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    Posted: 20 Feb 2013 at 1:23pm
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I can usually rely on fresh mullet for bait but on my latest trip I only managed to get a parore so I used that - with excellent results. The snapper didn't just nibble the bait either, I was using an unweighted line in shallow water and they just grabbed it and ran.
 
Have I been missing out on a top bait source all these years or were these snapper just exceptionally hungry? Has anyone else tried parore for bait?
 
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Well there you go another potential bait species added to list. Actually only fish that seems to be poor bait is snapper itself.
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May well be a good bait as they are fairly oily however on some days the snaps will attack almost anything so probably before we decide a certain bait is a winner reckon it is only safe to claim it is after it has proven itself successful by fishing it alongside some of the more accepted baits.
 
Then again there was a time not so long ago when the only bait you could buy was trevally or squid & apart from catching your own pllchards, bonito, mackeral, saurey, anchovies etc. simply did not exist & as for burley 95% of fishos would not even known what it was.
 
So yeah .... give parore your best shot to see if it is a winner then let us all know because they are so easy to net to the point they become a real pain in the proverbial.
 
On this note reckon it would be great to run a competion on this forum based on innovative introductions to new forms of bait hitherto with undiscovered potential ...... so much the better if it is a noxious critter
such as koi carp or similar or anything that does not deplete our oceans.
 
What do other members here think of such a proposal?
 
IMHO it could do no harm unless the winner was Manukau gurnard which would undoubtable earn the wrath of a certain moderator who shall remain nameless. 
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We often use parore and drummer for burley when spearfishing. Snapper can't get enough of them.
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Originally posted by herby herby wrote:

We often use parore and drummer for burley when spearfishing. Snapper can't get enough of them.
 
Using burley to spearfish ????????????????????????????????
 
Geez reckon that is the equivalent to admitting to ****ing in church!
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Why?
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Bazza, hunting is hunting by fair means or foul. Even coarse fishermen use burley Wink
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yep i remember the days of watties trevally fillets and squid in a box,along came fresh mullet etc.nowdays you offer a snapper a pipi or mussel they want to eat a bit of rubber what next?as for parore i might give it a go(cheap)or go get some free carp from puhinui stream,manukau
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most anything fresh out of the sea is going to catch snapper, try blue cod/red snapper/parrot fish/grand daddy/flounder when fresh they all work, its just that we have a source of baitfish which we can rely on for bait,
using something else other than that we tend to frown on, i guess its a mind set...
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Originally posted by herby herby wrote:

Why?
 
Why ?
 
Cos you spearos are usually thought to be of a more nobel higher order inasmuch as unlike we lower contenders namely boat & landbased, you pursue your quarry by joing them in their environment so to speak.
 
To learn you guys resort to the same forms of subterfuge & enticement we less principaled hopefuls do comes as something of dissilusion.
 
Next thing you will be telling us there is no santa, tooth fairy or an easter bunny!
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Originally posted by bazza bazza wrote:

Originally posted by herby herby wrote:

Why?
 
Why ?
 
Cos you spearos are usually thought to be of a more nobel higher order inasmuch as unlike we lower contenders namely boat & landbased, you pursue your quarry by joing them in their environment so to speak.
 
To learn you guys resort to the same forms of subterfuge & enticement we less principaled hopefuls do comes as something of dissilusion.
 
Next thing you will be telling us there is no santa, tooth fairy or an easter bunny!
there is a santa,i got new jandels,tooth ferry delivered $2.00 and took boys tooth,cannot wait for the easter bunny last year i got a chocolate pig
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[/QUOTE]there is a santa,i got new jandels,tooth ferry delivered $2.00 and took boys tooth,cannot wait for the easter bunny last year i got a chocolate pig
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love it! LOL
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