Salted pilchards

[Yowie]

Prefer them salted, though lately the salted ones are a little small and over salted, meaning less weight for throwing some distance. For casting and retrieving without a sinker, you need a bit of weight to cast a bit of distance.

The small reddies do not discriminate, they will eat any type of pillie.

[Volitan]

Ok, so after reading all the responses, I bought a bag of frozen pillies, and tried some salting. 24 hours salting is ok for short distance casting - maybe 48 hours for the longer distance stuff. The fish seemed happy with what I offered them.

previously I'd been using bait elastic, but I think I prefer salting. An elderly Chinese fellow at Avoca gave me a good demo of how to rig the salteds for maximum persistence on the hook.

cheers, and thanks for the responses.

Arron