Nerang River

[Daryl McPhee]

A land-based trip beckoned to the Nerang River for some whiting. It was a spur of the moment trip and I managed to get bait that was serviceable but not optimal for that location – live surf worms and live yabbies. I started around dusk and aimed to fish for a couple of hours only. I focussed on one upstream location that fishes best on the run-in tide. It is a location that has a considerable catfish eel problem during the night when it is warmer, but I (correctly) considered that they would be largely absent at this time of the year. While I scratched up a feed it was far from spectacular fishing. No fish over 40cm, but with the best going about 39cm. There were plenty of bream around at the top of the tide – I got about a dozen legal bream all over 27cm but generally in poor post-spawning condition. I only kept one of the larger fish that still had a bit of condition on it to bake whole. Yabbies outfished the surf worms on the whiting.

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[Funchy]

well done on scratching up a feed. :thumbsup:

[alleycat]

Well done, and strange about the surf worms, in the bribie passage I find it near impossible to catch summer whiting on yabbies.

[Daryl McPhee]

I am a fan of using yabbies in the Broadwater after rain and have got some good catches on them there at those times. I might have to use them a bit more in the Nerang I guess! The biggest fish on this trip fell to a yabby.