live bait

[***Simon***]

i wanna catch some big bass using some live bait. anyone got any suggestions of live baits, rigs and methons of hooking the bait.

 

thanks in advance

[Salar]

4 inch pouting hooked once through the nose with a fine wire hook size 2/0, on a 6 foot trace of flourocarbon on a running ledger. Alternatively a joey mackeral, but don't touch the joey before you use it or it will die in your bait well. Or sandeel, of course, but that's obvious. Drift the bait near the bottom around pilings, piers, sandbanks or on steep drop-offs on the edge of channels. Some people like to damage the fish a bit to make it bleed and struggle but personally I think thats a bit too cruel.

[***Simon***]

2/0? u think that big enough?

[n4lly]

Rather than have an emotional rant at the sight of a few smoothound in a box :confused:

 

Or a joey with its tail cut off :confused:

[Salar]

n4lly:

Rather than have an emotional rant at the sight of a few smoothound in a box :confused:

 

Or a joey with its tail cut off :confused:

Can you explain a bit more? (confused - I must be missing something)

[***Simon***]

n4lly dnt hav a clue what ur first sentence was about but anyway, why cut the joeys tail off?

[Salar]

***Simon***:

n4lly dnt hav a clue what ur first sentence was about but anyway, why cut the joeys tail off?

To make it wriggle and bleed and not swim too well which makes Mr Bass think he has an easy meal.

[n4lly]

Simon, 6/0 would be better

Salar is right, less swimming more bleeding!

 

Worked great for me when i got my first reef shark.

 

[five bellies]

No need to cut the tail of the hook stuck through its fizzog will make it bleed and swim erratically

2/0 hook is fine small pout,poor cod,and pin whiting will also work.

 

Tight lines

 

Fivebellies

[Newt]

Might I suggest a circle hook would be good in this case or a kahle which has most of the circle advantages plus a slightly better shape for hooking your bait.

 

Size the hook to match the bait you are using. 2/0 will certainly hold the bass if you have a decent brand of hook but if the bait hides the hook, you may well need to go up in size.

 

 

And the Gamakatsu kahle pattern - called a Shiner hook since that is a term for a popular US live bait.

 

 

The key with either of these hooks is to simply wind down to a strike. They are pretty much self-hooking if you don't strike. Strike and you will likely just pull them out with no fish.

 

[ 19. July 2005, 03:24 AM: Message edited by: Newt ]