Floating livebaits

[WayneD]

Had dramas on Friday with putting livebaits out the back of the boat under floats. Only livies I could get were 30+cm boneys and they swam in all different directions. Getting lines tangled around each other, the prop and the transducer. How do you control them? Was it just because they were big baits they did this or do the little baits swim everywhere as well? In the Logan I used to fish on the bottom as the catfish weren't as plentiful but in the Brissy at Kooka all I have been getting is catty's off the bottom.

Also I just used some cheap floats from BCG, Rogue brand and I thought they were crap. Don't particularly want to use balloons as they come off and float away and it is just littering in my book and could kill fishlife if they eat it thinking it's food.

Any tips you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

[elops]

You need short tailed boney's more tail beats and less movement