Night fishing for Reds
Submitted by Fozz on Mon, 2011-10-10 13:23
Heading out to a mate shack off Dampier for a few days this weekend & depending on weather we could doing some night fishing out wide for Reds. After some advice whether we need to change our approach to targeting them from day to night fishing i.e different rigs, baits etc.
any help is appreciated, cheers
Fozz
carnarvonite
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Swivels
Found out years back that if fishing on a moonlit night to use black or swivels that were not shiny because barracuda and mackies bite them off.
Fozz
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Good Point
Thanks for heads up Carnarvonite, looks as thou we'll be coming off a full moon this week so might pay rig up the black swivels. cheers
Fozz
Bodie
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BIG baits, and dont wash your
BIG baits, and dont wash your hands over the side :)
Bunny
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Our best baits for Reds are
Our best baits for Reds are fillets of Fusiliers, stripeys etc with the tail left on. We cut the rib cage off and usually only put the hook through the flesh up the head end twice (once if usign a circle hook). The tail flaps around nicely in the current and Reds love em.
You might find the sharks will be bad on a big moon.
smash
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heres one for reds in
heres one for reds in general.
NW blowie fillets with skin off make terrific bait.
Bunny
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Oh and I forgot to mention a
Oh and I forgot to mention a fresh Tuna works well too!!