Made one of these will try it this week. Over at Nambucca heads for 2 weeks. Also will try worming. Done it before but little success. I think your way simplifys it. Great videos and techniques. Thanks
Cheers mate, hope it pays off! Don’t know what it’s like up your way but stills tons of salmon around down far south coast so the foam might last or it might get a bit banged up first cast. Hopefully it’s a jewy instead. Good idea to just have a plain wire dangle to put up the squids belly as a back up 🤙🏼
Awesome vid thanks, been watching a lot of your content and your channel is excellent, redhead beach brought back memories of a FWB catching tailor ....KRACKA
awesome video. used a lot of those dingle dangles and made a huge differences wen casting out huge baits only caught sharks with it but also kahawai and trevally too on the smaller size
Yes great vid mate 👍🏻. Would be even better if you finished it off with a demo on how it is rigged on the rod (complete with sinker (break away?) ready to be cast/fished.
Hey mate Just a suggestion, have your main carrier hook pinned by the head/ tentacles of the sqiud. This will give you 3 advantages, 1st being it will hide or disguise the hook ever so slightly from the fish seeing it, 2nd the tentacles will flare open in the water current creating vibrations and movement, and 3rd you will get a longer aerodynamic cast since the tentacles are streamlined when thrown Watching from SA and glad youre grasping our techniques
Hey mate, I’ve seen them rigged that way but am yet to give it a go. Our mulloway season is coming up and am going to be getting back into using squid dingle dangles after getting really into live baiting so will give it a go. I’ve actually just ordered a hot wire foam cutter to try and make an improved one using epe foam to make them a bit more durable. Over here we have abundant Australian salmon to work through when chasing a mulloway so the surf board foam can get broken quickly without a mulloway getting a look at it. Got some ideas kicking around my head that if they work out I might start selling them over here. You might be able to give me some advice on them actually. The first is to have a circle hook (or twin jigging hooks with glow) on the wire loop that acts as the sinker clip. The circle hook would be what attaches to the release clip and will be right where the tentacles and head are. That way you only need a single snelled circle on your leader and still have a two hook rig, or have two snelled on the leader for three hooks on really big baits. The other idea is to make bibs that slide over the top loop and onto the crimp, either epoxy resin or aluminium. Have seen people incorporate bibs into their dangles over your way but just not in this fashion. You guys have a very cool approach to fishing over there and has helped me score lots of good fish
@@anglinguntangled I totally respect the effort and thought of creating a business and selling your dangles, I'd encourage it 100%. I'm no expert when it comes to the names of foams, but the 2 foams I use is surf board foam and ( flip flop) foam. ( basically what your cheap flip flops are made of, these things are indestructible considering humans wear them on a day to day basis being dragged on the floor). I use the surf board foam when I require alot of flotation for edible fish ( eg mulloway), and then the flip flop foam when I'm targeting toothy fish Another piece of advice, and I consider it the most important, is to keep it simple. Don't worry about glow beads, or bibs, or amount of hooks etc etc. Just 1 circle hook is more than enough attached to your dangle. Materials Flip flop foam Wire 2 Crimps 2 sequences Generally how I'd make my go to dangle would be to cut out a 10cm piece of flip flop foam and shape it exactly the way you did in your video with the hole through the middle. I'd have 2 sequences prepped ( how to make a sequence is to take a stationary punch and punch out 2 circles from an ice cream tub, then take a needle, heat the tip, and poke a hole right in the middle of your 2 tiny plastic circles). First thing is to make the Sinker clip loop by crimping your wire with a loop size of your choice, then slide on your sequence, then foam, then another sequence ontop, then finally another crimp to finish of the dangle where the hook will be pinned. This is very effective and really is the only method I use to make all my dangles from various lengths and thicknesses of foam, and I'd catch little cob right through to sharks and rays up to 300 kilos. Obviously, the bigger your dangle, you'd have to beef up your wire and sequence. I'd say it again, keep it simple, no need for tiny glow beads etc, because realistically, in the surge and currents with all the white water around, a fish would have to be atleast a meter or 2 away from your bait to even get a glimpse of your bait. There's no ways you'd attract a fish 50m plus away to your bait with 1 small glow bead that's hid by your bait.
