How to beat the whities?

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:54 am

I went out down to seaham last night for a bit of fishing and lets just put it this way... the whities are in... it was one of those night where you chuck out two rods for anything that takes with 3 hooks on each, i must have had 10 casts with each rod having a full house of whiting. so i changed to a 1 hook flapper because unhooking and then rebaiting was becoming annoying seen as the fact my rods were going easily within 10 seconds of being in the water. Anyway blasting out baits hopefully for doggies or cod, and guess what 200+ more whities followed on the 2 rods, this was from 9pm to 3am just so you have an idea how long i spent doing this.

so have any of you got an idea to beat the whities and might i add float fishing doesnt work either, i just got more whities!

theyre welcome when theyre a 1lb a piece but not when theyre skinny, worm infested fish that barely beat the legal size

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:50 pm

whities = whiteing?

live bait/dead bait a whiteing :wink:

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:23 pm

hey i never thought of it that way but i dont wanna get trashed by another conger lol

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:14 pm

if the pin witting are about in numbers i'd a thought summat would be hunting them, conger? cod? bass?.

if you can guarentee catching a whitting;- use a 4-6/0 hook on a fairly heavy snood then 'hair rig a size 2ish hook and bait that with whatever , hook a whitting and leave it out there. perfect live bait.

it takes a lot of patience and its sod law that if there's doggies about youll end up fishing a doggie live bait :roll: unless you can tell by the bite that its a dog.

gj.

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:03 pm

yeah but surely if i have a whity pinned to the deck and there are literally thousands more swimming around why would it take my livebait lol, and to be honest im against livebaiting