Long tom in moreton Bay

[jpart10]

Hi anglers
Going out fishing next week on moreton bay. i am after long tom and woul apreciate any info eg. what time is best fishing for them, what baits and rigs and where abouts.
I am fishing from vicky point to amity Point
Cheers Jpart10

[jayrum]

not sure to much on the long toms ,but the next door fisherman just got back from amity and got lots of bream and a few mackeral that was off the rocks to rough in the boat and he's got a 25 foot fly bridge burtrem

[Dory4.1]

Jpart10

I've caught longtom on yabbies and squid, during the day and on dusk, in both instances on a seagrass covered bottom. They have a mouth full of teeth and didn't appreciate being caught so I didnt keep them..

Rgs
Michael

[Freeeedom]

The little ones are found in estuaries, the bigger ones offshore. They are great fun to catch as they go like the clappers when hooked, often doing a few tail walks and jumps. They tend to hang around reef areas so you catch them in front of headlands and close in to the seaward side of islands and reefs. Some of these have exclusion zones around them so make sure its OK to fish them. Their mouths are very hard and bony so it can be difficult to get a hookup. Large ones will often take tailor baits and the ganged hooks give you a better chance of connecting. This one was taken from the rocks at Noosa
Cheers Freeeedom

[maxwellson]

what did ya get the wallet on mate..???

i want some ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[NeilD]

I have caught them on the flats to west of the Tanga Wrecks and around Yellow Patch. No reason they would not be in the area you are fishing especially near the Bar


Neil

[Pistol_Pete]

Hi mate,
I saw a bloke bring into the shop I work in a 1.5m long tom that weighed 6kg.....It was seriously massive... :o
He got that on a close in reef just floating pillies back in a berley trail. 8-)

[Green]

Jpart10, try the shallows around Wellington point, Green and St. Helena. Try small chrome slicers and soft plastics with the paddle tail. Good luck.

[hooknose]

Hey jpart10,
Used to target them for Spanish Mackeral bait(top bait when trolled) in Keppel Bay. The little fella's(30-50 cm) can be caught in numbers using whiting gear. Put a small quill type float( the cheap plastic ones with a hook at either end for attaching to your main line) above a trace of 30cm with a small fly hook( no 9 to no 12 ) on the end( no sinker).
Use bait such as pieces of yabbie or prawn and fish early morning( first light) from the beach or rocks adjacent to submerged reef(rocks) or weed beds for best results. You usually get them in good numbers when you locate a school and often clean up on big gar as well. It will blow you out how well they perform on light gear and you will have some fun for sure.
As Pistol P and Green have already said the larger models up to and over a metre will go for pillies and chrome lures also live bait. Good luck !!!

[Siminikish]

i think you might be referring to pike hooknose. i have caught several good long tom, land based in the cleveland toondah area using fresh mullet or prawns.

Siminikish-Live2fish

[imnotoriginal]

Heaps of them at the tanga wrecks. But like the guys have said, they can be hard to hook. I had three of them take my soft plastics but I couldn't get the hook lodged in his mouth.
Joel

[hooknose]

Hey Siminikish,
Definately Long Tom mate. In the light gear clubs during the seventies and eighties we would regularly weigh in good bags of them and it was not uncommon to get 50 odd in a session. Always kept them for mackeral bait although some blokes considered them to be vermin. Standing shoulder to shoulder on Great Keppel Island or North Keppel Island you would get one every cast until the sun got too high in the sky and the school moved on. Pike are good value to( great Spanno bait as well) but we never got as many and they would bight you off more often. I remember seeing a bloke try to get a Long Tom off his hook and not holding it tight enough behind the head, the fish slipped out of his hand like an ice block and latched onto his nose taking off a heap of bark in the process and bleeding like you would not believe( handle with care- slippery little buggers)
Cheers !!