair, I heard the kingfish are in town. [laughing]
>>You saw it, I had the bait in the water more than two seconds and it got eaten by
a kingfish. All we did, we came out here and I'm going to give props to my camera guy Adam.
He runs a boat and he keeps it there in Clearwater and he was out here the other day right? You
can go like this. Yes Adam, ok and he said the kingfish were in like crazy so-
>>Yeah that's the word on the street. People have been catching them They started pushing
up into here as soon as this bait started showing and the water got into the seventies
and man they are here we've been-
>>That's like cobia at sixty eight degrees.
>>They got the magic temperature, you know, they know what they like. They follow those
bait schools up here They're just crushing the threadfins, the threadfin doesn't stay
in the water for more than a couple minutes before he gets eaten.
[drag screaming]
>>This might be a little bit bigger than them other two. Ooh! Come on baby!
>>This guy is staying down.
>>Yeah this one might be a little bit more of a grown one That or we snagged him in the
tail. Yeah that's a good one there. I think I'll take that one home to Shane.
>>This one is going to be invited home for dinner. >>Yup and that will give us our two.
>>We got our limit already huh? Three baits and we got our limit.
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>>We can let this one go I got one to smoke, I don't have to give one to Shane.
>>You tell me.
>>He looks like a good one. Well they're all good, some are just better than the others.
Go ahead and stick him that's a good size eater there.
>>Didn't want to get too much in the meat. This guy is probably going to get a little
bloody. That's a good fish.
>>Hey any of y'all that have never caught a kingfish, this guy right here when you see
smoked kingfish dip in the restaurants this is the dude you're eating right here and I'll
tell you what those teeth are the sharpest next to a wahoo or a barracuda. It's just
like saw blades. Beautiful kingfish and the size limits are twenty-four inch minimum on
these guys and look at the teeth.
>>Fork length - twenty-four inches to the fork. Two per person.
>>Look at them teeth, man! Now when you measure them to the fork that is the fork right there.
You want to measure from here to the tip of the head and that one is a perfect, perfect
size >>Good eater, perfect eating size.
>>Y'all stay tuned, we're going to be right back with some more Addictive Fishing Captain
Chris Camps out of his element catching kingfish.
>>Let's go it!
>>Well see ya.
Kingfish is on the menu huh?
Got a couple in the box. You smoking those up for the gang tonight or what?
>>No I like to smoke them for at least four hours so-
>>Oh yeah? Alright, tomorrow. >>Well you can't get much easier kingfishing than this, all
we're doing is popping it in and out and if you can see, we've got a green marker over
to our left, a red one over to our right which means we're kind of facing east. Red, right,
return. So all we're doing is kind of hanging right here in the channel. You find a good
bait ball on the Humminbird and bingo, you got fish on.
>>Yeah we've had fish jumping in the distance here, spanish mackerel skyrocketing on some
baits. Baits haven't lasted in the water too long today have they?
>>So you got your ticket what five, six years something like that?
>>I've been full time now Blair, going on my sixth year. and I wouldn't trade it for
anything. It's the best office in the world.
>>Yes it is, unless mother nature doesn't want you out here.
>>Yeah there's a few days that she wins. We got to pick our battles at times, but fortunately
here in Florida we got more better days than not so the fishing has been great.
>>Oh I got a hit.
>>Come on, come on, there he goes! Let Rodney the rod holder take him. Oh he's smoking it!
>>He's going, this could be a good one Blair. And I got smoked too. Something just ripped
my bait off.
>>Might want to take me out of gear.
>>Holy, moly. Easy there buddy.
>>Headed to Texas it looks like huh?
>>He's going to Mexico. You could just spot lock us there if you want.
>>And we are stuck.
>>And you hear on shows when you hear, spot lock it, spot lock it- It's the feature that
Minn Kota has got on there that's an electronic anchor. It's got a GPS right in the head of
the trolling motor. And locks onto the satellites and keeps you within about a five foot radius.
One of the coolest features of a trolling motor I've ever seen in my entire life.
>>Oh and it helps us so much especially when we're tarpon fishing we don't have to worry
about throwing the anchor ball and chasing fish down If the fish move off, we can just
get off the spot lock move to where they are, set ourselves in position there
>>So what we've been here about thirty minutes and three kingfish.
>>We cant hardly get a decent drift or a decent troll here before getting smashed by a kingfish.
>>Seems to be doing pretty decent.
>>Yeah listen lets see. This guy took a lot of line on his first run.
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>>This guy just did a run under the boat. Oh there's some color. >>Oh yeah, deep color.
That's a good size fish Blair.
>>That or just a stubborn one. Come on keep coming this way.
>>Not quite ready just yet.
>>Let Rodney the rod holder hook him and let the drag tire him out.
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>>Wow that is a good fish. Sure you don't have a tuna? [laughs]
>>I remember one time a tuna turned into a ninety-pound wahoo off of midnight lumps.
Leader in the guides
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>>Come on over this way dude- oh yeah. The stinger hook got him.
>>Still a good fish.
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>>That's a caught fish there brother.
