How to use green or brown cabbage as fishing bait

So, you've mastered the knot tying process for fishing, and you already know how to catch live bait, so now what? You need to know how to use your surroundings... this animated tutorial from Marinews will show you how to use green or brown cabbage as fishing bait. Catching bait might just be as hard as baiting fish, but catching natural greens is the easiest thing of all. You can learn by simply watching the bait rigging animation at a moderate speed, or if need be, click on "learn by steps" to get step-by-step fish bait instructions to use green or brown cabbage as fishing bait.

Place the root of the cabbage around the main line with the leaves falling back down over the hook. Using a very fine line, bind the cabbage to the line above the hook using a half hitch. Better still use hosiery elastic (Bait Mate) which is available from most tackle stores. Cabbage is found between the low and high tide marks on the edge of low reef areas, sloping rocks boulders, channel markers and buoys and in rock pools. Use your thumb and forefinger to hold the cabbage at the base where it is attached to the rock and gently twist the cabbage off. Once gathered use it straight away or keep it for a couple of days in newspaper in your fridge.

Bait presentation is sadly overlooked by too many fishermen. Today the lure making industry make a fortune out of lazy fishermen. Rigging baits in place of presenting a lure will, in most cases, out fish the lure.

A well rigged squid makes the very best flathead lure. Small well presented squid, worked as a lure, will catch more bream than lure or standard bait! In fact catch more fish than any lure or standard bait. Small baitfish too, like hardheads, herring, minnows, galaxids, gudgeons and smelt, can be rigged and presented in place of a lure. The first couple of tries may seem fiddly, however, once you set yourself with the right equipment and have some practice under your belt, you’ll out fish everyone around you and never look bac