Rous Channel Thursday

[MulletMan]

For the disbelievers, here are 72 nice whiting from my same spot today! Biggest 39 cms and littlest 23 cms. Magic day with dead flat conditions and a run out tide. Used fresh and dry worms and they were on the chew all the time both at anchor and drifting.

[chemmy]

howly crap that is one hell of an effort mate but i only counted 72

[Scott15]

thats what he said michael :-/ :P

[HavaGo]

Is that 39cm of Diver Whiting?
Great catch and event better eating, but what about the scaling, filletting and deboning exercise to be performed. I hope the deckies chipped in with the cleaning duties.

[morty103]

thatll take ya 2 years to prepare the whole lot of em :P

[SeaHunt]

thatll take ya 2 years to prepare the whole lot of em :P

Depends how good you are, it would take me all night, thats why I would have probably only brought home five or six. :-/
However I did see a guy at Morgans making butterfly fillets out of them at the rate of about 10 a minute. 8)

[Brenno]

that's a huge feed of whiting.

how long did it take you to clean them?

[MulletMan]

I'm lucky having a pontoon at Raby Bay as I have a double basin sink on it and this makes it a lot quicker and easier to do all the cleaning and filleting. I hose the scales off and this took about 10 minutes for the whole lot. Armed with a razor sharp boning knife I filleted and deboned them all in just on a hour and a half. I always cut out the centre line of bones as well as the rib cage. I'm a long way from being an ace at this but with the right equipment and having done the little mongrels for about forty odd years is a help! They are not the blue nosed winter whiting as they still have a browny yellow look about them when caught and none of the "stripes" that the little summer divers have! On a fresh bread roll with lots of butter and salt they make one hell of a sanger!

[MulletMan]

........ and Chemmy was right! I originally said 76 but I snuck in and modified the count when nobody was looking! :-X :-X

[bidkev]

Nice going mate. The best eating there is, in my book..........the deckie uses 'em for bait though ;-)

cheers

kev

[skippa]

Geez Kev,

ur gonna have to talk that deckie of yours, she eats Catfish but uses Whiting as bait....... each to their own I guess.


Cheers,
Tony 8)

[noodles]

Nice one i havent had a feed of whiting in ages, do you normally get a run of them like that or was that just a good day

[devocean]

Just deep fry em whole tails are nice and crunchy

[bidkev]

Geez Kev,

ur gonna have to talk that deckie of yours, she eats Catfish but uses Whiting as bait....... each to their own I guess.


Cheers,
Tony 8)

I forgot the winkie mate :-) Actually, she eats *anything*........except what I want 'er to chew on, if you get my drift ;-)

cheers

kev

[MulletMan]

Noodles, they bite all day mate! You get the usual quiet periods but when that happens, I pull the pick up and chase 'em on the drift! For some weird reason, the whiting in and about the Rous always seem to like the runout tide. I use a 3kg line, 10 ft. quivertip hollow glass, 5" Alvey sidecast, 12" trace with about 4" of red plastic and a coloured sinker on top of the swivel. I am pretty generous with the worms when it comes to threading 'em on the hook but find the whiting love the ones I dry out as much as the fresh ones. With a bit of luck you can usually jag about 3 or 4 per bait before it has to be replaced.

[peabow]

no flatheads with that catch there hat to have been at leasd one run from a flathead
you would think .

[skippa]

Yeah Kev,

Know what you mean ;D my missus is the same, can't blame her tho she reckons she'd only gag anyway. ;D ;)


Cheers,
Tony 8)

[Sportfish_5]

........ and Chemmy was right! I originally said 76 but I snuck in and modified the count when nobody was looking! :-X :-X

Chemmy - bit bored were you ??? LMAO ;D