Burley

[LandyAndy]

He fellas,besides throwing up over the side,what do you do for Berley???
Im in the process of making a batch up so I will tell you what I do.
Firstly I make a BIG batch of "normal" berley up in an old esky.I add Pollard,Canary Seed,Wheat,Meat Meal,Chook pellets and plenty of fish oil.The wheat and canary seed sink quicker than the pellets/pollard so you end up with a berley that attracts top/medium and botom dwellers.If you use plenty of oil and no water this brew keeps for months in the berley bucket.
Next I defrost all my "saved up" fish offal out of the bait freezer.I save left over bait,fish frames guts heads skins,all Eans prawn heads and shells.I grind the lot up with a hand mincer,adding splashes of fish oil and the "normal" berley(it cleans/unclogs the hand mincer)After todays effort Im going to look for an electric mincer;);););)
The mix with the fish offal is then mixed with water and put into freezer bags and re-frozen,I use plant pots as a mold to suit the berley pot.They last around 2 hours before you need to throw another ice block in the berley pot.Also help keep the bait esky cold;););););)
What do you guys do???
Andrew

[Bigbjorn]

He fellas,besides throwing up over the side,what do you do for Berley???
Im in the process of making a batch up so I will tell you what I do.
Firstly I make a BIG batch of "normal" berley up in an old esky.I add Pollard,Canary Seed,Wheat,Meat Meal,Chook pellets and plenty of fish oil.The wheat and canary seed sink quicker than the pellets/pollard so you end up with a berley that attracts top/medium and botom dwellers.If you use plenty of oil and no water this brew keeps for months in the berley bucket.
Next I defrost all my "saved up" fish offal out of the bait freezer.I save left over bait,fish frames guts heads skins,all Eans prawn heads and shells.I grind the lot up with a hand mincer,adding splashes of fish oil and the "normal" berley(it cleans/unclogs the hand mincer)After todays effort Im going to look for an electric mincer;);););)
The mix with the fish offal is then mixed with water and put into freezer bags and re-frozen,I use plant pots as a mold to suit the berley pot.They last around 2 hours before you need to throw another ice block in the berley pot.Also help keep the bait esky cold;););););)
What do you guys do???
Andrew

Don't you have a few illegal immigrants in WA to throw overboard?

[roverrescue]

When at the reef, we are normally in 20-60m of water with a few knots of current.
Surface burley is good for Mackeral but you catch enough of them without burley to be worth the hassle.

When needed we use one of those "secret weapon" red burley bombs with a few plonkers on the bottom to get ot down tied onto a 200lb handline. Fill it with a coupl eof cutup pillies drop and wait for the fireworks. Usually only need to use it if you miss the mark on the hand and want to draw the bigger fish over to you.

We did try using the garden wood chipper once to make burley chips. Using frozen fish frames (they chip up into little pieces nicer) the garden mulcher made us 20kg of burley in short order - messy but effective!!!!! hosed it out afterwards and all is well.

Just alot of effort that for us doesnt seem worth it.

S

[LandyAndy]

When at the reef, we are normally in 20-60m of water with a few knots of current.
Surface burley is good for Mackeral but you catch enough of them without burley to be worth the hassle.

When needed we use one of those "secret weapon" red burley bombs with a few plonkers on the bottom to get ot down tied onto a 200lb handline. Fill it with a coupl eof cutup pillies drop and wait for the fireworks. Usually only need to use it if you miss the mark on the hand and want to draw the bigger fish over to you.

We did try using the garden wood chipper once to make burley chips. Using frozen fish frames (they chip up into little pieces nicer) the garden mulcher made us 20kg of burley in short order - messy but effective!!!!! hosed it out afterwards and all is well.

Just alot of effort that for us doesnt seem worth it.

S

May have to invest in a garden chipper,plenty of other stray animals that would make good burley,they work well in cray pots;););););)
Andrew

[bblaze]

I also used to use a ring on my anchor rope and lower a good size burley pot down the anchor rope, that way as the fish swim up thhe burley trail they encounter your tasty morsels before te burley. Works extremely well down to about 100m, after that I didnt use burley
cheers
blaze

ps what ever you put in yours andy works well, seen the evedence

[LandyAndy]

Great tip Robbie.
Lindsay and I just made a decent burley pot the other weekend,will rig it so I can send it down the anchor rope;););););)
Andrew

[UNDEROVER]

100mm PVC with a cap glued on one end and a screw end on the other. Drill 13mm holes all around, glue some lead flashing cut to size in the bottom and you're done.

As for berley - what ever left over frames, bait etc through a mincer mixed with some sand, chook pellets and frozen in the 1 litre cardboard milk containers (so you can tear them out easily) put in the bomb and sent to the bottom.

Although I do think that prawn shells/heads are the "secret" ingredient in my book. Had enough success with that in the berley to convince me!

Berley must also be small enough for a snack, not a feed...

[LandyAndy]

This is the burley pot we made a couple of weeks ago.
The chopper is made of copper coated stainless steel,the blades are also stainless.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2012/03/1127.jpg
Should do the job niceley;);););).
I ended up with a 25lt bucket full of minced fish offal(PLENTY of Ean Austral prawn heads an shells in there).Used plant pots with freezer bags in as molds.
Will get tested at Easter:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:
Andrew

[Chenz]

We are naughty at our house and don't eat the crusts at either end of the loaf of bread - please no comments about making your hair go curly, after a few weeks I have all the bread which has been stored in the freezer to put in through the food processer to make bread crumbs. Then through the hand mincer - I would love to find an old butcher's mincer, goes the fish frames, guts, heads, scales skins etc. left over pillies and other bait from the last trip. Mix this all up with a good slosh of tuna oil, sand, left over boiled rice, a couple of cans of cat food and pearl barley - pre-soaked and the secret ingredient, processed bran.

Freeze these up in containers to suit the size of my berley bucket and pop one in every hour or so. In water up to 40 metres with not much current this is deadly on the reds and pearl perch with the occasional king and trag coming in for a look as well.

I think the key is to get a good mincer, or do more weights training with the hand model