16-02-2006, 01:32 PM
[quote name='glen' post='6128' date='Feb 16 2006, 12:06 AM']great. thanks for your advice. i will definately try maggots next time!
what i normally do, if the visibility is good enough, is to actually watch the garfish underwater (using polaroid sunglasses).
as soon as they suck the bait in their mouth i strike! so i don't necessarily wait for the float to move. but maybe this won't be necessary with maggots because the gars will be super keen on my bait for once!! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' />
cheers, glen[/quote]
Hi Glen
Make sure the maggots arnt too big because the gars tend to spit them out if they are especially if you use three or four to cover the hook, you will find the longer they out of the esky the more active they become as they warm up stick three or for on the hook and cast, the gars cant resist a wriggling moving bait and like all fish can resist a live bait.
A friend and I fished Mt Martha about four times in a week and found that on two of the days the gars just wouldnt bite no matter what we used, one the first day we managed 100, on the second 13, on the third 2 and on the fourth 124, on the first and last days the gars went nuts, we noted that the low producing days where cloudy and the high day where sunny and very hot, so Id say water temp had a part to play in it too
what i normally do, if the visibility is good enough, is to actually watch the garfish underwater (using polaroid sunglasses).
as soon as they suck the bait in their mouth i strike! so i don't necessarily wait for the float to move. but maybe this won't be necessary with maggots because the gars will be super keen on my bait for once!! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' />
cheers, glen[/quote]
Hi Glen
Make sure the maggots arnt too big because the gars tend to spit them out if they are especially if you use three or four to cover the hook, you will find the longer they out of the esky the more active they become as they warm up stick three or for on the hook and cast, the gars cant resist a wriggling moving bait and like all fish can resist a live bait.
A friend and I fished Mt Martha about four times in a week and found that on two of the days the gars just wouldnt bite no matter what we used, one the first day we managed 100, on the second 13, on the third 2 and on the fourth 124, on the first and last days the gars went nuts, we noted that the low producing days where cloudy and the high day where sunny and very hot, so Id say water temp had a part to play in it too