Thread: Kontiki bait advice

Wow. Never new there were fishing specific drones.
What are these ones you speak of? @Got-ya would proberly be interested too.

https://www.ripptonnz.co.nz/

Thanks Shearer.

Or just get one of these. A mate uses one and likes it.

https://www.fishingtacklesale.co.nz/...rig-shorething

I had the same thought. Rod was from memory about 250-300mm long. Remember the stretch in the mono plus how much over run braking on the winch will be factors as well. While I can get the kontiki out in a 2m swell the fishing is very poor, I think its just to stirred up and the fish retreat out of my reach. Normally max swell for me is 1.5m. Your beach may differ.

Had a mate drop in some fresh snapper he caught of Port Ohope on his kontiki yesterday. He uses Kahawai for bait, scales it first. Reckons the fishing is really hotting up.

The issue with the range of the drones is more to do with the amount of line your reel can hold, and from what I can see they don't usually use kontiki mainline as it's probably too heavy to pull 2km out.
As for bait I either buy whole fresh mullet from Pak and Shat or use Kahawai. I have also used pillies and bonito but obviously you have to tie each bait on with bait elastic. I was told by someone that they use pillies and/or bonito and freeze it on the hooks and don't tie it on, then take it to the beach in a chilly bin so it stays frozen, then launch it. Haven't tried that yet since I would want to put the whole trace board in the freezer, and I don't have a chilly bin big enough to take the seahorse trace board.

Frozen pillies thaw in a matter of minutes in the ocean


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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.

Mullet all day

iv used all baits mentioned. biggest difference for me, or thing to try.... snapper are bottom feeders I'm told, well no, or just one weight not trying for the bottom worked better for me, better than many weights. can also tow a burley bomb out there in the middle of the hooks. never had shark problems. 1/2 hr usually does it, dont need long soak times.
with little weight i usually aim it up stream, or tide, once its drifted around to the down stream side, bring it in.

What kind of rod & reels are you using for your drone fishing?
Obviously something with plenty of line capacity but what about gearing for winding in 1000m of line.

This is the stuff. Now to convert into Snapper. Although not bad smoked.

Yum

Nice
Last time I set my mullet net I got nothing but seaweed