Bait for Goldens???

[StoneTheCrow]

Starting to hear the word Golden Trevally a bit at the moment and was wondering what baits work a treat on them? I have heard winter whiting do the job, live or dead Im not sure though? What eles?

Cheers

[Flex]

I have caught lots of Golden trevally on squid. Up north when things go quiet we often sit just outside a sandy bottomed creek mouth of an afternoon usually in no more than 1-2m of water and fish with the largest peice of squid you can fit on your hook. Leave the reel on freespool with the ratchet on and i find the goldens usually are timid when taking the bait. you get these small bites and let em take the bait for a 10m or so then Strike....shortly followed by an sever arm stretching We get the occasion stingray fishing this way, but I have picked up some huge Goldens fishing this way.

You can also somtimes see them feeding over yabby patches etc, You see these fish tails flicking in the air.

[Fisher4life]

floating pillies, or some slow retrieved lures have done the trick for me over the year, although they are usually only a by-catch on the reefs.

[Marlin_Mike]

Bumpa Bar Lures

[wateva-treva]

squid and cut baits work well where im from, but by far smallish spinner lures are best i rekon. the 4kg one in my dp was caught on a 10g.