Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:26 pm
The piers are full of whiting. Anyone any ideas on getting them on the fly?
Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:46 pm
Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:31 pm
I love fishing for whiting on the fly.
I use a shrimp fly for them. They don't take the big flies that we use for pollock.
A constant fairly slow retrieve. The wont move if the fly is more than 3ft above their heads.
Great fun on a 6wt.
Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:12 pm
Got a picture of the fly?
Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:52 pm
No.
But I tied it myself using a golden pheasant red breast feather for the tail and the wing.added a little flash on the tail as well. Any salmon shrimp fly would do the job.
I have fished for them in the clear waters of portnoo, so I could see their reactions for each fly.That one worked the best.
Also, you need to take the fly very close to the pier. One some occassions I had 4 following the fly and not taking. But with the right speed of retrieve I got one on every cast.
Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:27 am
Sounds good. Hope to get out tomorrow night.
Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:49 pm
i once got a couple on portaferry peir on the fly just wee but good sport.
Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:21 am
Any luck with this?
I fished for them two years ago. They were in very close to a small pier in portnoo.Big ones 1lb+.
Last year they were missing.Hopefully they are back this year, but I'm not sure when i'm going to get up to fish for them.
Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:09 pm
No luck so far this week. Weather too wild to fly around my way. Flies are tied. Hopefully next week. They are certainly about. The son had a good few last night on bait.
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