Whiting are actually quite
easy to find, however they
do move about quite a bit
but when you get them
going it is easy to catch a
great feed.
Rather than fishing out
in the deep, whiting tend
to be found in greater
numbers in depths ranging
2-5 meters.
In Western Port however,
finding them is a little
different and requires a
different tactic mainly due
to the strength of current.
Whether fishing in Port
Phillip Bay or Western
Port, whiting inhabit
the same type of ground,
basically anywhere that The location you’re fishing
is sandy with healthy for whiting will determine
weed beds.
the required rig so it pays
In
Port to be set up for deep
Phillip Bay, water and shallow water
the more scenarios.
p o p u l a r Western Port is an
w h i t i n g underwater
maze
of
g r o u n d s shallow mud flats and deep
tend
to channels but still, whiting
be in the can be found everywhere.
s o u t h e r n Even so, places such as the
region around Top End channels, Quail
Mud
Island and Tyabb banks, Middle
and its adjacent Spit, Eastern Channel,
channels, St Leonards, Tankerton, Tortoise Head
Queenscliff,
Portsea, Bank, Dickies Bay, Coronet
Sorrento, Blairgowrie, Rye, Bay, Eastern Entrance,
Rosebud,
Mornington Ventnor, Cat Bay, Somers
as well as north of the and Flinders are the most
Bay
at
Beaumauris popular locations to find
Bay, Sandringham and whiting in thick numbers.
Williamstown.
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