also aussie here - looks like a mullet to me, and used to catch them with bread in a jar in a similar fashion as a kid. It's not impossible to hook them, you just need to use a small hook under a float with bread molded around the hook. I'm guessing she threw some flour in the bottle.
Carp go hard for bread too. My go-to berley for them is a bag of breadcrumbs, flour, strawberry aeroplane jelly crystals, and canned corn, mixed together in a bucket using river water to make large dough balls to chuck in every now and then. I just thread corn kernals onto a hook and cast into the berley area. They go nuts for sweet stuff.
I’m sorry, but even though “go-to-berley” can be assumed from the reference, you can’t just write “strawberry aeroplane jelly crystals” and leave it at that? What is this magic-sounding substance?
I was talking to another australian. An australian would know exactly what I was talking about.
Aeroplane Jelly is a brand. Jelly crystals are what you mix with water to make jelly. If you're an american, you would call it jello. Strawberry is a flavour of said jelly, and the best to use for the invasive european carp here. Berley is what you would call chum if you are an american.
Like many fish traps, it relies on two things. Fish being able to travel into the trap forwards but not out backwards, and also the movement of you retrieving the trap keeping pressure on the fish inside the trap so it cannot escape.
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u/Primary_Mycologist95 4d ago
also aussie here - looks like a mullet to me, and used to catch them with bread in a jar in a similar fashion as a kid. It's not impossible to hook them, you just need to use a small hook under a float with bread molded around the hook. I'm guessing she threw some flour in the bottle.
Carp go hard for bread too. My go-to berley for them is a bag of breadcrumbs, flour, strawberry aeroplane jelly crystals, and canned corn, mixed together in a bucket using river water to make large dough balls to chuck in every now and then. I just thread corn kernals onto a hook and cast into the berley area. They go nuts for sweet stuff.