queensland Straddy Whiting

[Angus]

Headed over the Straddy Friday night with the aim of doing a bit of fishing and chilling.

My mate Chris headed over as well to test the beach going qualities of his X-trail deisel. He is headed to Fraser is December and we figured best to get hopelessly bogged with a support car (my dad) than solo at Fraser. In short X-Trail proved no issue riding well and truly above the softest, wettest, hardest sands we could find no issues. Prob dont want to drive through water over a meter but meh, I guess that obvious.

Anyway on the Saturday Dawn I systematically tried Dunwich, the Point and Main beach with very little success except a few big dart from Main on Damiki Ripperz and live beach worms.

Once Chris got there we fanged down Flinders beach and this was where is got fun. Over the course of about 2 hours (time restrictive due to Chris having a new baby) we bagged about 12 nice whiting. Not beasts but all going a solid 30-32cm making them great eating specimens.

Thats all folks!

Chris made things (or should I say 'tings) more interesting battling them on my Nordic Stage Gunslinger in the surf..

My dog hasnt realised yet that in order to throw the ball for her she needs to release lockjaw in it. I think she had them in her mouth for over 30 minutes

A typical and always enjoyed straddy feed. Greek Salad, Lemon and chilli prawns, crumbed dart fillets, mango. Win.

Cheers.

Angus

[Surfingant]

Nice weekend dude, did you get the tings on bloodworms? Love the look of that feed, YUMMO!

[Freshy]

Nice mate, decided to slow down a bit hey and do some beach fishing.

Quality as usual...

Freshy

[youngy]

Looks like a good whiting gutter Angus, they are a very clean looking fish the surf whiting, my guess beach worms for bait.

Well done boys, cheers wayne

[crazywalrus]

Sounds like fun. Love your Dog mate.

The problem with Frazer for the Xtrail and the like is the center clearance when you go over the inland tracks.

[Angus]

Sounds like fun. Love your Dog mate.

The problem with Frazer for the Xtrail and the like is the center clearance when you go over the inland tracks.

Yeah mate well and he knows this. We perplexed as much as possible going on some of the inland tracks around blue lake and the lagoons so we will see how he goes...

Wayne: yeah mate fresh caught sand worms from main.

Angus

[beckenry]

Nice report Angus! My mates and I are planning to go fishing in straddie next month

I wonder if there are any spots we can chase some sport fish? Thx Angus.... Wanna try the beach whiting too, looks fun

[Carter]

well done! Looks like a delicious feed.

[Hfisho77]

nice one Angus, great looking feed.. you did better than us on the weekend

[ellicat]

Straddie looks good. Some nice sweet clean surf fishing mmmm.

Straddie (off-road) is like a wilderness area compared to Fraser. On Fraser you wouldn't have time to roll a smoke before another vehicle comes along, so help is never far away. The exceptions to this are right up the top and on the western side. You might have time to roll two smokes at these areas. backpacking has ruined Fraser (if you like to get away from the madding crowd). The road to Central Station is about as wide as the M1 and regularly graded. The more difficult sand hills like the one near Lake Wabby have been adorned with wooden slat work to make things easy. Lake McKenzie is populated like Bondi Beach. Indian Head is a cesspit of backpacker excrement & flyaway toilet paper and the skip bins there have rubbish strewn around them for 50+ metres......and all the government wants to do is kill the dingos and ban 4wds from the camping area at the south end

Bugger. I enjoyed your report but now I'm cranky again :pinch:

Late call - Tell Chris that Fraser has the highest concentration of Death Adders in the world (true). He looks different as an Australian

[tugger]

They are good beach whiting Angus and would taste delicous the look on the dogs face is one of confusion why won't you throw the ball but i'm not letting it go