queensland Bribie - White Patch - Pike Plague - SUN 1st AUG

[MulletMusketeer]

Sunday - Not too much wind and a dry, mild morning – I pulled the waders on and at 6.15 am I wandered down the steps onto the beach at White Patch on Bribie Island. It was about half an hour until low tide and I was hopeful that I could tease out a few flathead. Early in the morning they are often sitting in a few feet of water on top of the rock ledge that forms the edge of the Passage. A few well executed casts into the mouths of likely looking drains produced nothing except weed. I carried on casting around through slack water but still couldn’t find the fish. As the tide started to run in, I caught a couple of very small snapper (25cm) on a GULP 3†minnow in the Lime Tiger colour. I was fishing it on 1/8th 1/0 jighead with 12lb leader. The fish did not get any bigger but then I found the voracious Pike again. After pulling up 6 fish in six casts I decided that I would have to settle for Pike for lunch so I put on a GULP 2†shrimp in Peppered Prawn and started casting that around. The Pike were everywhere and each hooked fish was followed to the bank by two or three friends. I selected the five biggest Pike to keep for lunch and gave up at about 9.00 am.

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[fishingnut]

howd the seven pike go ? any good?

[MulletMusketeer]

Not too bad - plenty of olive oil - grilled them on a very high heat - got the skin nice and crispy - but I have to say that I would have preferred a Flathead!

[Mr FeLiX]

Doughnut avoided mate, once again by the humble pike

I've managed to slep past em the last few trips, somehow... I was beginning to think they had tapped my phone and net connections...

So, they are a decent feed then?... I'll remember that

[batman]

pIKE! Pike! Not Fookin PIKE! After I lost 4 jig heads I packed it in!

I hate the little b@stards......they are in plague proportions around Peel at the mo....

You eat them!!! yuuuk! lol!

They would make great strips bates!