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gents observe the trace - you don't get the big 'uns with even the very best abrasive resistant nylon. Looks like plastic coated muli strand in that pic
look at the sky - looks like a south east pattern to me
look at the fisherman - ugghhh - but ain't he happy - its worth getting cold, wet & beaten up - i'm off to the surf
name definately rings a bell !
I don't get down there much these days ...maybe every 6 months ...but as kids ..every hoiliday was spent fishing the breakwalls for niggers or Jew ...or up around Lauriton Bridge for Flathead ...and geez did we get some lizards down there back then .
very tight nit community where everyone knows everyone ...especially the fisherman .
My family are all in the Billing clan down there ....Grandfather Doug ( a bit renowned for his nigger fishing ..getting old now though..built rods for every Tom dick and Harry .....also builds radio controlled yachts the old school way and raced them down Lake Cathy) auncles Terry and Ross .and a few cousins in the area ...like about a dozen ..one works in the tackle shop down North Haven..I think the chances of your auncle knowing one or more of them would be almost a definate !
What else can i say about the area ....Fishermans paradise !
I always have wanted to live there ....just work is scarce
It is Reidy with a Greenback winner from a few years back.
Jamie Lawell tells me it was one of 40 over 5kg caught on that 'memerable' weekend.
I think it went mid 6kg's.
If anyone is interested, this year's tailor and jew winners at Greenback came from 7 mile beach I'm told.
Now that's a first - usually from Main at Iluka.
Dave ><>
PS - Chris did you notice it was a black wire trace?
I usually shy away from black wire...
This post has made me more determined than ever to land a large Tailor. My current best is 8.5 lb in the old scale and looks pretty small compared to these beasts.
I too noticed the black wire trace and it seems pretty obvious to the fish. I am currently using 50lb penn leader snooding on a couple of hooks and may have to look at something a bit more substantial. I tried 20Kg in that knottable steel leader. nice and flexible but I was not happy with the way knots pulled up with it. What are the rest of you using for jumbo greenbacks?
i've always used jinkai - good hook up rate but the bite off rate was a killer on singles.
Went onto plastic coated nylon just like in the photo last year for a fair result - no corkers though, but I didn't put in the hours either.
Thinking it was a bit too thick, this year after a bit of research - bronzed single strand - vitually invisible in the water at night - very thin - with a glow bead in the knot above the eye.
Watson's Jumping Bonito, Mack Tuna, Fresh twitching Tailor or a live mullet will be the only meals on the menu.
The multi is quite pliable & good in big seas as you can go thru the flesh side first then pass over the top & back thru the flesh side to hold it in place before finishing rather than just relying on the eye & tag to hold the slab. After repeated use it gets a little kink in that spot but doesn't seem to be weakened & as long as your slabs are similar the hook still sits pretty.
I want 5kg+ this year - I want it baaaaad!
chris
neil - flemish eye & crimp then melt & supa glue - the knot only need be stronger than your mainline
Chris, the knottable stuff I have is the one that looks like braid and is a woven material. I will look at the single strand as I now use it for most other applications. what B/S would you be using.
we used use live 1kilo bream at the lake munmorah power station inlet(central coast nsw) to catch tailor up to 10kg, not sporting but! as you had to use 50lb gear to stop them making the bars that stop logs going in- my best was 8kilo and really it didnt eat well!
i got one 6kilo on 10kilo spinning in the surf at birdie beach(central coast nsw) jumped its head off and had some really good runs.
the central coast nsw is the jew capital of australia and has great tailor and kawaii, stockton breakwall nth of newcastle is the most prolific jew producer in the country- using live small hairtail for bait. but line pro's gave them a hiding-on their reef spawning grounds(anyone who thinks line fishing does stuff all think again- a dead fish is one less in the ocean, the bottom line to fish stocks is to have accurately accessed stock numbers seasonally and wise quotas' issued to commercial operators- fish like jew,tailor and kingies take good time to recover from over fishing, its time fisheries in this state got it's own department, instead of being just apart of primary industries).
nsw has seen great improvement to such stocks due to estuary bans in a great numbers of "fish nurseries", wiser quotas and prohibited areas along the coast, time qld goverment lived up to its number plate catch phrase "the smart state"- go the maroons'
damon- ps, plz pardon my digression- the topic and place of capture just made me think about the history of the fishery down there and the resolutions that made it good again!(like the banning of tailor netting and mullet roe catchers)
great fish that!
a mate of mine caught a 90lb jew off sth curl curl beach- first time surf fishing ! made the fishin news newspaper front page.
when u say nobbys nugget do you mean phillip island ? there is a lot of nobbys heads around! haha, well as harro say's " fish are where you find em'"
damn good fish, i had a good tailor on at the mouth to swan bay on a manns 10+ but after 5mins of running off it bit me off the blighter!
damo
i wasnt a local i had a mate in maitland who i fished with up there i was impressed by the fact that every shot i fished stockton breakwall i got at lest 1 jew- smallest was 6kg biggest 18kg, but i saw jew landed over 30kg there- hell i shouldda fished the south side!lol
i suppose i should talk to the old guys at a new spot' damon
damon
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