I always carry salted bait in my fishing/traveling bag: mussels, strips of squid, mackerel and other oily fish species, clam, even old beach worms (flounder seems to go crazy over salted, smelly beach worms). This comes in very handy specially during winter season, when fresh bait isn't always available OR becomes very expensive. And during the hot summer days you don't have to worry that your bait will start to seriously stink up your bag or go mush on you so much you can't even pick it up anymore. Salted bait is my preferred bait here, sometimes - when I feel like it - accompanied with a small feeder bag filled with old, almost-off bait from all sorts of left over pieces of fish from the freezer. Nothing goes to waste here, not even the fish heads. Those get mangled up with vegetable oil and fresh chopped garlic, then pored into ice-cube trays and then put into the freezer. Awesome bait, those little cubes. Just throw a few in the water to lure the fish in towards your spot. :) And here is a nice little trick to keep the kids busy near rocky surroundings: freeze up the guts of the fish in also ice cube tray. They make excellent crab bait, crab simply can't resist some good old guts. And kids love the thrill of fishing between the rocks to catch something. Just drop a cube into a fine but strong mesh netting (onion bag for example), tie a rope at the end and let them have fun with it. Watch them scream and yell in excitement and proud accomplishment when they haul in their catch of the day! :) To keep the cubes frozen, or at least cold enough to work with: plastic zip bag and ice. Or a cheap, portable, solar powered tiny "freezer" (Ebay). :)
Great work just joined your channel been watching it develop into a great fishing channel well done l enjoy watching another with the love of fishing awesome.
I have to try this. I bought 5kg of squid by mistake. The wife is not happy with it in the freezer. This way I can store in the shed! Happy wife, happy life...thankyou Peter.
I enjoyed this tutorial ~ I learnt a lot from you thank you! I also love the way that you fed the seagull! I study seagulls have been studying them for 18 years ~ they have the hardest life to live as a bird except for maybe the ones that shot at during hunting season! Seagulls remain on large bodies of water at night! The only come on Shore because they're injured! If they don't get enough food during the day sometimes they can die overnight! In Surfside Myrtle Beach over 2,000 died in one night it was the year they said don't feed the seagulls don't feed seagulls well they died! At night they have to fight the winds the rains the storms sometimes they have to fly all night they get exhausted their Wings gets sprained! I discovered taking care of injured seagulls that they only sleep one hour a day! At night the only close their eyes to Blink! I would too about staying out on the ocean having sharks trying to attack me along with my number one night time Predator the eagle! Oh well I could write two books on seagulls!
Try steaming the mussels until they're hard. Shell them and leave them in the fridge overnight. They're good at the mussel farms. Only need half a mussel.
both actually. but for room temp you want to leave it out of the sun and put them somewhere dark and shady. the sun can harden the bait (this happened b4)
I bought 1kg of squid bait yesterday and a bag of iodized salt, I guess i've wasted the squid because of that, right? btw, where is this location @ 4:30, and can you show how you use bait cotton? also, how do you keep the used hooks to prevent rusting, or do you just dispose them at the end of the day? thanks
yea i usually use rock salt. if you maybe storage the squid with fish oil, you might be able to save it. for my bait cotton, i've got a demo on how i do it with mussel. th-cam.com/video/SICFezbet-g/w-d-xo.html for the hooks, i clean them with freshwater. black magic hooks don't rust that badly so i don't dispose them at the end of the day. if it does rust, i usually use the sharpening stone to strap off the rust which works a treat
the salting prevents the bait from rotting so it can b kept out of the freezer forever as long as its in a sealed bag and away from heat and sun. although personally i always freeze mine
love the video! what happens if you leave the bait in the salt for more than 24hrs? I thought salt was a preservative and thinking may just leaving the bait in the salt until ready to use instead of leaving in the freezer (afraid wifey will throw out)
it would dry up the bait too much to the point where it will become fish jerky. all you are doing with the salt is to drain out any moisture which prevents bacteria from growing and breaking down the flesh
O ok, for some reason I thought the goal was to make fish jerky (totally dried out so no rotting will take place and can just keep in a ziplock and last forever without sticking in fridge or freezer). Will fish jerky not make good bait?thx!
