Bream as Live Bait?

[heidii]

Are you allow to use baby bream as live bait?

[kriso]

to use any fish for bait it must meet legal size limits before it can be used for bait, so bream (pikey) must be 23cms untill the new size limit applies which will make it 25cms. as for boney bream i dont think a size limit applies to them and maybe used at what ever size

[webbfunk]

Apparently the bullies like bream

[rayke1938]

I like them for bullys as they seem to stay active and alive for a long time.

Cheers

Ray

[Angus]

Yeah I have heard they are great bait for bullies but they still need to be legal size.

Cheers.

Angus

[heidii]

thanks guys!

Yeh i find they live forever as live bait even with a hook in them, and easy to catch too! I used one last night and in the morning my line was nearly spooled as all 3 hooks were gone!...maybe it was a bullie.

My dad had a go at me when he found out i was using bream...i guess i will have to try and stay away from those ones as live bait then! :dry:

[BassTracker]

Even bigger leagle sized bream are good for live bait if your targeting sharks, but there are heaps of other live bait alternatives rather than using undersized fish. I've soken to some "ethnic" fishing companions who happened to be fishing the same spot recently, they were catching undersized bream and then filleting them and using the flesh and gut for bait, I guess alot of people dont even think to check limits and sizes, maybe fishing licences are not a bad idea haha.. a one day course for new fisherman that lets them know all the info.. who knows..

[Ash]

Thats a really good idea BassTracker. It wont stop some poeple doing the wrong thing, but itll stop the whole ignorants plea. Plus the revenue could go towards our water ways

[planetfonz]

try to get yourself some small giant trevally... the sharks go nuts for them.. no size limits for the GTs on east coast qld, so there's no issues .. well no issues besides being able to catch them

[nadders]

i always wondered about that fonz, i was at coomera a few weeks back and there was heaps of trev action on the surface and every so often a huge splash of bullie chasing them. was pretty fun to watch, didnt catch anything though

[planetfonz]

nadders, get yourself a 40gram raider or 25gram maniac metal lure and get into those trevs .. they luv it!!

trevally were so good for us down in the coast canals that we'd not fish for bullies at all unless we had them for live bait..

[dan25]

Were abouts do u hook them??, also, i heard that people injure the fish abit so its sending off a scent of blood , is that needed?

[Jordan]

No, hurting the fish completeley defeats the purpose of having live baits. you want the bait to be as active and liveley as possible - hence why trevally are good bait. People who hack at their live bait before sending it out generally arnt to smart.

[dan25]

Jordan wrote:

No, hurting the fish completeley defeats the purpose of having live baits. you want the bait to be as active and liveley as possible - hence why trevally are good bait. People who hack at their live bait before sending it out generally arnt to smart.

Ok thanks Jordan

[Liquor Box]

heidii wrote:

I used one last night and in the morning my line was nearly spooled as all 3 hooks were gone!...maybe it was a bullie.

Was it a set line?

I was at Tackle world this morning and the guy behind the counter said it was illegal to set a line and leave it untended and then come back later

[wesfish]

nadders wrote:

i always wondered about that fonz, i was at coomera a few weeks back and there was heaps of trev action on the surface and every so often a huge splash of bullie chasing them. was pretty fun to watch, didnt catch anything though

last year we had all our small trevs sharked in the lake at the top of the coomera saltwater, it was funny trying to get em in before the little bullies got em , for the trevs if you troll pick the pace up a little and that allways worked for me to get the trevs,

[Smiderman]

I've heard that the bullies like the trev's because they have a small but fast tail action which emits a highter frequency vibration and its this that gets the bullie a hard on