Feed for dinner
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2016-06-24 17:44
With the kids at school and the wife at work I decided to head out to catch tonight's dinner. Managed 6 squid and a good feed of whiting (plenty around). I always put out a live whiting with some great success with sharks but lately I've been missing heaps of strikes! I use a 6/0 circle hook just before the top fin/spikes of the whiting, any ideas on how else to rig a live bait under a float? Bait seems to get bitten in half or simply ripped off the hook. Not sure how to rig with it still being able to swim naturally.
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choc
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Thats how I rig whiting for
Thats how I rig whiting for mulloway and salmon, another way is between the dorsal and tail as close to the tail as possible.
striker
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If you
need to you can snell a treble as a stinger, which can be lightly pinned through the tail area, works quite well.
duncan61
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Date Joined: 21/11/14
whiting
I think you may be getting hit by tailor.use strikers advice.Off Preston beach I used to use the rigs with a straight hook swivel suicide swivel then small treble with great success in the afternoon lightly hooking the diver whiting under the chin or through a gill plate and lodging the treble at the base of the tail leaving the suicide free.The whiting would survive a few hours until a shark or tailor belted it.The strikes were hard and nearly 100% hookup any bait put out would get mauled by the resident whiting so bad that at times the whiting would maul the live whiting.I have landed 2 whiting heads a few times where the live bait is stripped and another whiting foul hooks on the treble and gets stripped by his buddies.
just do it.