Berley in the fresh?

[gohwy006 0]

Been fishing saltwater most of my life. Recently got into freshwater and was wondering what do people use to burley up cod, redfin, callop, catfish?at the torrens i usually through out corn or creamed corn for carp, but thats about all i have in terms of knoweledge in regards to my questions.Perhaps like choped up worms would be ok, mixed w bread crumbs and oat bran, but i would rather save them for bait. Looking for a brew which ingredients are easy to find and cheap, nothing like smashed up yabbies or fresh water muscles.ANy help appreciated :-)

[rod_evans 2]

chicken pellets are the go about 17dollars for a sackful just throw handfuls around the area you are going to fishonce the fish start feeding keep them interested with a bitmore every now and then.cheers rod

[Mr_Willy 3]

Think you would struggle to berley up Callop or Cod, though I have dropped crushed yabbies and prawns on my trolling runs on the river before and caught Callop. Don't expect to sit on the bank and berley and catch Callop and Cod though....I have used creamed corn for Carp Berley before.....

[weaver 271]

Nath, thats not entirely correct.I use to berley all the time when i would bait fish for yellas.Any dead shrimp would get chopped up and thrown in as well as packets of bait prawns and hand fulls of tiger worms and their soil.One ball every half hour or so.You need to be breeding your own worms to have surplus for bait and berley as you get very little out of a tub.Chuck in some bread and some river sand and you will have a very productive session.You will of course catch carp but you will also catch callop.Hope this helps Gohwy.

[weaver 271]

Oh yeah and to point out the obvious, Cod and catfish are protected!!

[Rear Admiral 3]

I have spoken to various people about using berley in fresh water, where some people have told me that berley does have a positive effect in fresh water (albeit not as much as in salt water), but it does help. Whereas other people have told me that with many species of fish (e.g. Callop/Golden Perch), berley is utterly useless, where unless you cast a hook or lure pretty much right on top of their heads, nothing else will help. I'm hoping someone who has actually used berley in fresh water can offer some advice.  I'm not expecting a guaranteed catch from any advice I get, not at all.  I only want to know if it would help to some extent.  I found this post in another forum:

"I fish mainly for natives and do not use alot of berley. However i have used a type of berley that involved keeping household waste including fruit and vegetable scraps, bread and anything else i could find and putting it into a large onion bag. I did this for about two weeks (i advise storing this away from living areas as it does begin to stink. Then once i had enough in the bag i placed a brick in the bag and dropped it at the base of a targeted tree, nice depth with good structure. I returned to this spot in around three or four days shook the bag up and began to fish. This was in a redfin impoundment and i caught alot of fish including redfin, yellowbelly and of course carp. i continued to fish this location for the folowing two weeks with great success."

 

I actually had something very, very similar in mind.

I was going to put a berley pot in a yabby opera net, then put that net sort of in the area of the "upstream flank" of where I plan to cast out, either lures or bait rigs. And from the reading and research I've done, there are some things I have in mind that will definitely put out a scent....a long way.  I would then cast out slightly downstream from this berley bucket.  A guaranteed catch?  No.  But surely this must help to some extent?

[Seeseacol 381]

I haven't a huge amount of experience with freshwater berley, but so long as there is some current it should be effective. Whenever I have fished for Carp and use my pudding bait I throw out numerous tiny balls of the mix in the area I wish to cast...has given me some great results. { My favorite food for carp is simply flour/water and curry powder mixed into a stiff paste that stays on the hook well.