my best catch was my missus

I berlied her up with sambucca shots

then she had a crack at my worm 

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Mad Keen

on a gang at Maud's Landing - caught bugger all but they certainly had a lot of nibbles. Probably should have put sauce on them.

Riaz

Still Learning

Last year at Exmouth we have some left over chilli pork ribs that we took aboard to have as some lunch. Caught a Trevally on it!!!

Used a 5 inch piece of garden hose as a lure for salmon set up the same as a straw for herring.Caught a whiting on a cigarette butt and lastly and probably the most productive of all was using a bit of red rag on a 10/0 hook to catch tuna.Just tie it to to the line above the hoof and troll it at around 5 knots

Guy that used to fish around Carrarang,reckons he used to catch all his Bluebone on roo meat soaked in Kero.........

We stuck to more traditional baits and did just fine.

Used piece of fat out of Italian sausage to catch bream , very effective might have been the aniseed in the sausage that attracted them to it.

CB

with all these great ideas now out in the open (Lol).

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Freshwater fishing I have caught carp tench and bream on salami, butter beans, chickpeas, and obviously sweetcorn, mackeral take bare hooks on a sunny day!!

Rayman

caught gardies on burger rings and twisties

Life is short so live it fast

Nathan

not really strange but we use bread religiously for herring and skippy

works so good



weve also caught on ciggy butts and orange peel haha

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struth, better get a beer then

Lol catchalittle guess twisties do work eh? Hamish & Andy were joking about using twisties for fishing a while back. heh

 of herring in denmark (down south ) using white wall plugs on long shank hooks and a couple of skippy!

our new  boat advice welcome

The bloodier the better, if we hit one in the car on the way we stop and pick it up for bait, saves paying for it. It was good bait in the river and surf. We also caught all our big black bream on mud skipper heads, we caught the mud skippers in a yabby net baited with cray tail. 

Cheers Mitta79

they call me the "fish whisperer"........ 

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Over 40 years ago used it a lot for lake bream in the UK - it was deadly but so fragile it was really difficult to cast and it had to be lightly weighted or the weight would pull the hook through the bait as it sank too quickly - as I said it used to be deadly.

On the subject of deadly the other bait involved personal risk - european wasp grubs and the nest itself crushed up as berley, hell we had some close shaves until we discovered carbon tetrachloride with killed the wasps in the nest (night time when they were all inside) but not the grubs trouble is I now understand that chemical is highly carcinogenic - still it was truly an amazing bait to the point that it was banned in many fishing comps  

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using mcdonalds chips for bream to 37cm,yellowtails,herrings and a slimy mack

FISHINGS THE BEST ,BEATS THE REST.
XD...

herd of bloke over east who soaks his bait in wd40 when going for murray cod

Cube of soap for catfish

A bit of my  white T shirt for pomfret

Banana for mullet

18 Outrage, Johnson 140hp 4stroke and 190 Outrage, 150 Mercury Verado

Used to use golf balls for Murray Cod while living over east. Drill a hole through the ball, thread your line through it and tie a big hook to the bottom, the golf ball slides down and sits right above the hook. Bardi grubs were costing us around $50 for a dozen and the golf balls were a much cheaper alterative as you could reuse them over and over again. They sort of kind of looked like a Bardi Grub threaded onto a hook. We though our mate was taking the piss when he mentioned the technique but we couldn't resist, just had to try it. I will never forget the moment when we caught our first cod on one, have not laughed so hard in my life!

caught a bonito first drop on a hook with no bait on it?
first time deep sea fishing. was stoked!!!

Secret weapon for baldchin groper! My father-in-law reckons he ran out of bait one time and had to use the tomato from his sandwich....got a double-digit dhu apparently...

Whiting loves Red. So steak seem to drive them crazy. Proven in the south and here in the Pilbara. Also an old white sock. Tie the hook to the end and somehow wrap the front onto the leader. I dont know how my dad did this but he caught hundreds of Kahawai (Salmon) with his old sock lure. Perhaps smells has something to do with it.

Neels

Flat seas!!!

As a young chap old man was setting up the tent in shark bay an we were wanting to go for a fish so he gave us a big slice of palony and told us to go away so we went down to the jetty and I caught my bigest whiting to date

 the kids and after driving around with them on the doughnut decided to have lunch, Bob always the fisherman looked in the water (clear as) and said look at all the whiting there, next minute krakarwurst came out of the sandwich on the hook next minute he's pulling in nice sand whiting, had a good feed for tea that night.

Told a female friend one day if you run out of bait, just put a tomatoe pieces on, she sat there all day with tomato on and never caught a fish .. Bob got a clip around the ears when our friend saw him next.

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Used to use rabbit in the cray pots --always had a few plastic shopping bags in the glovebox for fresh road kills.

