A few Tarwhine

Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:27 pm

I got back from DI last weekend after fishing the Mitsubishi fishing comp for the week prior. I did no good but my mate Wayne (and his sister Lyndell) I was camping/fishing with got a few nice tarwhine.

The one Wayne is holding up won him a rod and reel for a daily prize and also took out the heaviest for the class for the week scoring him some cash and more nice prizes.

Lyndell's fish also won a daily prize and was runner up for the week. She also took home a few goodies for her effort.

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:48 pm

Shit that is some serious Tarwhine!!!! The ones we get here are usually lucky to be legal size (20cm)!!!!!!

But here is a couple of nice bream I got last weekend

Got another Kingie on Sunday too, mmmmm soooo tasty!

Post by **Alex** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:02 pm

WOW nice effort!

tarwhine like that go bloody hard!

at Jurien bay last weekend we managed a nice 15kg samsonfish, and a nice 8kilo mulloway or kingie and you call them over east!(no camera, with all fish released, you'll just have to believe me!)

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:05 pm

90subiewgn wrote:and a nice 8kilo mulloway or kingie and you call them over east!

We call Mulloway Jewfish here in east, though they usually still get called Mulloway in the paper. I think its the Perth types that might call them River Kingfish.

Over here this is a kingie

Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:41 pm

That is about the size I use when live baiting for Jacks.

Post by **Alex** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:20 pm

yes we call them yellowtail kingfish over here, i think its rex who calls mulloway, kingies...pretty sure thats where i got it from!

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:43 pm

BYB-01 wrote:That is about the size I use when live baiting for Jacks.

Brett, is 30lb braid on a abu 6500 with a 7' 10kg Shimano Backbone Elite going to stop jacks?

We get them here over summer to about 60cm and I am really keen to get stuck into them....

Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:20 pm

Ben depends where you fish. If you are tight to cover or near bridges you will land the little ones most times but the big blokes will do you in no time.

Fishing snags (timber) you will end up in the cover a few times but you can generally break some timber away and coax them out. I have found that you don't have to fish tight to cover to get them though.

I have a spot here that I get them in open water about 8-10 feet deep. It is the opposite side of the creek/river to the deep water and snags. There is a sand bar right at the opening of a feeder creek where I get my poddy mullet for bait. Strangely enough this is right where I fish for them .

I fish an incoming tide peaking about 9 or 10 at night. One night there the bloke I was fishing with had one on and fighting it when both of my rods went off. I had a baitcaster in each hand with the fish going in opposite directions. Landed none but did get some good blisters on both my thumbs from trying to stop them.