Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
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- Bluefin
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
Not really.HyperX wrote:right thanks. Im going to try it tomorrow.Lightningx wrote:Yes mate cast straight from the beachHyperX wrote:was it off the beach?
did you have to cast very far?
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- Bluefin
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
Thanks Heng! I was fairly happy with it toopoodoo wrote:Pretty great land based session there!
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
Springvale market mate. They are really good quality tooone2three wrote: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.
Cheers,
LX.
Hi Lx,
Where did you get the live pippies from?
I sent you a PM.
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
You can buy live pipies at Victoria market also.
He who has the most fishing rods WINS !
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
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
LX did you get my PM to you regarding the floundering session I did ?Lightningx wrote:Thanks Heng! I was fairly happy with it toopoodoo wrote:Pretty great land based session there!
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
Cheers mate! Don't worry you don't have to cast very far at all :tongue: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
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Re: Warm night produces whitings 6/1/17
Yes mate.one2three wrote:Lx,
I never seen live pipies at markets is this normal..
The ones I get are $13.99 a kilo and really good quality