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Ahh I see - I was on the wrong track imagining you were casting out into the middle of a river. Yeah when I fish wharfs for them - first I do recon to find a spot where the biggest schools of bait hang out at night - then I burley all session and set one livie at 1.5m down and the other at 3m. I like to Burley half a teaspoon at a time, every 5 mins over the session, Helps to build the bait school bigger/ keeps it flashing and darting around / keeps scent in the water and gives me something to do while waiting for a hit. I even used to experiment with splashing 10 litre buckets

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Great info there Jackmac - What did you use to keep your mullet off the bottom and where did you put the hooks into your livies?

I've got a mate who sets an alarm on his phone and watches the water to make sure its gone slack - then he casts - he likes the the exact second the incoming tide starts. He doesnt want to put lures infront of fish that arent ready to feed yet I'm a bit more relaxed - I'll take any stage of incoming tide. But I prefer it to happen around dusk. With lures - I usually put 12 casts in to a spot before moving on to the next. But with livies - I'll sit it out and a 3- 4 hour session is long enough to let me know if they were going to hit or not. I really start to focus on the r

Yeah - where I fish, big stingrays and sharks arent a problem - but tiny flathead are a menace - so I always have a smaller version on hand - You can dehook them while they're still in the water and come home with a full tank of blood

Haha - Yeah at least you always have a knife to cut the line I just whipped one up out of stuff I had lying around in the garage. My mate trolls behind a yacht, so I figure a longish pole that could deal with lures would be best - But I like the versatility of the Shepherds crook design allowing 2 types of removal SS shaft would be the go Heres some commercially produced variants. I did watch a vid where a guy welds half a chain link to some 16mm rebar - it would take a megladon to go through that

Yeah I get scared while trying to take a lure out of a bream, so I cringe when I see people playing with sharks I cant guarantee the first shark wouldnt chomp straight through the golf club handle - but I built one to see how useful that weird hook could be for backing out big lures - it would be a handy tool if made properly

A mate sent me some footage of him trying to get his hand bitten off by a Mako. I says - just make yourself a de-hooker - should be a piece of piss He says - If its a piece of piss - why dont you make me one Job Done

From what I've seen on youtube - when preserving other fish - following the steps correctly is very important

Have you got any photos of the finished product - sounds interesting

Yeah I've tried my own version of this when the council built a new lake -I stocked it up with all sort of prey items from shrimp to Yabbies - gave it about a year for all the prey to establish self sustaining populations. Then just when I was going to add some native predators - they drained it - They got in there with bull dozers and dredged it all out. I was spewing. So watching it unfold on youtube is the next best thing. I must have jinxed this Canadian trout pond when I said he moves fast on projects - he does move fast but he's had plenty of other projects to move fast

I'll have some diy booby traps waiting for them

Yeah I gave them an hour to defrost but they were just getting flung around the bucket - I either need a skinnier bucket or much more burley on top of the blades to stop the carp bits flying around. Salted carp is pretty tough and my methods were pretty poor.

Yeah in my mind, it was going to be alot easier than it was - I dont have alot of stuff to mulch so I was hoping this would be a quick fix. I reckon these drill blenders would go alright with mushy pilchards but the salted carp was too strong I've got a couple of tweaks to make - part of me thinks a long slender PVC tube would hold the carp bits in place, so they couldnt get flung away by the blades - so I havent given up completely. Fresh unsalted carp will be the next thing to get the chop - if that fails - I'm out of the burley making game

Yeah its a weird world these days

Its a paint stirrer I got of ebay - not built for the task - but someone suggested they might do the job - so I gave it a crack. Made the other one out of scrap metal. (definitely not suggesting anyone give it a crack - theres plenty of safety concerns )

Here it is without the tunes - All the staunch faces look a little weird with out the backing track

oops - got copyright strike for using ACDC - Highway to hell on the first one. I'll reload - the footage