To be honest ive just been a bit of a lazy bugger and havent bothered looking into the right rigs for catching them.... any help would be good... ive always just been a bit of a bottom basher with pilchards etc but think its time i started using livies to actually start catching something!
if there was they would be super expensive I would think...better off (and more fun) catching your own...
or better yet catch up with the local kids and jetty rats down at your local jetty...fling em a few bucks to catch you some livies...they would love it!
i probably sound like a bit of a dunce but whats the best rig to use for herring? Ive seen them caught out at Rous Head heaps but have never really had a go at catching them
Hey dazza try south mole at the end fishing into the channel.usually plenty of people there berlying up the water for ya. use a light flickrod with a small float and about a metre of leader with a piece of lumo tube or even a thin wall plug over a small treble and just keep casting and retrieving like you would with a lure.herring will eat anything that moves when they are in a frenzy.
Herring love a bit of burley, so we used to use a blob or a berley cage with about a metre trace below it to a 4 or 6 hook and a bit of shelled prawn. Keep berleying the same spot (over weed beds or reef is good) and they'll soon get the idea. Once they start you can just throw in a bare hook and they'll go for it. Plugs or lumos are good, small slice, whatever.
If you can get them ('cos i know it's not strictly legal to breed them in WA) go the wogs. Nothing beats them for herring bait. If someone is using wogs nearby, forget it, you won't catch 'em on anything else while there's wogs in the water!
I've seen people with 12 volt fish tank pumps in a large bucket keeping livies alive all night. I've also used two buckets with a sort of net inside. Every now and then fill the second bucket with fresh water and gently lift the bait (in the bag/net) from the old bucket into the fresh one. Done every few casts they'll stay good for a while. Except tailor; for some reason they seem to die pretty quickly once you start mucking around with them.
I like to have my live bait rod ready so that the livie goes from water to big rod and back in the water within about 30 seconds. Match the hatch, natch!
Lamby
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Dazza, I would seriously
Dazza, I would seriously doubt that you can but that would be an interesting market to open up. Can you not catch any livey's beforehand?
dazza70
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Date Joined: 12/02/09
To be honest ive just been a
To be honest ive just been a bit of a lazy bugger and havent bothered looking into the right rigs for catching them.... any help would be good... ive always just been a bit of a bottom basher with pilchards etc but think its time i started using livies to actually start catching something!
woody
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if there was they would be
if there was they would be super expensive I would think...better off (and more fun) catching your own...
or better yet catch up with the local kids and jetty rats down at your local jetty...fling em a few bucks to catch you some livies...they would love it!
Just gotta keep them alive.......hardest part!!!
dazza70
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Date Joined: 12/02/09
i probably sound like a bit
i probably sound like a bit of a dunce but whats the best rig to use for herring? Ive seen them caught out at Rous Head heaps but have never really had a go at catching them
tailor marc
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Eshed + chinese hooks +
Eshed + chinese hooks + burley + small bits of shelled prawn = loads of yellow tail and slimy macks
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Indiana
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PET SHOP !
PET SHOP !
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Nimbin 157
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Hey dazza try south mole at
Hey dazza try south mole at the end fishing into the channel.usually plenty of people there berlying up the water for ya. use a light flickrod with a small float and about a metre of leader with a piece of lumo tube or even a thin wall plug over a small treble and just keep casting and retrieving like you would with a lure.herring will eat anything that moves when they are in a frenzy.
Rudog
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Date Joined: 02/11/09
Berley float/cage or blob.
Herring love a bit of burley, so we used to use a blob or a berley cage with about a metre trace below it to a 4 or 6 hook and a bit of shelled prawn. Keep berleying the same spot (over weed beds or reef is good) and they'll soon get the idea. Once they start you can just throw in a bare hook and they'll go for it. Plugs or lumos are good, small slice, whatever.
If you can get them ('cos i know it's not strictly legal to breed them in WA) go the wogs. Nothing beats them for herring bait. If someone is using wogs nearby, forget it, you won't catch 'em on anything else while there's wogs in the water!
I've seen people with 12 volt fish tank pumps in a large bucket keeping livies alive all night. I've also used two buckets with a sort of net inside. Every now and then fill the second bucket with fresh water and gently lift the bait (in the bag/net) from the old bucket into the fresh one. Done every few casts they'll stay good for a while. Except tailor; for some reason they seem to die pretty quickly once you start mucking around with them.
I like to have my live bait rod ready so that the livie goes from water to big rod and back in the water within about 30 seconds. Match the hatch, natch!
dazza70
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Date Joined: 12/02/09
cheers for that ... will
cheers for that ... will grab a blob or cage and give it a crack down at North Mole