Larkin Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 Great write up @Restyle haven’t bought bait for a while. I vac seal then freeze fresh squid I catch myself. I also salt/strip my own fish - mainly Slimies, Mac tuna or bonito. strip, salt, vac seal into portions then into the freezer Will salt my own pilchards too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickles Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 A great “Chat” @Restyle, thanks for your thoughts / experience. I totally agree with your comments about “Hawkesbury squid” and live caught is always best. Being “kingfish focussed”, I always catch live bait on my fishing trips and really like slimy mackerel, Yakkas and squid, and I always burley up with bread and the frames of the bait fish I have slabbed / stripped for bait as well as bycatch such as sweep. I have caught many many species on fresh bread floated backOver Christmas period I collect pink nippers and although delicate they are deadly. I’ve never really fished for or with mullet, but know that many jewfish specialists use nothing else. On blackfish (also bream), make an excellent bait for big Jewies (have to be leagal size to use as bait of course, but “big baits =big fish”). I usually float a bread bait out the back in the burley and have caught many different species including flathead, snapper and legal kingfish. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hornet Posted August 16, 2022 Share Posted August 16, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, Little_Flatty said: That said, if I recall correctly though, @Yowie has caught a fish out of a toilet...true story and no word of a joke! But then again nothing fishing-wise surprises us with Yowie...) @Little_FlattyI’m not too sure about Yowie, but I posted quite some time back about a large bream I caught by dropping a line down my auntie and uncle’s toilet at Illawong. They owned a house that sat out over the water and back in the1960’s, long before the EPA, their toilet pan just sat over a hole in the floor and everything was deposited directly into the Georges. As a young kid, I thought it would be funny to drop a prawn on a handline down and be buggered if I didn’t hook a bream too large to fit up through the hole. My uncle had a row boat tied up under the house and eventually rowed out so I could drop the fish down to him. That being said, I have no doubt that Yowie could pull a fish out of a garden tap. Edited August 16, 2022 by Green Hornet 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little_Flatty Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 3 hours ago, Green Hornet said: @Little_FlattyI’m not too sure about Yowie, but I posted quite some time back about a large bream I caught by dropping a line down my auntie and uncle’s toilet at Illawong. They owned a house that sat out over the water and back in the1960’s, long before the EPA, their toilet pan just sat over a hole in the floor and everything was deposited directly into the Georges. As a young kid, I thought it would be funny to drop a prawn on a handline down and be buggered if I didn’t hook a bream too large to fit up through the hole. My uncle had a row boat tied up under the house and eventually rowed out so I could drop the fish down to him. That being said, I have no doubt that Yowie could pull a fish out of a garden tap. Ah that was you! No wonder I couldn't find it! Sorry about the misattribution. I should mention that nothing surprises us about you either, Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab1 Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 20 hours ago, Little_Flatty said: Fab, you do know that you need to put baits into the water, with a hook attached, if you want to catch fish right? Also, your bathtub and toilet doesn't count as fishable waters...unless there are live fish in there! (That said, if I recall correctly though, @Yowie has caught a fish out of a toilet...true story and no word of a joke! But then again nothing fishing-wise surprises us with Yowie...) Make sure you try these suggestions before you lodge any warranty claims with the bait shop 🤣 😂😂😂I’m well aware you need bait and hook in water.Bath tub and toilet fishing is for peasants mate.I fish in my pool.😂Now let’s move on to that mystical creature we all know as Yowie.You have the toilet story all wrong my friend.I was told by a close source that indeed Mr Yowie was seated on the toilet that famous day fishing when he caught that fish on a worm.When it bit he jumped up screaming and yelling he was on. The part of the story you missed out on was that he won the prize for a fish caught on the smallest,shrivelled,driest,oldest,smelliest worm any one has caught a fish on.😂😂 To this day our friend Yowie has never toilet fished again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 Well Fab, this is a true story. On 2 occasions I have caught John Dory, no bait or line, with bare hands. On both occasions the dory swam into shallow water chasing little fish and I grabbed them and picked them up, and took them home for a feast or 2. Another story is that is how John Dory developed the large spot on their sides. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 It should be a Yowie Dory then....