Reply With QuoteChicken pellets and tuna oil, plus any old bait, bread, prawn shells etc put through the mincer/blender and mixed in.
Cheers Freeeedom
Do you use homemade berley?
What's in it? - I believe here in Victoria any animal (mamal) waste is prohibited.
So if you use berley what's your secret?
Shhhh.......type quietly so no one else hears.
DOC.
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
Stacer Baymaster
Chicken pellets and tuna oil, plus any old bait, bread, prawn shells etc put through the mincer/blender and mixed in.
Cheers Freeeedom
i use a tin of cat food ( pilchards ) or 6 pilly's from a old fishing trip , 1/2 a loaf of bread , 1 cup of tuna oil , and 1 cup of chook pellets, 1 to 2 cups of water mix by hand, put into small containers ( that fit in your berley pot ) and freeze , then drop one in the berley pot as you need them and they slowly break down and make a great trail , if you make them about the size of one cup then they last a while ...
whatever I am using for bait is what I use for burley, how simple is that?
The black and gold pilchards cat food mixed with breadcrumbs and tuna oil frozen works great.
I try not to put large chunks of berley through the water and generally try to match the berley ie pilchards, prawn shells, squid to the bait i'm using on the day, though that doesn't really matter if your berleying to bring in bait fish to throw for pelagics
I see there are a few comon ingredients including tuna oil.
Just a few more questions:
Will the tuna oil freeze with the rest of the mix? Or is it dribbled over the frozen block just prior to being dropped in the bucket?
Does the oil float on the surface or sink?
I noticed some soft lures are coated with anaseed oil. Would this be worth adding to the mix?
What about smearing a little tuna or anaseed oil on the bait table whilst hooking up?
Is it better to anchor or drift whem using berley?
DOC.
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
Stacer Baymaster
Sinker
The oil is absorbed in the mix (all of the above) and will freeze in it.
To my knowledge does not leach out to the surface but may do.
Aniseed oil...add by all means...whatever goes...even road kill minced up
And yes coat your bait, as for anchoring, if u drift u will just float off your berley especially if you use a "device" like a berley bomb to get it to the bottom. Fish come to the berley not the boat
Cheers
If you are the type to salt down your fresh baits prior to use or freezing, then the juice that the salt extracts is also a great additive.
If you can, use salt water(bring a bit home in a few old milk botttles) instead of fresh water from the tap if freezing burley blocks.
And with the Tuna oil, it will bring in the grey suits if you use too much of it...which may be a good thing if you like catching them. And if you're fishing for bream in shallow water, don't use Tuna oil, as for some reason the slick puts them off.
Sinker i go to local fish shop at suppermarket and they give you tubs of fresh frames which i mince and mix with a bit of tuna oil then freeze in 5 ltr ice cream containers then put 2 containers in home made burley pot and send to bottom where they will slowly thaw and usely last a full days fishing
If throwing burley over the back, its best to be anchored to get better results. My $2 worth anyway. Cheers, Darren
all old bait, goes through the mincer for me. Then mix in some tuna oil, and some sand or shell grit to make it sink better.
whiting frames, pilchard, yakkas, slimies, cuttle heads, prawns, squid, white bait, etc, etc, it all goes in the mincer.
cheers
Mick
Thanks fellas.
I'll give it all a go.
Well maybe not the road kill......that would freak the kids out of fishing. I did work with a bloke once who would collect the tails of road kill roos for his dogs....... but it just didn't feel right.
DOC.
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
Stacer Baymaster
For quick and easy, no mess burley for small fish - Use canned dog food with chicken.
Large cans of "home brand" dog food are around 1.50
They last for around two hours with a bit of jiggling of the burley pot.
Great for garfish & similar - You have to shoo them away from the boat.
As above, old pillies from the previous trip that have thawed out.
Bread
Chook pellets
tuna oil
and even any small off cuts from filleting fish from the previous trip.
Mixed all together and then frozen into small blocks.
Place into berley bucket and lower to desired depth.
Usually lasts around 2 hours or so before fully thawing and dissipating.
Cheers, Jason.
My best effort is...... reasonably fresh pillies......I use the broken ones and any juce and scales left in the sink from the thawing out when I sort my block pillies.
combine them with chicken pellets that have had a little water added.....leave em sit and they fluff up with the water.
add pillies and soaked chook pelets to the food processor and blend well.....until creamy
tip out into a larger bowl..... and add up to 50/50 sand and mix well by hand.
do not put the sand in the the food processor and do not put the item that have sand on them in the dishwasher.
mould up in chineese food containers or whatever to suit your burley cage.....or mould up in icecream containers with a loop of rope.
And freeze.. good and hard.
will disperse a realy fine stream over a half an hour or more.
the sand ( particularly if you use gritty sand) will carry the funk down to the bottom and make the block heavier so it will not float.
cheers
Its the details, those little details, that make the difference.
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