[SUMMER] Yellowfin Whiting on Live Nippers
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- čas přidán 24. 12. 2019
- Yellowfin whiting are a picky target and your best bet will always be live bait. Live bungum or beach worms are highly effective for these species and are available at Brighton Tackle shop and most other coastline tackle stores. For a bit more work however, you can buy a pump and suck up a bunch of live nippers for bait. Make sure you have a live well with an aerator so they last in the summer heat and always perform this activity in heavy moderation as disturbing the benthos too often will destabilise the ecosystem. Yellowfin whiting reach 22cm quite quickly but gain size very slowly after doing so. Consider releasing specimens above 40cm if you find them.
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Rod: DAIWA LAGUNA LGC 662ULFS 2-7g
Reel: SeaKnight Treant 1000H
Line: 10lb SeaKnight Braid, 10lb PRYML clear mono leader (Uni Knot and Half Hitched braid)
Use a running sinker rig with a ball sinker and about 40cm of leader tied with a snell rig on the end. Size 12 and smaller suicide hooks are perfect especially if they are thin wire.
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Yellowfin whiting are solid fighters, especially on light tackle, and are an incredibly fun species to catch. The table quality of these fish is surely up there in the top three in my opinion and are fabulous when pan-fried in a little bit of butter mixed with oil and a crack of salt.
The legal limit of Yellowfin Whiting in South Australia is 20 fish at a minimum size of 24cm.
Finding the holes of nippers is easy. Just walk about 2meters out at low tide on any beach except Tennyson and Noarlunga (which are dominated by a population of worms). Do note as well that certain regions of coastline are Marine Protected Areas and it is illegal to harvest any benthic or intertidal species in these regions. PIRSA does a bad job at making maps so ask your local tackle shop instead and have it in print. Grey patches of mud expelled from the burrows made by the nippers will give away their location. Simply place the mouth of the pump over as much of the patch as possible, or a hole if visible, and dig it in about 2cm and then draw the contents out and release it into a floating sieve.
Make sure you release any nippers which are far too small to put on a hook immediately as they are wasted if they die in the sieve. The odds of them surviving the release are slim but it is better than them just being baby fish food. I have conducted a study and found that going the extra mile and carrying your released yabbies back to their original hole has a 70% chance of them attempting to burrow back into their hole and retreating safely.
Be very gentle with the nippers while hooking them as they are easily crushed. Try to hook them on a small snell rig with one hook through the tail and another in through the back of the thorax and out the middle of the chest between all the legs.
Have your drag set fairly loose as their headshakes are very short, quick and hard which makes them throw hooks easily once they breach the surface. Pay attention to your line when it is in the holder or have the rod in your hand so as to prevent gut hooking by hooking them immediately after they strike the first time.
Once again thank you all for the massive support thus far. It has been a real joy making these videos!! I hope you have a great days fishing! - Sport
Great vid, and thanks for the detailed description!
Great video Jeff! I gotta try this sometime now that I know how to catch a toadfish on a rod ;)
Thanks, originally from NSW and starting to show my son how to collect our own bait and fish the local beaches and offshore,, it’s been a bit challenging locating the nippers but we have just began, have to pay the fishing their due. Thanks for sharing
Around January you should really start to see some awesome results. Keep at it! Awesome work bringing the young one out as well :>
Really enjoying the vids man. Very informative and make me want to get out there my self. Well done.
Great video mate! Looking forward to the snook one.
Great video.
Awesome video Jeff! New sub keep up the great work 👍🏼
Jeff mate loved the vid. I'll have to give this a go soon.
Top notch video!
Great work buddy! Love the flow! Keep the content coming 🤙
Thanks man!!! I've been holding back uploading again until I get something good. I feel people deserve a proper video after I've been away so long
Another quality video
Had a great day down at Seacliff today thanks to your vid mate. First time catching nippers and YFW are for dinner.
Cheers
THANK YOU SO MUCH MATT! I love it when people follow what I put down and have a great day! I'm so so glad you got dinner from it!
