McKnight
14-08-2014, 08:22 AM
After getting all the boys to commit to coming at my wedding last year, we headed up to Fraser early Friday morning and were on the island by lunch time. We set up at Dunduburra after stopping at the usual tourist spots along the way. Decided to head for a quick afternoon fish. only managing 1 big keeper between 9 of us, Some other campers were leaving the next day and had a bag load of fillets they didn't want to take home so we had a feed the first night.
Saturday we had a morning fish again managing only 1 between 9(wrong time in the tide). after going back for breakfast/lunch we headed for lake McKenzie, and stopped for a little fish somewhere on the way back. By the time we left that spot the it was just on dusk and the tide was on its way in, and we were still south of Eli creek :( We get to Eli creek and think we picked a good path through only to go through the biggest hole(don't cross at the bend). A bit of water over the windscreen and into the front windows of the lead car, and a number plate was all we lost on three vehicles without snorkels.
Sunday morning Session was much better, we managed 7 nice sized fish. after a nice breakfast of fresh fish we kicked a footy around until it was close to low tide. We loaded up and headed out to find a nice gutter to park on until the right time. We found one about 1 km south of Dunduburra, with tent city in the dunes we new it must have been a good gutter. We parked up and tried our hand at worming and boy were we useless at it. we only managed the one out of about an hour trying. At 2 hours to high tide we new things were starting up when a few blokes from tent city descend from the dunes and take up their spot. We quickly started pulling in a few smaller ones, then the larger ones came on pretty fast and when we hit 10 we were only keeping the larger ones. Ended up with 16 at the end of the run and the kitty for largest went to yours truly.
We only ever catch what we intend to eat on the island as we find tailor are crap if frozen. We also cook the frames up as well and pick the meat of the bones :) Cut off the tail, skin top, and bottom also remove blood line from gut area. Then crumb and shallow fry.
I will add some pics later.
Saturday we had a morning fish again managing only 1 between 9(wrong time in the tide). after going back for breakfast/lunch we headed for lake McKenzie, and stopped for a little fish somewhere on the way back. By the time we left that spot the it was just on dusk and the tide was on its way in, and we were still south of Eli creek :( We get to Eli creek and think we picked a good path through only to go through the biggest hole(don't cross at the bend). A bit of water over the windscreen and into the front windows of the lead car, and a number plate was all we lost on three vehicles without snorkels.
Sunday morning Session was much better, we managed 7 nice sized fish. after a nice breakfast of fresh fish we kicked a footy around until it was close to low tide. We loaded up and headed out to find a nice gutter to park on until the right time. We found one about 1 km south of Dunduburra, with tent city in the dunes we new it must have been a good gutter. We parked up and tried our hand at worming and boy were we useless at it. we only managed the one out of about an hour trying. At 2 hours to high tide we new things were starting up when a few blokes from tent city descend from the dunes and take up their spot. We quickly started pulling in a few smaller ones, then the larger ones came on pretty fast and when we hit 10 we were only keeping the larger ones. Ended up with 16 at the end of the run and the kitty for largest went to yours truly.
We only ever catch what we intend to eat on the island as we find tailor are crap if frozen. We also cook the frames up as well and pick the meat of the bones :) Cut off the tail, skin top, and bottom also remove blood line from gut area. Then crumb and shallow fry.
I will add some pics later.