Best way to catch Cobia over the weed-beds?

[cooky]

anyone got any tips for making batches of cheap good berley. The stuff you get at tackle shops starts getting real expensive. Friends use catfood, oil, old pilchards, mashed up. Just wondering if there is anything that can be mixed up in a bit of bulk say frozen in milk bottles for the next trip?

[bushbeachboy]

Cooky,
Try using chicken pellets as a bulking agent. It's cheap as chips, readily available from produce shops and mixes well with all the fishy bits.

[Mozza]

Report back:

Oh man, what a shocker!!

Breeze was a steady 15kt so crossing the bay wasn't fun and caught zilcho to boot.

Wasn't properly prepared - only had a block of pillies. I really wanted livies as a back up with some squid as well.

Only thing that ventured up the berley trail was a bunch of ! Those gave us both negative scores.

Shot back across the bay to the Picnic bay jetty at dusk to see if anything was biting there - nothin'.

I suspect it was one of those days where no amount of user-spasticity would ruin an otherwise good fishing day, if you get my drift.

To those that have done it successfully, we were fishing about 1-1.5 km off the first rocky headland on Cape Cleveland from Coco creek. With the wind blowing northerly we drifted parallel to the coast in 2.5-3m of water. I was a hoping for a S'Easter so that we could start shallow and drift out into the bay into deeper waster thereby giving us a reasonable cross-section of habitat.

Any feed-back would be appreciated.

Mozza

[Mozza]

The negative scorers were toad-fish.

Vermin.

Moz

[Mozza]

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