Jialiang's Personal Best Tailor On Lure

Catch Report 1/11/2006

It's been quite awhile since I've actually gone for a lure. Jialiang called me to inform me it's his last lecture here as a student and soon it'll be his exams and then officially finishing his studies in Australia. Wow, how time flies. It's been just over a year since we've met each other but it doesn't matter as we're just the usual fishing nutbags. Then obviously the question comes for whether a session is in place. I obviously gave in as I've just finished my 1st journal write up.
It was initially decided for KB but instead we headed to HC as I told him the wind is more suited. So in the end he drove over to my place for a pickup. He gave me a new Smilin' Jack he had bought from a tackle shop near Hurstville the other time and it was a Euro Trout colour. Ooh, combined with another colour Chen bought for me from Fairfield's Kmart (Strawberry Pie colour), I now have a healthy collection of Smilin' Jacks!

Jialiang started off with Fly fishing while I opted to go for a 3inch bloodworm bm. The start was slow, with nothing much of bites coming. There was this family whose mum drove a Benz convertible and they pulled up to where we were fishing and began having a picnic there. Well, it was more like a short meal of baked chicken in aluminium foil. When they were indulging in the meal, the smell was damn nice, making Jialiang notice it and he alerted me about it. Aside from the distraction, I caught a small flathead without any fight and was released. I changed to pinkie then and had many hits and misses with a particular one that caught Jialiang's attention. He lectured me on the risk I took by removing the middle treble. While I was cursing and swearing, Jialiang secretly rig up the pinky I bought him from Kmart and he hook up something. At first he told me it was a mullet as the fish jumps but soon when it was near him, he clarified it was a tailor. And the tailor we saw was freaking huge, making multiple jumps just like peacock bass. Damn, he created another record which makes it hard to beat, a 43cm tailor.

Well blardy done lah brudder, u make it another challenge for me lor! Obviously he's not happy that I broke his 74cm flathead record and so he brought out his famous 'gong tao' (spell) and did the extraodinary. 43 is definitely a very hard number to beat especially luring for tailors in enclosed waters. Grrr... somemore on a lure I bought him!

I still persisted with pinky and moved down further the bay. From there I saw 2 lurers on the opposite side and thought how come they are facing the wind head-on? Anyway, who cares. Suddenly there was a big hit on pinky and I reacted violently. But only to find out it was a very small fish with totally no fight in it. Up came a super small Silver Biddy, my 2nd one in HC.

I'm surprise that the hit was so verocious by such a small little one but to console myself, at least I get to hook up 3 Biddies so far, as they aren't considered easy to get on lures. Their mouth are so small that the only possible way is they foul hook themselves while attacking the lure, not to mention I've only got a tail treble!

Soon I got tired of pinky and changed to a used 3inch Smelt colour bm. At the same tree spot I got another small flattie. Jialiang suggested going to the 'jewfish' spot and we proceed to walk up. At some point near a bunch of old man seating on the bench talking, we made a cast each. They made a joke saying if we caught a fish, it shall be split half! I was thinking "old man, u wanna die early, don't u know the fishies are polluted?". Then suddenly, my drag ran. It made a slow but consistent run. I tried to pump my rod and started reeling only to realise it seems like I got a snag instead?! Jialiang swore it can't be a snag as he saw that at one point I was holding the rod stationary and the drag could still move! We reckon it might be a stingray. Still, in the end it was eventually becoming a snag. Damn it! Lost 2 bm rigs, got an impossible-to-beat record, and a broken ego, that's life... Yeah yeah yeah...

Ronald