Christmas Seafood From Shorncliffe Pier

[Daryl McPhee]

The tides were right to visit Shorncliffe Pier to extract some seafood for Christmas lunch. Yabbies and worms produced a feed of yellowfin whiting with a couple of bream and tarwhine mixed in, while the crab dillies provided some tasty blue swimmer crabs. 

As always, fishing up in the shallows in less than a metre of water is the way to go when chasing whiting. 

A left field catch from there last week was a 32 cm swallowtail dart that must have wandered out of the surf zone. The first one I have got there in over 30 years. 

[Angry51]

Well done Daryl, your family should eat well for Xmas lunch.

And cheaply too.

[Daryl McPhee]

It's all about beating the grocery price rises!

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Nice work Daryl! 

[Old Scaley]

Christmas crabs! Hard to beat.

[ellicat]

Nice feed, Daryl.

Quite a while ago Ted took me to his dart spot at Mud Island. I was skeptical as I thought they were a fish exclusively found in the surf. Sure enough he started to catch them one after the other where a lagoon empties out of Mud. If I hadn't seen it I would never have believed it.

[Grmby]

Awesome Daryl, I’ve been thinking about putting pots in around there for a while. Didn’t think there was much there as it’s a small system. Obviously there is! 
how long did you have the pots in for ?