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Bait prices
Topic Started: Apr 28 2013, 10:20 AM (604 Views)
Fish
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Those of us here who still use bait. Anyone looked at the prices and gone F**k that?

$5 for 200g of coral prawns might aswell head down to coles and by banana prawns at $16 a kg and use them instead...

Tis a joke BCF.
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Tones
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We used a bag of raw king prawns on the boat which were left over after chrissy, the fish out wide went nuts on em.

Haven't really bought bait for ages.
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grot
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mate stop eating all that mullet you catch and use that,aint a fish that will eat prawn that wont eat mullet
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choc
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If prawns are your thing then buying the fresh ones from the supermarket is the way to go,fresher and cheaper.
We use whole prawns on a circle hook for pinkies,do very well.
Otherwise you cant beat freshly caught bait.
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Fish
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Yeap traded the mullet for fresh scad.
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Could scoop your own outta the estuary, or get a shrimp trap maybe...what's a scad by the way?
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Fish
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scad = yellowtail
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Ahh...thought you meant Finny Scad, coz they're bomb bait as well, quite a bit bigger tho!
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spray
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I get my mullies from the pro netters and prawns from coles

Better quality and cheaper
Here Fishy
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Shiggins
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I get lovely filleted mullet from the fish market in gero. 3 bucks for 300 grams. That's 3 decent fillets for 3 bucks. The mullaway love them
PB's

Taylor - 52cm
Snapper - 30cm
School Mackerel. - 60cm
Bream - 40cm!
Mullaway - 13kg - 1280mm
Bronzie - 1300mm
Hammer Head - 1200mm
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Fish
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Gee my going rate 6 fish for a slab of spanish.
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Lefty
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$3 squid jigs get me all the bait I use.
When you start comparing it to Sp's, jig heads and lures it works out about the same sometimes.
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Fish
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Lefty
Apr 30 2013, 05:35 PM
$3 squid jigs get me all the bait I use.
When you start comparing it to Sp's, jig heads and lures it works out about the same sometimes.
$40 a year for me lefty.....

Anyway thanks guys for the info. Aust Banana prawns $16 a kg currently at Coles. So i know where i will be going on thursday night.... I wonder if they will mind wrapping them up into 250g parcels....
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SnappaDan
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I just use mulie pieces for my small fish mostly, then use the small fish for bigger bait. occasionally buy some occie Very occasionally buy the fresh prawns from the supermarket to. Also use the baitchaser jigs to catch fresh scalies occasionally to so don't actually buy bait too often.
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Lefty
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Sort of off topic but...
The Old boy said he used to use butteries as a kid.
They would fillet out the spine leaving the head and 2 fillets as a single bait.
Anyone else heard/tried this?
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Fish
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had heard of butterflying fiosh like that before
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Got mullas on butters last year lefty. Had nothing else to use so we had a couple out live and they worked no problems. But the croaks did seem to take anything that month.
Dont hesitate to throw one out now but as soon as something else comes along they get changed.
I guess if its edible something bigger than it will chew it down.
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Spence
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Mullas eat blowies....they're not too choosey.
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May 2 2013, 02:45 AM
Got mullas on butters last year lefty. Had nothing else to use so we had a couple out live and they worked no problems. But the croaks did seem to take anything that month.
Dont hesitate to throw one out now but as soon as something else comes along they get changed.
I guess if its edible something bigger than it will chew it down.
He used them as Snapper bait.
Might give them a go.
Not as though there is any shortage of them or they're hard to get.
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