Catch live bait??

[min-va]

How to catch live bait in harbor? i usually just fishing plastics, but want to try something different.

But i don't want to buy bait....is not the money that i don't want to spend, i want to learn how to get some live bait by myself..

Any tips? let say that i fishing in NP harbor....

[Zfish03]

I use the smallest sabiki i can find. Buy a loaf of cheap bread and start chumming! the smelt and occasional macks go crazy. I do it in SD and oside harbor. You can find them by eel grass or large docks/boats.

[echo1er]

sabiki!

[William Novotny]

If your launching at the coastguard station there is always alot of smelt. Size 16 sabiki do well. Closer you get the mouth of the harbor the better chance at sardine and macs

[TEAMFISH]

Try chumming with a can of the cheapest cat food you can get. Seafood flavor of course:o

[echo1er]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9X-BuSDTRQ

[PapaDave]

The cat food works good for the sardines and macs, and even sometimes bass. Gotta get me some of those beads, I am always getting the bait double hooked.

[taggermike]

I've had success with the smallest size sebikis and tiny baited gold hooks when they won't eat the sabiki hooks. Chumming the smelt up with bread or macks with cat food is key. Lately the south 1/2 of SD bay has been full of giant jack smelt, like 10-12 inches long, that ruin the smal sabikis. I've been using an umbrella net off the docks to avoid the monsters. These nets can work very well depending on water clarity and how the smelt come to the chum. Mike

[taggermike]

Oh ya, years ago I used to use those little double cone minnow traps baited with dry dog kibble up in the tidal creeks in National City to catch plenty of the little killi fish, aka mosquito fish. These fish were only 3" or so inches long but they lived well in a bucket with no airation, lived a long time on the hook, and did get bit. I don't know if they're in NPH but look around the launch ramps, rocks, and tidal creeks. They're tough as hell and can live in fresh or salt water so look up any drainage ditchs too. Mike

[William Novotny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9X-BuSDTRQ

Only thing id suggest is to use a torpedo sinker and not a pyramid. The pyramid doesn't cut through the water as cleanly and actually scares the bait. Sometimes there is lots of bait and it doesn't matter. Other times they are really skittish and spook easily.

[bus kid]

sabiki!
X2 add some unibutter too

[echo1er]

X2 add some unibutter too

UNIBUTTER!

never tried that one a sabiki now dynamic.