[SUMMER] Yellowfin Whiting on Live Nippers

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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join my Instagram and don't forget to subscribe!   / jeffdeechua     / 430761970926727   #Fishing #Beach #Summer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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!