Daryl McPhee

ellicat · September 15, 2020

I am hoping for further upgrades tomorrow night.

ellicat · September 15, 2020

1 minute ago, ellicat said:

Good size. I'm giving them a go tomorrow as well.

You'd better enter the 36 in the comp.

I did indeed enter it!

Brodie_S · September 15, 2020

Yes Hamish. You are pretty much on the money. Worms or yabbies, 6lb monofilament line, a sinker light enough to reach the fish and light slow taper rods.

Brodie_S · September 15, 2020

This is the time of the year that the sand and yellowfin whiting really start to kick into gear. There have been plenty of sand whiting in the Southport Broadwater for the landbased angler of late. There have been quite a few bream mixed in with them as well. These ones were from a couple of hours last night using surf worms for bait with the best fish of 36 cm. You don't need a boat to consistently get a feed of fish.

Old Scaley · September 14, 2020

Here are a couple of upgrades for the southside.

ellicat · September 14, 2020

Here is the video from yesterday's trip.

Old Scaley · September 14, 2020

Mostly around 30cm with the best 32cm.

Old Scaley · September 14, 2020

Patience and persistence will pay off over time Hamish!

Ob20 · September 13, 2020

We hit up Shorncliffe Pier yesterday. The weather was fantastic. We chased yellowfin whiting and bream and while we did not get a heap of fish, we left with a feed.

Cribb Island worms and yabbies were the baits we used with yabbies being more effective. There were plenty of other legal bream there but we only kept the three. The flood tide up in the shallows did the trick.

kmcrosby78 · August 27, 2020

@Do$tylz I have been getting them around the Monaco St stretch so they are there but their are plenty of bream mixed in with them.

Those little sand waves through the river are where they hang out.

ellicat · August 25, 2020

@Drop Bear you might have to rethink the trevally entry as it is a ponyfish and not a trevally. It is a good ponyfish though.

The Mad Hughesy · August 24, 2020

Here's a whiting for the southside.

GregOug · August 22, 2020

@kmcrosby78 I generally fish different locations than Wayne.

@ellicat surf worms do surprisingly well, but sometimes yabbies are the best bait and of course the easiest to get.

@Breaming with bro I have spots that can produce on most stages of the tide but the run-out tide is consistently the most productive.

Leosonfire · August 22, 2020

The new moon in August has traditionally been a good month for sand whiting as they start their six month spawning period. It was a good week this week landbased in the Southport Broadwater and the Nerang River. There have been plenty of fish over the 30 cm mark, but alas none over the 40 cm mark yet. Cribb Island worms, surf worms and yabbies have all produced fish at the half dozen spots I have road tested before things get a bit more serious.

Drop Bear · August 6, 2020

There is a bit of weed there this time of the year but if you scout around a little you can generally avoid. The fish aren't too far away from where the weed is usually. I'll be having a fish tonight as hopefully there will be some good whiting starting to poke around and their will still be some tailor.

AUS-BNE-FISHO · August 4, 2020

Hi Hamish.

Yep. Those videos are all land based on the GC!

Daryl

ellicat · July 31, 2020

Hi Kat. I am happy to help. We are coming up to some good time over the next few months to fish landbased on the Gold Coast. Here are a couple of fishing videos for your enjoyment.

AUS-BNE-FISHO · January 23, 2020

Generally bloodworms or yabbies with about an 0 Ball sinker.

Old Scaley · January 23, 2020

Catching whiting around Runaway Bay is often child's play. Plenty of room that holds fish.

kmcrosby78 · January 15, 2020

11 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

Great stuff as usual Daryl, some nice grunter there and I'll have to try smoking the next blubber lip I catch (although haven't caught one in years).

They smoke very well. They come out with a very nice texture.

AUS-BNE-FISHO · January 15, 2020

Land based fishing on the Gold Coast was good the past weekend. Grunter bream were the stars of the show with plenty of fish around 40cm with the best 42cm. Mixed in with them were whiting to 33cm, legal Moses perch, a few blubberlip bream and of course bream and tarwhine.

Yabbies and bloodworms were the bait of choice with no real difference between either of them. As is so often the case, sinker size was the key with anything over an 0 Ball being too heavy for where I was fishing.

While grunter bream are not my favourite fish to fillet, once that chore is out of the way they are fantastic on the table. The blubberlip are put to good use too as they go quite well in the smoker.

A sample of the catch are in the photos.

Drop Bear · September 13, 2019

If you are in the right area you are generally well past your knees. In summer all the mud you get covered in makes fantastic natural insect repellent.

Drop Bear · September 10, 2019

I dug for them up on the edge of the mangroves at Wynnum north a number of times back in the day.

Drop Bear · August 31, 2019

You generally use your hands to dig in the very soft mud out the front of the seaward edge of the mangroves or drainage lines that run into the mangroves. Hays Inlet is a very popular spot for digging them and I use to dig them at north Wynnum as well. There are a couple of spots down the coast where I get them these days when I am keen enough.

kmcrosby78 · August 29, 2019

I dug the yabbies and buy the worms. I can get bloodworms from the mangroves down the coast if I want to when I get keen, but that is increasingly rare!

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