Thread: Kontiki bait advice

Best West coast bait as used by my long deceased uncle who fished that coast for many years is scaled kahawai cut into strips and salted and then covered with kerosene...fck it stinks, I can only use it shore fishing as in a boat I become a burley producer at the first whiff of it...the best allowable bait for kontiki is skinned octopus, I wont state the best bait as it is not allowable or even legal, but it sure catch's fish or did way back when there was not much likelihood of being caught.