WHITING TO THE RESCUE

YEARS AGO, WHITING WERE undervalued and people would refer to them as “fish for the cat”. They were nothing more than a by-catch for the cod anglers, but times have changed.

These days whiting are more likely to be dominate a catch and if you are very lucky you might land a cod.

Like the UK and Ireland, officially The Netherlands is a country of four seasons but sea fishing really only has two, summer and winter, both with a very distinct character, their own fish species and a very different group of anglers. You have the fervent summer-fishers, who are on the hunt for mainly soles, bass and small sharks, like smoothhounds, and those who prefer to target winter fish, being mainly dabs, cod and whiting.

The whiting is basically the number one fish