Guest lloydy Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Taking the boat out saturday up the river chasing Callop, whilst mainly itll be 90% lures, we are gonna try sending out baits aswell...Anyone tried whitebait for Callop?We havent seen shrimp for ages, so cant use that, and worms arnt the best IMO,Any thoughts? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Softy 2,991 Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 I have not done a lot of callop fishing.. but i have never heard of people using whitebait for callop.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kelvin 2,200 Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 No reason why it won't work. Many years ago in Canberra, a few local fishers did ok on the Golden Perch using small pilchards.Plenty of native fish have been caught over the years on red meat, rabbit, chicken and even cheese. One theory is that its not the bait itself, but rather the shrimps and yabbies that the bait attracts that attracts the fish. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
urhookedfish 12 Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 About five years ago a few anglers from the compleat angler store in melbourne did a trip to lake Bullen Merri (deep crator lake) snd used nothing but white bait dropped down deep wirh only a big split shot. They cleaned up on atlantic salmon, brown and rainbow trout to 8lb. Those fish loved em so I would think the callop would fancy em as well.Brett Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Piranha 76 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 if your keen on trying a saltwater bait for yellas, peel some green prawns they work pretty well over east when the local shops run out of yabbies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
disturbed1 0 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 most saltwater baits work- ive used whitebait, prawns etc. and have had a fair bit of success. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tonyb 1,017 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 I've used frogmouths and whitebait as ground bait/berley and also on ganged hook, free lined rigs to try and tempt a biiig reddy out , but none have come out to play so far :unsure:Oh Well, back to the lures, hope you guys have a bit more luck Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afishyfish 4 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 lloydy wrote:We haven't seen shrimp for ages, so cant use that, and worms arnt the best IMO,Any thoughts?There were plenty of shrimp at Swan Reach 2 weeks ago We had about 15 in the net after only 1/2 hr in the middle of the day, right next to the reeds Failing that why not give the WB's a try. Nothing to lose Quote Link to post Share on other sites
1ONMEPILLIE 0 Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Piranha wrote:if your keen on trying a saltwater bait for yellas, peel some green prawns they work pretty well over east when the local shops run out of yabbies Green prawns work a treat on Callop Thats all i used on one of my house boat trips..As for no shrimp about ?? not sure where you've been goin but like AFF said we had no problem filling an esky for my six foot tank Cheers Adam Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tonyb 1,017 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 You could also take a leaf out of LBB's book as he is feeding his near 5 kg Callop in his holding tank, with nice fat live Goldfish from the pet shop Tho', on second thoughts, maybe that's why there are so many feral Goldies in the Murray Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Komodo 10 Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 In the uk they use sprats herring and mackeral from saltwater for the freshwater pikeAlways thought of going Cod fishing with the last 5" of tail from a mackeral but never got round to trying it :dry: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest lloydy Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 I gave it ago the other night, only ended up with a 600mm Carp Prob get out again after work when this rain settles, so ill try again...Cheers for the replys Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Del 245 Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 only a 60cm callop.... sounds like a good result to me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cal 480 Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 lloydy wrote:I gave it ago the other night, only ended up with a600mm Carp .Cheers for the replysSorry to point it out Del Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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