Hillaries

went out to the hillaries lightouse fishing into the marina after work yesterday. it was howling a gale but the lighouse blocked most of the wind. was pretty quiet with a only a few herring caught around the place. about 3ish it went real quiet and then bait fish started jumping everywere!!!! decided to switch from floating lures to baitcasting mulies and had a few hits but no hookups. The next few castys were the same but then i had a few BIG bangs and then i got a solid hookup! i played it for about 10 minutes forgetting to adjust the drag. iwas about to adjust the drag and the top gang got bitten clean off. im still puzzled about what it was and ive narrowed it down to 5 possible fish
1)Tailor
2)Salmon
3)Shark
4)Sambo
5)Bonito

ps) sorry about the long post ;)

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bludgin' since 94'


Elora Danan's picture

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Fight!

Sun, 2008-05-11 13:27

 How was it fighting mate? I think it could be a good Tailor. Stirred up water equals Tailor.

I had a miserable day yesterday up at Mindarie. Only had a follow from a Tailor behind my Popper and that was it. So I switched to baitcasting mulies and got some respectable size Herrings. No Tailor but.

Thanks.

 Elora.D

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probably a tailor, and dont

Sun, 2008-05-11 15:20

probably a tailor, and dont worry about the long post, sometimes if you have a question you need to explain yourself so others know what your on about so they can reply

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it fought a bit like a

Sun, 2008-05-11 18:00

it fought a bit like a tailor with lotsa head shakes and it moved around alot but as i said, it wasnt able to take any line. i was only using 5kg line but a short 30lb leader (15kg) so i wasnt amazed when it busted me off.

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there were all the signs of

Sun, 2008-05-11 18:01

there were all the signs of tailor as well-----
baitfish jumping
rough weather
howling wind
tails missing off mulies

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I know exactly what it was....

Sun, 2008-05-11 22:31

.... a learning experience.

Lessons like that suck in the metro too because it might be a while before you get another chance.

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i kinda want it to be the

Mon, 2008-05-12 17:16

i kinda want it to be the same weather as saturday cos im up for it again---------- this time ill remember to bring down the alvey ;) and some trace.
just a heads up----- the hooked up kiosk is now shut until further notice. bummer i know

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bludgin' since 94'