Reply With QuoteI got mine at Mossops woolloongabba, ask Tol and he has them.
You can also make them yourself now i have seen
Nice to hear some fish being caught up there..
Cheers mate
Oh and what weight to you tend to go for?
I got mine at Mossops woolloongabba, ask Tol and he has them.
You can also make them yourself now i have seen
Nice to hear some fish being caught up there..
Last edited by _Dan_; 09-05-2008 at 09:53 AM.
Sharkie, I tend to go for the 45g. The reason being that they hurt less than the bigger slugs when retrieving hundreds of times a day and particularly on outgoing tides. I also use 9lb Schneider with a 15 - 20lb mono casting leader which allows me good distance with lighter lures. If I was using 15lb mono straight through, then I would use either the 55 or 65g slugs to help achieve distance on the cast.
To be considered when looking at sizing of slugs when chasing tailor, is that most people tend to use them when there is a hot bite happening on pilchards. To use a different sized slug to that of the pilchard that the tailor see as their prey, won't work. For eg. I found a good school of tailor just north of Teewah several years ago using the 45g slider. A heap of cars pulled up and the guys started throwing pilchards out. The tailor went off the slug completely and there were 30 people catching tailor all around me and I couldn't get a strike. So put on a 65g which was snavelled after 2 turns of the reel - caught another x number of fish and the pilchards didn't get any more at all. So at Fraser with all the pilchard users about, the larger lures can do better. Is a version of 'matching the hatch'.
The subject of making them yourself came up on here a year or 2 ago - "Sliders How To Make" (??) was the thread title I think.
Sliding poppers - piece of heavy dowel, cut into lengths, drill hole through middle, cup face if desired, paint. Floats to the surface after bust ups to be used again and again. Did have one gt at Weipa swallow the whole thing though which is the only one I've lost. Great on the queenies.
Nice work Slider!! I will be up Noosa this weekend but without the truck and boatMight have to have a flick around the mouth one arvo I think...
Cheers
Brandon...
Slider, i live in byron, do you have a outlet around here to check them out or just get them through you?
Jewie
hey mate,been a while hearing from you,what a great way to come back with a top post like that,going to morton isl in the next couple o months so i will give the sliders ago i got from you a while ago,hope i can score a session like that.
cheers
If i could get paid the same to fish, sorry boss but i ......!
Hey Brandon, mate the 1st to 3rd cut which is all accessible by 2wd - park at 1st, 2nd or 3rd - has some fabulous water at the moment. Each gutter has a heap of rock and is sheltered a little from the southerly. Def worth spinning slugs through tho I haven't been having much joy there. But the water is too good for there not to be fish there at some stage of the day and perhaps a bit of southerly whitewater is the trigger. Should have bream, dart etc floating around.
I can help you there Jewie. Would like to be using them around Byron myself.
Pete, I don't think the netters will be far off and that will pretty well be the end of any tailor season around here until maybe October. You do get isolated catches in winter depending on time gaps between net shots and location of, but it becomes non viable to keep trying.
Dribble the slugs across the surface with the rod tip up at North Point and around the Cape Geoff. Seems to work well there. Fast slugs in the gutters at the bottom end with the rod tip pointing at the lure for the big tailor in august. Wish I was using them there too. Will just have to give them a thrash on the Weipa spaniards, broad barred, longtails, queenies and gts in july instead.
thanks Slider, I forgot about that as I usually have the 4x4 to get on the beach!! Might have to give that a go tomorrow arvo
cheers
Brandon...
Lindsay, just been into Mossops at the Gabba ( went over especially to pick a couple up). Tol said to me that he has not had any from you since last season and he has been calling you and emailing you with no response. He told me to give you a nudge to contact him so he can get more stock as he has none.
Good to see your still onto them taylor , mackrel like the sliders too , i have caught more macks than taylor on the sliders i made . Might be time to stop useing pillies out the front and start useing the sliders a bit more .
wasnt that thread last year called "spinning for taylor" ?
http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?t=59879
i dont know if this is the thread you are talking about but it shows you how to make them .
Very simple idea. But obviously very effective . Alot like a tassie devil. Good on ya for marketing it mate. Ben
Yeah Nico, there was 'Spinning for tailor' which you gave the link to and there was 'Sliders how to make' and plenty of other threads on tailor spinning where I've contributed too much info to repeat again. If I was wanting to get into spinning then I would go through spinning for tailor with a fine tooth comb as it has almost everything needed except total clarification on water identification. And without a heap of pics, or to be physically on the beach looking at it, then it's very hard to give good info that. The gutter I've been getting the tailor out of doesn't jump out at you as being a likely place and nobody else til today has been fishing there. But to me it looks the perfect gutter and I guess that's what experience and local knowledge brings. Perhaps I can take pics of a few gutters tomorrow to help this scenario.
This afternoon produced around 20 choppers (35 - 45cm) - 5 or 6 before the bottom of the tide and the rest on the turn at dusk. Had a fair bit of company from Teewah locals and a couple of guys who had never spun before had a ball and got a feed. One guy (of April QFM oyster cracker fame) was using an attached hook slug and dropped 4 fish in a row which ensured there would be no greenbacks taken. There will be more fishing there tomorrow as word has spread, but if I can put people on to fish then that is very satisfying - once I've had my bit of fun first. Often turns into beer for me anyway which seems a fair trade.
Not much traffic coming up the beach this afternoon and should be a good weekend.
Haven't heard from Tol, but will give him a call thanks Mtx.
good to see you posting again mate
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