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Plenty Of Whiting At Shorncliffe

Daryl McPhee

By Daryl McPhee
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It was time for a fish and with a stinkin’ northerly blowing I knew one of the better land based options this time of the year would be the newly built Shorncliffe Pier. Strong north-easterly’s there can stir up the sea bed and really put the whiting on the bite. We fished gentlemen’s hours - arriving at about 10AM and were back in the car by 3:00PM after experiencing four seasons in one day.  We finished with 20 whiting and 2 bream. The whiting were mostly between 25 and 27 cm but with the best measuring 33 cm and a few just over the 30cm mark. Of the 20 whiting, 17 were yellowfin whiting and 3 were sand whiting, and this is a more or less typical species mix of whiting in Bramble Bay in September.  The best bream was 34cm. The bait was yabbies and Cribb Island worms with yabbies being far superior on the day, something that is not unusual when there are plenty of yellowfin whiting around.

All in all it was a good day, and don’t believe the naysayers that it is hard to catch fish in Moreton Bay. If a 3 year old and a 7 year old can catch over 20 legal fish off a Pier in the middle of the day on a weekend, you can scratch up a feed as well.

 

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