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with a liberal sprinkling of rock salt. The salt draws out moisture and toughens up the flesh, without adversely affecting the flavour. So they hold up better to repeated casting or annoying pickers and pests. Good quality freshly salted small tuna are right at the top of the list for bream or snapper around inshore reef and rocky headlands.

Although it’s worth learning how to catch beach worms if you live on the coast and have the time and patience, luckily they can also be purchased from good bait shops. Beach worms appeal to most saltwater species, but are particularly effective for whiting and mulloway. They may seem relatively expensive compared to

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$54,995 other baits, but that’s because of the process involved in catching, packaging and storage, but in my books they are definitely worth it. If you’re a keen surf angler, beach worms will serve you well.

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WHITE BREAD

Plain and simple white bread is right up there for rock fishing if bream, drummer and luderick are the targets. Other fish like mullet, garfish and silver trevally also love bread. It’s just so clean, easy to use and quite inexpensive. White bread is also one of the easiest baits to find, because it’s sold almost everywhere. Yes, it can be a little soft on the hook, so it’s not resistant to pickers like toads or mados, but I find it works so well that any negative sides aren’t much of an issue.

CALAMARI

One of the more common squid species in our inshore waters, calamari are particularly abundant around inshore reef, kelp beds and sheltered bays. They work exceptionally well, fresh, alive or even frozen, but it’s way better to catch your own than pay high prices for potentially second rate calamari. If mulloway and kingfish are on your wanted list then one of the best pieces of advice I can suggest is to learn how to catch calamari first, believe me!

Silver trevally are one of the more commonly encountered species around South East Australia through the cooler months. Although they respond well to small lures and flies, they really love soft baits like peeled prawns, worms, pipis, pilchards and white bread.

TAILOR strips or cut pieces are also dynamite on bream, flathead and snapper. Tailor also just happen to be one of the best baits you could use to catch more tailor!

MULLET

Anglers around the country would be well aware of mullet as bait. They come in a number of different species and can also be found in freshwater rivers. Mullet are a true all-rounder for anything from mulloway to bream to snapper. I rate mullet slightly behind tailor, however, the flesh and skin is firmer, so mullet makes a more durable bait than tailor.

GARFISH

Another very familiar bait to keen anglers around most of the country. Like mullet, other fish.

YELLOWTAIL

Yellowtail or yakkas have been a mainstay for rock and offshore anglers forever. They’re also still common in places like Sydney Harbour and Botany Bay. One of the more reliable live baits for kings, tuna and mulloway, they make first class snapper and bream bait and appeal to many other saltwater species.

PRAWNS

The humble prawn is a classic inshore or estuary bait. Their freshwater cousins, shrimp are also extremely effective on our native species. Alive, fresh, frozen or even cooked, prawns have a very broad appeal. Alive, they are deadly for flathead, bream, whiting,

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off the rocks or at the beach through the cooler months.

Juvenile tailor were always very common around the Central Coast lakes, where I first started fishing. So it was always easy to catch a few small tailor to use as fresh bait for bream or flathead. Fast forward a few decades and we now have a size limit on tailor, so the little ones aren’t on my list anymore. However, tailor flesh or medium size live tailor are an exceptionally good bait for mulloway, mackerel, kingfish and cobia. Smaller we also have freshwater garfish in Australia. A live garfish is completely irresistible to kingfish, but they also make first class bait for bream, tuna, mulloway, snapper, mackerel and many barra or bass, but you’ll catch anything from luderick to groper on prawns. If you’re buying prawns instead of catching them, always try to get the local product, not the inferior imported version.

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