Tarwhine?

[gbrown]

Hi

I a new member who just sign up yesterday. Even though this is a bream site, I was wondering who has caught a Tarwhine (Rhabdosargus sarba). It is a member of the SPARIDAE family of which the bream is also.
I ventured out onto Botany Bay this morning to do a bit of spining for bream and managed to get two Tarwhine, but no bream. I was using a 1/16 once squidgy jig head and a 2 inch Power Bait in a Fire Tail colour.

I was fishing in just over 9 metres of water.

Gary Brown

[Bear]

Plenty over here in WA as well. I've been experimenting catching them just off-shore where I beach fish at Myalup.

Poor old Sewelly managed 5 or 7 at the Donnelly River comp and no Blackies in sight.

Good fun and pull hard.

[Richo]

And they go pretty damn hard for lil round headed fush.

Wheres there`s silvers theres usually blackies, well thats in WA anyway and except for the Donnelly.

Cheers

[TuckerT]

I have caught some huge ones when salmon fishing down south. Last one I caught would have been 45-50cm.

Trev

[Bear]

Myalup has been fishing well for them over the past few weeks. I took Eve's cousin down for the weekend and we managed a few from 33 to 36. Great fun and pull like buggery.

[gbrown]

Hi

Don't seem to get as many here in the Botany Bay and Port Hacking areas, and yes they do fight hard

[fatman]

Hey Gary, good to see ya around the boards.
I've got a few tarwhine when breamin but all on the small side. Another one that you might catch (especially when you fish Gary) are big silver biddies. I thought they were deformed bream first one I saw caught.

FATMAN

[oldogre]

Swansea channel seems to be full of the little buggers, to about 30cm. but 95% around 15 to 20 cm. Never found one in newcastle harbour though. Must like their water a little clearer.
The channel is also infested with small leatheries, so I thought a sp would separate the bream / tarwine from the pickers. Stinking little leatheries ate all but a couple of crumbs of the sp on the first cast.

[oldogre]

Swansea channel seems to be full of the little buggers, to about 30cm. but 95% around 15 to 20 cm. Never found one in newcastle harbour though. Must like their water a little clearer.
The channel is also infested with small leatheries, so I thought a sp would separate the bream / tarwine from the pickers. Stinking little leatheries ate all but a couple of crumbs of the sp on the first cast.

[Ol' slab sides]

Yeah Ogre

The channels got a few tarwhine...Only caught em up to 25cm...But I've seen heeps bigger ones snorkling...

[oldogre]

Hey slab, I understand huge bream under the bridge, according to a mate (diver ) from work, which bank/pylon is the go?

[Ol' slab sides]

Never spun the bridge but the flats either side produce some good fish...
The upstream side has a nice dropoff to flick some sps...