Reminds me of years back at Preston beach,three of us using it to catch heaps of herring,we were the only ones out of fifty or so fishers getting anything.
The bloke next to us whispered to his young son to ask us what bait we were using.So the kid comes over and asks and old Ralph kneels down and whispers in his ear "Don't tell anyone, we are using icecream".The nipper goes back to his old man and tell him what Ralph has told him and nearly falls over laughing.We called the young un back and gave him a leg off one of the rabbits for his father as we had plenty.

The bite's must have been quick and the casts soft

Colin Molloy

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i caught a whiting on a float rig and a black bream on a squid tentacle

As a kid we used to use ox heart for bait. Caught many north Queensland black bream up to 5kg. No not a miss print or fishing tale. Used it on every fishing trip we did.

Caught a mullet that got nailed by a threadfin salmon that had a mud crab attached to the tail????

 AHHH the serenity flat sea's and beer!!!

Are you referring to fresh/brackish water sooty grunter Clewesy?

John

I head a little FURTHER NORTH each year,
Leave the cities behind, out of sight of mind,
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Headed out from Exxy one day, forgot the bait so used cheese out of our sangers. Caught a couple of bottom species filleted them and then we were away (better than headn back in)

LIQUIDTENSION- hope the missus didn't have a spew while devouring your worm!!!

Aniseed works on women as well Heh

Ran out of bait in the river one day long ago and grabbed one of the many blowies i'd caught, turns out flathead really like them

And I wonder what actually eat the blowies. I've left one at a river bank for the sea gulls/ pelicans but they wouldn't even take a look at it.

I've used raw chicken before and caught Bream, whiting and Herring.

I caught a coral trout at shark bay with a sml bit of dried up mullet skin!!!!!! It was the last day of the trip.

probbaly the geoff wilson lure i picked up at bcf for the pure fact it looked like pure over kill and i like to call it the ultimate rig. it consists of a surf popper a set of gang hooks and theres a clip on it for what i could only assume to put a lure on lol. guess its the rig for the people who cant make there mind up what the hell they want to do :P needless to say i havnt caught anything on it :P

Caught a shark with a puppy one day! Sharks seem to like live bait.

Dinn snag @ 80 mile ,ran out of bait and pissed. Got jack

anyone seen the video from the new zealend fishing show its called gannet man and the bloke jumps out a helicopter and grabs a marlin now that impressive

best lure i used was condoms they use them in new guinea where me olds live for tuna and makeral, couldnt belive i was getting out fished by a local when i was using teaser birds, ballyhoos and xraps

we use dogfood for carp, they love it.

man, fish are damn stupid, they would eat their own arse if they could. tin foil for pike, cut up  trout gills for trout, but i like   chicken liver for eels

cheers 

chris 

 Anyone used mudskipper as bait for bluebone? 

 Ox liver is great on flatties - catch the big crocs up on the gold coast on it (oily)

 Used to catch pink snapper off oil and gas platforms near the monties using hand lines with paternostar rigs & bread rolls, sometimes ham and bits of salami as bait.

 And a length of SPC Spaghetti - staight out the tin.

 There used to be a story of a bloke who got out to his favourite spot and realised he forgot his bait, so he cut a corn off his foot and used that to catch a whiting, that in turn led to more fish and he eventually got his Joo.

 Wasn't me but the guys on the supply boats used to drag a piece of 3in polyprop mooring line with one end unraveled behind the boat in the Gulf of Guinea and were picking up sail fish as the fish would come up to investigate and get their bills caught up in the unraveled polyprop. Got quite a few that way.

 I once used a piece of raw pork and caught 2 good sized Mangrove Jacks in about an hour of each other at a waterhole approximately 300km inland of Port Headland.

Both were caught on the same piece using a handline. 

They were the only two Jacks caught in the 2 Months we were at that place....I couldn't believe these fish were so far inland.!

Still one of my favorite catches.

 Caught 5 rainbow trout down south on some BBQ chicken skin from lunch caught 3 one day then went back a week later with just the chicken skin and caught another two in the same spot so wasn't a once off in a tiny stream  

Herring with frozen peas....

 Gang hooks wrapped in alfoil ,maccies and tuna.

 Fishing out the reef one day with some mates ( in Qld) we took some cold KFC for a snack and later pulled in 2 Coral trout , both were packed with the KFC bones we had tossed over the side.

 Herring caught on a bit of banana 

 Jodi's salmon on a big beaded bracelet. 

 Fly fishing for sambos and snapper in the abrolohos ran out of white flies so tied some using a white binbag and kept catching them

 not myself but whilst fishing i watched two people who showed up with crab nets forget the bait for there nets so they tied some soft plastics to the crab net and coverd them with the squidgy scent stuff and believe it or not they acually pulled a couple in only small no big ones but was a good laugh