Can anyone claim to have caught a 1kg Whiting?

[Pistol_Pete]

Can anyone claim to have caught a genuine 1kg SAND whiting... :-? :-?.....NOT king George.
The closest I have come is 650grams which was a dam nice fish but still way short of a kilo.... :-? :-?

[GBC]

All right I'll put my neck on the block....

It was about 1978 in moon creek fraser island - anyone remember the old way the mouth used to run?

Had a spread of crab pots out and always got fish and crabs in them - mainly cod.

Pulled on pot (about half way up the main reach in front of where the picnic tables used to be) after it had been out all night.

There was a whiting in there, longer than an old round chookmesh pot is wide, wrapped around the outer edge of the pot.

I was only a kid so if I had to estimate it I'd say 10kg because it looked bloody huuge at the time - I remember the exitement around camp.

Looking back I'd say maybe 1.5-2kg?

Not a photo of this thing anywhere - no one had a camera.

This was certainly not the type of fish you'd catch on standard whiting gear. I remember the adults moving the trevally gear to the creek for a while to see if they could catch one. (Standard procedure was to put several hardy heads on a hook attached to a surf rod - Butterworth of course - and anchor it to the bottom at the back of the barge hole where the wathoomba 2 barge used to dredge out a landing spot for itself. Every hour or so you'd pick up a dirty great golden trevally so 2kg whiting in crab pots wasn't that amazing.

So that's my tale, all heresay and no proof, but I swear it's true.

C.J.

[lanks]

got this one at harvey bay, not sure of the wieght but should be a comfortable 1kg... [smiley=laugh.gif]

[manchild]

Funny that Iank i think i caught the same fish a few times while drunk ;D
George

[Pistol_Pete]

;D ;D ;D....That photo is a classic.....where is that from.
Yeah I can remember seeing a whiting at the Gold Coast that an old timer caught that would have been 1kg plus.....
Rare as hens teeth I reckon.... :-?......Cmon someone out there must have a photo.... :-? :-? :-?

[lanks]

took the photo just around the corner from a tackle shop along the esplanade at hervey bay

[DORO]

From W.A looks to be 1 kg. Nice size any way

[catchum]

hay have no photos :-[ but nice fish the one up the top might be a bit c :Dhewy

[saurian]

Doro, looks similar to the ones I used to shoot with a spear gun about
20 yrs ago south of 7 sisters near safety bay.
Never caught one that size but.
Catchum , no whiting are chewy , just bigger fillets...
Ta.

[saurian]

Cathum , except the one up the top , I'm really slow .
Ta.

[Matthias]

DORO- Thats a KG mate not a sand whiting.

pete.

[jeffo]

there is a sand whiting in the ANSA australian record book in the lure casting records that was somewhere around 1.14kg...

[jackash]

Ive pb'd at 46cm off the beach at double island point... not a kilo but maybe 750g? Maybe more... wouldnt ahve a clue really.

[murf]

NSW and AAA record

WHITING SAND Sillago ciliata 1.020 WILLS Allan ST. GEORGES SAILING FC 25.10.81

Its gota be one big fish

Cheers Murf

[Geoff_Atkinson]

I have only ever caught 3 King Georgies over the kilogram (2 off Tumby Bay in SA and the other off Bunbury in WA) and they were all very large fish.

Although it has obviously been done, it would be very hard to just imagine a sandie at or over a kilogram and yes, I have caught plenty of them, probably more than King Georgies.

Cheers

Geoff

[straddie]

Last kg+ whiting I saw was the 2004 straddie classic catch winner, it was a 1030 fish. Can't remember the name of the guy that caught it but should be pics and a mould of the fish in the point lookout pub.

[SWANY22]

that whiting i herd come out of drasic lake behind the air port

[tiges]

Had a mate get one out of the little lagoon near Missingham bridge, on the town side at Ballina. Way back in about 1990, we were fishing for gar for bait with bread. Easily the biggest whiting I've ever seen, up around 45-50cm. Had a massive melon on it, fought like the clappers on the lite gear we were using too. Even at that size, I doubt it would have went a kilo. We didn't weigh/measure or photograph it, didn't seem to bother with that stuff back then. He ate it that night for dinner. No way I was touching it, that was one skanky little pond.

[SNAPPERCOFFIN]

Got this one over the weekend 650gm 44cm.

[GT_warrior]

[quote=Pistol_Pete;240712]Can anyone claim to have caught a genuine 1kg SAND whiting... :-? :-?.....NOT king George.



AH no....... ::)



;D

8-)

[unka]

I lived on the gold coast as a kid and way back in 1972 caught a whiting 18 3/4 inches long , dad drew around it and made a paper cut out to keep as a record .

Fish was caught where the old jubilee bridge was at the end of Rankin parade and bait was a wriggler worm.
The family used to catch a lot of oversize fish from the beach at that spot.

Still dont know if it weighed a kilo.

[mlc]

i was fishing up at burum heads a few months ago now and manged to catch a 43 cm whiting. i never got to weigh it but it was a damn big whiting, the bigest ive ever scene, i reckon it got close to a 1kg but cant be sure. my brother has got the picture i will try and get to post it.

[FNQCairns]

Dam I wish they grew to 5 or 6kg whiting are the perfect fish IMO, I have caught them up to 650gm, seen much much bigger ones spearfishing the headland on moreton bay 20 odd years ago, the 1+kg ones are out there, doubt time has made much difference.

cheers fnq

[surf_man]

yep. i saw the 1kg fish at the 2004 straddie comp..... not sure where it came from but man was it dark. it would be extremly rare to catch a 1kg whiting in the surf. i have caught them to 47 cm in length along doulble island beaches but the heaviest to date was 770g. if these were feeding up in an esturay they would be well over the 1kg mark. the straddie comp whiting that was mentiond was very short, maybe about 380- 400mm in length. it just had a gut on it like a hommer simpson.

i do know for a fact that garry howard has caught a genuine 1 kg ( surf caught ) whiting on fraser quite a few years back. extremly rare.

[Pistol_P]

I spoke to Gary about some rods the other day......I will fire him up to put a photo of it up!!!.......;D

[surf_man]

yep there is a photo of gary, his son and the monster whiting around . ive seen it a couple of times before.

ahh.... the old jurassic lake ;D

[reel scream]

Have seen some sandies recently while snorkeling Tangalooma wrecks that look as though they would be up around the mark. Fed too well and too wary of a line !!
I reckon they could be somehow tempted though.

Cheers Scott.

[Noelm]

got a 1.1KG specimen in Jervis Bay (Long Beach) about 15 years ago and caught a few 800 gram ones in the Shellharbour area over they years, (mainly at night) so that is your first clue to big ones.

[calamari]

There were a couple of summers over a decade back where very very large whiting would move into the mouth of Currumbin Creek with each tide change - Not a kilo, but sXXt we had some fun! - Cheers, calamari