A couple of weeks ago I was fishing and estuary on the South Coast on NSW.
The tide was coming in and I could see lots of whiting in about 50cm of water facing the current which was quite strong. The bottom was sandy.
I was drifting fresh yabbies/nippers through then and for the most part they seemed to ignore them. I did see a few come over to my yabbie on one occasion but they didn't take it.
There were a couple of other guys doing the same and one of them caught one but that was in the course of the couple of hours of fishing.
I was hooking the yabbies through the tail which works fine in deeper channels but I'm thinking that they may be more spooky in the shallow and are put off by seeing the hook. Alternatively they could be feeding on something else and were not interested in yabbies.
Do any old hands have an explanation for this?
