Fishing For The Most HATED Sea FISH in The UK? 

I thought it was the doggy. To be honest, the way beach fishing is in the UK these days, I'm happy to catch anything.

Hi well i must be the odd one out because i LOVE whiting! Pick the right time and tide and there are usualy lots to be caught. Long casting is not often needed, great for beginners and kids. If conditions allow i will use a carp/pike rod with a fixed spool loaded with braid, or in my case Nanoline, a 2,3 or 4 oz grip or plain bomb. Simple 2 or 3 hook simple unclipped paternoster rigs baited with small squid and mackerel strips whipped on with cotton is all you really need and the bait bill is minimal! Double patting to save time and get out again quickly. 4 to 6 fresh whiting, cooked the way you prefer will give the family a great healthy meal, just remember to gut and clean them between casts and put them in a cool box with ice. Great sport, a few hours in the fresh air, and a tasty meal!! You just can't beat it. Kindest regards Bill

I moved from the UK to the USA gulf coast 15yrs ago and people hate catching whiting here also....no idea why...they make great eating and you can always be sure to catch some, even on a bleak day! Much under rated fish in my opinion

Whiting salted then dried like we do in Shetland is delicious also good smoked!

Norfolks finest whiting angler. 👍 Maybe Weaver fish hated more.

Great to see you back on the beach. Been looking forward to this.👍

Great video again guys can never fault the production, thank you.

Another great video, thank you for sharing your experience!

Going next week just up the road from Kessingland and yup ready for the whiting

But one of the best eating, I love them, if only I could buy some some were

good to see -another beach fishing video Chris.

cracking as usual guys keep em coming

Surely doggy’s are the most hated. Whiting are good sport

Really nice to see you fish Kessie. I used to travel from Essex ever November and stay with my cousin for a week who lived at Oulton Broad, back in the 80’s. we used to catch some big Whiting then plus loads of small stuff. Not been there for many years so thanks for choosing that location. 👍👍

Loved it. Great presentation. well done guys .

Whiting can be a pain but they are fun for those that enjoy them. I never get bored with doggies even when they appear in numbers. In Suffolk the beach fishing is the best it's been for decades. I had around 87lb of fish in 5hrs only last month and that's as good as anywhere I've fished in the UK. We've lost the cod but gained on rays and hounds.

I love Whiting!!!! Off The East coast around Bridlington and down to Hornsea they run up to and a bit over a pound 😮 I make fish cakes out of em 😋

Nice to see you back Chris, hope your well, little one must be growing now. great watch as always, Chesil Beach must be a drive for you guys, it's 4 hrs drive for me.

Hi Chris Nice to see you back catching some fish, whiting are great sport. Some Cod next time hopefully 👍 Tight lines Bob

What !! Bless them and taste good !

Wicked video mate your well chilled not seen your videos on here before. Subbed. 👍

Another great beach video thanks for taking the time to share it. And yes the whiting if only we could catch a decent size ,seems like the seals take the big ones!

Great stuff lads the whiting keep you busy and busy is less cold 🥶 great vid thanks

nice session chap , it does you good to have a session with the whiting it keeps you in tune with the bites etc i reckon , stay safe mate

Dogfish obvs!!! Love fishing for specimen whiting, beautiful eating fish far better than bland cod.

Nice video, such mixed emotions re the humble whiting . As you say great for newbies and youngsters to cut their teeth on, great to keep you occupied on a cold day, useful down my way as live bait for conger and late autumn bass. But with so few coddies etc to predate them I guess that’s down to us🤷🏻‍♂️ so ...great eating if prepared in the right way if only as fish cakes , thanks for sharing . ps hate pout and dogs more 🙄😉

great video as always guys keep it up you've done good this yeah ps I like whighting

Wow.... Completely different on this side of the pond. We like Whiting (or Sea Mullet here in NC) and abhor Dogfish.... Nice rod/reel setup too. My personal setup is a Penn Fathom 15 and a CTS 1307 13 foot heavy action rod. I use it mostly for big Red Drum (or Channel Bass, Redfish, Spot Tails, etc). Daiwa has a new Saltist line that I want to try too. The 15H is interesting.

