pippie breeding

[robersl]

ok i got a queston that was asked of me tonight but first will tell you how it came about
i was taking to my brother over the weekend and he said the pippies breeding season should be starting around bribie in the next 2 week or so and would be a good time to beach fish there for whiting as this happens every year, i was telling a friend we might give it a go on the weekend and was asked if pippies are born with shells, don,t know i say a mollusc i think they are so my queston is as above are they or are they like i think a mollus c with a film that hardens to a shell never though about it before today

[bungie]

I was on the understanding that all pippies where born on a particular beach down in Victoria, and then moved on from there

[choppa]

robersl,,,,i think the answer to your query comes in the latter part,,,,

my concern is if theres enough pippies on b/island to start a fish frenzy,,,

certainly,, there here,, but i've never seen them in quantity such as the sunshine coast/rainbow beach area's

and the ones i've bagged are quite small with the occasional bait size thrown in for good measure,,

choppa

[Dirtysanchez]

I swa an amazing thing down at Hastings point over the holidays. I was beach fishing and wondering if there were pippies around, saw plenty of pebbles etc & thought maybe it was too rocky..

Anyway half an hour later I looked down at me feet when wave was abating & there were probably 2000 of them all around me.. Tthey all made a sort of a chattering noise with their shells, they were all bum up (as in the bit that opens was still in the sand) and then they all disappeared with the next wave, back into the sand !!

I wasn't drinking and the sun wasn't that strong, but it only happened once.. And I did notice some very small juvenile pippis in the sand above the water line

Russell

[robersl]

robersl,,,,i think the answer to your query comes in the latter part,,,,

my concern is if theres enough pippies on b/island to start a fish frenzy,,,

certainly,, there here,, but i've never seen them in quantity such as the sunshine coast/rainbow beach area's

and the ones i've bagged are quite small with the occasional bait size thrown in for good measure,,

choppa

hi choppa
not sure how many there are these days my brother often fishes this time of year with good results i was speaking to a mate that got back from d/i on the weekend and he said there was countless thousands up there at the moment

[choppa]

i'm taking this thursday off mate as a rdo,,,, i'll investigate,,,,

its about time the new wheels got a bit dirty anyway,,,and theres buggar all floating about the passage

may be worth while with the tides running early morning,,,

if your about give me a yell

choppa

[sandbankmagnet]

Hey Russell,

I've seen that before on Moreton. Driving down the beach and look into a shallow little run off and there are about 100 to the square metre on about 20 square metres, standing on their point digging in. They were huge, too.

I've never seen blokes hop out of a 4B so quickly.

Hey Bungie, did you hear that on Rex?

[mowerman]

On North Stradbroke, mostly south of the causeway, there are so many pippie mounds at low tide , its like driving on a gravel road.

[bungie]

sandbankmagnet, yeah I think it was Rex