Thread: A Stingray & Kingfish go hunting.

I was sitting on the deck enjoying a stunning morning, having a coffee when I saw the most bizarre thing!
I noticed a massive Stingray swimming below us, not uncommon in itself. Although they are predominantly small, .5 to a meter sort of sized fish.
But this fella was huge, at a guess I’d say well over meter - 1,2m sort of size.
Went and got my binos had a look and I could see these big white/silver flashes, and thought it’s just his wings.

Gave the binos to my son for a look, and then with my naked eye, I saw the massive yellow fish tail come out of the water and slash. Right above the Ray.
I said to my son did you see that, he said no. Turned out he’d seen a different stingray and was watching that, I saw the splash again and pointed to him where to look.
He’s instantly: “holy shit, there’s two massive fish fighting it”
I got the bino’s back for a look, and it turned out, and it seemed to me, they were hunting in a pack.
There were two massive kingi’s swimming with the stingray, often right above him, so it was really hard to see them. When they got onto fish there were big splashes as they broke the surface. It’s pretty shallow where they were. 1 - 1.5 meters.
We watched them for 15 minutes, the I tied a popper onto a rod and Sam went down and had a go.
He wouldn’t have stood a chance of landing them with the little baitcaster, I would guess the kingis were also in the 1.2 meter range. But it would’ve been fun trying.

Photos not the best on an old iPhone, but you can plainly see one of the Kingi’s in the shot.