@KZN_Fishing Yeah flip flop foam (eva) will be the second option if epe doesn’t work out. It’s just more expensive than epe, which is the softer stuff that is used as packaging instead of styrofoam. I like the idea of the sequins, but what I found with the surfboard foam is that the wire had a tendency to cut through it and that’s what the beads are more to stop than be an attractant. Might not have that issue with the epe and sequins will be the go. Might be getting ahead of myself here but I’d be looking to have some good fishers test out what I come up with, so could possibly send a couple over if your willing to give them a go
@@anglinguntangled go for it mate, whatever design you come up with will surely work, I can see you're thinking this through thoroughly, so I'm sure it will be a dream to fish with If you do come right with it, it will be a massive success, and I'm sure you'd be the one to get the entire country into dangle fishing. I'd be more than happy to check it out and send you feedback as to how you'd like to rig it up with singular or double hooks etc
Just seems the right thing to be doing with them at the moment. There’s some further reading in the description which is pretty concerning if you’d like to know more. - Louis
G'day from western Australia mate .good onya for suggesting release on the big mulloways! I've always used Tailor fillets or pillie stuffed squids for the croakers I've caught here .I release anything over a metre when it comes to mullys (jewies) as i want my kids and so forth to be able to have some stories and experiences to share further down the road.
Yeah hard to beat a fresh slab of tailor or mullet, yet to try the squid-Polly condom. Would be so good to see the mulloway stocks boom and start catching them in n better quantity and quality
Bkk make awesome hooks, their company name is black king kong. I grabbed some tekken hooks in big w one day, they are manufactured by black king kong 😁
Not much you can do except try moving to a different gutter. They’ll usually only steal the head so I just wrap a new one on which doesn’t take long at all
Hi firstly great video well presented and simple explanations. With the second hook was it through the bait only or did you stick it through the foam? Secondly With the smaller squid baits it looks like you could just snip the beak open and shove the dingle straight up a whole squid. I've been watching a few of the South African videos and started to make some dingles but haven't been out to try them yet, but will when it walms up a bit, mulloway are scarce in my area in the colder months ( Perth) but it should work for beach snapper as well. I don't need the distance cast for mulloway but the idea of the suspended life like bait seems a winner
Cheers mate! That second hook is just through the squid and under the bait cotton which holds it nice and firm. I’ve had a go at making the dangle thin enough to slide straight up the belly of the squid so you can just put a whole one on and throw it out but there’s a couple issues. Mainly it’s to get the foam thin enough which it needs to be undersized due to the squid gripping to the foam as you’re trying to slide it in. At that size it’s also too weak and any small peckers are able to snap the foam on you. I’ve thought about using glow beads as spacers and then a much smaller kind of footy shaped bit of foam that will hold the rattle and be just in the hood but haven’t gotten around to it. Another option would be to make the dangle around some soft buoyant wood. Then it would stay strong while being thin. Bit of effort but hopefully they’d last you a fair while. I will just say that the type in the video will be busted most of the time by a mulloway, but still work fine if it’s not too bad
@@anglinguntangled thanks for the detailed response. Like I said earlier when it walms up a bit I'm off to give it a try. Small whole whiting or tailor strips are the preferred baits for mulloway in my area so I will be experimenting with them as well. On point adventures did one video where they just pulled a wire loop through a mullet for casting only.
Yeah I’ve started doing that with my shark baits. All of this stuff is inspired by the South African blokes and it’s a very interesting way of fishing over there. I have come up with my own way of throwing live yakkas for mulloway which has been working a treat. I’m hoping to show it off soon when I get a chance to chase them again
@@anglinguntangled use a bait 🪡 needle buddy and pull it through or cut foam and cotton on dacron definitely gets more bites I will be in Australia next year
I just don’t quite like the idea that the connection with the hook will snap if your sinker becomes too lodged into the sand or finds a bit of reef. Generally a pretty awesome rig though
I get what you are saying,l am nearly always on sandy bottom so for me it dosent cause too of a problem.l live in the area you fish so it is good for me to see some local content.
Yeah I thought so from your name haha. Unfortunately not up around newy any more, just moved back to the sapphire coast. Missing how good the jewy fishing up there is already
Yer l got a nice little jew as well as some good bream a few days ago on little gibber beach,my old mate l used to fish with had a shack on top of the big gibber called the high chapparal till national parks burnt it down in the 70s,saddly my mate is gone to.
Lekker Dingle🪝gonna try making your version, but I also sprinkle a little silver, blue/green glitter on the chokka on the dingle. Nice video thanks, from 🇿🇦
Nailed it mate, thanks for sharing.
Cheers mate!
Amazing vid, well presented thanks for sharing.
My pleasure mate cheers
Made one of these will try it this week. Over at Nambucca heads for 2 weeks. Also will try worming. Done it before but little success. I think your way simplifys it. Great videos and techniques. Thanks
Cheers mate, hope it pays off! Don’t know what it’s like up your way but stills tons of salmon around down far south coast so the foam might last or it might get a bit banged up first cast. Hopefully it’s a jewy instead. Good idea to just have a plain wire dangle to put up the squids belly as a back up 🤙🏼
Cool looking rig looks fun to make, might have to give it a go off the beach soon.
