BLOOEY
01-03-2009, 05:53 PM
G'day,Had a plan today to try my hand at trolling dead baits for spaniards again. Have had miserable luck in the past with this technique but after seeing the reports of other ausfishers i thought i would give it another crack.
Actually the plan started yesterday when i got a couple of 40cm tailor off the rocks down the coast. Rigged one up that night and had him on ice in the esky ready for an early morning swim up the sunshine coast.
Heaps of bait and tuna everywhere which distracted me for quite awhile. But most of the tuna were maccys and the longys i did see were moving fast and proving very hard to get near due to the hull bashing over the slop.
Found a spot with heaps of bait and deployed the biggest dead bait i've ever used. Trolled for approximately 5mins before my reel started screaming on a good spanish. Sunk the gaff in and i was happy as larry.
My mate busyed himself with a bit of tuna chasing as i rigged up the only other tailor i had . Righto back to the same spot and travelled about 100m before being crunched again and a few minutes later another spano in the boat.
I think my spanish hoodoo has finally gone. They seem to love the tailor as i had 2 hardbodys out at the same time and they diddnt get a hit. Lovin summer. Ben
Actually the plan started yesterday when i got a couple of 40cm tailor off the rocks down the coast. Rigged one up that night and had him on ice in the esky ready for an early morning swim up the sunshine coast.
Heaps of bait and tuna everywhere which distracted me for quite awhile. But most of the tuna were maccys and the longys i did see were moving fast and proving very hard to get near due to the hull bashing over the slop.
Found a spot with heaps of bait and deployed the biggest dead bait i've ever used. Trolled for approximately 5mins before my reel started screaming on a good spanish. Sunk the gaff in and i was happy as larry.
My mate busyed himself with a bit of tuna chasing as i rigged up the only other tailor i had . Righto back to the same spot and travelled about 100m before being crunched again and a few minutes later another spano in the boat.
I think my spanish hoodoo has finally gone. They seem to love the tailor as i had 2 hardbodys out at the same time and they diddnt get a hit. Lovin summer. Ben