Broadwater Tailor 29.6.08

[FISHAWN]

Manged to sneak out late sunday arve to get the last of the run In tide in search of some of the crocs that spat the hooks two weeks prior and maybe another Luderick or two, which believe it or not i got on a dirtly ol prawn.
Was very quiet with only one lizard and a flounder caught ( which i released as we were meant be having corn beef, that the cook told me she’d put on ) then as the sun went down and we were just about sitting on high tide i noticed a few disturbaces in the water and the thought ‘ schools off tailor !!! ‘ entered my head so i quicky ditched my soft plastic setup, got a heavier setup, whacked on a 'gillies' slug and started belting it out with fast retrieves. Think it was the 3rd or 4th cast and the rod just went real heavy and and she bent over i continued bringing her in then after a few jumps i had one inin,,, nearly jumping outta the boat, quick slash of the throat an into me esky. I knew it was going to be on so quickly got back out there and within half an hour i had six in the esky, it was dark now and had to be back for the corn beef, so left the bastards biting and come home to no silverside cooking 1hr of filleting later and we were chewing on freshly baked tailor.
They ranged from 35-55cm ( a new PB for me on my second trip targetting tailor) and were caught on 12lb mono. They didnt really get to put up much of a fight on my snapper combo, apart from the bigger 2 so may have to try using my plastics combo's with 8lb, tho not sure if it will do the combo's any good chucking out heavy slugs.


peace

[nuggstar]

top catch dude. tailor are so much fun to catch. i love em

[tailorboi99]

Top catch as nugg said

Cheers Tom

[breamnut]

congrats on the pb, looks like a good feed

[Jigsrule]

Good on ya mate! Good post and not a bad effort at all. Congrats on the pb

[shabss]

good feed there dave

[ColacGirl]

Nice catch :-)

Ross heard the tailor were about, so we headed to the Broadwater Monday evening and caught 7 keepers.



Went back out Tuesday evening and only caught one.

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Bev

[tailorboi99]

Another good feed Bev - there must be millions of tailor passing though!

Cheers Tom

[the gecko]

My spy in the tackle shop tells me that 3000 tailor were caught off the sand pumping jetty in 2 nites last week. Ive seen a group of boats working a school just off the north wall on the runout after dusk.

A mate of mine fished the beaches near the spit 2 days later and got nothing tho.

Andrew

[Crisp Bee]

I love to catch Tailor, and I love to eat fresh tailor.
I'll have to get out this weekend and try for a few.

[Fishing_Freddy]

Good to hear the tailor are starting to come in. I will have to make an effort to go and catch a feed. Thanks for the report.
Ken

[Braddles]

awesome report... well done! Were either of you land based? I have watched under water videos from around the pipe line at the spit , where the seaway meets the broad water off the rocks there, (ironically there is a cleaning table just there too lol).. Seems to be teaming with trevally, flat head, bream and tailor.... yet I have had no luck on several attempts over the years. Tried free floating pillies on ganged hooks, weighted prawns and squid.... not tried lures / slugs though.....

Could anyone recommend a specific type of lure / soft plastic / hard body / slug for that area that I could try?

Thanks guys, and once again, top effort,

Brad.

[jaredluke]

Nioce ctch of Tailor there mate

[Bronson]

good size tailer congrats on your PB


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