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[Bird]

I'll bet the whiting are the same; usually quite small, but popular with the surf fishermen. I have caught a few, but haven't done much surf fishing. By the way, Florida has a better picture of a sheepshead, too, at this site. I think we have them all the way around the U.S.A; don't you have them, too?

Oh, and I guess you're right about the popularity of Fraser Island; I looked it up on google.com and only got 22,500 hits./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Bird on 11/19/01 06:42 PM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[ERNIEB]

Bird, Sounds like you were just off the jetties. The North, maybe? One time right there at the Horace Caldwell pier, I think it was July. I walked out on to the pier, early in the morning with a baitcasting reel, hooked on one of those double trout rigs, and caught a mess of Bluefish. Fun to catch/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif, and the ones we cooked up fresh were pretty good eaten. I'm one of those who would say they don't freeze well.
I'm just guessing, but the flounder are probably scattered. Usually the second cold front will get them moving out of the bays, heading for deeper water. But here it is late November, and we just got our first real front today. They are probably confused/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie

 

[njrqs]

Bird

Yes it looks a bit similar to some reef fish we have. No names spring to mind as identical but yes I can see a resemblance.

Fraser Island is a great place indeed. My father used to fish there every year for 30 years. When he first started it was an adventure just to get there and they wouldn't see a soul for a week.

Now you have to have your wits about you just to walk on the beach, dodging the buses, cars, trucks, PLANES etc. !!!

<font color=blue>Neil from OZ.</font color=blue>

 

[Bird]

Ernie, in years past, I've done a lot of fishing from the south jetty; never been on the north jetty, but we did go out there along the north jetty this trip where I've fished from the boat before, but it was a little too windy and rough, and I guess like everywhere, traffic is heavier than ever before with the "work boats" coming and going from the offshore wells, tankers, tugs and barges, and naval ships; lots of traffic up and down the ship channel. We did most of our fishing around the point across from and north of the small boat harbor (around the Fina docks) and south of the ferry landing (around the Brown & Root docks. Fishing off the south jetty in the past is the only place I've seen bluefish caught, but I was always fishing for redfish or sheepshead myself. And yes, they just hadn't had that cold front yet to get the flounder and sheepshead moving good when we were there.