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Title: Cost of bait!
Post by: Freshwater Newby77 on April 19, 2014, 05:00:09 PM

Expensive little outing today.$25 for fuel,to drive to Hamon cove,& seeing we are waiting on new lures to arrive,thought I would get some yabbies-$11.50 for these at B.P Esk. I'm in the wrong game. :OMG

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: aussiebasser on April 19, 2014, 07:43:38 PM

Did you allow for a SIP too?

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: Freshwater Newby77 on April 20, 2014, 09:45:52 AM

Haha.Yep,I bought that in January,before my first lure hit the water aussiebasser,although it doesn't seem to matter.I was talking to one of the rangers the first time we went fishing,& he didn't even ask me if I had one,& wasn't even interested when i pulled it out to show him.That was at Hamon too.Some bloke there yesterday was casting a baitnet.Is that allowed there?

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: aussiebasser on April 20, 2014, 10:45:12 AM

A baitnet is not permitted in Fresh water in Queensland.  Good one on paying for your SIP.  now if it cost you $25 for fuel to get to Hamon Cove, how much would it have cost you to drive to the coast to pump some Yabbies?

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: Freshwater Newby77 on April 20, 2014, 10:56:15 AM

Ok,so the bloke was breaking the law using the net.I hear what you're saying about the yabbies,& wouldnt mind so much,provided they were decent quality,but these things were falling apart in my fingers as I was trying to put the hook through them.If they're not usable,then they aren't worth anything,let alone $11.50!

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: Sweetwater on April 20, 2014, 01:04:55 PM

Rustwater yabbies dont keep. They're only any good live and never hold together well even then.

Who ever is selling these "preserved" yabbies is selling sand to the arabs.

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: Freshwater Newby77 on April 21, 2014, 07:16:56 PM

Yes.More like B.P Esk selling to a desperado! Their "live worms" are even worse.Thin as matchsticks. Same price.

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: jordo on April 28, 2014, 08:57:35 PM

People were catching heaps of  fish up here on the downs with them salt water yabbies in Tge lakes.  Were  out fishing everything else including live shrimp.  I really can't understand why.

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: dt86 on April 30, 2014, 10:20:24 AM

I got some yabbies from Fish N Bits in Toowoomba that held together real well! not sure what they used but i googled it after and apparently soaking them in metho helps to preserve them

Title: Re: Cost of bait!
Post by: Freshwater Newby77 on April 30, 2014, 12:11:46 PM

Yeah jordo,the first time I went fishing in January I used these and caught two fish off them when lures weren't attracting them.That time they stayed together a lot better.I'm thinking that because I bought them from a servo that maybe it was old stock or something.I'm learning all I can about lures and soft plastics from every TV show I can find and the guys on here.I will more than likely just use those.Thanks for your input fellas. :youbeauty