Daryl McPhee

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. 
 
 

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. 
 
 

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. 
 
 

Welcome to the forum Kat and good to hear the fishing bug has struck again 🙂. Do a search on here for reports from @Daryl McPhee - he does very well landbased for whiting, bream, flathead, etc. Not sure how often he logs on but if send him a PM (personal message) he may be able to divulge some info.
Looking forward to hearing some of your adventures.

Generally bloodworms or yabbies with about an 0 Ball sinker. 

Generally bloodworms or yabbies with about an 0 Ball sinker. 

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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. 

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. 

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. 

Good stuff 🙂 

Some good fighting fish there, Daryl.
The kids would have had a ball (as well as Dad).

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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

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. 

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!