Yesterday and todays catch!
Weather was pretty horrible yesterday so being a true tailor fanatic i went down to my favourite spot armed with a halco rooster i bought on wednesday and hit this patch of reef up pretty hard, at first i noticed a rather large cod or someother fish kept following the popper, and other than that it was pretty quiet until i hooked the first tailor, at about ~55cm it was smaller compared to what i was after but still good fun on the light gear.
Then finally an easy 4-5kg one came in for inspection and my heart was pumping watching it go for the popper, but it failed to connect with the hooks and disappeared just as fast. i decided to call it a day but on my way back i thought nah i'll try for some herring , got about 30! on the paddletail snapbacks, they would only take it in the white wash so it was hard to time it right to get it with the waves and the breakers.
Then after that i tried squidding for a bit, Yes in this weather, got 12 squid in 13 casts then all of a sudden nothing, pictures are on my camera.
Did the same thing today, no tailor but a shit load of kilo plus skippy and a nice haul of squid aswell, the herring are an absolute plague at the moment and they take any plastic i put infront of them.
Will definately be back for tailor , i'm obsessed with big tailor its just hard finding good reefs in south metro area.
Who says shit weather is only for snapper? =P
PS. Suprisingly all the squid were about 1-2cm difference in size, there were no smaller ones or jumbos, like they were out of the same group
barneyboy
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Good on ya man!
Hope that big Tailor comes along for ya!!
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
soupster51
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Sounds like youv'e had a good couple of days. Top report.
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wicksey
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promising signs for the
promising signs for the weekend then.
Colin Hay
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Good one James
A 55cm tailor is nothing to sneeze at mate. Keep hiting those reefs and eventually the bigger ones will show up.
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wicksey
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nice effort. what reef area
nice effort. what reef area was it?
Bodie
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nice fish mate and squid,
nice fish mate and squid, well done.
Like he's going to give up his secret reef!!! i woudlnt!
flangies
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Thanks guys :) The squid
Thanks guys :) The squid were taken on the south mole and the reef was in the freo area within walking distance of south mole, not many people fish it so its a pretty well kept secret
wicksey
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didnt realise it was so much
didnt realise it was so much a secret. too far for me anyway, your spot is safe.
Roger Knife
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Cant wait to do a load of
Cant wait to do a load of lure fishing when I come over...such hard work here for very little effort.
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BBWA4LIFE
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nice work bud... good
nice work bud...
good effort.
Going Offroad In Search Of The Elusive One.....
sarcasm0
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you did better than us
see my report for our north mole success?!
I just wish we took the boat out early this morning, at least would have come home with a feed of herring and squid.
We did use some jigs for a while but there was nothing on for us. There was a school of red small fish I could see with the polarising sunnies, but with not much light it was hard to see but I thought that there could have been squid shadowing the school.