berley pellets vs chook pellets

[Benzeenees]

Has anyone tried both? Do the chook pellets work? I have a ready supply as I have chooks. I was thinking of sprinkling a bit of tuna oil thru them.

[bharris]

Chook pellets are about 10 times better and cheeper i think some of the fish meal they put in the berley pellets put the fish off sometimes.

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[The Incredible Hull]

Has anyone tried both? Do the chook pellets work? I have a ready supply as I have chooks. I was thinking of sprinkling a bit of tuna oil thru them.

I tried using chook pellets last year with tuna oil, at hawkesbury, it did nothing for me...

Instead, I went the extra step, bought a dedicated blender for burley. Any unused bait, fish guts etc, I blend up and create my own burley. I freeze it, and take it out the night before a fishing trip, and it thaws out in the burley bucket.

This works 100 times better than pellets.

My take on the pellets: In direct reference to estuary fishing, I'm guessing the fish are used to them, and have evolved to be more picky, which is why I use better burley.

[bennoz]

cook pellets all the way!

i crush a 1/2dozen pillies in some water ( really fine - like a mist), add about 50ml of tuna oil and about 1kg of chook pellets - can even add old bread broken up !

add some water so it just covers the pellets, and mix it all up then let soak for 10-20 min.

pellets absorb the water and break up in the bucket. should be able to spoon out the mixture a little at a time. the above amount will be constant berly for a day trip out.

cheap as chips, easy to make and effective !

[rockfisherman]

Although its not a significant amount, I find ultrabite burley works better than it competitors.

It's only a couple of bucks more expensive per bag, only down fall with this stuff is you can't keep it stored for long, it goes mouldy.

Fishingphase

[bennoz]

just on that

the last bag of chook pellets i got, was 20 bucks for 25kgs. lasted a year and was mouldy at the end. Still worked fine

[Benzeenees]

you should be able to get 20kg for about $14 at any rural supplies place. Mine don't go mouldy as I have 6 chooks. We're planning to try berleying for kingfish but not with pellets. It's time to clean out the old bait - pilchards, slimeys, yellowtail, old squid, pike - all into the mincer. I've made a big berley pot out of stormwater pipe and we'll hang it just beneath the boat. The kings have been near the surface recently. And who knows what else we might attract - sharks perhaps!