Sunny Coast Pippies

[Dug]

Where do you get pippies on the Sunshine coast ?

What tide or time is the best?

I have caught them elsewhere but have only seen tiny ones here ??? ???

Cheers dug

[Dug]

PS has anyone been catching any dart lately?

[chisel]

Well, not sure about south of Noosa but north of Noosa there's usually some up near the national park boundary.

Worth a look further south.

Interesting that pippies are in plague proportions on Nth Stradbroke but not nearly as common on Moreton (still plenty though) at the moment. I wonder why.

[reefraider_II]

double island worth a go and as for dart...same had a mate go up to Teewah and did really well heaps of pippies and goood big dart .If you want some ideas or tips for surf fishing let me know i am no expert but i can help you out

[drb]

when I was a kid (20 + years ago) Kawana Beach held heaps of Pippies. These days large ones are scarce.

They all seemed to disappear not long after the ocean outfall for the sewerage plant started operation.

Seeing as pippies rely on filtration to feed and are very sensative to polution it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out the water quality from the outfall is less than council promised us all those years ago.

[SeaHunt]

Hi Dug,
They can be frustrating little buggers, they seem to move around a bit both along and up and down the beach, if you know what I mean.
Best I have done up that way is on Sunshine Beach between the SLSC and the Rocks at the bottom of Noosa National Park. I could see them feeding as the waves washed over them, got shitloads of bigger ones without much digging. 8)

[Dug]

Cool thanks for that I don't have a 4wd so I will try the Sunshine beach option. What is the nude beach up that way?

Dazb why am I not surprised I was talking to a civil engineer who said that 9 sewerage outlets now empty into the Maroochy river, That may explain the stink on cold still winter evenings




Reefraider11, I'm no expert either so I'm always open to suggestions

[Zeeke]

Dug mate, you should SEE the stink.. if i took you for a dawn run up maroochy river.. you'll see fog and mist comming off the water.. not white fog or mist.. but green.. and absolutely toxic to smell.. .. bloody shocking!

Tim

[vertico]

yuck , Lucky I havent and wont ever eat fish from the maroochy again

[Dug]

Imagine paying a million dollars + for w waterfront home only to have a stinking polluted fog every morning

We live off the canal and the stink is bad enough on still nights.

The Matmoss is rising, the Matmoss is rising!!!! YUCK!

[SeaHunt]

The stink is not coming from the river , and RAW sewerage is not put in the river. The sewerage treatment plant is down near the river , near the boat ramp on that creek that runs off to the southern side about 1 k past the Motorway heading inland.

[Zeeke]

your talking about Eudlo Creek there, the sewerage plant is on Fishermans Road, across the road from Neil Mansell Concreting, and thats across the road from Neil Mansell Gardening and Landscaping Supplies..

the stink is from the sugar cane farms ...... but the stink that Dug is referring to is coming from the canals, which are supplied by the canal that leads out to Picnic Point and Chambers Island....


Tim