I fish out of Garden Island and the other week, I thought that I would try live baiting as I've got a live bait tank on my boat and I thought that it may as well get used for what it was meant for. I was catching whiting and butter fish and would put the alive fish on a single dropper paternoster rig. I've had more luck with using the butter fish as the whiting don't seem to kick too much and quite a few times, I've put down a whiting only to pull it up with the bottom jaw chewed off and missing and a dead livey. The first time I caught a nice sized dhu and a few sambos as they seem to be in close at the moment and again once more since and had some more fun with the sambos. Generally, the only live bait with success is the butter fish. My question is, are scallies or yellow tail a seasonal fish to catch locally around Garden Island and do they congregate in certain spots or depths? I would like to try using different bait fish to use as live bait.

Thanks,

Ken.