Dog fish , most hated surely ?

Finally a beach vid 🙂

wow wow the video is really cool, waiting for the next video.👍

Enjoyed watching this, I’m a coarse fisherman but wouldn’t mind trying my hand at this it looks exciting 👍

I like whiting personally - I regularly fish for them off the pier when it's a calm sea and not much else is on the feed. Last week went fishing for whiting (calm sea) and pulled out 2 coddling at 4lb each. A few days later it was a really high tide and had a nice choppy sea (perfect cod conditions) didnt catch any cod at all!

Chris it is so good to see you making a beach video, just wish they were more often. Hope to catch up with you again soon. Best wishes!

I used to fish for whiting off New Jersey in the winter. We could load up the cooler with whiting and ling fishing from a party boat. "Magic hours" were at dusk and early evening. The ticket was a high/low rig with a glow tube and clams.

Nice video, don't know why Whiting are the most hated sea fish...I think they're lovely looking fish. Keep them coming anyway👍

Come on get out for them cod,never know could be like that smoothhound session,happy coddin.lol

Thank you I like watching ur videos I hope to try fishing like that someday

Not a great lover of catching whiting but another great video and simple fishing 👍

i love whiting when they are above 25-30 cm. when filleted and dipped in batter they can taste pretty sweet. the waste after cleaning the fish can be used to make some good feeding spots in the winter for fishing on pike with deadbait. especially when you are on a big canal or lake or something. just feed 4 days before fishing and 2 days before fishing a little bit as well and then on fishing day the probability of predatory fish being present in the area should be bigger.

Keep them coming ! Need my fix 👍

I've only fished there once. Think it was Kessingland sluice. At night in the eighties - We had codling to 3lb and stacks of whiting. The average size was much bigger then. Fishing the ebb tide as we were advised. Hope to return again. It's 180 miles away!

Cool video and good job on fishing

You gotta being kidding, Whiting is a quality fish to catch, much sought after. Now Dogs, that is absolutely the most reviled and despised fish in UK waters. Obviously you are not plagued by them like we are, but believe me, after you have caught 12 or more on the trot you will quickly adopt them as your most hated too.

Never sea fished but wouldn’t mind giving it a go. Hope you make it to Chesil beach. Did lots of training there with the Royal Engineers 😊

If you hate whiting, you can always target dabs at Kessingland this time of the year. Very short hooklengths, with sticky black lug on boom rigs should swing the dab to whiting ratio in your favour. Nice video.

I always use salted rag, when I know there is going to be a lot of Whiting. Doesn't really cost me much because it's just leftover rag

First time i caught a whiting i was like yeahhhh. And im still same now no matter what i catch.

Whiting is good to target if you like being busy. Fished that same beach last week of October and had non-stop with some good size and two codling at dusk. I also was fishing straight squid as the witing aren't worth the worms...

How long have you had those Vass waders? Don't expect them to deteriorate like that. I have camou ones like new, thinking of forwarding them on now! lol

havent caught a whiting for years on west coast of Scotland and a bit jealous to be honest mackerel Pollack dogfish and conger eals about it here good upload cheers

Great String there mate

Get a patch on them boots with Stormsure, let's hope for some codling soon, only a handful shown off Felixstowe as of yet.

Nice video just liked and subbed

What jumper is that? Looks properly warm and comfy

Spend souch time at work nowadays I am just happy to get bites Whiting, doggies,pouting, as long as my rod is bouncing im happy to be out. Great video.Liked and subbed

I love all fish. Currently landlocked and marina locked because of restrictions. My cats used to love whiting.

Are whiting any good as deadbaits for pike ???

Can’t agree with this, whiting tastes better than cod!!

