Drummer Bait

[frankie machine]

Hey Raiders,

I've had a bit of joy this winter catching drummer with cunjevoi, but where I fish around Bronte it's illegal to collect and I can't always get down to the southern beaches to collect it. What other baits do you use for the pigs? I also read somewhere that gulp alive baits can sometime attract drummer - has anyone had success with that?

Cheers

Frankie

[marley]

Mostly I use prawns . If you shop around you can get them fairly cheaply. If you are at Bronte and don't want to travel too far try Coles or Woolies, they sometimes have banana prawns for $14kg (sometimes they are cheaper). But your best option is to get up early and go to Flemington markets. Here you can get quality prawns for $10kg. Buy a heap and split them up and freeze them. I find a kg usually lasts about 3 hrs when fishing for pigs

Bread is also good

I have never used gulp baits for pigs

hope this helps

gav

[hottyscotty]

bread is a gun bait and it doesn't stink. i'll also eat the crumb if i'm hungry and leave the white bit

[customcasting]

bread in the daylight ,you will catch around 6 other speices on it as well.

[Day's Fishin]

Hi Frankie. I always used red crabs when I fished for drummer at Bondi. I found cungi was to often taken by wirrah's, and once in a while I ended up with a nice groper. It may take a little longer catching your bait but it's worth it.

Regards Jeff

[frankie machine]

Hey lads,

Thanks for all the replies. I've tried bread a few times but find that it gets hammered by all the little stuff near the surface before it can get down to wear the drummers lurk.

Cheers

[hottyscotty]

with bread, you really need to dough it on. and maybe use/add a 00 sinker.

if you see luderick, then leave a fluffy end which will make it buoyant.

[gje]

Nippers, royal red prawns, bread and you can't go wrong. Used to use abalone gut which was a gun bait but this is not allowed these days.

Good luck,

Scoop

[kingpig]

Abb gut was the gun. Now i only use prawns. I usually get the uncooked peeled red prawns frozen from the supermarket. They are not that expensive and you dont pay for heads and shell.

I love pigs.