Morning all, im going to make up some berley seem pig pallets or chicken food works well in the mix. Any recommendations?

Mc Tool wrote: I put all sorts in there , oil from the sardine tin ,anything left over from filleting or gutting fish ,left over cat food ( yeah I know but between her and 2 fussy cats I dont stand a chance . Its real sad ....I spend more on cat food than beer 🙄🙂 ) ,anything meaty thats to far past its use by date , fish oil ( MD's) . Pretty much anything ....I figure that the fish dont actually have to eat it ..it only has to get them interested. But yeah pig or chicken pellets are good ....anything with meat or bone meal in it 🙂🙂

Cats,Hmm yrs ago there was just felix,today,fussy bloody things,might become burley its self

"I figure that the fish dont actually have to eat it ..it only has to get them interested."

Mc Tool wrote: "dont used bait you wouldn't eat ",😆 yeah ...when we lived in Nelson there was sanmar (for example ) in the freezer at Big Blue ,and now Im seeing it in the freezer at packnsave , along with a lot of frozen imported stuff ....I mean I have often said to the Mrs that the frozen fish freezer looks like a bait freezer , and I have eaten bait before ,😆😆we got a bit pissed up at Durville once and bbq'd the squid ( thanks Talleys ) and the frozen garfish wasnt bad ....tell ya what tho ...it sure did hit the fan when the snobby #£&+'s found out it was sold as bait .,.😆😆😆😆my sis in law brings it up every chance she gets ....ah some people aye 😆😆

Seen some of that fish at Pak n Sav marked not for fish bait,really you wouldnt eat it would you?

We used to make up berley by using an old-fashioned mincer to process kahawai, jack mackerel etc, also sprats. And defrosted bait we didn't use.  I understand that you shouldn't put snapper frames in though, presumably it'll alarm other snapper. Though I've landed a big Northland snapper that spat out a baby snapper it'd eaten, so...

Anything fishy works for me. I bulk mine up with chook food bread etc but I haven't made berley in years now. Scallop gut and cheap chook pellets worked well for me for gurnard. It was in their stomachs when I gutted them.

When my bait freezer gets full of old bait leftovers I have a session with the mincer. Takes a couple of days in the fish bins to defrost the raw product in the back shed. Whatever can fit down the mincer throat goes into the mix. Bigger stuff like Kahawai gets the chop first. Most whole fish (jacks, Mullet, Kahawai, etc) I will take the tails and fins off pre mince as they just make the job harder for no benefit. An expensive pair of scissors is the go here. Also if it has scales these are removed too to ease the blockages and the arm. I then pack the end product into 300mm long 100mm PVC pipes with either an end cap or plastic bag taped to the bottom. I smear the insides of the tubes with fish oil pre loading to make the burley release easier. Slight defrost and it slides out of the pipe into my dispenser as needed.  Making your own is cheaper and IMHO better than purchased products' though I often bulk out the mix with some anyway. I don't use any meat products as this is not legal in IGFA rules. I sometimes fish competitions that are based around these rules and you never know when that fish of a lifetime for me or the crew is going to make an appearance. 

"Cant catch snapper with snapper" ......yeah its the old bananas on the boat thing again 😆.
Skin doesnt go thru the mincer well but I think a few scales doesnt hurt as they twinkle as they fall down thru the water like something has just been attacked ..,.maybe 🙂?

They actually had to stop trying to farm snapper up at Pahs Farm Kawau because they had such a low survival rate caused by them eating each other.

The bananas on a boat being bad luck related to the gas they give them off in the hold causing other fruit cargoes to go off back in the sailing ship days. So had bugger all to do with fishing anyway!

And then there is the guy who will tell you that "x " type lure is the best for the Aparima river because every trout he caught was on that lure (Jensen insect spinner ....cant get them any more ) ,and then will go on to tell you that is the only lure he ever uses.

Yeah , it was me 😁