winter brings some of the nicest weather in regards to winds and low swell, but with that comes very low temperatures, this is when a great pair of thermals comes in handy, (available in any good tackle/camping store).
My PB Tailor
there is nothing better then heading to your local beach, rockwall or jetty before sunrise and fishing a hot bite for some large winter tailor, winter sees some large specimens being taken regularly, so i decided to brave the cold and headed out on saturday the 29/06/13. I was up at 530am with the gear packed in the car headed down to point peron, my local reef system armed with a Shimano Stradic 4000 ci4 spooled with 20lb tufline braid matched to a 9' shimano starlo classix spin stick, set up and walked along the beach towards the reef platform that looked so fishy i was guaranteed a fish! i climbed down some rocks and stepped onto a reef platform about a metre and half from the waters edge, the suns now rising and the water is looking fantastic with the waves crashing over creating a lot of white water, the hardest decision was where to cast first, i had a 40 gram knight metal and belted it across the edge of the reef along the whitewater......about 10 casts later and no fish i decide to change lure and put on a storm shallow diver, the suns has now lit the water up and i spot a very nice hole in the reef about 3 metres from where i am standing, i cast the lure to the outer edge of the hole about 15 metres away start winding and twitching the lure when i see a large tailor shoot out from under the ledge and engulf the storm lure, i set the hooks and the tailor goes nuts, jumps clean out the water with some big head shakes, then dives hard trying to get under the ledge, with some quick footwork i was able to get around and pull the tailor back out, now the hard part getting the tailor in close enough to be able to get down lower to the waters edge and land this fish safely! the surge is pulling the tailor along the front of the reef ledge and i have no chance of muscling it back my way and the tailor is using this to his advantage, i was able to let the surge take the tailor and follow it around to a lower edge and managed to pull it up onto the rocks. My personal best land based tailor at 60 cm's i got a quick photo removed the lure and released him to fight another day.
i spent the next hour casting and retrieving all sorts of lures from poppers, divers, metals and soft plastics but it was just the one fish, but being my personal best i was not complaining, i went home a happy fisherman and thats what its all about, enjoying a sport you love, so get out of bed throw on some warm clothes and go for a fish!
catch ya next time
Corey
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