How do you berley effectively in deep water?

[odes20]

John,

We use RJAYZ with a couple of weights in the canister and use a down rigger to send it to what depth you want, you can see it on your sounder or use some fine rope, another on the surface out the back and what a differance its made, we have used it for a while and its so easy.

cheers Sam..

Hey thanks Sam Coulpe of questions.
Where have you mounted your down rigger?
Do you always have a surface one out too when your fishing the bottom and do you use their prepackaged berley?
Cheers
John

[Donny Boy]

BCF has a taylor made SS cage with a weighted flap at the bottom that can be packed and lowered, berly released then pulled back up, i had one for a little while and was suspending it next to the boat to attract surface fish but I forgot about it and left the scene without pulling it in

cheers fnq

Yes they do.........& a little humdinger she is !!!!

As far as driving of with the thing hanging over the side for surface feeding...
been there .......done that.........& it makes a mess of your paintwork.

Belting along at 20 k's thinking " WTF is that banging sound ??" ...Idiot....

[FNQCairns]

Yes they do.........& a little humdinger she is !!!!

As far as driving of with the thing hanging over the side for surface feeding...
been there .......done that.........& it makes a mess of your paintwork.

Belting along at 20 k's thinking " WTF is that banging sound ??" ...Idiot....

bugger! mine just disappeared never to be seen again, sounds now like i got lucky in comparison.

cheers fnq

[nidrac]

i know how you feel mate... we did that with a live bait cage we made out of the same stainless as our burley bucket.. thumped the bottom of the boat then the cord come undone... to make it even worse we had just spent the last 3 hrs catching the bloody things and were just about to start fishing the turn of the tide and the spot we were fishing only fishes for the first 30 mins of the run in..

Nidrac..

[wak69]

Hey thanks Sam Coulpe of questions.
Where have you mounted your down rigger?
Do you always have a surface one out too when your fishing the bottom and do you use their prepackaged berley?
Cheers
John

Hi John,

- The rigger is mounted half way down one side.

- Most times we have one out the back give it a shake every now and then and place unweighted pillies out the back with great results.

- Yes we use the chubs, the pillie seem to be the one and chunky not far behind.

Cheers
Sam...