Do tailor eat other tailor?
Submitted by lachieH on Sat, 2016-12-10 18:48
I was thinking back to salmon season and I remembered that I caught a tailor as a bycatch while throwing lures over a reef looking for salmon stragglers. I was using a McCarthy 6 inch paddletail in the white pearl colour which I would imagine looks identical to a juvenile tailor? i know that trout will eat other trout but do tailor eat other tailor?
thanks,
Lachie
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Ashen
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Yes they do
However, I think its illegal to use undersize fish as bait (dead or live), unless you use a 25cm+ tailor as bait...
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
davmor
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Legal size for tailor is
Ashen
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Yep
My bad. 300mm for tailor
A fish in the hand is worth 10 in the water!
rob90
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Tailor eat anything, ive
Tailor eat anything, ive caught em with blowies in their guts.
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flangies
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When I get a tailor off the
When I get a tailor off the beach and the bites are fast, it gets immediately strip baited and turned into a couple more tailor. Nothing gets wasted in the food chain. I doubt a tailor could tell the difference nor care because it's eat or be eaten.
scottland
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My nate
my mate got a 20 cm tailor on a 15 cm tailor fillet in the river going for mulloway and know not a undersized tailor fillet if that wat ur thinking haha
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Diesel80
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Lauchie, tailor love Whiting too...
What does a 6" pearl coloured plastic look like to you?
Probably would to a frenzied tailor....
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ranmar850
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I was being harassed by tailor once.
At Port Gregory in Nobbies' Hole, fishing for mulloway. Tailor were too quick. So i filleted a tailor, chucked it in as bait, tailor stopped and started exclusively catching mulloway. YMMV.