Walpole Whiting
Submitted by tcarroll on Fri, 2017-12-29 13:40
First time fishing the Walpole inlet this morning. Cruised down towards the mouth of the inlet at the ocean and pulled the tinny up on a little sand island. Stood on the island and fished a narrow channel probably only around 1 to 1.5m deep and pulled out some of the biggest and fattest sand whiting I have ever caught. For reference, the KGW was 34cm. The big fish were as fat as my forearm. Plenty released as well. Great first impressions of the inlet which seems very healthy which is great to see!!
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Coastrunner
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Good news the inlet is firing
Last time I fished the same area it was pretty quiet, picked up a few whiting but not as productive as your session, staying at Rest Point ?
tcarroll
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Date Joined: 17/12/13
Just sharing a small house
Just sharing a small house in town with my brother and our partners. Tough for me to make any comparisons as I have never fished here before but I was very impressed!
Willlo
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Try drift fishing with lures
Try drift fishing with lures to the left of coal miner's caravan park for bream. Should be mussel beds . Nice catch
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Faulkner Family
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nice feed there. fresh
nice feed there. fresh whiting are haed to pass up. well done first time out down there
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
piston broke
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NICE
yellow fin whiting for sure
meglodon
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That's a good catch
You have some real nice feeds there, well done. What did you use for bait.
tcarroll
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Prawns and blood worms
A mix of coral prawns and blood worms from the servo. They didn’t seem to fussy!!
Meeuwissen
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Date Joined: 29/03/13
Fishing the flats of the coal
Are the most productive flats fishing I have ever experienced lots of bream and whiting and on the drop of there were some unstoppables and at night wading blue manna crabs everywhere got our limit in 45 minutes just watch out for the cobbler
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Coastrunner
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Gummies at night
tcarroll
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Date Joined: 17/12/13
Cheers for the feedback and
Cheers for the feedback and info guys. Managed to get back out for another awesome whiting session but couldn't tempt anybody else to come out with me for a night session. Will definitely be back to fish the area!!