RichieR Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Hi Raiders, I headed down to Wanda beach today in front of Sea Salt restaurant to try beach worming. Got there at 2pm and tried with my new alvey plastic pliers for about 2.5 hours with no luck ... I could find the worms but had trouble getting them to pop their heads up far enough before the next wave came in. Anyway, 4.30 I went to the car and got 2 rods and some pillies and prawns from the bait shop after the taren point bridge. Setup the big rod with a pillie, little rod with prawn, about 1.5 hours after hide tide (which was at about 6.10) I hooked this Tarwhine. It went 42cm on the lie detector! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boattart Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 That's an impressive Tarwhine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jew Stalker Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) Great work Ritchie, did you get him on a pillie or a prawn? Tis quite a healthy specimen. Well done. Luc. Edited May 11, 2014 by Trout Stalker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieR Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 It took the bloody prawn haha. Had a full prawn on a big circle hook - I find it is the only way to keep prawns on the hook in the surf / washHad a few good hits on the pilchard , I think it was tailor - they were chomping the tails off and missing the hook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jew Stalker Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 When you say big how big are you talking? I didn't think you could get away with anything too big due to their mouth size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 It took the bloody prawn haha. Had a full prawn on a big circle hook - I find it is the only way to keep prawns on the hook in the surf / wash Had a few good hits on the pilchard , I think it was tailor - they were chomping the tails off and missing the hook. Well done on a cracking tarwhine! If your having trouble keeping on a prawn in the surf or tide, half hitch the tail around the hook with your leader. You can use this method with any size hook and keeps the bait presentable. Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieR Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 Cheers! I have tried that in the past but found that the hitch just cuts the tail of the prawn off as I cast. This is the circle I use on the beach, I think from memory it is a 5/0 Gamakatsu circle. I threw the packet out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeb870 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Very impressive size for a Tarwhine, congrats. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefisherman6784 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 That's a great tarwhine Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish88 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 huge tarwhine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aussie007 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 i find it hard feeding a prawn onto the smaller circle hooks to mate, thats a huge ass tarwine well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shak4g63 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Noice...........fish Tight lines!, Shakeel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linc Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Very nice mate. Coming from Vic, I still struggle a bit with telling the difference between a yellowfin bream and a tarwhin (neither of which are really caught in melbourne). I know the tarwhine have have goldish stripes and is it a longer nose? Whats the easiest way to be sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichieR Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share Posted May 14, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJoqYem0ywQBasically Bream has a pointier nose and smaller eyes.Tarwhine look like they have run into a wall and they are shocked (big eyed) because of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paikea Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Great fish and nice pics, thanks for sharing. Try a Kipper as your bait for beachworms, I find that they love the smell and will come up quite readily. Also try further North, just past the exercise area at Wanda, caught some good worms there. Cheers Paikea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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