Yanchep tailor
Hi everyone, this morning I went tailor fishing in Yanchep below club Capricorn. firstly i though I would try the beach, and there was so much weed that it wasn't even funny. I tried casting an old 8-25lb rod and snapped first cast because the bail arm flicked over unexpectedly and the force snapped the end. Then I tried casting my baited rod and pulled it in and got weed in about 10 different spots so it took 15 minutes to just reel the line in.
I then saw people fishing off the rock groyne and catching a few tailor so I thought I would try it. At about 7:00am I sprinted down to a good position on the rocks and did a few casts, reeling the bait in every 5 minutes, not feeling any nibbled/bites, but noticing some huge teeth marks and bites missing from the mulies. At 7:30am I felt a hit at the bait and struck the rod and there I had it, my first tailor! It fought really hard and when I got it to the rocks, i was so careful not to lose it through the rocks. It measured 36cm!
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About half an hour later, the tailor were coming on the bite again and getting some good tugs on the rod but failing to hook up, but then at about 7:45 i got a huge bite and I was on! It fought really hard to the rocks and again I was treating it as if it was part of the royal family, and got it to the bucket to take it on. I was even happier because I now know that the groyne there is a reliable tailor spot!
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The tailor were still on the bite and then dad finally got a hookup but was a bit slow in reeling it in, managing to let it swim into a snag bream style and busting it off. The tailor stayed on the bite until about 9am when we ran out of bait and started heading home. someone got a haul of 10 tailor off to the right and some got 5 but most of the people (only about 10 people fishing over the time that we were there) got 1 or 2 tailor.
We bled the tailor as soon as we caught them, which is a good idea, then when we got home, i filleted them to the best of my ability. In the picture the tailor looks red, but it's actually a really pearly white. We got some nice chunky fillets off them.
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To finish off, today was a great day and I hope to go down to Yanchep again next weekend!
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Geoff78
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Awesome report Lachie.
Awesome report Lachie. Sounds like you learnt a lot in just one morning. Great stuff and those fillets look very tasty.
Mattyb84
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Nice work mate glad club cap
Nice work mate glad club cap gave you some fish
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sea-kem
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Good on you Lachie for
Good on you Lachie for persisting. I leave the skin on my Tailor fillets as it crisps up really nice.
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Dale
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lachieH
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Thanks for the tip
Thanks for the tip
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Hutch
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Nice work, well done for
Nice work, well done for waking up early and putting in the hours to get them
outdoinit
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Good effort
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good job mate
good job mate
lachieH
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Can't wait to eat this 5
Can't wait to eat this 5 star fish in 5 minutes
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Browndog
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Awesome
Looks great Lachie, and will no doubt taste great as you caught them yourself.
Enjoy!
Aaron_Moses95
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Well done Lachie, the rock
Well done Lachie, the rock wall there is good isnt it?
lachieH
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It's great and worth it
It's great and worth it getting up at 4am because you there are so many tailor caught casting towards the reef
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Callum24
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nice work mate if you run
nice work mate if you run out of bait again try strips of tailor
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lachieH
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I will try that, do they eat
I will try that, do they eat themselves kind of?
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caughtup
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yep
yep
bulkie
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Awesome work mate! Nothing
Awesome work mate! Nothing beats eating freshly caught fish (especially ones by yourself)
Habanero
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Good one
Good work Lachie , looks like Dad might be getting up early again eh?
lachieH
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Yep. If he pretends he
Yep. If he pretends he didn't hear the alarm on a morning that I wanted to go fishing, I will just be awake and wake him up to go anyway. Dad isn't really a fisherman, he is more of a mode of transport. But when I started catching tailor I have never seen him bait up a rod as fast as he did!
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rob90
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good work
Good work champ, you researched observed persisted and produced. That place is a gem hey, were you fishing weighted or bait casting? The tailor cant resist an unweighted mulie in the in the gutters and turbulant water there.
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lachieH
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Using a star sinker mate.
Using a star sinker mate. Will give it a try unweighted next time though
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