It’s Tailor Time From Steve Starling

Starlo says: "It’s Tailor Time"

Winter and early spring are tailor time, at least along our eastern and
western seaboards. In a part of the year when so many other pelagics
withdraw north to warmer waters, tailor (and, further south, salmon)
keep anglers satisfied in the fast-moving surface fish department.

Tailor runs tend to peak earliest in the south, then sweep northward,
culminating off Queensland’s south east coast, especially up along the
Noosa north shore and Fraser Island, in August and September.
Thankfully, the old freezer-filling mentality that saw
shoulder-to-shoulder, gang-hook-wielding kill fests up that way in
years gone by is slowly dying out, along with its aging exponents.
Closed seasons have helped. I often wonder how many of those
deep-frozen cadavers dragged back from traditional Fraser Island long
weekends ever ended up actually being eaten, anyway. I suspect many
were ultimately dumped, used as crab bait, or fed to the neighbourhood
moggies. That’s rather a waste for such a marvelous sport fish.

Report From Steve ‘Starlo’ Starling from www.starlo.com.au

Marc Sibille