The spanish before the king?

[SaltwaterKing]

I finally got out for a great day of fishing this past Sunday. I posted the full report on the SC board for those who are interested. What surprised me was the spanish are in, and the kings aren't. ??????????? What's up with that? The water temp at 1 mile out was 67.5, and 69 at about 4 miles out. The spanish were inshore in the cooler water. Usually the kings make thier way in with the mid level water temps and shoot offshore when it gets too hot. That's usually when the spanish come inshore because they don't mind the hot water temps so much. I was heading out of the jetties when we saw birds dropping down. When I got a little closer I noticed small finger mullet being cut. I figured it was blues, so I rigged up a couple poles with #00 clarkspoons and a #1 planer just to see what's up. I couldn't believe it was spanish. LOL AFter playing with those little guys, and scraping up a few fish over 20", I headed out to the reef. After I played with the sharks for a while, I pulled up anchor and dropped some Drone spoons down and hurdled the humps and structure for quite some time to try and dig up a king, but nothing. Kings are being caught offshore in 70' of water, but how wierd is this?

[boudreauxsbaits.com]

I love catching Spanish Macs. That has to be the most fun.

[Big_unit]

Hell yeah we get some horse Spanish Mackerel here in Hervey Bay & especially at the top end of Fraser Island.

Cheers
James

[texasbasser]

If you think spanish are fun, try them on flyrod Here in Texas the spanish, king, and tarpon are finally here... but only about half a mile out where the green water is. Later this summer the good water should move in, and they will be inshore. Here, the spanish come before the king, so maybe its the same there?

tb