Bait I harvest from home.

[tomca]

I have been growing and harvesting my own bait for years now, and never really gave it much thought. So to give others a bit of an idea how easy it is I'll post a couple of things I am doing.

First is my compost heap. Its up the side of the house under a mango tree. It is just a pile of leaves and grass clippings with an old wheelbarrow over the top of it. But an old tarp will do. There are a few different crawly things that live in the layers of the heap and are easily picked up and popped in a container when you need bait. Also on the ground under it the big earthworms are right on the surface and easy to collect.

Over time I found the pile promotes more bait than a bin or enclosure, but looks a bit messier. These critters can be piled onto small hooks and everything from bream to bass will have a go.

[tomca]

the second method I use is a worm farm I bought off ebay a couple of years ago.

All the paper and vegie scraps(except onion) go in and the red wrigglers can be bought via mail order eat about 60grams of scap a day. I fatten them up with chook pellets and they work a treat on most fish, salt and fresh.

The only downside is it takes at least a year to have a population of worms large enough to sustain mild harvesting. I usually take 40-50 worms every few weeks when I take Nickers dam fishing.

I keep the worm farm in the garage where its constant temp. Also the wormfarm doesn't smell so the missus won't have a sook.

[Nickers]

tomca wrote:

I have been growing and harvesting my own bait for years now, and never really gave it much thought. So to give others a bit of an idea how easy it is I'll post a couple of things I am doing.

First is my compost heap. Its up the side of the house under a mango tree. It is just a pile of leaves and grass clippings with an old wheelbarrow over the top of it. But an old tarp will do. There are a few different crawly things that live in the layers of the heap and are easily picked up and popped in a container when you need bait. Also on the ground under it the big earthworms are right on the surface and easy to collect.

Over time I found the pile promotes more bait than a bin or enclosure, but looks a bit messier. These critters can be piled onto small hooks and everything from bream to bass will have a go.

Not to mention the massive big toads that jump out of that pile of compost whenever you go near it... GROSS :ohmy:

[kriso]

yeah there good bait too nickers! cool setup tom!

[fishingnut]

or snakes! I hate snakes!

[zan0_15]

hey mate....have u used the worms much in salt water? very interested in how they would go? cheers zane

[tomca]

yes I have Zane. They die within about 5 minutes in the salt. but bream don't like to leave them alone for that long.

[pinkey]

Good work especially on the bass. But IMO the best bream bait is bread, but its cooler catching them on worms and they stay on the hook better i guess

[Do$tylz]

home made bait and golf practice all in one. Sweet as.

[tomca]

Do$tylz wrote:

home made bait and golf practice all in one. Sweet as.

sh!t, you know me too well!

I was gonna leave that one well alone :S