Two Rocks Tailor!
Hey guys decided to head down to two rocks today just before high tide. Got there and cause of the howling winds heading out to sea blocked off by the rockwall it was flat as. Basically only person fishing there :), started chucking around a 40g surecatch knight and varying up the retrieve. When on a medium retrieve skipping across the surface I saw a huge tailor come from beneath and BANG! I was on. The water was that clear that i saw the whole fight (great leap too) and due to my panacing of getting busted off I skull dragged him in. Let me tell you that when you are by yourself with nothing but a glove it is very hard to land a fish on the rocks. So as I picked him up the line cut (lost my lure) and he fell into a crack in the rocks. Managed to get a photo of him upside down in the rocks hehe my only proof before I pushed him back into the water to swim off with my lure :(
It was my last metal so after this I tried for about 30 minutes using a popper with no success. Anyone know the best way to work poppers for tailor?
Will try upload the poor photo in a second for some size predictions. So disappointed I couldnt get a good snap to show my family so next time I can try and drag one of them along!
This was my first tailor experience and now I am hooked!!!!!!
chippie
Posts: 2
Date Joined: 15/12/10
I think people move there rod
I think people move there rod left to right while reeling in to give the popper a twitching motion. why did you let the tailor go with lure in its mouth ? I caught a tailor on friday at mindarie with a squid jig in its mouth poor thing was starving.
Gjoe
Posts: 68
Date Joined: 18/09/10
haha my line had snapped and
haha my line had snapped and so when I say pushed him back into the water it was my attempt to pick him up that was rather feeble and he used it to propel himself into the water. ( His teeth were scary too!)