Jamie Newland with the kingfish he caught at Caroline Bay.
Jamie Newland was gobsmacked when he landed a kingfish which was more than one metre long at Caroline Bay. The Fonterra worker said he thought he was tussling with a shark when he called his cousin over to help him drag it in on Sunday night. They struggled for five minutes to bring the big fish in about 7pm, he said. “We’d been fishing with a flounder net,” Newland said. They usually caught elephant fish or flounder in the Bay, so he said it was a bit of a surprise to get a kingfish. He estimated the fish weighed more than 30 kilograms, however he said he did not actually weigh it before eating it.