Can anyone claim to have caught a genuine 1kg SAND whiting...
The closest I have come is 650grams which was a dam nice fish but still way short of a kilo....
Can anyone claim to have caught a genuine 1kg SAND whiting...
The closest I have come is 650grams which was a dam nice fish but still way short of a kilo....
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.
nil carborundum illegitimi
got this one at harvey bay, not sure of the wieght but should be a comfortable 1kg... [smiley=laugh.gif]
Funny that Iank i think i caught the same fish a few times while drunk
George
At Heaven's gate a soldier stood,
his story ready to tell,
St Peter said, 'no need my son all is understood,
Go right in cos you've already served your time in Hell'
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....
took the photo just around the corner from a tackle shop along the esplanade at hervey bay
From W.A looks to be 1 kg. Nice size any way
hay have no photosbut nice fish the one up the top might be a bit c
hewy
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.
Cathum , except the one up the top , I'm really slow .
Ta.
DORO- Thats a KG mate not a sand whiting.
pete.
there is a sand whiting in the ANSA australian record book in the lure casting records that was somewhere around 1.14kg...
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.
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
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
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