Elecmuso

We fished a couple of spots out from Moonta. Friday was poor with only 3 keepers but many baby snapper all of which went back. On Saturday when they were on they were on. Bites were solid with not many missed whether using live or frozen. We kept 16 whiting, threw as many undersized ones back, and also managed a good sized flatty. Had there been many nuisance fish such as small leatherjackets stealing the bait I would bet they'd have a hard time stealing the live cockles and would have easily stripped hooks of the mushy frozen ones; that would have been reflected in whiting having a

Yep you were correct. Froze some, kept the others in seawater which I changed a couple of times. The cockles that I did not freeze were still alive and well for both Friday and Saturday fishing sessions.

G'day - been a while since I posted. I've just collected 300 cockles from Goolwa (Tuesday morning) and are in a bucket of seawater with an aerator. I plan to be using them Friday and Saturday this week. Will they stay alive until the weekend or should I be freezing them (or perhaps some of them)?

Knowing cockles have been difficult to source lately I rang ahead to BCF to ask whethere they had cockles and where they were sourced. The answer I was expecting was Thailand in which case I would not have bothered going (have purchased these before and found them to be way inferior). Instead he said 'I've been told they are from Melbourne or Sydney' so I figured that was a reasonable compromise. So I drove to BCF and these are what they had. They didn't look like the interstate variety to me, and looked just like the Thai imports I'd tried once before. I left without bait (to make it wor

Well I'm headed there today. Looks like a dodge so don't know how that will affect things? Any tips on tide time or location?

Cheers. Might get there before the rain.

Goolwa season has just opened. Anyone had any luck? They were mostly tiny last year without travelling for km.

You are right, $20 for a kg which sounds a lot better than BCF (don't know the weight of the tiny bag BCF sell but it is $18). Unfortunately they are out of stock until tomorrow!

Done and thanks! Next time I have bait left over I'll think of you rather than toss it.

Mitcham

So if you had a day to collect bait (and I do today), where would you go? I'm heading out in the morning and need bait but don't want to pay nearly $20 for a tiny bag of cockles - and it is tiny. I gather ghost shrimp / nippers are mostly great yellowfin bait, but are they any good for KGs? Could collect some this arvo and they'd be OK in the morning.

What sand flats Mike?

With price of cockles so high I'd like to know what other baits work well with KGs. I've alwayws considered fresh cockles (fresh are never available anyway it seems) to be the best bait. Easy to use, stay on, the fish love them, and they were once inexpensive! I've never had a lot of luck with Squid. Maybe others have? What else? BTW, if anyone knows where I can get cockles at a reasonable price please let me know!

Yellow door your methid is what I have being resorting to lately. One question for you and others is do you use a deep fryer or just a frypan and some olive oil? I do the latter but find the fish and crumbs use up a hell of a lot of oil!

Doobie the video you posted is how I would have done iit until I saw Brentons post.