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Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:18 pm

G'day, last night i was fishing a 2-hook flapper with smallish baits until the plague of whiting forced me to cast out a 5/0 pennel loaded with lugworm, squid and mussel. After 10 mins the usual whiting rattle stopped, the rod tip bent all the way over and the grip lead sprung.... all I brought in was the front-end of a whiting. It was chewed through, not a clean bite. Next cast I only got a head back.
I was fishing in between clean and rough ground on an ebb tide.
Any suggestions what it could have been?

#2 Post by **stevecrow74** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:49 pm

could have been a huss, doggie, conger or just a very big crab

#3 Post by **shamoo0804** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 12:55 am

Cool username

Would probably be helpful to know where/when you were fishing, then atleast I'm sure some of the pro's on this site could help....I'm sure

#4 Post by **anthony2carr** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:39 am

Tope? They are on the prowl for whitting at this time of year. Next time let him run, only strike when he stops.

OR

A seal.

#5 Post by **samo** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:38 pm

were where you fishing doubt it was a doggie or crab they wouldnt have pulled the rod tip over more than likely a tope.

#6 Post by **partylikeits1969** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:22 pm

I was fishing the Western side of Kinsale harbour. The thing was, once the tip bounced back up I gently took in line slowly to try feel if there was any weight on the end of the line. I gave the fish every chance to come back for round 2. But as I said once I thought i'd waited long enough all i had was half a whiting corpse. Didn't help that in my excitement at the big bite i kicked over my gas lantern and nearly set fire to my eskie.... so theres a good minute in between where I couldn't really see what the F!ck was going on

#7 Post by Al » Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:06 pm

#8 Post by **boycie89** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:15 pm

it happens to us when fishing along ennereilly in wicklow , whiting been bitten in half turned out to be CUTTLEFISH !!

Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:23 pm

over the western side of kinsale harbor was it near the dock bay the rocks around there hold a lot of conger or there can be a lot of ray at times in the harbor

#10 Post by **James Barry** » Wed Nov 05, 2008 10:16 pm

It could of been any of the above suggestions...... thing is ul never know, thats the joys of fishing. Similar thing happened me before on tramore beach except it was a small coalie that got chewed up...

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