Had an excellent session on the tailor this afternoon. Started with 2 choppers on the turn of the tide before a school of 2 - 3.5kg fish came into the gutter in feeding mode. Beached around 20 fish before I started counting and the next 21 casts in a row all produced greenbacks without a fish being dropped all afternoon. Can't do that on a Raider. Kept 2 choppers and 2 around 3kg. They went off the chew just on dusk.
Lindsay
Nice session Lindsay
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Originally Posted by Slider
Thats a very good effort. I can only dream about it, never caught one in 6 year drought. Did you use a lure or ganged hooks with pillies. No fish caught on the sand pumping jetty, not when I've gone that is, seems like its the "mate should have been here yesterday" scenario with me.
Peter
good sesh mate. looks to be shaping up as a very good season. have there bee many about up till now?
Are you heading to Fraser this year are you Jackash? Mate it's been absolutely woeful on the tailor for a couple of years and this was a very isolated incident. I don't expect the season to be much different to last year except for there being better water to chase them in this year. There just aren't the numbers of tailor to be able to provide good seasons any more.
Pete, all tailor I catch are taken on Sliding lures (Sliders) and I mainly use a 45g. And to beach around 80 fish and only drop one fish, is unheard of on conventional metal lures - just can't happen due to the nature of attached hook metal lures. Usual ratio would be to beach 7 out of 10 choppers and 3 out of 10 greenbacks. The Sliders solved that problem for me years ago and there is no way I would use attached hook lures on tailor.
Heading down shortly to see what's doin this morning.
Lindsay
Good to see there are still a few good schools around. That would have been a mind blowing session. It must be time to shake the spiders out of the old waders
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Great session - Post a pic of your Sliders
Well done Lindsay. Sounds like a lot of fun
Brett
Lindsay , great session , I'm looking forward to getting my hands on those little gems.
Garry
I'll be making them up over the weekend Garry and in the post on monday.
I'll put up a pic of the Sliders shortly IRMC000.
Only half a doz small choppers this morning and there were a fair few casts between strikes. Were taking slow or paused lures which indicates they are not in feeding mode and prob won't be until next weekend. Nothing being caught by the bait guys and were complaining of not being able to get a bite.
Never worn waders Neil and they would have filled with water wading through the chest deep gutter to get to the bank I was fishing off. I'm sure they're warm but I like to have mobility and the spinning helps to keep warm.
Brett, it was lots of fun given the lack of tailor of recent times. I was glad when they stopped chewing tho as I was cramping between the shoulder blades and my left wrist was complaining a fair bit. Kept waiting for a better quality fish to turn up or I would have pulled the pin earlier.
Top stuff Lindsay,
That would have been a great session.
Early signs of a good tailor season maybe...????
Pete
Sliders - because the slug has a hole through the middle like a sinker, the lure slides up the wire or mono trace during headshake from a fish. This takes away entirely the leverage that the fish has by swinging a weighty metal lure violently from side to side, causing the hooks to come out the path they went in. Tailor are wicked headshakers and when using attached hook lures we found we were dropping nearly every 5lb+ fish hooked and lots of choppers when they leap and headshake. 1st cast with the first slider we made delivered the tailor on the lure card after dropping around 10 similar sized fish - is when we realised we might be on to something. And since then the results have spoken for themselves. And when tailor are dropped in the gutter (particularly greenbacks), they spook the rest of the school and they all exit the gutter. So not only were we landing more and better fish, the schools aren't spooking, which means we can keep them on the chew for much longer which adds massively to the return. Is actually enjoyable to have fish leap now, whereas before we were trying to prevent fish from leaping by reducing tension as they are about to leap which is risky. The sliding lure also helps to keep tension during headshakes and casts further than any other slug I've used due to the way they are weighted and density of the lead and white metal component.
Exactly the same principles are applied to australian salmon, queenfish, billfish, barra and mahi mahi. - most billfish lures are sliders but strength is a factor also. Sliding poppers for barra (and other species) are very effective and the easiest poppers by far to make at home.
Lindsay
id like to give them lures you make a good flogging. i love tailor. top work
figjam :wink:
Where can i pick a few of those lures up from mate? Goitta give them a go hehe
Wide A Wake tackle at Noosa Harbour always have some stock and if Stuey needs more then I'm a phone call away.
Roger at the Tackle Store Carseldine may still have a few and Mossops W'gabba also.
Or directly from me - ldines@bigpond.net.au
Lindsay
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