queensland Chasing tailor in the bay 16/4

[spilt milk]

Hey guys, long time lurker first time poster here so thought it was time i posted my first report!.

Decide that i was going to hit up mud island early saturday morning before the wind picked up too much,so loaded up the tinny and left Pinkenba boat ramp just after 5 am with the plan of stopping at the poo pipe gathering some live bait and heading out to mud for a morning session.

On my way out to mud i noticed a lot of birds circling and swooping into the water over the mud flats between luggage point and nudgee beach. I stopped in the shipping channel and quickly tied a metal slug on to my plastics rod and headed out to chase the birds.

My first cast was in the water for less than 5 seconds and i was on, reeled it in towards the boat with it doing some nice aerial displays on the way only for it to spit the lure next to the boat.I chased the school around for about an hour all across the flats and ended up with 6 Tailor in the boat and lost roughly 15-20 doing aerials and spitting the lure it. Biggest i ended up with in the boat was 46cm smallest was 37 with a few big horsies dropped along the way.

The catch

[zan0_15]

nice one mate......some good fun there by the looks!!! did u get out to mudisland still? if so howd ya go?

[spilt milk]

yep ended up going to mud briefly, drifted from the South east to north east with a live herring on my overhead and flicking plastics. Was out there for about an hour and only ended up with a 3ft reef shark on the overhead.

[eg_vtec]

nice one mate. and awsome first report

[Bluevien]

It's great fun when that happens... especially when your original plan doesn't pay off. Good on ya mate for your first report.

[Scope]

Schools of tailor feeding are great fun! Nice work mate

Did you pick up any by-catch in the school???

[big dave]

what size slug did you use? and were you just clicking over and winding like F when it hit the water? or letting it sink? thanks

[adambris]

brilliant mate, i love catching tailor!

[dan25]

Nice one

[Guest]

Nice work looks like you had some fun...Keep up the good work

[madmullet]

nice tailor sesh. good to see numbers it the bay already

[Ricko69]

Great stuff mate!!!! It is good to see someone who is catching fish and not frightened to name areas they are fishing. Keep up the good work

[Manni79]

Hey mate nice 1st report !! chasing tailor like that is heaps of fun

[Malcolm]

good one

I managed one today then they just vannished

[spilt milk]

what size slug did you use? and were you just clicking over and winding like F when it hit the water? or letting it sink? thanks

The slug i used is around 65mm and weighs 60g.

I generally just casted in to the school and started winding straight away, if i didn't get on straight away i would pause the lure for a second then start winding real fast again and it did the job.

thanks for the comments guys, was an awesome morning

[Surfingant]

Nice session mate keep it up