Yeah gonna be the way I present squid most of the time now. Have had good results m the short while I’ve been using it
Awesome vid thanks, been watching a lot of your content and your channel is excellent, redhead beach brought back memories of a FWB catching tailor ....KRACKA
Cheers mate! Much appreciated. It’s not a bad beach as long as you don’t go in the school holidays
Best channel on the tube
Finally some recognition 😂. Nah cheers mate, much appreciated
awesome video. used a lot of those dingle dangles and made a huge differences wen casting out huge baits only caught sharks with it but also kahawai and trevally too on the smaller size
Yeah I’ve only been using them for about a year but they’re very handy things. Keen to chase some sharks with them too
Yes great vid mate 👍🏻. Would be even better if you finished it off with a demo on how it is rigged on the rod (complete with sinker (break away?) ready to be cast/fished.
Cheers! And Will show off the rig in a future video mate
Hey mate
Just a suggestion, have your main carrier hook pinned by the head/ tentacles of the sqiud. This will give you 3 advantages, 1st being it will hide or disguise the hook ever so slightly from the fish seeing it, 2nd the tentacles will flare open in the water current creating vibrations and movement, and 3rd you will get a longer aerodynamic cast since the tentacles are streamlined when thrown
Watching from SA and glad youre grasping our techniques
Hey mate, I’ve seen them rigged that way but am yet to give it a go. Our mulloway season is coming up and am going to be getting back into using squid dingle dangles after getting really into live baiting so will give it a go.
I’ve actually just ordered a hot wire foam cutter to try and make an improved one using epe foam to make them a bit more durable. Over here we have abundant Australian salmon to work through when chasing a mulloway so the surf board foam can get broken quickly without a mulloway getting a look at it. Got some ideas kicking around my head that if they work out I might start selling them over here. You might be able to give me some advice on them actually. The first is to have a circle hook (or twin jigging hooks with glow) on the wire loop that acts as the sinker clip. The circle hook would be what attaches to the release clip and will be right where the tentacles and head are. That way you only need a single snelled circle on your leader and still have a two hook rig, or have two snelled on the leader for three hooks on really big baits. The other idea is to make bibs that slide over the top loop and onto the crimp, either epoxy resin or aluminium. Have seen people incorporate bibs into their dangles over your way but just not in this fashion. You guys have a very cool approach to fishing over there and has helped me score lots of good fish
@@anglinguntangled I totally respect the effort and thought of creating a business and selling your dangles, I'd encourage it 100%.
I'm no expert when it comes to the names of foams, but the 2 foams I use is surf board foam and ( flip flop) foam. ( basically what your cheap flip flops are made of, these things are indestructible considering humans wear them on a day to day basis being dragged on the floor). I use the surf board foam when I require alot of flotation for edible fish ( eg mulloway), and then the flip flop foam when I'm targeting toothy fish
Another piece of advice, and I consider it the most important, is to keep it simple. Don't worry about glow beads, or bibs, or amount of hooks etc etc. Just 1 circle hook is more than enough attached to your dangle.
Materials
Flip flop foam
Wire
2 Crimps
2 sequences
Generally how I'd make my go to dangle would be to cut out a 10cm piece of flip flop foam and shape it exactly the way you did in your video with the hole through the middle. I'd have 2 sequences prepped ( how to make a sequence is to take a stationary punch and punch out 2 circles from an ice cream tub, then take a needle, heat the tip, and poke a hole right in the middle of your 2 tiny plastic circles). First thing is to make the Sinker clip loop by crimping your wire with a loop size of your choice, then slide on your sequence, then foam, then another sequence ontop, then finally another crimp to finish of the dangle where the hook will be pinned.
This is very effective and really is the only method I use to make all my dangles from various lengths and thicknesses of foam, and I'd catch little cob right through to sharks and rays up to 300 kilos. Obviously, the bigger your dangle, you'd have to beef up your wire and sequence.
I'd say it again, keep it simple, no need for tiny glow beads etc, because realistically, in the surge and currents with all the white water around, a fish would have to be atleast a meter or 2 away from your bait to even get a glimpse of your bait. There's no ways you'd attract a fish 50m plus away to your bait with 1 small glow bead that's hid by your bait.
@KZN_Fishing Yeah flip flop foam (eva) will be the second option if epe doesn’t work out. It’s just more expensive than epe, which is the softer stuff that is used as packaging instead of styrofoam.
I like the idea of the sequins, but what I found with the surfboard foam is that the wire had a tendency to cut through it and that’s what the beads are more to stop than be an attractant. Might not have that issue with the epe and sequins will be the go. Might be getting ahead of myself here but I’d be looking to have some good fishers test out what I come up with, so could possibly send a couple over if your willing to give them a go
@@anglinguntangled go for it mate, whatever design you come up with will surely work, I can see you're thinking this through thoroughly, so I'm sure it will be a dream to fish with
If you do come right with it, it will be a massive success, and I'm sure you'd be the one to get the entire country into dangle fishing.
