It had been a while since I had a fish, so I jumped at the chance to target some whiting at the pin with T1 today.
Early start and T1 picked me up at 3 am from my house as it was on the way to redland bay ramp. We decided to try for some tailor at first light in an area of the pin that T1 had previous sucess. A hour or so later and nothing in the esky we up anchor and headed to T's whiting spot. After another hour or so no whitting but we got on to a few quality bream.
Moved on to another of T's haunts to try and target what we were chasing and again a few more bream and one whiting. Water was very dirty from all the rain and around 12 noon we saw the chocolate thick wave of mud coming towards us on the outgoing tide.
We decided to call it a day all in all 9 bream and 1 whitting, we released about 12 bream ranging from 23 to 25 cm's and a fair few unders including 5 whiting, 1 catfish (nice one T) a moses perch, shovel nose shark and a just legal flattie.
Choice of bait was live worms, on # 4 long shanks hooks with the red plastic tube. Can't say it worked for whiting but bream seem to love them.
Hey T, next time if we target bream we might come home with a feed of whiting lol. Thanks for a top day out, it was good to catch bream again. I thought i would have been sick of them as that's pretty much all I have ever caught over my last 25 years of fishing. Just goes to show plenty of options at the pin and it was still a buzz on the light gear.
I still prefer the snap snap's mate but as you suggested we will try a night time fish for bream closer to winter.
Thanks Again T and a couple of photos of the catch.
Peter.
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