fritzy
29-01-2006, 02:16 PM
Hey fellas,
snuck down to spot X caloundra on friday evening after work hoping to pin a GT or two on a spinner. Lots of fresh (brown stained water) big sea, and onshore wind made fishing difficult to say the least. Started very slowly, local fella fishing with bait said there had been the odd chopper tailor around but not much else. Soon as he moved with his bait, threw in a cast where he had been fishing, and saw a handful of giant tailor jumping out of the water nailing a bait school in the whitewater about fifty meters off the rocks. Had a few BIG fish follow the raider without a take, until finally after increasing the spinning speed, got nailed by something big and heavy. Knew it was a big tailor as it took a fair bit of line and stayed deep, really deep (i have found that the big fish tend to do this anyone else agree?). Anyhow after about a five minute fight, monster of a tailor jumped for the first time right beside the rocks, and my raider went flying skyward. No hits after that but an exciting evening anyhow. Would have been easily my best tailor to date - looked like it would have gone close to a metre long!@!
Ahh well, there is always next week!!
Cheers Fritzy
PS. Any tips with staying connected on raiders when tailor are jumping in close would be much appreciated. Have lost many more big ones than i have caught when they are jumping just off the beach or rocks, and it has happened on both trebles (like i was using on friday) single 4/0 or 6/0 and double 4/0 or 6/0's.
snuck down to spot X caloundra on friday evening after work hoping to pin a GT or two on a spinner. Lots of fresh (brown stained water) big sea, and onshore wind made fishing difficult to say the least. Started very slowly, local fella fishing with bait said there had been the odd chopper tailor around but not much else. Soon as he moved with his bait, threw in a cast where he had been fishing, and saw a handful of giant tailor jumping out of the water nailing a bait school in the whitewater about fifty meters off the rocks. Had a few BIG fish follow the raider without a take, until finally after increasing the spinning speed, got nailed by something big and heavy. Knew it was a big tailor as it took a fair bit of line and stayed deep, really deep (i have found that the big fish tend to do this anyone else agree?). Anyhow after about a five minute fight, monster of a tailor jumped for the first time right beside the rocks, and my raider went flying skyward. No hits after that but an exciting evening anyhow. Would have been easily my best tailor to date - looked like it would have gone close to a metre long!@!
Ahh well, there is always next week!!
Cheers Fritzy
PS. Any tips with staying connected on raiders when tailor are jumping in close would be much appreciated. Have lost many more big ones than i have caught when they are jumping just off the beach or rocks, and it has happened on both trebles (like i was using on friday) single 4/0 or 6/0 and double 4/0 or 6/0's.