I'd be more than happy to check it out and send you feedback as to how you'd like to rig it up with singular or double hooks etc
Gday Jeremy Well done for encouraging catch and release great stuff Jeremy
Just seems the right thing to be doing with them at the moment. There’s some further reading in the description which is pretty concerning if you’d like to know more.
- Louis
@@anglinguntangled good on ya Jeremy well done
@@mrsbradpittiful who is Jeremy? His name is Louis mate
@@jonnywaselectric who is Louis?
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G'day from western Australia mate .good onya for suggesting release on the big mulloways! I've always used Tailor fillets or pillie stuffed squids for the croakers I've caught here .I release anything over a metre when it comes to mullys (jewies) as i want my kids and so forth to be able to have some stories and experiences to share further down the road.
Yeah hard to beat a fresh slab of tailor or mullet, yet to try the squid-Polly condom. Would be so good to see the mulloway stocks boom and start catching them in n better quantity and quality
Bkk make awesome hooks, their company name is black king kong. I grabbed some tekken hooks in big w one day, they are manufactured by black king kong 😁
Yeah those tekken hooks were the first time I came across them so was a bit skeptical, but reckon they’re hooks are hard to beat these days
cool
How do you get around the bream and dart destroying the bait 5 minutes in?
Not much you can do except try moving to a different gutter. They’ll usually only steal the head so I just wrap a new one on which doesn’t take long at all
Work it out for yourself. That's what everyone else does.
Hi firstly great video well presented and simple explanations. With the second hook was it through the bait only or did you stick it through the foam? Secondly With the smaller squid baits it looks like you could just snip the beak open and shove the dingle straight up a whole squid. I've been watching a few of the South African videos and started to make some dingles but haven't been out to try them yet, but will when it walms up a bit, mulloway are scarce in my area in the colder months ( Perth) but it should work for beach snapper as well. I don't need the distance cast for mulloway but the idea of the suspended life like bait seems a winner
Cheers mate! That second hook is just through the squid and under the bait cotton which holds it nice and firm.
I’ve had a go at making the dangle thin enough to slide straight up the belly of the squid so you can just put a whole one on and throw it out but there’s a couple issues. Mainly it’s to get the foam thin enough which it needs to be undersized due to the squid gripping to the foam as you’re trying to slide it in. At that size it’s also too weak and any small peckers are able to snap the foam on you. I’ve thought about using glow beads as spacers and then a much smaller kind of footy shaped bit of foam that will hold the rattle and be just in the hood but haven’t gotten around to it. Another option would be to make the dangle around some soft buoyant wood. Then it would stay strong while being thin. Bit of effort but hopefully they’d last you a fair while. I will just say that the type in the video will be busted most of the time by a mulloway, but still work fine if it’s not too bad
@@anglinguntangled thanks for the detailed response. Like I said earlier when it walms up a bit I'm off to give it a try. Small whole whiting or tailor strips are the preferred baits for mulloway in my area so I will be experimenting with them as well. On point adventures did one video where they just pulled a wire loop through a mullet for casting only.
Yeah I’ve started doing that with my shark baits. All of this stuff is inspired by the South African blokes and it’s a very interesting way of fishing over there. I have come up with my own way of throwing live yakkas for mulloway which has been working a treat. I’m hoping to show it off soon when I get a chance to chase them again
@@anglinguntangled looking forward to it
Stop giving our secrets away 😄
And don't use wire for dangles when fishing jewies only for shark
Never! 😁. It’s just a bit of a pain to work Dacron through the foam and the jewies don’t seem to mind
@@anglinguntangled use a bait 🪡 needle buddy and pull it through or cut foam and cotton on dacron definitely gets more bites I will be in Australia next year
What area are you fishing I'm going to be based north of brisbane
I’m down in Newcastle NSW for the moment but will be moving shortly to the far south coast
Why not just use a pully rig'
I just don’t quite like the idea that the connection with the hook will snap if your sinker becomes too lodged into the sand or finds a bit of reef. Generally a pretty awesome rig though
I get what you are saying,l am nearly always on sandy bottom so for me it dosent cause too of a problem.l live in the area you fish so it is good for me to see some local content.
Yeah I thought so from your name haha. Unfortunately not up around newy any more, just moved back to the sapphire coast. Missing how good the jewy fishing up there is already
Yer l got a nice little jew as well as some good bream a few days ago on little gibber beach,my old mate l used to fish with had a shack on top of the big gibber called the high chapparal till national parks burnt it down in the 70s,saddly my mate is gone to.
Nice
I like your way better
Cheers mate
Lekker Dingle🪝gonna try making your version, but I also sprinkle a little silver, blue/green glitter on the chokka on the dingle. Nice video thanks, from 🇿🇦
Cheers mate, it’s a very cool way of fishing you guys have developed over there 🤙🏼