Offshore bait gathering
Submitted by big john on Fri, 2014-03-21 19:10
Just wondering if anyone has bothered dropping small sabiki's into those offshore schools which are popping up on sounder screens a fair bit at the moment. Keen to secure some fresh bait but i've never tried it myself (yet).
Any tips would be appreciated.
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NOHA
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try it
But you might not get your sabiki back
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nightfish
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Haha
Yep one day dropped into a school on 10pd gear hooked one up, three cranks of the handle and I was hooked up to something for about 45 minutes. Whatever it was had no idea it was hooked it just swam around casually till the inevitable ping!
big john
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Chance
Always that chance Mark. Have you tried it?
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nightfish
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It does work John
Absolutely done it successfully. Best baits if there's fish chasing the schools too.
woody
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We did it in the Exmouth gulf
We did it in the Exmouth gulf in the Billfish Bonanza a few years back....gathered heaps of live bait on sabiki... straight in the tank and then dropped a few livies down on 10kg gear under the bait schools to where the queenies, sailfish, trevors etc were
Works really well.
Tim
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Sabiki
Just bought a sabiki rod for doing just this BJ
Have done it a bit.
Slimies have been hard to come by and what we have wanted for billfish but have got mulies and other stuff.
Just one of things that you never know whats down there
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Rod
They look interesting, where did you buy that Tim?
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Decky
My decky's son works at a chain store and picked it up at staff rates. Was pretty cheap.
Should be easier having something ready to go when we see bait
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Sadiki
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