>>That's a caught fish
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>>Let's get close. [chuckles]
>>Nice, and he's free. What a beautiful fish. King mackerel
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>>They got shotes just like a tuna too.
>>Oh yeah these guys are built for speed.
>>Their fins are built nothing but for speed. Go ahead and send him off into the deep.
>>See you later buddy. Woo.
>>Nice fish brother.
>>Nice work my man. Fishing five, I got you.
>>And there's the rig, this one here is a little bit different rig than what we were
using. This one has got a single hook up front and a big treble hook in the back. That fish
got caught only because of that stinger rig. Did it's job. What do you say we re-rig?
>>Absolutely lets do it again.
>>Y'all stay tuned, Captain Chris Camps right off Tampa Bay On a beautiful day in the spring
time. Let's do it baby.
Rig it right by Wright and McGill.
On today's rig it right segment I'm going to show you what Captain Chris and I
were out there using today. Very simple rigs we started off using the eight footers and
we ended the day using the eight footers. Thirty pound test Seaguar Smackdown and this
stuff is so thin you can pack on enough where I'm not even worried about a kingfish spooling
me. >>Oh he's smoking it! He's going. This could be a good one. And I got smoked too.
>>You can tighten down the drag enough and basically put the heat on them if you need
to. Holy moly. Easy there >>we were using forty pound test Seaguar Fluorocarbon leader
and I got a long piece on here just to absorb the shock of the kingfish when he comes up
and hits your bait- Boom theres one! There he is, fish on! He can hit it so hard that
actually just it'll break everything sometimes but, let me show you the rig we were using.
I actually went to Dick's last night in Lakeland and picked up all the supplies and twisted
up a couple of leaders just to show you what I like to use when I'm out there. Basically
got the Eagle Claw, these are the number four treble hooks along with the thirty pound test
barrel swivels. And everything right here to make these rigs up was less than eight
bucks. So if you ever make it down to Tampa Bay make sure you give Captain Chris Camps
a call he will do everything he can to put you on fish whether it be inshore of offshore
also want to give a special shout out to Central Marine they do a fine job rigging our Skeeter
boats and if you ever want to give one a try make sure you give them a call, they can put
you in one and sell you one. Remember one thing though, every fishing season starts
right here at Dick's.
Rig it right by Wright and McGill.
♪♪ >>So we're slaying these kingfish up, if this bite is up, what else you got inside?
>>Well it depends how far in we want to go if we want to head towards the Skyway there's
always some action, it's a natural fish attractor there. So there's tarpon, groupers, of course
there's some goliaths.
>>That's one of my favorite places to fish.
>>Yeah I hear you like wearing out them snapper on the rocks.
>>I love them snapper on the rocks man.
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>>Fish on, fish on. Fish off.
>>Oh he tried hitting it again. He was after it- there he is! Niiice! Good job, just sight
casting to kingfish. Oh I got one after me too.
>>Oh no, a double. I just tried to reel my bait out of your way. Might have to let it
sit for a minute.
>>This is a big kingfish here, did you see the size of that one?
>>Oh and there he goes.
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[drag screaming] >>Come on fish. That's a good size kingfish there. Wonder if my old
cousin Shane would want one. To cook in his brand new smoker that he just got.
>>Hold it, I got to go front, got to go front.
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>>No he came back, no he didn't.
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>>Ah... There he is, got him- woo! That was close. The Minn Kota almost reeled that one
in for us.
>>Let me get this rod out of our way here.
>>Ah you know, they always look bigger in the water.
>>The water does magnify.
>>That and he was doing thirty miles an hour when he ate it.
>>Are we letting this guy go?
>>Yeah we can let this guy go, we can get a bigger one. Got him?
>>Yes sir!
>>Hold on, I'll get those pliers and yank them hooks out for you.
>>I got some on my hip right here.
[laughing] >>Oh, look out sorry about that. Let's get this guy out of here.
>>Alright, toss him back.
>>Thanks buddy.
>>And off he goes to the deep.
>>Kingfish, Tampa Bay the action out here
>>Good job buddy.
>>Unbelievable, oh got slimed.
>>Sorry about that slime
>>Well folks let me tell you, Captain Chris Camps right here has done everything today
it's getting late in the day, wind is kicking up and if you want to come fish Tampa Bay,
make sure you give Captain Chris Camps here a call look him up on the website, what's
your website?
>>It's Captain Chris Camps dot com.
>>And that's all you need to know. Kind of took him out of his element today and took
him out king fishing so call him for a kingfish trip that way he knows that y'all watched
the show so that about wraps it up brother. One awesome day on the water with you bro.
Once again. Hashtag show your mogan that about covers it right?
>>I think so.
>>Alright we'll see you all next week.
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>>Check out more footage from this show by logging on to Addictive Fishing dot com for
out takes and bloopers.
>>Why are they spanish mackerel do they speak spanish? There he is, fish on baby. That there
is called getting robbed. Twelve o'clock you'll see him in the wake right now! Bleh. They
come up and when you grab them they go weeeee!
[laughing]