Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by one2three » Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:19 am

Hi Lx,

Did you get my pm?

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by Lightningx » Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:03 pm

HyperX wrote:
Lightningx wrote:
HyperX wrote:was it off the beach?
Yes mate cast straight from the beach :P
right thanks. Im going to try it tomorrow.
did you have to cast very far?
Not really.

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by Lightningx » Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:21 pm

poodoo wrote:Pretty great land based session there!
Thanks Heng! I was fairly happy with it too :P

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by Lightningx » Tue Jan 10, 2017 4:58 pm

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Lightningx wrote:Since the start of the week I was planning a fishing session on Friday night because the conditions looked ideal.
High tide and a nice moderate SE wind blowing sounded pretty good.

Headed to my usual whiting spot and this time arrived a bit early. I wanted to fish a couple of hours before sunset to see how I go as usually I get there just before dark.

Casted 2 rods and both rods were in the water by around 7:30.

Unlike last time bites weren't straight away, however I had a good feeling and was quietly confident that bites would start fairly soon.
As always when I fish this spot on a high tide the pinkies seem to be around and it wasn't long before I had a bend in my rod and in came a 38 cm pinkie.
The pinkies kept biting as the wind picked up a bit and I noticed a small tinnie come nearby and saw me reeling in the pinkies and so decided to drop anchor not too far in front of me :rofl:
I could see both of them watching me and they started casting in my direction. Just unbelievable lol
Anyway I didn't care and just kept doing what I was doing.
Eventually the wind picked up even more and it started getting dark so they left.
After dark it was a different story. Once again the wind started dropping and the whiting bites were on.
I got my first double header of whitings in a very long time!
I noticed the bites would come on hard and there would be a window of opportunity for about half an hour and then the bites would stop completely.
Then it would start again and this kept going on. It was almost as if they were swimming around left to right and when they passed through it would be chaos for about half and hour.
I fished for a good few hours and ended up with 15 whitings, 5 pinkies and 1 flattie. I did lose many more due to just very subtle bites resulting in no hook ups.
The bait of choice was live pippies mixed with fresh small squid strips.

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Cheers,

LX.

Hi Lx,

Where did you get the live pippies from?

I sent you a PM.

:-D
Springvale market mate. They are really good quality too ;-)

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by one2three » Tue Jan 10, 2017 7:14 pm

Lx,

I never seen live pipies at markets is this normal.. :-D

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by hornet » Tue Jan 10, 2017 8:57 pm

You can buy live pipies at Victoria market also.
He who has the most fishing rods WINS ! :ts:

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by poodoo » Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:11 pm

You can also get them live at Richmond or Costco. At Costco they are 14 bucks a kg.

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by hornet » Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:21 pm

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poodoo wrote:Pretty great land based session there!
Thanks Heng! I was fairly happy with it too :P
LX did you get my PM to you regarding the floundering session I did ?
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by Lightningx » Tue Jan 10, 2017 11:33 pm

eddyt wrote:Nice bag! I got a few pinkies on Saturday night nearby but always been too scared to try beach fishing because i dont think i can cast far enough (i think about 50m is my max cast with no wind) but might have to give it a go now
Cheers mate! Don't worry you don't have to cast very far at all :tongue:

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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17

Post by Lightningx » Wed Jan 11, 2017 11:56 am

one2three wrote:Lx,

I never seen live pipies at markets is this normal.. :-D
Yes mate.
The ones I get are $13.99 a kilo and really good quality ;-)

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