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Monday, 19 May 2008

Steve catching yet another tailor

After observing such glorious weather throughout each day of the working week, I was dismayed to see some rather sketchy weather reports leading into the weekend. I didn't like the look of Saturday's weather, which threatened rain throughout the day, not to mention gusty conditions that really picked up in the afternoon. By all accounts, Sunday was supposed to be worse so I didn't start the day with plans to go fishing. But as the day wore on it looked less likely to rain and winds were moderately low as well. Right when I was sitting around wondering if I should go fishing or not, I got the call from Steve Fields (MD of Hobie Cat Australasia) who was wondering the same thing. With a final glance out the window to check for dark clouds or swaying tree-tops I decided it looked good enough, so within the hour both of us were on the water.

My first tailor for the day, (caught on an Ecogear SX60)

With only a couple of hours sunlight left time was against us, so we'd both tied on some sleek hardbody lures that have been proven tailor-takers of late. Steve has located a nice patch of water that the tailor seem to absolutely love (which I'll be keeping hush, so don't ask) and this has become his recent 'go-to' tailor fishery. It didn't take long after arriving before we were both catching fish. After we had both caught 4 or 5 fish each we decided to paddle over to the shallows and try our luck for bream, using poppers. Sadly, the luck didn't follow us to the shallow water and with only a half-hour of sunlight left we didn't have much time to change our fortunes. So as we paddled away the bream let out a collective sigh of relief (because if we had just 5 minutes more, look out!)

Last tailor of the day (caught on a Rapalla shallow-diving slash bait lure)

I'm moving away from the basin in a few weeks, so I'll probably try to make the most of my proximity in that time (weather, be nice). Chances are good that my next few trips out will be chasing basin bream... and that croc-like flatty that I haven't been able to boat yet. I'm going to miss this neck of the woods for sure. The upside, however, that is my new place will be closer to Jervis Bay itself. There's a whole lot of water out there (and thankfully some of it is still legal to fish in) so the frequency of my trips out into the bay will increase.