Great vid dude, not a bait fisher personally but interesting info on the nippers. Enjoyed the vid
Really nice place..like it very much😲😲
Send the dead out with a half hitch on the tail and work like a plastic on j hooks mate. If small fish are in area use a circle hook with point well exposed...save heaps of gut hooked undersized fish. Used to use a 'stinger rig' far too indiscriminate were I fish for these tasty treats, if it works there happy days. Thankyou for the vid
Awesome vid lege
awesome video. Subbed
What a great day fishing. I would like to learn how to pump the crustaceans.
Great video and information.
One thing though about not collecting nippers at Noarlunga due to population of worms -
Regardless, the Port Noarlunga area From Gulfview Road Christies Beach through to Helmsman Tce Seaford is an Aquatic Reserve (including the Onkaparinga River up to Main South Road).
You are not allowed (illegal) to take any crustacean (worms, nippers etc) from the beach or river banks.
I've never pumped for nippers for bait at Noarlunga knowing this. When I did so, it was under a research scheme and I had full clearance to do so. I'm quite serious about what I do both for science and fishing so I don't do anything before I check my regulations.
@@JEFFISH No probs, but wasn't referring that you did. I was thinking maybe some of your viewers etc may get the opinion they could go to the Noarlunga area and get worms instead.
Just wanted to clarify it for all concerned :)
@@doobieau4485 That is true. I should have phrased it much better. I'll amend the description and include that.
Hey Jeffish. Wondered if you'd had much success success with surface lures for Goldies around busy Metro beaches like this one?
Today I was trying to target Whiting and but the first one I hooked is pupperfish just same as the first one you landed in the video :)
Its way too early in the season to start hahahah. Wait another month or two. I usually start in January.
Hey mate. Great job. I’m just wondering if it’s possible to pump these nippers around Brighton way. If so I still wonder what tides and whatever will be suitable to catch them in. Thank you ❤
Good work. Tried Seacliff once just before Christmas. Got a couple of yfw and a nice bream, but it was a hot day and it felt like all Adelaide turned up for a swim. That's an interesting way of baiting yabbies with the two hooks, what kind of hook up rate do you get ??
I get a 90% hookup rate. The only way they don't get hooked is if they crush the thorax of the nipper and then retreat to come back again.
Swimming there is the absolute best! I always can't resist and end up wading or floating about a bit 😂
@@JEFFISH that's a good rate. I used yabbies extensively on the east coast prior to moving here, and found I hooked up well using a size 4 or 6 tru turn worm hook, threading the yabbie like a prawn from under the tail under and having the barb come out under the head. Have seen a few folk use a small single 8 - 10 hook through where the body meets the tail, but for me the bait would always fall off.
@@biggestd69 I found threading the yabbie made them die really quick so I learnt to snell them instead
Enjoyed the video.
I like the idea of the 2 smaller hooks.
What size are the ones you are using?
Size 12 or smaller suicide or fly hooks work excellent. Use a hook that wont pulverise the shell of the nipper as you hook it
Thanks Jeff,
The big sand whiting are starting to come on the chew here( S.E Qld), but are very cagey and my hook up ratio is pretty poor.
Larger hook seems to kill the bait somewhat and they find it less palatable.
Suitable tides in a few days.
Never too old to try new things.
How come you call them nippers in Brissy everyone I have spoken to calls em yabbies
I name stuff by their listed common name on this channel which is the pink nipper. The alternative is ghost shrimp but nobody calls them that. I'm avoiding calling them yabbies because people will confuse them with the terrestrial yabbies :>
@@JEFFISH I didn't know that they were called pink nippers. Good information and nice video!
@@ostrichlicker6171 naw worries man. I call them yabbies when the camera isn't on 🤣 thanks for watching!
I've known them as clickers my whole life.
Dudes rockin an aerator on the beach, loose bit of gear.
They're cheap as mate 😉