[yellowfin]

What does everyone around pay for bait?? How much for a kilo of NZ pilchard, would be a good base rate to figure whats a good price and whats not!

[yellowfin]

I usually expect to pay around $10 for a bag of bait. Whatever type.
I generally only ever buy enough bait to get me started. Then I use fresh bait… If imanage to catch any.

Although some of my mates will go in and spend around $40 getting a few different baits.

[yellowfin]

Me and a mate could spend about $15 between us and usualy get a kg bag of pillys and sum bonito. But some time we hav bonito leave ova so it just the cost of the pillys which make it a cheap trip.

[Miliwolf]

Never taken much notice, brought a 1.5kg bag of pilchards last night for a little over $10. A kg of pilchards normally would last me around 12 hours fishing, that is normally spread across three or four trips.

[yellowfin]

I haven’t brought bait for about a year. I’ve just been using stuff I’ve caught mainly. Although I did buy some chicken hearts the other day for mullet bait, but other than that, nothing.

[Sevengillz]

Same here Zac.I keep a couple of red cod each trip and build up supplys.I buy a pack of large nz arrow and that prob returns me about 10 bait reds before I toss the rest of the squid away.About $7 for a kilo of big arrow.
Whole prawns raw and cooked usually cost around $10-$15 per kilo or for some reason a kilo of tails near cost me $30!
I got a kilo of grey mullet today for around $9.I havnt bought any of this shit for a while so thought I would because it was there.
Would be interesting to compare prices of squid because brands and prices vary so much.I can get 10kilo boxes of nz arrow for $16 but my freezer always to full for that.
I was after a 10kilo box of barracouta fillets but at $12.50 per kilo….. Dont need to spend that much on bait even if it last you 12months but by then whats left over would prob be off anyway.

[Miliwolf]

Prawn vary greatly in price, I guess a few kinds of prawn are more elitist then others so demand a price premium. I buy mine on special and normally get the cheapest.

Purchased a 1kg pack of baby Salmon today, for $9.99 . That reminds me it is still in the car thrawing out…. (edit: In freezer now )

We probably already covered this, but do you catch noticeably less Red Cod when using Red Cod for bait. Would love to catch less of the buggers.

[Sevengillz]

Yeah I sort of noticed the sharks would take the cod before anything else did.I have caught cod on cod but not very many.I think I may have mentioned in a post,if I reported it but must of only been a few weeks ago I was down the ways with squid and cod for bait.Started out with the squid and if I remember rightly all I caught was red cod with no sign of sharks but when I switched to the red cod I got shark after shark Maybe nothing more than coincidence???

[Sevengillz]

Oh I forgot to ask MiliWolf,Where might I find some baby salmon? Salmon burley drives fish insane so maybe salmon baits will work wonders over these quiet times???

[Miliwolf]

Hunting and Fishing has it in stock.

[yellowfin]

id prob spend 10 bucks a ttrip as well depending on what im fishing for.

[storm]

Sevengillz

[Sevengillz]

yeah it stays on alright if you use big enough pieces but I always changed it after every hookup or a every couple of retrieves

[storm]

i tried one in the weekend basically had the whole cod on my hook but it didnt last long it got cleaned up by other cod

[Miliwolf]

The 4 SQ store in Havelock appears to be quite cheap for bait and burley.

I believe a 1.5kg bag of burley was $5.20, 1.5kg of pilchards was around $7.00 . My memory is failing me but it appeared to be a few dollars cheaper then the service stations and fishing stores.

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