How to Catch Whiting from a Boat
Obviously, if you do have a boat this will give you many more choices
as to where you can fish. To fish at the bottom of the tide, locate a
sandbank that has the baits the whiting like (again, the yabbies or
soldier crabs). Set anchor in the shallowest water you can get your boat
into with your boat against the bank.
Rigged with one of the baits natural to the area, cast out as far as you
can into the very shallow water along the sandbank. When the tide starts
moving in and starts stirring up the water, you can expect the whiting
to start feeding around the bank’s edge
As the tide continues to rise, keep moving your boat close to the sand
and keep casting into and fishing the shallow water. You can catch big
fish in very shallow water, so don’t think you’re missing anything by
doing this. Just move slowly as you go and stay quiet.
When the tide starts to die down and the water starts to move off the
bank the fish will go back into the deeper channel next to the sandbank.
They are hoping to get any forage brought to them by the falling tide,
so that is the time to anchor up and catch the fish on the receding
tide. |
