Nth Straddie Tiddlers

[straddie]

Spent a few lazy days over Straddie, decided I better have a fish on Thursday.

Chased a few dart on Flinders Beach in the morning for no result so flicked a few worms into a drain for a ton of small whiting. Kept 4 for breakfast.

Afternoon ran up to main cathing tons of small dart everywhere ::) Ended up keeping 6 decent fish, only one which I would call good quality.

Wandered back Friday instead of staying the planned week with forecast of rain and more wind. :-[ , no complaints though, I got the chance to get wet and have the sand between my toes. :)

[jeffo]

thats what its all about! ;D we used to get some really good whiting way down main beach... ill have to get back over there some time. such a cruisy lifesyle! :D

[straddie]

I love it over there Jeffo, it can be really hard to get out of first gear at times. During the classic is about the only time I get serious for any length of time.

There were a few very good drains the first 2k's after the causeway that looked like prime real estate for big whiting but I was keen on chasing dart.

Yeah go for it and wander over there, guaranteed to cure all ills :) might even get a fish or two.

[bugman]

Straddie,

I was over there yesterday but never took the rods. I was too interested in the lovely 2-3 foot curl coming off both Cylinder and Home beach.

Saw some guys pulling worms from the surf right in the main swimming area in front of the life saving club at PT Lookout would you believe.

That place never ceases to amaze me.

Bugman

[straddie]

Heya Bugman,

It would have been nice around the headland beaches, although I don't know about standing on a piece of fibreglass where the big shadows live. :D

The worms were pretty thick, and plenty of good worm banks. The old worms are funny, some of the biggest and thickest I have ever seen have been just outside the flags down on some of the popular Gold Coast beaches. People don't seem to bother them too much unless they are standing right on top of them.

There's always something new (or old worth seeing again) over there. My "first" for this trip was seeing a small fox on the fishermans track. Probably not a good thing, but something different all the same that I haven't seen over there before.

[bugman]

Got the fright of my life a couple of months back on a nice wave at Cylinder. I ride an 8 footer slowly and sedately (read - I'm not that good).

Anyway I'm riding along on the face and this great big bloody shape appears in the wave ahead of me (I haven't got my contacts in). Heart rate goes up and my board misses a ruddy great turtle at about 4-5 foot long by millimetres.

Bloody thing made me fall off and then has the cheek to surface next to me snort out its nose and then continue on its way.

Gotta love Straddie

Bugman

[straddie]

Had similar things happen body surfing at times, just catch glimpse a big dark shape coming up fast out of the corner of your eye, glance at the shore a lot further away :o

before hearing pfffft ::) bloody dolphins :D

[CHRIS_aka_GWH]

straddie is without doubt the sharkiest water I've speared & surfed (I've seen literally dozens of all species over the years up to 2 or 3m) but I've only lost my nerve once & left the water. It was on my honeymoon 5yrs ago & a shark on the smaller side about 1.5m. It was so hyped up you could feel its desire to attack anything - i had other options to "fill my time" so I left the water having of course fallen off riding in & walked on water the rest of the way.

I'm heading over this weekend for a fish. Whiting & dart by day, tailor maybe at night & squidding with the kids at the amity jetty. Fresh chilli squid & a cold ale - nuthin better.

seeyainthesurf,
chris

[straddie]

I have moved off a waste deep bank more than a couple of times fishing over there. I don't like the idea of having them get into the gutter behind me :o just in case he has mates close by that I haven't seen yet.

There were scad/yakkas and yellowtail pike around the jetty and a few mid to small cuttlefish in the shallows. I flicked up few pike to use as tailor bait on Wed but never got round to it.

1.2 and 2.6km the point side of the causeway was where I was catching my dart but there is a lot of sand movement so those gutters might be pretty ordinary by the weekend.

Half tide up for the dart might be your best bet, the low water gutters weren't worth fishing. The first couple of km's past the causeway for whiting.

There was talk of tailor on Flinders but never caught or saw any myself (didn't try though). I usually head the other way when I hear things like that to side step the crowds. ;)

Have a great one.

[sharkbait]

Bugman i had a sort of similar experience at cylinders, caught a wave over a massive school of dart, literally thousands of the buggers right underneath me, freaky.

[thargor]

Biggest dart I have ever caught have been on North Straddie and at night to. Averaged around 45 to 50cm. Good fun on 10lb line. My carrybag was getting way to heavy so I left them biting....

[catching]

when that happens u shutter at the thought of what is following them hi kris