Thread: Salted bait

Originally Posted by stingray

Great info, back when I was divorced and broke I tried salting cutta fillets, the drip tray is what I did not do ..so mine went soggy and rubbish ..

Just a thought when you have the first bait out as a lively the second should be bleed then chummed in bits and pieces ..yes lures are great but right now with the water being green ,

a trickle of fresh oily tit bits and perhaps a large pilchard or side of Kawahai straylined ..might see you into a beast, Tasman Bay is overflowing with very very respectable fish.

It is amazing what turns up in the burley trail, even right up to the surface. Kingfish, trevally, snapper and kahawai, plus the baitfish species. When I start getting busted off with my 6lb baitfish leader and size 14 hook, I'll step up to 15lb leader and a size 4 hook or just flick a softbait out. This happened this other day in the circumstances you describe.