Baits and Berley

Hints, tips and ideas on different baits for fishing. How and where to catch your own bait. How to make and use berley to catch more fish.

Tiger worms - Eisenia fetida - one of six different common garden earth worms found in New Zealand.
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  • Coarse Fishing
    • Worms – Starting A Wormery for Freshwater Fish Bait

    Learn how to start a simple, effective wormery for producing fresh fishing bait. This guide covers the best containers, bedding, feeding methods, and maintenance tips to keep your worms healthy and multiplying year-round.

    04/12/2025
    Garfish make good baits for a variety of species including roaming kahawai. Photo Peter Langlands. Surfcasting Baits.
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  • Surfcasting
    • Surfcasting Baits

    Surfcasting Baits By Peter Langlands A wide range of baits has flooded the market in.

    14/03/2024
    Elephant fish baits feat
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  • Surfcasting
    • Surfcasting Baits – Using different baits to target different species

    Surfcasting Baits Using different baits to target different species Surfcasting bait is a very interesting.

    12/05/2020
    Sea Fishing Baits - How to Find & Use Them by Alan Young
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  • Books - Overseas
    • Sea Fishing Baits – How to Find & Use Them by Alan Young

    Sea Fishing Baits How to Find & Use Them by Alan Young 96 pp, line-art.

    15/07/2021
    The four steps of manufacturing a berley cage and a berley cage sinker.
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    • Berley Cages – How to Make Berley Sinkers and Berley Mixtures

    Berley Cages – How to Make Berley Sinkers and Berley Mixtures By Stephen Coote Berley.

    14/03/2024
    Youngsters learning how to catch fish wharf and jetty fishing is an important part of growing up in New Zealand. This is where most of us start out as anglers like these two boys on a brilliant sunny day at Oamaru.
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    • Catching Small Fish from Wharves and Jetties – Tip, try smaller hooks

    How to fish from wharves and Jetties Despite being a surfcasting fanatic I still find.

    21/01/2021
    How to Catch Yabbies, or Ghost Shrimp, with a Bait Pump Video
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  • Slider
    • How to Catch Yabbies, or Ghost Shrimp, with a Bait Pump – Video

    Yabbies are Top Mullet Bait – Video Video Title: How to Catch Yabbies with a Bait.

    09/05/2023
    Yellow-eyed mullet shoal by size. Smaller fish like this one just 60mm in length can be found in huge shoals over the summer around river mouths and along the coast.
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  • New Zealand Sea Fishes
    • Yellow-eyed Mullet – Aldrichetta forsteri – found in harbours, estuaries, tidal rivers

    Yellow-eyed Mullet – How to Catch them for Bait Yellow-eyed mullet are often incorrectly called.

    27/08/2024
    When fishing from a boat, wharf, rocks or a jetty, using berley will increase your catch rate.
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    • Berley, or Chum – Using Berley to Catch More Fish – Video

    How to use berley to increase your catch rate A couple of years back, it.

    28/06/2026
    Mussels - featured image.
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  • Molluscs
    • Mussels Make the Best Bait – Easy to find at low tide

    Mussels Make the Best Bait by Barrie Clark “Let’s go and gather some mussels,” suggested.

    14/03/2024
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