Hi Love fishing that area. Noticed that you’re using the Penn 525? Could be wrong? Have you had any trouble with them? Last trip to Lowestoft found a crack from the screw on the cage. New cage about £44 Wrote to Penn nothing heard. Keep up the posts. George

This guy is a very seasoned and experienced angler so I guess whiting are a let down if your big baiting and trying to target the cod !! If you like the whiting do use the small cheap baits 👍👍👍

Hi mate did you used to be on the carp fishing scene? Voice is very familia and they way you speak to the camera is also very Carp angler like lol

Do you guys in GB catch big fish over there in the surf?

do you find over the last 5 years any improvement in sea fishing,

A well produced video

Bit whitey, pouting and pollock, some new potatoes bit butter and parsley make epic fish cakes

They are excellant eating. Dip in plain flour fry in butter, remove from pan add more butter, when butter turns brown add juice of half lemon and pour over fillets. Not quite sole menuir but close

Confused from u.s. the whiting we have here doesn't look like that, and if you guys are calling a dogfish shark a doggy we bake those as long as cleaned fast. Any idea of other names for said?

good stuff

Last night maybe 15 whiting on 4/0s with quite large bait intended for bigger species. Amazing how wide they can open their mouths. And indeed, if it wasny for the whiting it eould have been a blank. I was gratefull for the action.

Mash the Whiting up bones an all and mix em in with mashed potatoes, make em into little circles about 3 inches round then pan fry em. Cushty

Question from across the pond in the colonies. Why don't you British cousins use circle hooks ? Wh as is the legal size of those whiting to keep ? And do you ever use them for bait ? On our side of the pond we have two kinds of whiting , one is a whiting related to the cod and one called a Atlantic whiting or a round head . Cheers

Do you guy use artificial, i.e. spoons or jigs in the surf? If so would love to see a video! Sending love from the states!

Whiting. I used to catch and eat those in Barry docks. Super boney but they taste great...

What a great video I love catching Whiting it's better than catching nothing someone Mayer live streams you may only see me catching Whiting but at least I'm catching something that's better than nothing take care safe and see you next time

Try liver as a bait for whiting it's nice and cheap which has good results

I have heard of people using liver and ox heart from the supermarket to catch them, which are even cheaper than frozen mackerel.

What’s beach caster rod is good and under 100 pounds

I have known people to fix holes like this with car tyre patches. Get them to do it cos their glue is best. And yes I did notice you were scared of the water today 😁👍

I'm happy not to blank. 😂👍

I catch a lot of cod and never waste money on worms - I use squid bluey and bit of cart wrapped up on a pulley pennel rig (massive baits) costs me approx £9 a session.

Hope ya keeping safe buddy good seeing the beach vids back on been having a bumper cod run up here on the holderness coast and the river Humber providing double figure fish so far

👍 Very good! I love 🇦🇺

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What was in the carrier bag on the rest?

Whiting taste lovely

Where about in kessingland do you fish? We try to copy you and stayed at kessingland caravan park and it look disastrous and we have to walk about a mile between the banks

I don't mind catching them, I just get annoyed because they always end up swallowing the hook. I switched to circles a while ago, but they're annoying to bait up and the whiting end up just swallowing them anyway!

Wear a marigold glove over the end of ya wader boot hahahahaha

Years ago it used to be pouting that wasnt the most popular...

Wouldnt say i hate them, theyre just a pain in the backside. Turn up in plague proportions sometimes. When theyre about, sometimes cant even get the lead set in the bottom and rod in the rest before the tip is tapping away lol 😆

Hello and thank you from Iran 🇮🇷 ❤️🇮🇷❤️🇬🇧

They are good for feeding the bigger predators too ;).

Do they eat well?

Stop super trawlers in UK'S waters for a start and then we might see an increase in shore fishing.

Whiting are great saved many a blank day. I like to catch and cook nothing like a fresh whiting fried in butter the put in a sandwich, bigger whiting are best for this. Enjoy.

Whiting make great fillets. I consider any decent sized edible fish a treasure.

Personally the no fish is my most hated, dont mind eating whiting.

Try fighting your way through the straps in the Solent.

Get some Bardge cement and fix them waders !!! Easy...