Where to find Whiting within 40 min drive Brisbane

[Homer4duff]

Hi guys,

I'm keen to chase some whiting over the next few days. could somebody recommend somewhere decent to catch a feed withing about 40 mins of Brissie? About the only place I know is the mouth of cabbage Tree Creek, Shorncliffe.

Cheers :-)

EDIT: Land based as no boat

[chubbstar]

Surf side of Bribie Island

[Homer4duff]

Cheers Chubbstar,

do u need a 4WD or a short walk from a car park does the trick?

[chubbstar]

Bit of a walk mate, Have a play on Google maps

[Shane69]

Right handside of pikanba boat jetty, nudgee beach road. Walk along the beach on low. Caught heaps there

[Homer4duff]

Thanks Shane,

A bit closer to home, just what I was after. I'll head on up to Bribie too when I can.

[Shane69]

Thanks Shane,

A bit closer to home, just what I was after. I'll head on up to Bribie too when I can.

Whiting are everywere just have to go right tide and right bait. Also try tingalpa creek mouth. Heaps of people catch there. Use worms

[thousandyards]

re: tingalpa creek mouth......any suggestion for tide time to hit it up? i would assume they feed on the flats on the rising tide, but who knows.....

[Homer4duff]

Sand worms or blood worms?

[Shane69]

At the mouth walk along the beach at front. Blood worms. We used to catch them at any tide.

[tugger]

Low tide park at Lota and walk down onto the yabbie bank

[thousandyards]

now......where to buy decent worms in the area??

[Guest]

now......where to buy decent worms in the area??

[Eug]

Low tide park at Lota and walk down onto the yabbie bank

what mark said, this was where i first started fishing a few years back. yabby pump, bucket, rods and a backpack.

[Homer4duff]

Thanks all,

I'm getting hold of a yabbie pump in the next 2 days. How low a "low" tide is needed? Looking at the tides Thursday on it will will about 1/2 runout tide dawn and dusk. Not the best I imagine.

[rosco1974]

mate those tides are ideal,grew up in that area plenty of tings to be had also u get some great flatties there,best bait i find is yabbies then worms,

cheers rosco

[Homer4duff]

Now u are getting me all pumped up and excited Rosco! OK Friday I'm there as long as I don't get called into work.

/me touches wood

[Homer4duff]

Well a quick update on the fishing trip.

I went Friday afternoon arriving at 4pm with the wind fairly howling and making me cold even with a hoodie on. Brrr

I ended up at Tingalpa creek on the north side, the smaller tributary on the esplanade where the older boats are east of the railway bridge, on the outgoing tide.

Pretty hard to fish on plastics, the wind making it nigh on impossible to work the action properly however I did manage to get myself a Sole of all fish after about 25 mins on a Squidgy Pro Lobby medium dusk colour! I was stunned :woohoo:

Not much luck after that on plastics but I took a 2nd rod and used blood and sand worms worms getting bites as soon as the bait hit the water. I hit the Whiting and Bream nursery jackpot, the little buggers going absolutely wild. No bigger fish anywhere to be seen. Great fun though apart from the damn wind! Gave up at 6:30ish and called it a night.

So where are all the big fish?

[Freshy]

Well done mate...

Nice looking sole!!!

[Jaymz711]

Nice work on the flounder mate!

Those bigger fish can be harder to find.. one of my old whiting spots is along sandgate and shorncliffe. Theres heaps of yabbie holes in between the jetty and the rock wall if you can aquire a pump, if not fresh worms are always a go'er!.

All along the foreshores on an incoming tide can be real good for some decent whiting and bream with bycatches of rays,flatties, tailor and ive even caught 2 legal squire before around the 40 mark (best on dusk)

Only use one or two rods maximum because if you hit a school on those sandbanks it can be instant hookup every cast and they like to swallow hooks.. Sometimes you do have to walk a lil to find the fish.

Hope this helps

James

[Homer4duff]

Well I'll try again in Brissie soon but I did manage to score some on the weekend in Ballina :-)

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[thousandyards]

whereabouts did you pick up the worms? i'm keen to hit it up but can't find good fresh ones

[Homer4duff]

Water Tower Bait & Tackle

10 Ernest Street, Manly QLD 4179

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[Homer4duff]

Low tide park at Lota and walk down onto the yabbie bank

Hi Shane69 and tugger.

A couple of mates and I went down to Lota yesterday afternoon and walked out onto the banks, pumped some yabbies and tried our luck. Lots of small bites but nothing really substantial, however we did get 1 whiting each as keepers. Also caught were about 5 very small flouder, a few small tarwine and a couple of very small bream.

A lovely way to spend under 3 hours fishing apart from a bit of mud. Took blood worms too so a good mix caught between worms and yabbies.

Thanks for the info, now when do u the bigger fish show? :-)

Cheers.