I like to have 1 rod of each out. When fishing for shark at night big teethies are out and about which is why the snelled rig works better for me.STriplett1997 wrote:I don’t always use one hook, depends on the target species and bait. Snapper I like to use snelled suicides with a calamari ring, anything else is a single circle. I always have them on board for berley, never end up using them because I catch squid and so on as bait instead, only use them if I have tocrumpet_avenger wrote:You use 1 hook rigs. That makes it simple. A tail is my favourite bait for flatty, pinkies and gummies.STriplett1997 wrote:I always hear about good fish caught on pillies in the port but I never manage anything bragable on them.. only pinkiescrumpet_avenger wrote:Tail only? How do you come to that conclusion?A-a-ron wrote:Seen that you can catch them on pillies, but seems like they only go for the tail only.
Ive caught them on full pilchard. Pilchard fillet. Pillie tail and pillie head.
You sure you have fished for gummies for as long as you say you have?
Surely in that time you have used more than 1 kind and style of bait?
Whole, chunks, steaks, fillets, heads, tails, cocktails
Maybe I just don’t use them enough..
A head is my favourite for pike, couta and snapper
A fillet is my favourite for big whiting, timid pinkies and trevally.
I never go fishing without a block of pillies. If no fish its a great berley
The amount of times the bottom hook has been severed and in the sharks mouth only to be hooked on the top hook is unreal.
Wlways like a small bait and a big bait. Small bait on the single hook and a big bait on the 2 hook rig.
Each to their own i guess