queensland Pine River Whiting Report - 16.01.16

[curranboy99]

Hello All

A report from today on the pine river.

I left home at 7.30am on the way to sandgate bait & tackle and got a couple packs of live-bloodworms then drove over to brighton park which is the flats beside the honribrook bridge. But anyway I got there at 8.00am and the conditions were: 7.45am Low Tide, 6knot SSE winds, and overcast weather with patchy rain. I was using my shimano sonic pro 7' 2kg - 4kg spin rod with a shimano sienna 1000 spin reel loaded with 3lb fireline which is a good all-round flats outfit. And the rig was a sz2 ball sinker -> sz12 swivel -> (1m) 4lb fluoro leader -> 2" of red tubing -> 1 red bead -> gamakatsu worm sz4 hook.

The first hour of fishing was slow with plenty of bites but nothing committing to the bait, which I find the most frustrating thing in bait-fishing. But I did get a fish after an hour and it was small 16cm sand whiting which was enough to get my fishing-confidence back after a couple doughnuts/nearly-doughnuts. And over the next 90 mintues I pulled in a tiny tarwhine (way to small to take a photo of as it was 2 inches long), as well as 6 sand whiting with the biggest going 20cm.

So all up 7 sand whiting that were 14cm - 20cm and a 2" tarwhine, which is to me a lot better than nothing as well as thinking 2016 so far is not being very kind to me on the fishing side of things  

[biggest whiting of the morning]

[Angus]

And so it will be. The good thing to see is you are putting the effort in mate.

A lot of people head out trip after trip and get 0

If you exhaust your bait fishing lure fishing is good fun. Also no boring moments as you are always doing something.

@helibase fishes the mouth of the Pine very successfully regularly with surface lures and plastics for whiting, flathead and even giant herring.

Anyway food for thought.

Angus

[helibase]

It's a great spot to target whiting. I work at Redcliffe, so I often do an afternoon session after work when the tides are right. 

The first few hours of the run in tide is best. This is when the whiting push up into the newly flooded flats in search of food.

If you have a keen eye and good polarised sunglasses, you'll easily spot their shadows or flashes so you know where to cast.

You'll also get the odd flathead or GH.

Ian

[kmcrosby78]

On ‎17‎/‎01‎/‎2016 at 6:06 AM, Angus said:

A lot of people head out trip after trip and get 0

IAngus

@Old Scaley Hey Steve, I think @Angus is poking fun at us ............  

At least you caught some fish mate which at least keeps it interesting - keep at it and they'll get bigger.

[Old Scaley]

23 minutes ago, kmcrosby78 said:

@Old Scaley Hey Steve, I think Angus is poking fun at us ............  

At least you caught some fish mate which at least keeps it interesting - keep at it and they'll get bigger.

Haha, Kelvin.  Too true though. Just had a week up at Burrum and hardly caught a scale. Then again, no one was catching anything.  Got lots of muddies though. Will post some piccies when I get them off my phone. Need to get some welding done on the tinny tomorrow but will hit the water again on Thursday to do some boating (fishing would be gross misrepresentation). 

oh, and congrats c'boy. I am sure you will be posting reports of bigger and better fish soon enough.

[Albinus]

7 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

Haha, Kelvin.  Too true though. Just had a week up at Burrum and hardly caught a scale. Then again, no one was catching anything.  Got lots of muddies though.

I would call a haul of muddies very worthy!

[curranboy99]

thanks everything for your positive feedback and sorry for the lateish reply . @helibase thanks for the information on that spot, makes perfect sense that the fish start moving onto the newly flooded flats.