whiting for bait

we cought a number of small whiting the other evening. there about 5-6 inches long. just wondering has any1 frozen them and used them for bait, i remember reading that they were a pretty useful bait for huss and conger....was thinking of getting a few ta freeze..

there a great bait for pike thats all ive ever caught on them

Don't Female Tope come inshore ( on the East Coast )after the whiting shoals during the winter?

ive heard that before and ive had conger on them before off the boat.its just the fact that i had a good run when using them as live bait the other nite and it was from a mark which is near another mark where we get good numbers of huss and the odd conger

ye thats right the tope come in for them alright the tope also come in for the sand dabs as well ive never tried dabs as bait has any one

whiting are a good bait for spurdog up here

Was fishing fenit for ray a couple of years ago with a mate (Rampant Wreckfish) getting plagued by small whiting etc so he stuck one on and caught a 30lb+ Stinger

i had a nice bass a few months back on a live one about 4/5in. long

whiting are a good bait for spurdog up here

Then again So's 3 Mackeral 4 Squid, a Rainbow Trout and a Small Puppy :lol: All Cable tied to the Hooks of a 14/0 Pennell...

has any one used them frozen

Small fish ie undersized fish are illegal to retain

Small fish ie undersized fish are illegal to retain

As far as I am aware, after trawling through a lot of legal stuff yesterday looking for info on Live baiting, in the Republic there is no laws whatsoever governing Sea Angling save the Bass legislation. I stand corrected on this but it would appear to me that south of the border you can do absolutely whatever the hell you like. There are size limits and bag limits for coarse fish alright but nobody seems to give a damn about the sea and protecting its juvenile fish. Not of course that I'm in anyway having a blast in relation to someone using these fish as Bait. More to do with the lads, and we know who they are, that fill a bucket with tiddlers to feed the 5000.

Ive used whiting in teelin when I ran out of mackerel, caught plenty of good whiting, coalies,scad and small pollock and also conger.

Sean Wrote:

Was fishing fenit for ray a couple of years ago with a mate (Rampant Wreckfish) getting plagued by small whiting etc so he stuck one on and caught a 30lb+ Stinger


it makes sense, if the water is full of small whiting then what are the fish going to be eating, i remember some one telling me that they were fishing a boat compo and the water was full of white bait "tiny fish" everyone stuggled to catch fish because all the fish were eating the white bait. banana's isnt it :lol:

I read tip a few years back concerning this subject. The Idea was if your getting pestered with small whiting tie a small size 2 hook on to the bottom of a 3/0 or 4/0. bait the small hook then when you catch the inevitable tiddler leave it on as bait for the larger fish like cod and such that tend to be feeding on these smaller fish.

pennell like or longer?

about 1" between both hooks.

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something like this.

I have used a few whiting as bait and caught LSDs with them. Never actually intended to catch them for bait but sometimes they just die and you may as well use them rather then bin them.