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Trip Reports NSW Basin View, tailor city | Basin View, tailor city | | Print | |
| Sunday, 01 June 2008 | ||||
I love it when a plan comes togetherWith dark clouds looming low I came very close to shelving today's trip but fortunately the rain held off all day long. Late afternoon I decided to head out regardless, with just a couple of hours daylight left. I had a very clear plan of attack for today, which was to head out to the position where I found the large tailor last weekend. I'd developed the opinion that this is where the bigger ones could be found, unlike just about everywhere else I've been fishing (where bream and flathead are abundant). So today was all about proving that theory.  Caught on Rapalla slash bait, medium diver.  It only took about 10 minutes after reaching the destination to prove my theory correct. Trolling the deadly Rapalla slash bait hardbody lures (one a shallow, the other a medium depth diver), I hooked onto this fish. Taking the medium depth diver, it put up a pretty good fight for it's size, which was just over 50cm. Not quite as large as last week's fish, but big enough to be great fun on light tackle. 10 minutes after that the shallow diver accounted for the next fish, which was a little bigger again. Still not quite as large as last weeks largest fish, but it was getting closer. I'd estimate about 55cm. Both this and the previous fish were returned, both a little shaken, but certainly a little wiser.  Caught on a Rappala shallow diver slash bait A half hour later I hooked up again, this time onto something with a bit more guts to it. This fish fought more like the 58cm specimen I caught last weekend, shaking it's head vigorously and going on several hard runs. I tamed it fairly quickly though and a few moments later had it netted. This guy was definitely bigger than the last couple and I decided to keep this one for the neighbours. It measured up at 59cm and according to my lip-grip scales, was right on 2kg.  Neighbours dinner, all 59cm worth So I figure that my supposition was indeed correct. Big tailor are now present in the Basin in numbers and a good deal of them are hanging around directly south of Basin View. Todays trip lasted less than 2 hours, but that's more than I needed to catch some good fish.    
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