best hints that I can give you (and i'm no expert) are

Fish where there's moving water, usually where the water is that milky blue sort of colour.  The tailor use this water as camoflage to attack their prey.

Fish with unweighted mulies on a gang of hooks.  I like 2/0 and 3/0 hooks with a trebble at the bottom, but each to their own.  If baits aren't your thing you can try throwing stick baits, plugs, or metals into the wash and doing a fast retreive.

Good luck, and post some photo's!!

Cheers Justo. Im probably going to be on the beach fishing. can you still get a decent cast with an unweighted mulie or not really?? i got a couple of raider slices so might give them a go!! Is it best to burley up or will they sort of be hanging around anyways?? thanks for the help mate

good question, most of my fishing is from a boat, so a big cast isn't generally required.  I believe it's fine to use a small weight if you need to, otherwise a paternoster with a gang and long leeder running to the sinker may work (??).

I usually burley up by chopping up bits of mulie and throwing them out, but there is no right or wrong.  Just keep trying and you'll get them.   More important is to find the area the fish are in.  IF there's no fish, the best gear and burley in the world won't help you.  If theres no breaking water or waves, just look for gutters along the beach.  Area's where theres a rip are good too, I guess you could try casting your mulie into the rip and let it do the work for you in getting the bait out.

I'm sure that someone else will chime in with some great advice to help out as well.

cheers,

justo

G'day Jdubya,

Used to be my stomping grounds down there, and got plenty of tailor, but like Jutso, most were from a boat.

Best spots landbased would have to be North West point off the rocks at Point Peron, or from the beach in Warnbro. (Second carpark south of the Waikiki Hotel site)

You should get lots from the beach, but not massive, whereas from Point Peron you'll get less, maybe none), but generally MUCH bigger.

As for method, totally agree with Justo, with the addition that if you can catch and use fresh gardies, and the bigger the better, your catch rate and size should improve a lot.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Joe

 Size 3/4 gang hooks (personally size 3 on the bottom with the top 2 being size 4). 40lb or 60lb mono leader. If you're fishing from the beach and casting a distance is an issue use a well weighted sinker that's going to hold in the surf conditions, if you're fishing from a wall then you can probably go an unweighted mullie or some small spilt shot weights along the line. No real issue with using a sinker, just make sure you've got a long leader so the bait floats off the bottom (a cork also helps with this) as otherwise you leave yourself open to rays/sharks/other bi-catch fish. Personally I always use a sinker and put a cork on the leader line to help float it.

As others have said aim for breaking water or holes/gutters (in particular the exits to them). Make sure you get out past the breakers if you're fishing off the beach otherwise you're not going to catch jack-sh!t.

Sunrise and Sunset (and the hours before/after) are usually the best time for fishing.

Best of luck, and plenty of pics :)