Best way to berley

[marzoe]

It seems that most people use pilchards, chicken pellets, tuna oil, bread, garlic dough etc etc for their berley.
What does everyone think is the best way to get the berley out to the fish?
I normally bottom bash and have a pilchard floater out in between 10 and 35 metres of water.
In this instance should I get a berley bucket for the back of the boat, try to get the berley down to the bottom with weighted paper bags, or just cube pilchards and chuck em over periodically?

[tiny_tinny]

I use 2 methods:

1) Mix chook pellets with a bit of tuna oil plus finely chopped bait. The pellets stay solid and I drop a few in the water every 30 secs or a minute. The advantage is that the pellets sink well.

2) The lazy method is to mix pellets, tuna oil, chopped bait, canned cat food, or whatever else I have with a bit of water in ice-cream containers - about 3/4 full. Don't use too much water at first and don't completely fill the container. The chook pellets absorb the water and swell. Continue to add water a bit at a time until the container is full, then freeze.

I use a fish keeper net to deliver the frozen berley, just remove the lid of the ice-cream container and drop it over the side of the boat. The berley ice-block gradually thaws and releases the berley.

This method works best in winter. In the summer, the water in Moreton Bay gets a bit too warm and the ice melts too fast.

These methods work in shallow water fishing where the tide flow isn't too strong. Method 2 might work in deeper water if you have some way to take the ice-block down deeper.

Mike

[Fishin_Dan]

Use pieces of whatever you are using for bait in your berley

So if you are fishing with a pilchard out the back, use cut up pieces of pilly in the mix.


The chook pellets & tuna oil seem to be a few peoples basic ingredients. Then add to it from there.


If you save your 2L milk containers, Make your mix up & add them into them. Put the lid on and freeze. Then take them with you in your esky. Tie a rope to the handle, attach the other end of the rope to your boat, put a few holes in the container with the knife, and then put it in the water over the side of the boat. That way you pull it back in when you want to move, and you can take the containers home, wash them out, and stick them in the recycling...

[shayned]

You can always freeze a weight in the middle of the icecream container to get it down deep, if you wish to retrieve weight leave a tie off point free to attach thin rope for the retrieve. Also lets you check when the berley is finished.

[Burley_Boy]

I tend to toss fish frames and bait into the berley masher at the back of the boat when floatlining, mash er up and you get a slick a mile long

[robersl]

PERSONALLY I FEED THE DECKIE HALF A BOTTLE OF RUM JUST BEFORE WE GO OUT THEN ADD KFC AND BIG MACS ON THE WAY TO THE RAMP THEN JUST ADD WATER AND SHAKE WORKS A TREAT EVERY TIME

[Adamy]

PERSONALLY I FEED THE DECKIE HALF A BOTTLE OF RUM JUST BEFORE WE GO OUT THEN ADD KFC AND BIG MACS ON THE WAY TO THE RAMP THEN JUST ADD WATER AND SHAKE WORKS A TREAT EVERY TIME

Now thats funny!!!

[marlinqld]

I drop my berley in depths with brown paper bags. 2 rubber bands round it to keep it closed. Lower it down on rod, leave a couple of minutes then bang bang bang 3 quick lifts like your jigging.

Bag will break up and berley is delivered................

Mike

[Cheech]

I have tried most of the methods mentioned above. But now I just cube up. The other thing that works on my boat is that i have water going in and out of my engine bay via the drain hole, so I also throw a frame or 2 in there and it maintains a constant scent in case I forget to burley and loose the trail.

[Noelm]

been a burley man for many years, and unless you want to attract all sorts of bait fish, sharks or vermin, leave the burley pot alone, and it seems kind of obvious that if you are fishing with pilchards then burley with pilchards, if using fish flesh baits then burley with that, simple huh, another "feature" of distributing burley by hand is you can stop instantly if you want to, like a big unwanted shark or pesky Mutton birds show up, with a pot full of crap, it will continue to leak out and provide a nice snack for a big shark to try to yank off the back of your boat.

[Az]

berley bomb for pretty much any scenario for me, can be a bit fiddly but if you use a couple they can be more effective in getting the burley in the zone you want it in

http://www.blackpete.com.au/bp_secret.html

and yes.. that is a berley bomb in her hand

[BenDover]

i totally agree with the berley bomb. i use a blue water mix for the back of the boat which attract tones of bait fish. cube for high to midwater special, tuna etc... But the bomb is the only way to go for anchored bottom bashing in 50 metres or more, hits the bottom and releases water ever bait your using in the same zone as your bait. if the current is running aswell it can attract fish for miles down the reef.
and i have seen the same thing but a bigger version before so you can get ones to hold full pillys, big baits etc...

[griz066]

24 cans of XXXX Gold and a big rump steak the night before work for me

[R_K_HILL]

Business thrived for the charters that I went out on as a kid.. I'de burley up everything for a 10km radius, and keep it up for hours... They began to pay me just to come out for the day!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]