First trip to Docklands coming

[Buckle&scream]

Always wanted to get onto some gummys but never knew how landbased. How do you use trevs for bait? Do you just fillet the fish and use a whole fillet or do you cut up the fillet into smaller pieces?

Trevally Fillets would be the way to go although I use salmon much better. Trevally fillets or live trevally is good for Jews...

[4liters]

Always wanted to get onto some gummys but never knew how landbased. How do you use trevs for bait? Do you just fillet the fish and use a whole fillet or do you cut up the fillet into smaller pieces?

I fillet them and cut the fillet into strips about 10-15cm long and 2-3cm wide. The heads make great baits too, the pickers don't destroy them nearly as fast but they don't cast very far due to the shape.
Basic 12ft surf rod, 6000-8000 size reel, 20lb mainline, 50lb leader, pulley rig or paternoster, 5/0 circle hook, strip of trevally pinned at one end on the circle. Fish anywhere between Shoreham and Somers on a rising tide after dark.

The blokes who do it heaps will be a bit more refined than this, but it will do the job. There's a section of the forum for shark fishing and there's heaps of info there.

[eddyt]

thanks 4liters. good thing I asked because otherwise I would have just put the whole trevally fillet on a hook but I think I need some heavier gear first...

[4liters]

Isn't that what everyone needs? An excuse to buy more fishing gear...

[barra mick]

I dont need a excuse :cheers: