Jew and trevs are definately the culprits. They both will swim underneath the mullet ad just inhale the water. It creates a bit of a vortex as the water just drops out from under the fish. Gravity does the rest.
If you keep getting busted up on expensive poppers, it would probably be good to go out and buy an old broom handle a craft a few yourself to save a few dollars.
MAtt
Dirty old sea toad
wahoo ?
Giant herring and tarpon will definately not bite through 30lb leader. Trevally, hmmm i really doubt it. Would have to say tailor, or longtom/something with a decent set of teeth. Plenty of those two speicies particularly around soverign. Or even a cuta :O No point hypothesising, landing one will answer the question
my freend and i artrying to find out whot the biggest snapper is ever caught do you have anny info on this
mate mayb it was a marlin
A lot of fish will vomit up their last meal when they get hooked. If there were tailor feeding around there its quite likely that one may have picked up your trace while going for the free meal. A 30lb nylon leader only needs a nick in it to part under pressure.
I have seen Jew up to 25lb surface feeding on gar under a well lit wharf. They hit on the turn like doing a duck dive and can make quite a splash and sometimes a whoomph type sound.
A livie under a float should get better results than a lure if you can get it to stay in the right place.
Originally Posted by Hi-Yo
Ah thats what must've kept smoking me, back when i was younger lke 13 or so me and the family went to cooran cove and i was using livies and always got smoked or btten off, every time. This was like 6 years ago now but i must get back there sometime to try again.
Its anyones guess what fish it was. Personally my money is with the Jack Attack- soverign is jack country, alot of trevally around there aswell, i have trevally hitting the wall out the back of my canal just a few days ago in the middle of the day.
Someone mentioned jacks schooling. Jacks indeed school, i have seen it with my own eyes (counted 16 all together in the same area) at spot X when i was diving. Also seen a few together in a particular pontoon one day. Jacks are not the loners they are percieved to be.
Jacks are not likely to bite through your line but if you have thick line it may actually make it easier for them to do this due to the spacing of their teeth.
If they are schooling up and going crazy it may be cheaper to throw a few plastics at them rather than a $15 poppa, even though poppas are the go.
Matt
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