Making Bait Bags From Big Vic’s Netting Will Help Save Money & Increase Your Strike Percentage!
I’ve been using Big Vic’s Bait Netting for years by making bait bags from them. I use frozen squid, shrimp to fish to stuff the bags. Also live crab if you can catch one. The finished bag helps prevents smaller fish from eating your hook barren. This helps in saving your bait supply & costly trips to buy more bait. I found circle hooks work the best for solid hook-ups. Throughout the years i’ve caught Jacks, Barracudas, Stingrays & Sharks surf casting from the shore.
Sometimes huge eels will roll-up into a ball. No problem. Use gravity & height. I tied the leader on a raised branch. This will cause the eel to uncoil and be more “co-operative” to being unhooked. My partner Wayne Choy has been extremely successful cutting whole rock crabs in half at night & has been pulling in huge Emperor Fish “Mu”. One day we filled 2 coolers with Bonefish “Oio” & Ladyfish “Awa’awa” surf casting bait bags using crabs & squid. We had to leave early because we filled our coolers.
Using Big Vic’s Bait Netting works. We’ve proven this for years.
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All summer my weather app has really been missing most of the active weather… and it seems like the storms have been really wild this year.. Guess the eye to the sky is always the best plan and don’t wait for the strikes to get very close before you bug out… but that’s hard to do…This situation makes me recalculate and I hope I’ll be smarter in the future…
Best way to keep track of the weather while you’re on a lake is the naked eye. If you can see it coming it’s time to head to shore even if it’s miles away. Looking at radar screens on your phone you don’t know how old the picture is. A couple of fish is not worth losing your life for. Lighting is not predictable. Just because you can see it miles away it can still pop up where you are. Better safe than sorry.
If you can hear thunder, you are in danger. That’s a fact.
Mr Pedantic says: the word is lightning. Not lightening or lighting. Lightening is removing weight. Lighting is illumination.
*Just read the KSL story about the lightning striking the boat around mid night and the unfortunate loss of life for one of the three guys fishing… Man they must have wanted to fish pretty bad to stay out in a lightning storm at midnight… Sure sorry to hear the sad news for their family and friends, that is really terrible… Anyone know if they were part of our BFT family? I’ve always been warned about being in a boat during a thunder storm, but I didn’t really ever think that I’d hear of anyone being struck by lightning near me… Kind of makes me re evaluate my actions when storms roll through… Think I’ll take them more serious in the future… Especially with a metal boat now instead of glass… Condolences to family and friends for their loss.. *