Some Big Whiting at Runaway Bay - 11/08/12

[Daryl McPhee]

The family determined that they were short of high quality protein, so I was sent to the “grocery store” to get some fish. The grocery store being the shoreline at Runaway Bay for another short landbased session. A few hours with yabbies andsome Cribb Island worms produced a feed with some quality fish. The smallest whiting was 31 cm with the best a bit over 38 cm. The best bream was 35 cm. No huge numbers of fish, but a decent feed nonetheless. There were plenty of smaller bream around the 25 to 26 cm, but they were post spawning fish andtheir condition was poor so they were released. The three bream I kept still had some good condition on them. All bar one of the keepers was caught on yabbies. There were quite a few small moses perch and they made very short work of the worms but tended to leave the yabbies alone a bit more.

With the light sinker (00) and the shallow water (about a foot and a half), the whiting really took off like scalded cats when hooked.

I’ll be on 4BC this evening after 6:30 talking about thebiology and ecology of whiting, so tune in if you want to know more.....

Daryl

[Horse]

A great land based catch daryl. A nice dinner or two to come out of it

[BLOOEY]

A very tasty looking feed there Daryl. A couple of those whiting are faaaat too! I'll be tuning in for sure. Thanks, Ben

[Goodoo haven]

Some nice fish caught there, especially the whiting are of good size.

[Daryl McPhee]

There certainly not ready to spawn yet, but there was a fair bit of roe development in the whiting.

[thelump]

That bottom whiting is a fat bugger. Another great LB feed mate. Well done

[Fish_gutz]

nice feed there , heard you on the radio . very informative. I learn`t something anyways. thanks . Andrew

[Daryl McPhee]

Thanks Andrew. I'm glad you got something out of the segment.

[T1]

While i missed it, i'm sure it would have been very informative!

Good quality fish there mate! Looking forward to hitting the Nerang this summer - should be a good season given the quality of these ones in August... ;0)

Take Care T

[BLOOEY]

Bugger missed it! Ben

[Bronson]

Some good size whiting there.very nice catch/feed.Dam missed the talk would of been interesting.

Bron

[Horse]

Great chat with Dave. Good stuff

[Daryl McPhee]

Thanks Horse. I am glad you found it interesting.