Californian squid box and wrasse fillets the red coloured type when I used to bait fish

Smith mejiyume's and Lamble baits

Bait is a thing of the past 

 Got a 14 kg dhui (my biggest) yesterday on tune (stripy) fillet, big chunk on a 9/0 hook (report to come ;). Caught the stripy earlier, so nothing really beats a fresh bait. Also had heaps of them on wrasse fillets.

yeah we caught a longtail tuna yesterday and we cut it up for bait, landed 9-10dhuys in 2 hours. All on the tuna, what a suprise

fishON, i did ask what the bait boys use. Love using the jigs and plastics but much prefer the bait

Sergeant baker seems to do pretty good.

fresh occy worked a treat today, pulled up 4 in 30 minutes...didnt seem fair. Then pulled up a 5kg dhuie only to realise that I had hooked a wrasse first that the dhuie then swalloed the wrasse - it was sticking out his mouth when we landed him!! Wrasse was about 10-12" long! Wouldnt have belived it if I hadnt seen it.

One whole californian squid with mullie inserted inside the squid.

First hook pinning tip of squid with mullie head inside.

Second droppper hook through head of squid through body of mullie.

Cut guts of mullie open for scent.

Best bait cocktail on the market for Dhuies/Pinkies.

  live wrasse and those little rock cod ,BIG dhuies love them

 we would catch them before we start looking for the dhuies

           jeff

 Cuttlefish candle, never fails. But their bloody taste as well.

I cut the belly flaps of dhuys i have caught best bait it stays on and dhuys love it

i have landed countless dhu's on californian squid, it seems to appeal to everything, but i do agree a fresh (big) fillet of baker , king wrasse, etc can be dynamite on big dhu.    cheers

Interesting post as I have never had any success whatsoever using cuttlie and actually used it, fresh caught, in Jurien with three others on board - they used mulies or occy and cleaned up whilst I didn't get a touch 
 

Loven squid but whole for snapper and have had lots of success but have never yet got a dhuie on it 

Fresh skinned occy or small (or fillets of) western king wrasse all reliable producers - the skinned occy has the benefit of producing really good baldies as well 

The whole Californian Squid with the Mullie is what we call the "Humdinger"

Or the juicy Lucy. Can't beat the fresh Wrasse, squid second.

Live herring, or fillet them when they cark it = Dhuie crack.

Caught one on Sat with a fresh slab of Sarge Baker, mid water on the way up. At first i thought it must be a sambo, what a nice surprise.

Cali squid.whole with 1 hook at top of head.makes the bait look natural in the water.Got told that by Mr seasport himself.

When i used to do commercial fishing on WA coast we always had to be careful gutting them

as wed constantly find they had a belly full of juvenile cobbler!! mister twister used to make

a 10inch black rubber (dont laugh) twisty that was absolute dynamite!!!!

Seen lots of them full off cobbler and eels

Got both Dhuies on the weekend on whole Cali squid.

Fresh is best by far. Live parrot fish, the bigger the better, fresh [unfrozen ] mullet, seargent major chunks, live and filletted herring are my first choices.

We do really well on dhufish and snapper with sand whiting (presented as a dead bait).

 havnt caught a whole lot of dhuies but a fresh slab of wrasse worked well and one instance a live wrasse that i hooked was left without realising i had it only to have a nice size dhuie wanting that fish and got caught on the other hook on the snalled rig so i would say a nice live one would do well. fresh is best but a well presented calafornian squid can work well as well.