Reply With Quotethat whiting i herd come out of drasic lake behind the air port
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.
that whiting i herd come out of drasic lake behind the air port
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.
Got this one over the weekend 650gm 44cm.
FISHING FISHING AND MORE FISHING. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE TO DO?
[quote=Pistol_Pete;240712]Can anyone claim to have caught a genuine 1kg SAND whiting...
AH no.......
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.
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.
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
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.
I spoke to Gary about some rods the other day......I will fire him up to put a photo of it up!!!.......
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
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.
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.
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
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