going to make up some berley of my own and thinking cat food and some old bait and some pig pellets any other ideas and put into old milk bottles also take some to just throw out am thinking the manukau later this week,do the pellets go off seem to be quite cheap 20kgs for $25.00 through rd1 do they go off at all or do they last for ages

cheers for that,just what I wanted to know

My old berley mix that went through the mincer when I had one used to be 

dirtyharry wrote: Pig or chook pellets sprinkeled with tuna oil and stored in paint buckets with the lids on tight last for ages, prob ok for up to a year.  they take a while to disperse, not always a bad thing tho.

make sure you check what the pellets are made from, some are made without anything fishy in them and dont work as well as the ones with fish bits in em

Salty69 wrote: dirtyharry wrote: Pig or chook pellets sprinkeled with tuna oil and stored in paint buckets with the lids on tight last for ages, prob ok for up to a year.  they take a while to disperse, not always a bad thing tho. 1kg nescafe or Milo tins are good also . Punch a few holes in them and they sit nice inside the wobbly pot.

I ment store them in paint buckets, then you have burley ready to go at any time, no need for a freezer.  I use good old onion sacks but the tins with holes would work too.

i had a whaler take off with the wobbly berly pot off ohope one day. never attach it to the anchor rope again after that...used skippy frames macks and oil from decorro... and 25kg's of pellets. i filleted 200 jack macks and used the frames in the mixer with skippy frames 5 cups of oil...or close to 2ltrs. nowonder the whaler came in for a look..... 1 night of fishing for macks filled up both chilly bins all on sabikis..at the local wharf..

hunter naa it took the pot when i was hauling it up. massive bang saw the whaler and no burly pot...glad it did not tangle it self up in the warp, or me and chase would have been in some hairy moments getting rid of the thing...all cool thats fishing, even saw hammer heads in 20ft of water to..nice big ones... at whale island last year...water was really warm close in...year before that purple water 80mtrs behind whale. nice n warm felt like going for a swim...same summer marlin free jumping in 60 80 mtrs behind whale island...and shet loads of skippys 5kg ones..way to big for a live bait me thinks.

I freeze my burly mix in cut pieces of down pipe. Let them thaw slighlty then slide em out into bags an back in the freezer. Made a few batches poured into ice bags, nice strong plastic bags thst don't leak easily.

my mate carl dives for kina and we broke up most of them. and the snapper went nuts over them. pure kina burly can not beat it, from snapper to trevs to moki..