Rozboon wrote: Anyone ever livebaited a Coutta? I caught a maybe 80cm barry last summer and had a pack of solid kings follow it up, basically harassing it, kept it in the water to keep the kings fired up while my mate pitched them a dead mackerel which got instantly hammered. |
Structfab wrote:
kings often enquire hooked fish on the way up, reckon it's the panic signals the hooked fish is sending. No reason one wouldn't work for a livey but length may be an issue for any kingi considering swallowing it. It's well known to make great dead bait for puka, but I'm thinking livey for swords. I try not ponder the barstools to often, they can be a curse down here at times |
Structfab wrote:
kings often enquire hooked fish on the way up, reckon it's the panic signals the hooked fish is sending. No reason one wouldn't work for a livey but length may be an issue for any kingi considering swallowing it. It's well known to make great dead bait for puka, but I'm thinking livey for swords. I try not ponder the barstools to often, they can be a curse down here at times |
Catchelot wrote:
Just keeping this conversation going... A few years ago I caught a fair size cutta on a live bridle rigged kahawai, it was straylined about 60m back in mid water. Anyway, when it came up it had three Kingies about 70lb following it up! Were they thinking of eating it I will never know. I have caught baby baracutta in Fiordland and they were beaut baitfish! In my youth we did not see many 'cutta as they were a once a year fish in mid depths off shore and the reason why was because kahawai used to feed on them and it kept the numbers down, the comms took and reduced the kahawai later on and the baracutta numbers increased to what we have today! |
laidbackdood wrote: Live baits have been the go with Epic for a long long time. |
John_Ra wrote: I prefer Livey's these days. Still Jig but not for long, just in short bursts. Last time I jigged half a day, man! muscles I never knew I had ached for a few days Over Fish1 species, another thrives. Limit KY quota to half for comms... balance... interesting thread.... |
Rozboon wrote:
To be fair, depending on how hardcore the fishos on board are, it's hard to go wrong with a livey. Just sit and hold the rod and hang on... jigging is a very different ballgame. As an example, my old man is in his early 60's and I can guarantee you he has no interest in mechanical jigging. |
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