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Submitted by petermac on Sun, 2013-06-23 19:46
I have been told the best bait for dhuies and snapper is skinned occy ,so my question is how do you skin the buggers
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Submitted by petermac on Sun, 2013-06-23 19:46
I have been told the best bait for dhuies and snapper is skinned occy ,so my question is how do you skin the buggers |
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Shark B8
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Sharp knife and time. It's an
Sharp knife and time. It's an art. Not sure if there is any easy way to do it
Go big or go home..
carnarvonite
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Best bait?
Occy is well down the list as a dhuey bait, try live parrotfish, wrasse and fresh mullet then start thinking about occy.
Justo82
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You get the first bit of
You get the first bit of skin lifted then using the knife you "roll" the occy off of the skin.
So in other words skin down on the table, knife with blade facing down, and roll the meat out. Takes about 2 mins.
Belly88
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Occy
Occy is good bait for wrasse.... Live wrasse is best bait for dhuie.
Wrasse arnt picky don't bother skinning..
Fillet the wrasse for baldchin bait.
As far as I'm concerned cant beat fresh fish bait
Oceanside Tackle
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Occy
I have been told the best bait for dhuies and snapper is skinned occy?
For offshore fish absolutely.
so my question is how do you skin the buggers
See link below but cut off suckers once main leg is skinned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYuPqEj6L0
Hope that helps and yes sharp knife is the key.
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trymyluck
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The only good thing about
The only good thing about occy is it stays on the hooks for a long time ...theres always better baits.
scottnofish
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my favourate bait
but it must be fresh none of that crap you by from most tackle stores ,if its pink its crap ,would have caught 50+ dhuies this year on fresh occy from the cray boats ,I would say that atleast 50% of the dhuies i have caught have spat out occy on the deck when caught and i think i can remeber only about 3 that have had wrasse in there gut .my next favourate bait would be sand whiting folowed by sound squid
quadfisher
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Mr freeze
Never frozen , fresh occy that we have got ourselves the day before a big trip offshore
seems to work well for us.
A tad risky snorkling for them with the bities around , but do you want to live forever?
As a exercise I will often fillet a sargent or a wrasse to try , as I used to believe that would outfish occy, but the bigger dhus
we have snaffled always seem to be on the occy , with maybe a mulie or small scalie as a attractor.
Even handling that 12 hour old occy feels vastly different to frozen and has a slight smell to it, unlike shop stuff.
But I know others who use fresh sand whiting or the odd tuna belly flap for dhus and still do ok, so on the right day
who knows?.
quadfisher
Justo82
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we had a day out not long ago
we had a day out not long ago (maybe 6 weeks) where we tried occy (skinned), squid (the californian stuff @ $20 a box), and fresh caught wrasse fillets. Occy won hands down, and caught the better quality fish too... No Dhu's (haven't cracked that code yet) but a few balides, Bight Redfish etc... wrasse mainly took the squid.