Stonker Winteries at Rous

[bermo82]

Hey all,

Spent one of the better days of the year, getting a great feed of winteries.

A mate and I kept 30 with the smallest 24 and and the average around 28cm. We threw 1 back and the rest were fat!

had to search for them but found them in 3.5m of water about 500m from the red marker at the Rous.

Went over Myora marker to drift some live pike we also caught, and got slammed on the first drift for a miss and then all went quiet withe the glass out conditions.

Hope everyone else is getting a feed.

Cheers
Bermo

[robsue]

Bermo....they are good size lately, but today I found them hard to nail
we got 40, but as my previous posts read they were plentiful, but not today.....normally lately easy bag limit

cheers
Robin

[Seahorse]

I was out there today as well but could only manage 20, but good size.

Going to give sandhill a try tomorrow

[robsue]

wasn't sure if u where there Greg, saw couple jetskis....do u carry mobile phone on u when out there?

[timddo]

Don't know about you guys. Bagged out with three on board. Bloody big whitting.
The good thing is I only need to fillet 30. Neighbours got a nice feed and the deckie got the rest.

Greg, you were pretty close to me. It's hard to stop fishing when your pulling monsters in, but we had to leave then chewing.

Secret bait is...:-X:-X:-X

[rosco1974]

tim you still using prawns for bait

[timddo]

No more secrets for you rosco. Yeah prawns

[rosco1974]

lol,u know all mine tim ...even my spot xyz.

[MrNanks]

Thanks lads.
I am taking my young fella over there tomorrow. The best ever fishing session he has had has been winter whiting at Burrum Heads a long time ago.

I am glad to hear they are there.
I am going to try squid strips. I was told to soak them in pink food die to make them look like worms. Bloody messy though.
Cheers

[Seahorse]

Robin, mobile is with me all time. 0411643128. Mate and i carry radios and stay on channel 17.

Tim what boat u in today?

All good.

I hope we find them at sandhills in the morning. Leaving clontarf at 7.30. Ended up going from manly today.
I just looked on nav map and distance is same from clontarf to sandhill as manly to sandhill. Well within a k anyway. Surprised me.

Cheers
Greg

[timddo]

Greg

White half cab boat with two aerials

[Moonlighter]

We were at the Rous this morning too. And found them very hit and miss too, but good quality. so after an hour we headed to the Sandhills, where they were in better numbers but still not thick. Poked around and did ok.

Once the tide turned we went to a spot we fished a few weeks ago in about 6m and anchored up, and put 80 more in the esky in quick time. So happy with that.

Might be back out the again tomorrow to chase a few more.

Cheers

M

Squid for bait. Prawns, eh! Mmmmmm........

[Seahorse]

Hey moon.
If u are at sandhills tomorow have a look for couple jet skis. Yammys ith blue eskies on back.

Cheers
Greg

[Seahorse]

Hey moon
Were you at big or small sandhills

[Moonlighter]

OK guys, will keep a look out for you. My boat is as per picture in avatar. Blue Surtees. Saw you at Rous this morning, I think. It was a bit windy there early, hey! Wind vs tide, a bit joggly.

Went to both big and little sandhills. Most boats were at little. We got quite a few there, but ended up getting the most after lunch near the yellow marine park buoy in about 6-7m. Tried same spot in morning but the baby sweetlip were pretty thick, so moved to little.

[Short Fuse]

Grant

20 fillets through the pan and gone as soon as they hit the plate. Not going to last long at this rate - might have to go back out through the week for another hit. Gee this retirement thing is a bit hard to take.

Cheers

Jeff

[solemandownunder]

Thanks lads.
I am taking my young fella over there tomorrow. The best ever fishing session he has had has been winter whiting at Burrum Heads a long time ago.

I am glad to hear they are there.
I am going to try squid strips. I was told to soak them in pink food die to make them look like worms. Bloody messy though.
Cheers

A word to the wise M8...DONT !!!!!!!!

About 6 weeks ago, I was out with Robsue in his boat and I had one bag of normal squid strips and a bag dyed with rose coloured dye.

While I was NOT getting a bite with the coloured ones, Rob was hauling 'em in.
Needless to say I tipped them all out, went back to the normal strips and started catching whiting immediately.

It seems that the dye method may work in the southern bay in more dirtier water, but NOT in clear water M8.

I mentioned to Rob that I would have been stuffed if I had totally believed that the dye method worked and had ONLY bought that bait with me.

HTH, Cheers, Ray.

[Moonlighter]

We ended up going to the Rous this morning, gentlemen's hours. 9am at the Raby Bay ramp. Ramp carpark a the Boat Club was chocka block, but managed to squeeze in a vacant spot near the washdown area.

It was like Queen St up a the Rous, dozens of boats, and almost calm conditions. Bit quiet, even with the "secret bait".

We eventually found a patch and ended up with about 50 before things quietened down near the top of the tide. The quality was ver good again.

So the call was made to go looking for squid at a spot we usually find them in summer. There were only a few there. So back to the Rous where we found things still pretty quiet, so called it a day and headed back home at about 2pm.

Sorry guys, we didnt end upgoing to the Sandhills as originally intended so missed you there.

How was the action up that way?

Cheers!

[GreekBoi]

We got 40 big and thick whiting using worms up at the rous channel.. never used prawns though, are you using cooked prawns or fresh?

[bermo82]

Nice to see everyone else getting a feed and also better to hear everyone's sharing their secrets to get a feed. We got most of our fish on fresh worms ( big thanks to Mossops Cleveland) squid resulted in a lot of pike and a couple whiting.

Cheers
Bermo

[alleycat]

Went out tom the rous today and found them quite patchy, so many boats getting around as well, ended up with 51 good quality whiting on squid, and tried harries just after daybreak for not a thing, does anybody ever catch anything there or is it just a place to park your boat, I didn't see too much structure on the sounder to really get excited about, has much of the reef been covered by silt?.

[bermo82]

I've never caught anything at Harries, but i'm an average fisherman at best! The whiting yesterday were patchy but big.

Bermo

[MrNanks]

Yep I reckon Harries sux,
It was a full carpark today. I too have never caught anything there,

We used the secret prawns today at the Rous and got 40 whiting. A handfull over 30 cm. Most 28 ish which was great.

We tried worm with no luck and got a few on squid.

We drifted twice then anchored up once we got some a few fish. Then we burleyed up and they just kept on biting until we ran out of prawns.

Thanks heaps for the tips gents.

Cheers Dave
My lad and I had a ball.