5kg Mulie Shred Block Stolen
Submitted by Mick C on Tue, 2016-09-20 20:49
Something with sharp teeth wanted the block, and I wonder if it ate the steel weights too? The widest gape is about 250mm so a bit of size.
Occupational hazard of a “baitfish massacre” burley style in deep water I guess!
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Bugger!!
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Hey Mick
G'day Mick, Are you open till 7 PM this Thursday? Think i'll stop buy and grab a block if you have any left!
Cheers
Jarrod
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Jarrod
No worries mate, we will be open to 7 on Thursday. We have spent the last 4 days making stock and filling orders, and have stockpiled a bit in our freezers now. We will certainly have one for you if you drop in.
Cheers. Mick
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Geez, when I saw the topic
Geez, when I saw the topic title, I thought some scum was desperate enough to pinch a mulie block at your shop!
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I'm surprised at the size of
I'm surprised at the size of the mesh you were using! I've been using the 5kg blocks in a "seadog burley" bucket/cage, and they don't last very long. I kinda wish the mulies were cut into slightly larger chunks...
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Shred Use
I wrote in a previous post:
If you buy the shred, remember that it is a fish attracting raw material that has to be used properly for the given application and target species.
When fishing on Saturday, we employed the maximum dispersal of the shred over a "spot locked" reef strategy and hence used a scaler bag. We make the product so the cost is less than wholesale and we generally take 5 blocks on our day trips. The blocks disperse relatively quickly but are very effective. The cost, even at retail, is far less than the other expenses of the trip. As discussed with Milan of Big Angry Fish a while ago, he reckons a lot of people "fall over at the last hurdle" by failing to adequately burley.
If you want to slow the dispersal down, the onion bags we sourced have a mesh size a bit smaller than the maximum shred size Customers have reported that the bags will hold and disperse shred for most of the day using this technique. I don't know anything about "seadog" products, but believe our shred grading is appropriate and we are unlikely to change it in the near future.
You can slow it further again by "binding" the shred to reduce dispersal rate. Our minced fish based burley (shred, tuna oil, protien fillers) does this and the rate is about 0.75kg of fine particles per hour, on average. You can also use the shred as a raw material and make your own frozen blocks to fit your burley bucket.
More than happy to discuss and help where I can. Mick
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Thanks for taking the time to
Thanks for taking the time to reply Mick. I'll ask Compleat Angler whether they stock the onion bags you speak of and give them a try. The holes in the basket I'm using maybe slightly too big, or perhaps I'm not keeping the product frozen enough before use.
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Compleat have the onion bags
Compleat have the onion bags
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Burley Pot
Based on the image, I assume you are using the 1.5kg shred block?
Good looking pot, but you will probably only get 30 minutes out of a small shred block. The minced product would last about 75 minutes, on average.
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Hi Mick,The picture is
Hi Mick,
The picture is deceptive. The cage has a 9L volume and can fit a 5kg block once it is "soft around the edges". The holes are about 8mm in diameter.
I'll keep experimenting with your product, and give the minced version a try also.
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put the container inside a
put the container inside a stocking leg (maybe cut a few small holes ) and tie of both ends to help slow the release
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Raw Shred
Our freezer of raw material that we organised today. Mulies, mullet, tuna and mixed fish in 1kg and 2kg lots.
That cage has good size to it.
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I use a piece of 100mm sewer pipe
If I want to burley deep. it has a lead weight inside tied to the rope, so it moves up and down inside the tube and pumps the burley out. I had it over the side in 30-odd metres at the 3 mile off Kalbarri at anchor late one afternoon. I was geting sharked time after time, and decided to chuck it in. Pulling up the pot in the late afternoon light, I saw something materialise behinfd it. WTF is that--then realised I was looking at a big tiger from the business end, coming straight up behind it.
it had some pretty good teeth marks, but he could have just swallowed the whole thing, even though it was 400mm long.
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I'd love to try some of that
I'd love to try some of that stuff up here, it would be bedlam.