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Rice Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 On 8/15/2022 at 8:50 AM, Restyle said: Hawksbury prawns - Not a huge fan of prawns, but they are a great all-round bait for just about every estuary species, pickers love them so don't expect to catch anything too big off them constantly, wouldn't recommend getting these from servos as they are usually freezer burnt. Frozen I am also not a big fan but fresh they are a totally different story. Caught heaps of legal Kings on them in Pittwater while targeting Bream & Flathead. Fresh Whitebait also has the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fried Rice Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 8 hours ago, Green Hornet said: As a young kid, I thought it would be funny to drop a prawn on a handline down and be buggered if I didn’t hook a bream too large to fit up through the hole. Haha, I've done the same thing at my sisters old place at Illawong, only I used corn. Used to also fish out of the lounge room window. Down the bottom of Old Ferry Rd by any chance? Not a fish that you would want to eat judging by their diet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Hornet Posted August 17, 2022 Share Posted August 17, 2022 13 hours ago, Fried Rice said: Haha, I've done the same thing at my sisters old place at Illawong, only I used corn. Used to also fish out of the lounge room window. Down the bottom of Old Ferry Rd by any chance? Not a fish that you would want to eat judging by their diet. My auntie always had a handline out the kitchen window with the cork left in the sink. When she’d hear the cork rattling around it was time to go and see what’s for dinner. I assume it was Ferry Rd. Their house was just a couple down from the old Lugano punt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessell1955 Posted August 18, 2022 Share Posted August 18, 2022 How about the old common garden worm? I am sure it has taken its fair share of fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkesburyParadise Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 1 hour ago, bessell1955 said: How about the old common garden worm? I am sure it has taken its fair share of fish. I have a compost bin at home and I keep thinking of using them. However, It seems a bit icky to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restyle Posted August 19, 2022 Author Share Posted August 19, 2022 1 hour ago, bessell1955 said: How about the old common garden worm? I am sure it has taken its fair share of fish. Never used them before so I didn’t include them, same or pipies. Have heard plenty of good from garden worms though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessell1955 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 HawkesburyParadise give them a go, you may be surprised! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seasponge Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 On 8/15/2022 at 9:19 AM, JamoDamo said: Another underused bait are the little crabs you find under rocks in the mangroves and intertidal zones in estuaries! Super easy to gather and really good for bream fishing them unweighted or with a little split shot in current, been smoked by massive bream I couldn't stop plenty of times on em! How do you rig them on the hook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamoDamo Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 56 minutes ago, seasponge said: How do you rig them on the hook? Fish them along a rockwall with current, you either pin them through the side just behind the eye above the nipper or through the back in the carapace. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fab1 Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 7 hours ago, HawkesburyParadise said: I have a compost bin at home and I keep thinking of using them. However, It seems a bit icky to me Now there’s a word I haven’t heard for Yonks that woman use.Icky.😂😂😂 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 9 hours ago, HawkesburyParadise said: I have a compost bin at home and I keep thinking of using them. However, It seems a bit icky to me I visited a mate many years ago at Cootamundra. We dug some garden worms, headed to the Murrumbidgee River near Gundagai and pulled out 5 rainbow trout between us, not big ones but big enough. Filleted and pan fried in butter, delicious. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkesburyParadise Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 10 hours ago, Fab1 said: Now there’s a word I haven’t heard for Yonks that woman use.Icky.😂😂😂 Haha well English is my 2nd language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimT Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 On 8/17/2022 at 6:22 AM, Pickles said: ............................... I’ve never really fished for or with mullet, but know that many jewfish specialists use nothing else. On blackfish (also bream), make an excellent bait for big Jewies (have to be legal size to use as bait of course, but “big baits =big fish”)................................................... have seen jewfish take a blackfish which was being retrieved in Narabeen Lake.......... Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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