Tailor - Southern Gold Coast

[robvee]

Sunday nite hit my favourite southern GC surf spot for an hour either side of high tide ...
Not a single other person in sight, crisp air with no wind, some decent swell aerating the water beautifully .... fishing is great when it is so far removed from the chaos I witnessed on SPJ the other nite
I have my mother in law and great gran visiting from the UK for the next 5 weeks ... so the pressure is on to produce a feed on every session
Took 10 x Pillies down with me and returned with 6 x Tailor (38 - 51cm) .... not a brilliant strike rate, but not too bad either - we can't all be as good as you Carnster
All on 6/0 suicide ; 80lb wire ; 5 Oz grapnel for the sweep .... Fish were biting hard and fast until 1 hr after high tide.
[ pic attached ... just for encouragement of those who like to see, or won't believe ]

[Si]

very nice robvee. six tailor on ten pillies is pretty dam good i reckon. just curious bout your setup. you just use one hook and wire. you have better hook up and catch rates with this tackle?

[carnster]

Top effort Rob; you can't keep a good man down.

[bondy99]

Good effort Robvee,

I was on the sand pumping jetty Saturday night at about 10.00pm and stayed until 4.00am. Hard work to secure one salmon an 2 x 37cm choppers, Salmon and 1st chopper caught in the middle of jetty, the other chopper right out the deep end....heaps of mixed ethnics too. damn hard to get a good spot....had my 14ft rod...a bit too long and heavy to use from the jetty....I'd like to use something lighter as I ended up with a sore back, shoulder and arms.

Old china reckons I should use 9ft or 10ft rod...what's your thoughts on this one and is there a particular brand one would recommend?

Cheers, Peter

[robvee]

14 ft WAY too big for spj !!!
10ft cheap JW rod at spj .... coz some idiot is gonna stand on it / break it for you .... so cheaper and nastier the better for that place :-)

[nathank]

bondy.. i use a 11foot graphite rod by fin nor.. its rated 8 to 12kg and is light as a feather... have a saltist 450 on it with 30lb braid and can cast it all night long.. i got the rod from doug burts at southport, its shelf price is 149 but ive got two of them (at different times) both times for 130... absoloute bargain for such a neat rod.