jon

Nah havnt been going much at all unfortunately. Did managed to get out yesterday against my better judgment to battle a pretty stiff northerly. Hit every fad from wave rider buoy to 3/4 up Moreton for zero dolphin fish which sucked as they have been apparently thick there a few days prior. Stopped at boat rock on the way home for a legal Maori cod and a bonito and headed home wet and tired with with two legal fish and pretty big fuel bill😔 was gonna do a report but didn’t take any pics.

Nah havnt been going much at all unfortunately. Did managed to get out yesterday against my better judgment to battle a pretty stiff northerly. Hit every fad from wave rider buoy to 3/4 up Moreton for zero dolphin fish which sucked as they have been apparently thick there a few days prior. Stopped at boat rock on the way home for a legal Maori cod and a bonito and headed home wet and tired with with two legal fish and pretty big fuel bill😔 was gonna do a report but didn’t take any pics.

Thanks, Sef. You been out much lately ?

Nice work guys a solid effort!
 

Forgot to mention one had had a run in with a toothy critter on the way in. We were lucky -

 
Benno's esky -

 
Benno sharing the spoils with his best mate -

 
My workbench -

Another productive session Benno well done. Only thing better than fresh whiting is fresh sand crab and whiting!

Another productive session Benno well done. Only thing better than fresh whiting is fresh sand crab and whiting!

Another productive session Benno well done. Only thing better than fresh whiting is fresh sand crab and whiting!

.... and if he's been good she could drop him off some fillets.

i'm very much looking forward to that day mate.  if i teach her all my fishing habits and avoid @ellicat teaching her any of his she will hopefully be catching her own dinner before i know it!

Another productive session Benno well done. Only thing better than fresh whiting is fresh sand crab and whiting!

Another productive session Benno well done. Only thing better than fresh whiting is fresh sand crab and whiting!

Another productive session Benno well done. Only thing better than fresh whiting is fresh sand crab and whiting!

Another productive session Benno well done. Only thing better than fresh whiting is fresh sand crab and whiting!

Hi all,
had a bit of an interesting start to my whiting and sand crab session with some mates on their boat last Saturday.
the boat lives in the dry dock at horizon shores and given the forklift driver doesn’t start until 730am and we asked for it to be put in the water the night before for a 6am start on Saturday to meet the low tide. Arrived bang on time, no boat in water... 😣 twiddled thumbs... twiddled thumbs... finally boat gets on the water and away at 725...
we headed straight to one of the yabby banks to try and get the days bait - seal failed on the yabby pump, no suction. Spare seal on board, not able to get the wingnut undone to replace. Spray spray spray... wait wait wait... swear swear swear... finally got it undone by which stage the bank was underwater.  Dropped the pots in quickly to try and salvage something from the day at least. Drove 15 minutes up the road to another bank - finally had bait sorted. Then drove back to the chosen spot, first line hit the water just after 930. So much for the early start...
the fish weren’t in huge numbers but the quality was there. We also landed the obligatory quota of bream that we’re all released and a couple of undersized grunter. We managed 14 whiting for the boat with the best at 36.5cm and only one under 30 in about 2 hours before the tide slackened and we stopped for lunch. A good recovery given the start!
 
As we were eating the tide just started to run out and I got a hit on a rod I had left out in hope. This was a good fish and peeled some line and everything and had my hopes high for a nice grunter to add to the bag. My hopes were dashed when this pesky fellow surfaced and was promptly bled and released into the slurry 

goes to show everything loves a yabby. He went a bees thingo under 40cm on the stick.
 
we then pulled the pots for an average haul of 6 legal sandies before heading home to meet some deadlines and keep the brownie point balance in positive territory.
 
my share of the catch

Whiting is very popular on the home front too

 
cheers
benno

First called it for a shark.
First one for the season - 107cm.
 

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Loving to hear the all the tailor reports, your sons living the dream. It’s looking like I’ll be up there start of October so hopefully they’re still about. They were last year

Loving to hear the all the tailor reports, your sons living the dream. It’s looking like I’ll be up there start of October so hopefully they’re still about. They were last year

Easy Brian,
Light one up and see where they come running from 🙂

Heading up to Fraser island in a few weeks to catch a few tailor off the beach. I'll probably be a bit rusty as I haven't been surf fishing for a while. It should all come back to me though and I hope I find a few big models in amongst them. 

Just got back after  spending two weeks  camped on the main beach at Fraser Island with a few old mates. We were lucky to score a top camp site just north of the Cathedrals right behind a nice little gutter which we thought should produce a few tailor. The first 2 days we struggled against a poor moon and a bit of weed .But  after the moon waned off full and the weed disappeared and the fishing went off with tailor biting all day every for the next 10 days. I ended up tagging 200 odd fish and keeping a good feed on most days.Needless to say this year was one of the best years fish wise I’ve spent on the island in the last 48 years of visiting the island.We got a lot of fish around 38 to 45cm , and quite a few 50cm plus fish. All fish were caught on 65 and 85gram Raiders using an fast tapper surf rod with an old Mitchell 499 spinning reel . I’ve attached a few photos and a short video.
 
 





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Well said mark, love thawing out some reefies or mackerel when the weather dosnt let us get out offshore 

Nice. How good are RTE flapping around the boat with trebles or snells lol. They punch above weight

All good I do go to great lengths to look after the catch from ice slurries to washing the fillets in the salt water from the fishing grounds. I have done this method for over 35 years and I can't tell the difference from fresh or frozen afterwards. 

If looked after well I can't tell the difference from fresh or frozen fish once it's cooked up especially quality fish like these reefies.