Whacking whiting

With T-Dogg away working on his right arm rapid movement techniques & chasing spinerfex fairies I decided it was time to hone my light gear work and chase some kidney slappers and calamari, so I got a crew together that looked like they were from boyzone and consisted of T-Doggs brother lachy. The morning got off to a flying start  with lachy tipping a bucket of motor oil over the back windscreen of t-doggs mrs near new black mazda cx7 thinking it was water. And he's a doctor, genious. After that minor incident we went searching for our targets off the tyabb bank. 

Much like the average Congan man (18cm) the whiting were long and the squid thick and vainy and we were getting black load everywhere. At one stage Lachy asked me if he could dress up as a secretary and put a pair of glasses on which I thought was pretty weird.

It was slack tide, which is the best and usually only time to get squid in western port, and we were casting orange money magnets at them as well as fishing fresh baits under a float and having great success. We had 7 on board, the biggest going to around 1.1kg and these suckers were going to be hitting the fry pan for once. 

After the tide picked up a little it was time to try black magics new whiting whacker, I thought the naming of it was a bit innapropriate as i have no idea how you could wack off a whiting with one of them but I can tell you that they catch heaps of whiting and the bite to hook ratio is through the roof. We were fishing them with strips of squid on each hook and having success that would rival vanilla ice. All were over 35cm with the biggest going to 45cm, or 450mm if that sounds longer. Burley was crucial to keeping them around and we ended up with around 20 delicious tings.

I find squid & whiting fishing incredible fun as there is always a lot of action and with the right gear the fight is really attractive. It's a great genre to take kids, beginners and wags. But people, you do not need 100 fillets of whiting. Just because the limit is 20 per person doesn't mean you have to take that many. If you've got swimmers like Ian Thorpe and are supporting 15 kids then by all means the rest off us should be more cautious.

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