Get your livies on the way to the ramp!

Andy Grey · Post by **Andy Grey** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:12 am

Ok a friend of mine and a very keen fisho is looking into the idea of a live bait shop, do you think this is a viable idea. Would you buy livies on your way out or would you still get your own? Still need to do the research on the licensing of a business like this but what do you think? is it being done anywhere already? would you be a customer? Would love to hear your feedback and if anyone knows this is happening anywhere already.

BarraBeast · Post by **BarraBeast** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:58 am

Hell yer! I'd buy em. barra lollies. especially when it's high tide and you cant catch the mungrels.

i'd pay a dollar each I suppose. any size too.

i can see myself catching a hard earned seista unmongst the shade of the mangrove trees with a livie doing all the work amongst the roots. snagged? barra sucked the livie off the hook? who cares!!! the lines in the water so it must be fishin.

dodgyone · Post by **dodgyone** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:47 am

Big business in the States. They have floating bait stores with livies sold by the scoop. 24hr access, just pull alongside and wake them up.

You would have to be pretty good at catching mullet for it to work out to be truely worth the hassle though I would think.

Ernie · Post by **Ernie** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:27 am

There used to be one in the Rapid Creek shops many moons ago, were around for a little while. We'd grab some every now and then if we didnt have time or were slack. They had a couple of 1.8 mt dia tanks setup

pagey · Post by **pagey** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:46 am

I was uunder the impression that you were not allowed to introduce fish caught else were into a waterway.

As i said this is my understanding more than happy to be corrected.....

But as it has been said good idea for when you cant be bothered, missed the tide ect ect.

Pagey

Cheetum · Post by **Cheetum** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:13 am

A mate and I were thinking of doing similar. Setting up a big cage at dinah beach and asking/paying one of the resident yachts to tie it out the back. When researching the legistlation I got lost... I'd definately pay for them, and pay extra for big-uns.

Post by **Matt Flynn** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:07 am

Pretty sure there was guy selling livies from home at Alawa years ago. He did it for a long while so it must have made money.

Better idea is a floating pie cart at Sadgroves on weekends, might foul up KK and Smithy's health plan, but if you can live with the guilt it would be a goer

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 8:17 am

Ernie wrote:There used to be one in the Rapid Creek shops many moons ago, were around for a little while. We'd grab some every now and then if we didnt have time or were slack. They had a couple of 1.8 mt dia tanks setup

yeh i remember that one. just round the corner from my place. he was going for awhile then shut down. dont think it was cause he wasnt making money tho. some other reason. he use to just catch them all locally in his cast net. obviously it would require some sort of licence to sell them legally.
there also use to be some young locals at the daly that went round with a trailer on there pushies seeling cherapin to all the people staying down there. They had no licence and eventually the cops stopped them doing it

i think its a good idea, but they'd have to be reasonably priced to get people to buy them.. which could mean lots of hard work for a small reward for your mate.. i imagine there would be some pretty big overheads starting out as well

justin · Post by **justin** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:43 am

start small what have you got to loose. would be handy for those 3hour fishing trips you squeez in mid week.

max · Post by **max** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:59 pm

I reckon if you sat near Reidys lures real early with a bag of live yabbies this time of the year they would go pretty quick.

mac10 · Post by **mac10** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 9:46 pm

Great idea, i'm sure it can be done. It would just be the legalities of it all if your mate wanted to do it by the books.

An Example:

The live beach worm trade is good and well in NSW. I know a few guys who sell them to tackle shops down there. The guys catching them had to have professional fishing licenses (LFB) to take the worms and sell them but not sure if the tackle shops needed another license to sell them. I'd say they would. Obviously the laws down there are different to up here (thank god) and it is illegal to sell any marine animal or crustaceans without a permit.
The guys that were catching the beachworms were getting $2.00 per worm about 5 years ago, a nice profitable venture, considering they could easily get 200 a day if the tides were right.

Around Port Stephens as kids we would catch huge amounts of mullet and yellowtail and sell (swap for tackle i mean because selling is illegal) live to the tackle shops so they could sell them to the Game fishing boats for live Marlin baits. Again not sure what license the tackle shop had (if any) but they were selling them as fast as we could catch them.

Up here we are blessed with the fact that the best livies for Barra are mullet and they are about as hearty as any fish in the ocean. You can keep them anywhere. Down South My brother at his house has a plastic 44 gal drum with a big airator and he keeps mullet alive for weeks to months for those times when he can't get any live Jew baits. Your mate should be able to keep live mullet caged in the open water healthy for a long time. Just remember though there are also regulations about penning fish so be careful. Fisheries laws can be very tough.

Good luck, i wish your mate well. Hope he gets the idea up and running.

harmsey · Post by **harmsey** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:07 pm

yep top idea

recon you would be breaking some sort of law/regulation????

check with the fisheries mate and im sure it could be done

normally have a tank full at home this time of year but im to lazy to set it up again

Fishalot · Post by **Fishalot** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:18 pm

been looked into. you definatley need a profesional fishermans licience and the cost and work involved we worked out you would have to sell them for about five bucks each so I think that would restrict sales dramaticly

Pecheur · Post by **Pecheur** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:57 pm

And what about if your breed them?
Technically you are not fishing them, you become more of a farmer than a fisherman, and then it might be different in regards to the law?
But honestly I have no clues...

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