I am looking for a good long life bait. I am sick of throwing away or worse still running out of frozen stuff. Surely there must be one I can buy? Can anyone help me?
I tried some of that new 'stimulate' bait the other night. Caught lots of bream on it. But probably jsut as effective as mixing up your own pudding bait and freezing it.
Thanks for that land based. I sort of am hoping for one I don't have to mix at all.
Also where I go it is mainly whiting and flathead out of a boat.
i've caught plenty of whiting and flatties on home made pudding aswell. There was a thread on this subject not to long ago.
Oh have you? Still, i am looking for one that I don't have to mess with. I've heard of this new stuff out called Rebait and was wondering if it was any good? Anyone out there tried it?
Buy yourself a yabbie pump and a sieve.
With fresh yabbies and soldier crabs each trip your catch rate will increase and your bait cost will be gone.
In warmer months yabbies and soldier crabs for whiting, cut belly strips from keeper whiting for lizards.
When cleaning your catch whiting heads for crab bait, belly and rib sections kept for bream bait in the surf, guts frozen till winter for bream in the river, frames and skin into the compost.
Don't want to muck around with bait some options you may consider
A) Get a girl Friday
B) Fish in the bath tub
C) Buy you fish n chips or if a NZ Fish and Chups
D) Now this is the best SALT down you bait as fresh as you can, put it in a bucket down the back yard in layers of rock salt and every day tip out the juice and after a week or two when dry put into icecream containers and keep in the boat, very little smell and when you want to use it place in salted water to put moisture back into it, use to do that with pippies when there was no limits and they lasted for years as a backup bait.
FRESH IS BEST You could always go fishing for Gar only that way you could just use the bread from your sando's
I bought some "Rebait" at the Brisbane Boat Show, and have pulled it out 3 times since to try it without any luck. Only caught undersize squire and bream on it.....the pickers like it
If you really want convenience and can't or don't have time to get fresh bait, take up SP fishing, much more effective than long life bait
Wise words there.Originally Posted by fish2eat
A packet of berkley gulps would be the closest to long life bait I would use, and you'll actually catch good fish on it
i also got some of that re-bait at the boat show... it didn't really re anything in the water. It was more like squid jerky. instead of the promised rehydrating effect of water, mine was just a soggy on the outside, tough on the inside little piece of squid. Totally useless in my opinion.
Sergio
I've tried some of the long life stuff from Big W and K Mart a few times on longer trips. I'm certainly no expert angler, but I won't be trying again. I figure fish don't depend on us for food, so if it looks, smells and (presumably) tastes like crap, they'll have a look elsewhere.
To be honest, I wouldn't even use it for berley unless I had to.
SP's if there's no fresh or frozen available seems the obvious choice.
Good luck,
Mike
Well there is stuff you can use like re-bait, and sure its convenient but i think you will find your catch rate wont be going up by to much! if your sick of your frozen baits etc. Go with SP's i thought they were rubbish till i tried em! and they work a treat
Joel
Hey I have tried Rebait. It worked for me. I have taken a good catch of whiting on more than one ocassion. Yep some times when the fish are not there in the first place - nothing works!
If your serious about a long life bait then i can tell you now that the rebait stuff is hot! Joecoool is right it really works. I've caught heaps on it from whiting flathead parrot and even a nice 5kg cod.
Stuff pumping yabbies and working sp baits! Fishing for me is a LEISURE sport!
jocool and silent_predator both first time posters... i smell something fishy
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
