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Silver Trevally are a handsome fish, good to eat, and a strong fighter. For pier fishing, or when fishing from a boat, anglers may fish on the bottom with a paternoster rig (as shown on the right), with the a bomb style sinker tied to the end of the line with one or more snoods or hook droppers coming off above the sinker. An alternative rig for pier fishing, where the bait is suspended mid-water or deeper, consists of a hook tied to the end of the line. The only additional weight requirement for this rig is a small ball sinker, or large split shot, clamped onto the line a short distance above the hook. The fillets taken from baitfish like pilchards are excellent bait for silver trevally (as shown on the left). They may be pinned at one end when fished unweighted in a berley trail of similar pieces, or they may be stitched onto the hook when fishing on the bottom. The bait is more difficult for small, nuisance fish to remove when baited like this. Whole baitfish like anchovy (whitebait) and sprat (as shown on the right) are good baits for silver trevally provided they are baited correctly. This one features hook placement behind the head and a half-hitch on the tail. Strips of squid, cuttlefish, or pieces of tentacles, particularly the extensor tentacles, (as shown on the left). make good baits for silver trevally provided they are baited with the point of the hook well exposed. Note that the hook in this bait is first threaded through the top of the strip, then in, and out from the same side of the bait. Soft baits like marine worms are great bait for silver trevally should you be able to get them (as shown on the right). Other baits taken by silver trevally include the flesh of mussels, and other bivalve molluscs, crustaceans like shrimp and peeled prawn, and – probably best of all – crayfish tail.