The one that got away - Swan river Tailor
Hello all,
I decided to take the bathtub out for a look in the swan this arvo from Pt Walter with Benno. We headed out from the ramp to quickly learn the battery was flat:/ So much for the new electronics package we were fishing blind! Dropped 4 pots for crabs with tailor for bait with no luck, but one pot dragged and lost, another dragged but recovered in the middle of the channel. This despite all pots being laid along the south western side of pt walter well outside of the channel. Anyway the real action was trolling for tailor. We spent bloody hours cruising back and forth for nothing. Finally as we turned back from Blackwall reach we headed back past Chidley pt. Benno said he was getting hits but I called it for weed/Bullshit before my rod went off.
Straight off I gave Ben the tiller and my beer, and once the rod cleared the holder the fight was on. Fish was peeling off line on port and starboard runs as im trying to tighten drag and clear Ben's line. First jump and I call it for big F#$@$#@ Tailor, Ben misses this and the next few aerials steering the boat for me. He is still calling bullshit when he sees the 4th jump and calls it for a massive tailor. We get it to the side of the boat and all I can think of is that the last time I had that outfit out I was on Logue Brook Dam for Trout and when I tied on the Rapala Xrap the leader felt thin.
Ben has the net ready but the tailor sees the hull and does a 4 foot backflip at the side of the boat and tailwhips the 8lbs leader. We see another tailor swipe the hooked one as big as it as the tail swipes the thin leader and the biggest few swan tailor I have ever seen swum away. Despite heaps more trolling with different lures we didnt get another hookup or even sniff.
I called it for 50+ on the first jump after boating a 48cm last year, but when it was boatside before backflip it was at least 4.5-5" wide in girth.
No photos but Ben clearly saw the fish boatside with the net before it went psycho and said it was the biggest tailor he had ever seen.
Not another touch or even a mark on crab bait.
Bryan
piston broke
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Date Joined: 05/11/08
Bugger
next time
Noxious
Posts: 504
Date Joined: 22/12/11
Always sucks losing a good
Always sucks losing a good fish, but there is always next time.
I've caught a handful of 50cm + tailor in the river, always on live snelled whiting when mulloway fishing.
Trolled up hundred and hundreds of them too, usually in the 25-35cm range.
Mel
Posts: 55
Date Joined: 03/02/13
good story, was wondering if
good story, was wondering if the swan taylors were here yet.
my swan taylors last year were all around the 30's mark
cuthbad
Posts: 1266
Date Joined: 22/04/09
Losing a fish is always
Losing a fish is always painful but its always worse if you blank for the session. The thoughts of "what if I did this differently" don't stop till you get out again and land one. Happened to me last night....
carnarvonite
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Date Joined: 24/07/07
Worse part
The worse thing that can happen in losing a good fish is that you get to see it before it gets off, that really hurts.
dj dvd
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Date Joined: 27/03/12
hmm not the swan tailor
hmm not the swan tailor season of last season so far. Funny how a list fish always makes a better story
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Aaron_Moses95
Posts: 213
Date Joined: 23/04/12
Never been lucky enough to
Never been lucky enough to catch a swam river tailor. Bad luck with that tailor mate, ive lost a few big fish off the rocks, feel your pain mate.
Cardinal
Posts: 364
Date Joined: 28/05/12
unlucky mate! At least you
unlucky mate! At least you knew what it was. I cant stand loosing a hook up and then left scratching my head wondering what could of been
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