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    Wahoo
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    Default The Hairtail Plague

    As many sunny coasters would know the hairtail are here in plague proportions.
    Me and a mate went out for around 2 hours tonight and ended up with about 15 hairtails.


    My mate phil took a couple home for stir fry :\ no thanks.










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    Nice going!!!

    I have caught them off townville casting bombers at night at the mouth of the marina.
    Winter is the time for them here in sydney amd the hawkesbury.
    Are they common for sunny coast????

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    Quote Originally Posted by happygilmour View Post
    Nice going!!!

    I have caught them off townville casting bombers at night at the mouth of the marina.
    Winter is the time for them here in sydney amd the hawkesbury.
    Are they common for sunny coast????
    I caught some at the end of winter last year. This year you can't get away from them. Last weekend during the day I had a couple snaring down my bream hardbodies.

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    They make for some pretty good eating - just cut them into portions & fry em up .......... good tucker

    Chris


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    Geez looks like you guys couldn't get past them.
    I got one this arvo at noosa first one I have caught. I didn't think they where normally common on the coast.

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    Not sure if I'd be keen for hairtail stirfry lol. Wonder how they would go as spanish bait?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dambuster View Post
    Not sure if I'd be keen for hairtail stirfry lol. Wonder how they would go as spanish bait?

    I've heard there very good eating but I'm not keen. Also heard someone was keeping them for Spanish baits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dambuster View Post
    Not sure if I'd be keen for hairtail stirfry lol. Wonder how they would go as spanish bait?
    about the best spanish bait possible...
    Chuck Norris isn't scared of anything...except Cain Velasquez (current UFC Heavyweight Champ)

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    Adam, hop on msn.. I sent you an offline message.

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    Yeah nice mate ....

    They are thick in the Maroochy we got a few last year fishing for Jew dam things are cranky They are all through the rooch, we have encounterd them at the mouth, right up coolum creek, cod hole they seem to come in big schools the night we got the big one we smacked 10 or so in a half hour... ugly thingys...

    Nath

 

 
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