James Clain Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) Hey guys, I went for a short session with live prawns at Walsh bay yesterday. Fishing the top of the tide and the first 2 .5 hours of the runout tide. Prawns were fished on both 20 and 8lb setups. Rigged on a size 1 gamakatzu worm hooks through the tails. Plenty of our prawns got destroyed by jackets and bream around the pylons so keeping them out and free drifting towards the pylons was essential. Suddenly my 8lb setup buckled hard in the rod holder with screaming drag, (last time this happened to me on 12lb and a live prawn I got spooled). I picked up the rod and the small king that I originally called for didn't wake up and take me down into the structure. After a short fight I raised a stonker Silver Trevally and my first fish of 2021. Edited January 9, 2021 by James Clain 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 (edited) Well done. Great Trevally. Super video. Edited January 9, 2021 by Rebel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Clain Posted January 9, 2021 Author Share Posted January 9, 2021 8 minutes ago, motiondave said: Nice. I was just looking at that video before I had a look at this site Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonardgid Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 great catch mate , if you don't mind me asking how much are live prawns ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Clain Posted January 9, 2021 Author Share Posted January 9, 2021 57 minutes ago, leonardgid said: great catch mate , if you don't mind me asking how much are live prawns ? They were bought at Guildford Extreme fishing Australia for 50 cents each. Not an unreasonable price considering how deadly they are as baits. I spent 15 Dollars in them for 30 Prawns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big Neil Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Hi James. Can you tell us all how you put LIVE PRAWNS on the hook please? I use a lot of live freshwater shrimps and big Yabbies fishing in the Murrumbidgee. My aim is to have the bait MOVING so that fish are attracted by the movement. Using a paternoster rig I simply put the hook through the tail (in on the baits underside, out on the other side). This allows the bait to "kick" freely. Look forward to your reply. Cheers, bn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterfisho7 Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 Well done nice video and top fish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Clain Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 15 hours ago, big Neil said: Hi James. Can you tell us all how you put LIVE PRAWNS on the hook please? I use a lot of live freshwater shrimps and big Yabbies fishing in the Murrumbidgee. My aim is to have the bait MOVING so that fish are attracted by the movement. Using a paternoster rig I simply put the hook through the tail (in on the baits underside, out on the other side). This allows the bait to "kick" freely. Look forward to your reply. Cheers, bn Yeah, almost always through e first or second ring on the tail. Some fish which I assume were bream were going for the heads so I tried going just under the carapace in the head. The prawns survived but the bream didn't hit it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Clain Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 12 hours ago, masterfisho7 said: Well done nice video and top fish Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Nice healthy Trevor’ James, not much won’t take a live prawn. For your I fo, I netted several hundred at the boat ramp in a few sweeps of the net last new moon and there is another one coming up on 29th I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirvin21 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 nice trev mate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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