All you need is pool salt. In the usa u can buy it 40lbs for 5$. Its very fine and you can coat evenly. Another plus is the bait doesn;t smell nearly as bad when handling it. Sometime flies wont even come around whereas with thawed bait u get a million flies.
Excellent info and tutorial..better than others out there..Thanks for you hard work..I now know how to do this now with all baits 👍❗
I always carry salted bait in my fishing/traveling bag: mussels, strips of squid, mackerel and other oily fish species, clam, even old beach worms (flounder seems to go crazy over salted, smelly beach worms). This comes in very handy specially during winter season, when fresh bait isn't always available OR becomes very expensive. And during the hot summer days you don't have to worry that your bait will start to seriously stink up your bag or go mush on you so much you can't even pick it up anymore. Salted bait is my preferred bait here, sometimes - when I feel like it - accompanied with a small feeder bag filled with old, almost-off bait from all sorts of left over pieces of fish from the freezer. Nothing goes to waste here, not even the fish heads. Those get mangled up with vegetable oil and fresh chopped garlic, then pored into ice-cube trays and then put into the freezer. Awesome bait, those little cubes. Just throw a few in the water to lure the fish in towards your spot. :) And here is a nice little trick to keep the kids busy near rocky surroundings: freeze up the guts of the fish in also ice cube tray. They make excellent crab bait, crab simply can't resist some good old guts. And kids love the thrill of fishing between the rocks to catch something. Just drop a cube into a fine but strong mesh netting (onion bag for example), tie a rope at the end and let them have fun with it. Watch them scream and yell in excitement and proud accomplishment when they haul in their catch of the day! :)
To keep the cubes frozen, or at least cold enough to work with: plastic zip bag and ice. Or a cheap, portable, solar powered tiny "freezer" (Ebay). :)
TY 4 info any hint?'s?? on sand flea's 2 preserve them ?
Great work just joined your channel been watching it develop into a great fishing channel well done l enjoy watching another with the love of fishing awesome.
thank you so much
@@BasicFishingNZ No worries l enjoy watching
I have to try this. I bought 5kg of squid by mistake. The wife is not happy with it in the freezer. This way I can store in the shed! Happy wife, happy life...thankyou Peter.
Salt just all around helps everything! Very good bro!
yea it really does especially with stupidly soft baits XD thanks for watching man
I enjoyed this tutorial ~ I learnt a lot from you thank you! I also love the way that you fed the seagull! I study seagulls have been studying them for 18 years ~ they have the hardest life to live as a bird except for maybe the ones that shot at during hunting season! Seagulls remain on large bodies of water at night! The only come on Shore because they're injured! If they don't get enough food during the day sometimes they can die overnight! In Surfside Myrtle Beach over 2,000 died in one night it was the year they said don't feed the seagulls don't feed seagulls well they died! At night they have to fight the winds the rains the storms sometimes they have to fly all night they get exhausted their Wings gets sprained! I discovered taking care of injured seagulls that they only sleep one hour a day! At night the only close their eyes to Blink! I would too about staying out on the ocean having sharks trying to attack me along with my number one night time Predator the eagle! Oh well I could write two books on seagulls!
haha thank you for ur comment
Very good information bro, keep up the great vids hey.
thank you for ur support
good video ang great idea, thanks
the liquid would be great for adding to paste bait
Try steaming the mussels until they're hard. Shell them and leave them in the fridge overnight. They're good at the mussel farms. Only need half a mussel.
Can we do the same with the frozen Shrimp? I'm in Jamaica and go fishing with frozen shrimp which is too soft and i lost a lot with out catching fish.
i've seen a few people online cured shrimp in salt so i would say yes
When baits are curing do you refrigerate or leave out at room temperature?
both actually. but for room temp you want to leave it out of the sun and put them somewhere dark and shady. the sun can harden the bait (this happened b4)
Thank you so much dude !
