Hillaries Report 25/6
Submitted by tommo77 on Wed, 2008-06-25 16:19
Went down to hillaries north rockwalls from about 10am to 1pm today, there is alot of herring and yellowtail around, the fellas next to me were reeling in quite decent size gardies on floaters, i was using a burley cage without a float,but also i fished with a paternoster rig and caught a couple of medium sized skippy and probably about 5 little snappers which are great fun and put up a strong fight.
I am wondering are yellowtail any good to eat? i caught about 15 of them but i threw everything back because the bites were sporadic.
cheers.
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Good For Bait
that is what we use them for no good for eatting imo
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yep
thread them onto gang hooks and throw them out for tailor etc, off beaches and rockwalls???
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good to see a few herring
good to see a few herring and gardies still around, both of them are good to eat, but as russ said, the yellowtail are only good for bait, though some people do eat them, wouldnt have a clue what they would taste like though
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Went out between 2-3pm today and had the most monster of gar schools just out from the Exmouth marina, the school was just rippling the surface for 50m as the birds swooped. Couldn't jag one so did some soft plastic work in 13m and got a few small emperor, a monster bartail flatty and busted off on something good on the 6kg-20kg leader then called it quits. Forgot spear gun and camera so just called it a test run for tomorrows cray mission.
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apparently the yellowtail
apparently the yellowtail taste like skippy but a bit sweeter. some Canadian told me that a few weeks back and he said he rates them as high as herring but im a bit skeptic about eating em. iv had far better results using it as bait though.
i put them either on a 4/0 gang if there small or two to three consectutive hooks probs 2/0, 3/0 or 4/0 (rearly use 5/0's but theyed be good for bigger fish like mulloway or snapper)
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There were plenty of yellowtail around last night as well
Seems to a bit of action warming up at Hillarys. Hope it stayhs that way.
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stoked!
Im obsessed with fishing and get down to hillaries when i can and today there was fish at your feet (herring and gardies) just lapping up your burley and bait it was ridiculous i caught about 30 fish and would of had more if i stayed longer (2 hrs because weather got bad) ... i kept a few gardies for some tailor bait if thats any good?
I put some burley out and a massive fish came out from the reefy part in front of me not sure what it was but it looked like a herring but about 10 times bigger would anyone know what that is, a couple of guys next to me said it was a buff bream.
There was this one particular bloke who was really friendly and showed me a few things to catch them, its amazing the comradere fishermen have i say.
I suppose it was just one of those days...
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"I put some burley out and a
"I put some burley out and a massive fish came out from the reefy part in front of me not sure what it was but it looked like a herring but about 10 times bigger would anyone know what that is, a couple of guys next to me said it was a buff bream"
Hi Tommo, looks like you have met our "monster" we hooked him up 4 times on Tuesday, with no idea of what it was. Went back down again yesterday, hooked him up 3 times and managed to get him swimming along the top of the water, but as soon as we tried to hoist him out the line snapped. He is a big bugger, and our 5kg rods and 2kg line just couldnt hold him. Oh and yes, it is a Buff Bream
He sure is fun to play with though. lol
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haha
he is a monster mate .. where were you fellas fishing just at the front of aqwa how people park along the side there? take some 30pound line next time lol :P
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we were fishing out opposit
we were fishing out opposit the reef when we hooked up, but we also saw it down behind AQWA as well.
We were using prawn as bait, and it did suprise us that the buffy was taking it so often seeing as there mainly a weed eater.
Darn pain in the bum it was, we have lost about 6 rigs to that bugger of a fish lol, if i ever manage to land him he better watch out, I might relocate him to fish heaven, or use him as blowie bait.
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you sure its a buff bream?
you sure its a buff bream? could be a salmon as carolyn said?
ha yeah id love to get my hands on it though friggen monster!!
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110% sure it was a buff
110% sure it was a buff Tommo, we have caught one before from Hillarys. Salmon are longer and more torpedo shaped, also a different colour.
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Sounds like a buff bream tommo
Gardies are great tailor bait.
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colin
if you go fish the south wall at hillaries at night for the bigger fish im very keen to tag along if you dont mind and need someone to go with.
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tommo
Could have been a salmon i was fishing North Beach platform
and saw heaps of buff bream but also saw Salmon.
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whats the best way of catching the buffffys?
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I will PM you if I am heading down next week tommo
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cheers mate
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Tommo
Buff bream are fun to catch, but not too eat. They eat weed mostly, but you can catch them on pilchards, etc. Normally an unweighted bait is best. If you manage to hook one, hold on. They head straight for the rocks and pull like a train.
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If they are moving up in the wash it sounds like a buff bream. They are grazers, so that is how they feed. Would be nice if it was a salmon though.
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i saw
a few swimming together the other day do they normally travel in 3's and 4's?
i would love to know where you get your information on fish habits, e.g a website or something .. love to do a bit of reading up
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Oh look!
Alternating schools of skippy and tailor LOL
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Do a few google searches tommo
There is plentyu of fish material.
Yes, buff bream tend to school up. Most of the schools I have seen off the rocks tended to be smallish.
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Try this link tommo
www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/WestSpeciesID/index.php?0102 - 23k
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thanks
thanks for that great help!
tommo77
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help
i opened that link colin and in my microsoft word it comes up with some different language, does anyone know how to change it to english because it wont let me?
frustrating
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Tommo the file is a pdf
Tommo the file is a pdf file, you need to have adobe to open and read it. It is free to download from the internet.
http://www.download.com/Adobe-Reader/3000-2378_4-10000062.html
You can try downloading it from this site
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i've seen that same bream,
i've seen that same bream, or another one like him come right up to my feet for my berley!! boy it gets your blood up to look down and see a fish that size so close!!
When i was there on friday a berleyed up a small school of fish that were decent size, but definitely were not buffies. they didn't stay long, and were not tempted by my ganged mulie.
I'm heading down to the south wall in the morning for a couple of hours. I'm dying to catch a snapper or big skippy off the wall! if you see a goof ball that looks like the guy to the left, give me a shout!
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eddie!
how did it go the other morning any luck???
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Anyone heading
Out to Hillaries in the next few days there are lots of skippy and a few chopper tailor around the northern lighthouse rockwalls, great fun on light gear!