Some of you might remember me having a whinge about being new to fishing in Brisbane and not having much luck at catching anything legal. Well, I think I finally fixed that on Saturday. Not my first legal fish in Brisbane, there's been the odd bream, but the first time I came home with enough for a feed.
Saturday morning, way too early, I hit my latest spot on the Pine. I'd been past this spot before and thought it might hold whiting. So I thought I'd take the whiting rod and something a bit bigger. The theory was if I caught little winter whiting, I had some live bait for flathead.
The river was practicaly deserted. Gee! early morning and an icy little wind blowing and nobody wants to go fish ??? For the first hour it was just me and a huge flock of pelicans and cormorants.
I fish a two hook rig normally, and had just loaded it with some live beach worm. First cast Boom! What the? this aint no little winter whiting. Nope, two summer whiting. I measure the first one and it turns out to be 22cm. Ah the old curse again thinks me. Nope, the second is a bit bigger 26cm to be exact.
After that it was pretty busy with four keepers in the next hour, before the wind go totally out of hand. The biggest went 30cm.
OK. So its not in the league of most of the reports on here, but I'm pretty happy that I've learned enough from all the useful stuff on this site to actually bring home a meal.
Not even hearing the detailed version of Fishin_Dan's mega effort in WA could take the smile off my face. 8)
Originally Posted by blufish