I bought 1kg of squid bait yesterday and a bag of iodized salt, I guess i've wasted the squid because of that, right? btw, where is this location @ 4:30, and can you show how you use bait cotton? also, how do you keep the used hooks to prevent rusting, or do you just dispose them at the end of the day? thanks
yea i usually use rock salt. if you maybe storage the squid with fish oil, you might be able to save it. for my bait cotton, i've got a demo on how i do it with mussel. th-cam.com/video/SICFezbet-g/w-d-xo.html for the hooks, i clean them with freshwater. black magic hooks don't rust that badly so i don't dispose them at the end of the day. if it does rust, i usually use the sharpening stone to strap off the rust which works a treat
After bait salted. To keep it longer should we refrigerat. Or we can keep it in room temperature. And for how many dsys.
the salting prevents the bait from rotting so it can b kept out of the freezer forever as long as its in a sealed bag and away from heat and sun. although personally i always freeze mine
@@BasicFishingNZ Thank you so much sir for your valuable information. 😎😍😍
Nice video. Where do you store your bait after salting it? Freezer perharps?
Yes freezer
@@BasicFishingNZ Thanks👍🏾👍🏾 Tight lines!
Once you salt Baits, do you have to freeze or refrigerate them? Even if it's 4 months before you are going fishing again?
yea i usually freeze them but the best part is they dont freeze! haha its good to keep them in cool enivornments before u plan to go out fishing
Basic_Fishing so if you dont use all the bait you can put it back in the freezer?
yea! haha which is great although i usually just take enough bait that i can use up all day instead of everything at once
Where do you buy pilchards in Hastings?.
haha in auckland. its just bought and defrosted
@@BasicFishingNZ the pilchards here are so big 😂 and the flesh separate when defrost 😔
yea they r haha i prefer the bullet tuna over pillies. although i do use anchovies occasionally
@@BasicFishingNZ are anchovies better than pilchards?
@@BasicFishingNZ thanks mate
Most Excleent video TY
haha thank you
Could we salt the coriano worms? And thank you for showing how to salt baits
thank you for watching. ummm..... personally i would just use the worms as they are. some baits don't do well with salt in my experience such as prawn
Do you freeze the bait after you salt it?
yes
Thanks so much for your videos and I’ve been watching and learning. Btw, where can I get some rock salt? Do they sell in supermarkets? Cheers.
thank you for watching. the rock salt u can get them at smart marine.
Use pool salt from the hardware store, much cheaper and no iodine
Rock salt is that the same stuff you put on your driveway to stop it freezing over
lol sea salt works well too haha
Have U done squid & if so how TY
never done squid fishing haha
Good quality pool salt is a good cheap salt to use.
lol non iodised salt in general r accessible, price wise that is
is it possible to salt crabs
i think crabs r better off just frozen. i tried salted prawns though. didnt get anything on it though
Fantastic video Peter!! Salted baits are amazing, I tend to freeze my home brew salted baits do you ??
i usually freeze them too. always good to keep them in a nice cool area.
Basic_Fishing I never knew fish hated iodised salt lol, been using iodised all this time haha.
oh really? lol
Basic_Fishing only catch snapper and kahawai, I know why now 😁
lol thats still a decent catch haha despite using idolized bait
Nice.😆 Cheers.👍
Can you use sea salt
definately
but do you freeze them after salted?
yes
thank you. you are the only one will share the seecret on youtube
lol haha its not exactly a secret tbh
Daiwa is the way to go!
haha lol
Great tutorial, Peter. Wonder why fish hate iodine.
lol fish have educated palates XD
love the video! what happens if you leave the bait in the salt for more than 24hrs? I thought salt was a preservative and thinking may just leaving the bait in the salt until ready to use instead of leaving in the freezer (afraid wifey will throw out)
it would dry up the bait too much to the point where it will become fish jerky. all you are doing with the salt is to drain out any moisture which prevents bacteria from growing and breaking down the flesh
O ok, for some reason I thought the goal was to make fish jerky (totally dried out so no rotting will take place and can just keep in a ziplock and last forever without sticking in fridge or freezer). Will fish jerky not make good bait?thx!
not really. u still want the bait to be chewable for the fish to be hooked
Haha me and Steve will stick to fresh baits haha
lol suit urself man XD
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All you need is pool salt. In the usa u can buy it 40lbs for 5$. Its very fine and you can coat evenly. Another plus is the bait doesn;t smell nearly as bad when handling it. Sometime flies wont even come around whereas with thawed bait u get a million flies.
You should go eeling
tried eeling b4 n it didn't work out for me.... XD
come on Peter, do salted or fresh baits work better..................?
oh come on! really Kris?...... -.- XD lol