good place to target whiting landbased

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by cotte » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:14 am

give portsea a go i went 2 weeks ago for squid then lost my last jig to a ray :/ didn't feel like goin home so i rigged up for whiting. No bites on squid or pippies so i thought ill try some of the whitebait i had and within 5 minutes i landed my first kgw with another 5 to follow, all 40cm +. This was after dark

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by purple5ive » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:17 am

portsea, cool ive fished there before and come to think of it seen this old guy pull in some whiting from the end of the pier
might be somethign to think about on the weekend

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by sidrx » Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:09 am

If you end up in Sorrento, I was diving there not long ago and saw some fat 40cm+ KGW, within casting distance of the pier/jetty.
But since you mentioned Portsea, you're better off heading there as it's closer to the mouth of PPB

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by fishingvic » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:08 am

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Use squid caught anywhere from Portsea down to Rosebud, cut into small strips = King George Whiting in the same areas.

Also worth noting, after dark they come in quite shallow (less than 1 meter of water and can be caught from the beach land based) :reel:
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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by purple5ive » Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:28 pm

/\ portsea pier???

thanks for tips i have never caught many squid just one or two i think so ill bring some squid jigs and try for them too.

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by purple5ive » Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:15 am

so after a failed effort of nearly 16 hours of fishing all we got was 2 banjo sharks and a toadfish... somehow the whiting and snapper evaded us lol
quiet dissapointed to be honest
we tried mt martha, mornington pier and franston pier for donuts
might go down to wpb next time.

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by vinhii » Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:10 pm

bad luck purple5ive , but atleast you were out and about hehe

what rig and what size hooks/line were ya using? and bait?
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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by purple5ive » Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:01 pm

pippies, running sinker rig with size 4 or 6 cant remember now baitholder hooks. line was monfilament 12lb and another one was 8lb braid with mono leader

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by cotte » Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:04 am

Should use paternoster rigs or even buy one of them whiting rigs and replicate that. I reckon the red tubing and beads do make a difference

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Re: good place to target whiting landbased

Post by CarlG » Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:24 pm

cotte wrote:Should use paternoster rigs or even buy one of them whiting rigs and replicate that. I reckon the red tubing and beads do make a difference
Doesn`t make that much difference tbh..I use a simple running sinker rig, works fine for KGW....and pinkies, and banjos, etc, etc...

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