Got a nice haul of very fat sand whiting over at Rotto yesterday with my young bloke. It has been quite a while since I have had the humble whiting, chasing bigger prey like maccies and dhu etc for the past year....we only took a couple of flick sticks with us to Rotto for the long weekend as the wind was looking average, but on the way over in the tug we  went over a big school of susepcted whiting that lit up the sounder, even at 15 knots....we tested it later with a drop in the wind, and it went off. A fish every drop, and they were all a nice size, up near 30cm, terrific fun with the kids, and left after an hour as we  had a nice feed.  Unusual to have whiting school so densely...the sounder was even flicking the bottom up 5 metres every now and then thinking the top of the school was the bottom, they were so thick. Not seen that before outside Sambo's.

We just had them deep fried in tempura tonite....wow, cant recall enjoying fish as much, regardless of type. Absolutley excellent. Would rate them right up there!