Tailor Dawn Or Dusk

[hooknose]

Hey Lindsay,
Have the bait crew(Drew,Cedrick etc) had any action up your way prior to last week. Have not had news of their activities(or yours) for quite a while.
Cheers Stevo !!

[Bazzawookooka]

Good evening all,

I've finally gotten round to getting a Bribie beach permit again and was thinking about running down the outside a ways in search of some tailor this weekend.

Any news or experience with fishing that part of the world?

At this stage I'm open to heading out for a dawn or a dusk patrol so I'm happy to take any advice or suggestions.

Btw - can't believe the weather today, and by the look of things tomorrow will be even better - if only there wasn't bills to pay I'd be out there till my clothes fell off my back.

Anyway, thanks in advance, and thanks for the replies regarding salting - very helpful.

Cheers,

Steve

[bondy99]

G'day Steve,

Good luck with them, I heard tailor are coming on at Caberita, there should be some greenbacks making their way up.

I'm definitely going to buy a second hand 4WD for beach work, dont want a new one.

What tyres are good for beach and general road wear?

Cheers.

Peter

[Bazzawookooka]

Peter,

Don't do much beach work - in fact can't remember the last time I've been off the black-top.

My pajero is on its second set of standard bridgestone dueller H/L and I can't fault them on the road as far as road noise, grip and wear (~60K).

I'm sure there are hard-core 4wd people all over the country cringing at the thought, but as I said, I'm not really all that often on the beach.

Not sure if it does but hope this helps.

Cheers,

Steve

[bondy99]

No worries Steve, its all good,

Good luck with tailor hunting

Peter

[RobGoesFish]

Go night time if you can mate.

[Crisp Bee]

The most success for me has been in the early evening, and at first light on the sunshine coast. But i have caught heaps on fraser in the late morning.
I prefer good flesh bait at night, a Slab of fresh mullet, or whole poddy mullet, butterflied if dead. However a few mangled pillies in the gutter can act as berley early in the evening.

[bondy99]

There was bugger all caught on the spit area on Thursday night and only a dozen tailor caught on the sand pumping jetty same night from the period of 4.00pm to 3.30am then I went home with 2 bream.

[yellowbeard]

I've been religiously attacking tailor and bream for about a year now on the beach. I've found that although the dawn service is a big part of the religious experience, for me it's not necessarily when you catch the most tailor. Often they come on a little later -- could depend on the tide, whether or not there's red weed floating aroung (which they hate getting in their gills [apparently]), the current, if there's bait fish around -- whatever. But one thing I've noticed about the early birders is that they'll often leave an hour after dawn if they don't catch anything -- and I stay and come home with the fish.

[Slider]

Stevo, not really much of anything being caught off this beach on lure or bait. I think I've caught one chopper since xmas and the bait guys that leave 3 or 4 rods in rod holders all night are only finding 1 or 2 choppers at best. Heard of numbers of tailor being caught one night north of Teewah a couple of weeks ago that were all 3kg, but size and quantity haven't been verified.
Has been a lot of complaints about the lack of tailor here the last 2 - 3 years and the lack of fish generally - largely because there is a general lack of fish.

Good to see the netters are on the beach at last - wouldn't want any cats getting hungry.

[hooknose]

Cheers Linds, you will have to come down this way and give it a burl mate, there has been a few round the Goldy and northern NSW on bait and lure, tides are looking good for Wednesday onwards through the weekend.
Cheers Steve R !!

[bondy99]

I'll be fishing Monday arvo from 3.00pm to get my spot and stay until 2.00am or stay until 6.00am

Bream and hopefully tailor to be had.

Peter

[PNG1M]

It's definately afternoon/evening for me on a rising tide.

I've caught hundreds of tailor in the past and I reckon 98% of them have been caught late arvo. The rising tide seems to be preferable.

Maybe that 98% is due to the fact that I'm not an early riser & prefer the evening shift.

When targeting tailor I fish with two rods, in rod holders a few metres apart.
I usually hold one rod & keep an eye on the other.

I have a hole dug in the sand up the beach near my gear and if/when I get tailor I bleed them immediately & leave'em head first in the hole.

I whack the fillets off before leaving the beach then I skin'em when I get home.

I carry a thin chopping board in my tackle bag & when the filleting time comes I scrape up a bit of a sand castle & press the board firmly onto it - makes an improvised table.

I like to carry some frozen WA pillies with me in a small esky. By the time I'm ready to fillet the tailor the pillies are mostly finished. So the fillets have room in the esky for the trip home.

Too easy...