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It takes the right steps to net king mackerel (St. Petersburg Times)

**By Terry Tomalin, Times Outdoors-Fitness Editor**

Thursday, April 5, 2012

All we needed was one big fish. The water boiled with smaller king mackerel,
but Steve Papen said he would rather go home empty-handed than have his
photograph taken with a "schoolie." That's what veteran kingfish anglers call
the little guys, the baby kings, 24 inches in length or smaller.

"We want a 'smoker,' " said Papen, referring to a fish weighing more than 30
pounds. "Something worth the effort."

Papen's group hit the water early, knowing that the bite wouldn't last past 9
a.m. His fishing party caught several small Spanish mackerel to "match the
hatch" and then hooked them to the stinger rigs that now trailed behind the
boat.

"A fresh (Spanish) mackerel will catch a big king," Papen said. "But you have
to get them while they are fresh."

Every kingfisherman has his bait of choice. King mackerel are a migratory
species that spends its winters fattening up in the warm waters off the
Florida Keys before moving north along the coast to the summer breeding
grounds in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

These free swimmers are voracious feeders. They eat on the run, and ...

St. Petersburg Times