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The typical live bait rig is a revolving spool reel with 300 yards of 15 to 30 lb. line with a stinger rig consisting of a baited hook and a treble hook trailed behind attached to a wire leader. These rigs provide for excep-tional hook- up ratios, at least giving you a chance to experience one of these incred-ible fish. This is not a time or place to be a spend thrift; collect as good of equipment as possible can if you are willing to try this. The best months for kings vary and are de-pendent on water temperatures and water clarity as well as bait availability. Usually if you can find the baitfish the kings will be somewhere below the bait feeding. At times you will see the king fish under the bait fish striking and the splashes they cre-ate can be seen from quite a distance, it will quickly get your attention. Also as you watch for other indicators, watch for birds flying above that in is usually a pretty good indicator that there is bait and in potentially bigger fish under them. Another method for catching kingfish is to anchor up on them and free line your bait back to the fish. Tarpon guides will often do this in the lower keys. If you happen to find an area that is holding a good amount of fish, you should set your anchor and start chumming to hold the fish. Here again, don't be cheap, bring along lots of chum. Chum blocks will also work well in this situ-ation. It is better to have too much chum than not enough once you find the fish. It is very important to toss a few dazed pil-chards for chum. A slow steady toss of a single minnow here and a single minnow there will help chum the fish up and keep