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When fishing your most important choice is bait. Most good bait shops have a great selection of live, fresh and frozen bait. Consider types of fish targeted as well as where you are going to fish. If fishing on the beach or in the river a soft bait like prawns or squid can be used for whiting, bream and flathead. Apposed to the ocean or around rocks where hard bait like mullet or pilchards may be required for tailor, bream and small reef fish. Try lures around the rocks or even across the sand flats, your local bait shop can suggest the right lure, trolling from a boat will bring best results.

Try catching your own live bait with a little extra effort. Low tide is the optimum time to catch bait species, as the tide comes up they will retreat into the crevices to hide away from there natural predators, the fish you are trying to catch. A cast or bait net around the sand bars in the rivers will provide catches of small mullet perfect for whole or filleted bait as well as prawns and hearing. Use a yabby pump on the same sand bars to pump yabbies arguably the best river bait around. Jig for hearing and pike around the jetties closer to the mouth of the river systems. On or close to a full moon it’s possible to catch squid around jetties, use a pilchard on a squid jig.

Sand worms are another quality bait caught by trained fisherman on the beaches at low tide. Put aside a couple of hours if you wish to attempt to catch these evasive critters. Find a flat beach with the waves washing up and receding, use a fish skeleton or fish fillet in a waving motion across the shallow water as a wave recedes to attract the worm heads to the surface, you should be able to spot the small bumps. That’s the easy part, now use a small piece of soft fish flesh in your hand to tempt the worm, you will feel it grab on to the fish. That’s the easy part. When the worm grabs onto the bait move your other hand usually your right hand if your right handed around the back of the worm and softly move your fingers close together till you can feel the worm between them. Wait till you feel the worm arch its back up (the worm releases its grip from the sand around it’s long body) that’s when you close your grip firm and pull the worm out. That’s the hard part.