Bass Fishing From The Shore, Bait Dead or Alive
Hi, i have been sea fishing for just over a year now, last year all i did was cast feathers of the promenade at Colwyn Bay with good results, mainly Mackerel & lots of them. This year i have upgraded tackle, rod & reel etc... & am trying for Bass using Crab. However my son took a trip to the tackle shop & came back with 10 LIVE crabs, WHAT do i do with them, use them live or not & how / where to hook them. Any advice would help.
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Bass Fishing From The Shore, Bait Dead or Alive
In article , lamondi
wrote: Hi, i have been sea fishing for just over a year now, last year all i did was cast feathers of the promenade at Colwyn Bay with good results, mainly Mackerel & lots of them. This year i have upgraded tackle, rod & reel etc... & am trying for Bass using Crab. However my son took a trip to the tackle shop & came back with 10 LIVE crabs, WHAT do i do with them, use them live or not & how / where to hook them. Any advice would help. You know they are fresh, dead crabs quickly become useless. Keep them in the fridge as otherwise they'll finish peeling and revert to hardbacks. Traditionally you peel all the shell from them - they are 'peeler' crabs because they are in the process of shedding their shells, and then tie the soft flesh to the hook using fine elastic. Don't bother. Take just the back shell off. Stab the crab between the eyes with your hookpoint to kill it and prevent it suffering and then put the whole crab, including the shell, on the hook by pushing the hook through the shell leaving the point clear of the back. If the crab is too big for this cut it in two and fish just one half by hooking it through two leg sockets. Do not use these baits in bright daylight as wrasse will grab them. Do not cast them into deep water as you'll waste them on dogfish. At dawn and dusk fish them close alongside weedy rocks in two or three metres of water. Use as little lead as possible. Use light line, a sharp, fine wire, wide gape #4/0 hook and cast no more then 30 metres. Bass expect to find peelers where there are hiding places and they are used to eating them shell, spiky bits and all. When you feel a bite count one, two, and strike. Cheerio, -- Fishing: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/ Writing: http://www.author.casterbridge.net/derek-moody/ uk.rec.fishing.game Badge Page: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/urfg/ |
Bass Fishing From The Shore, Bait Dead or Alive
"lamondi" wrote in message ... Derek Moody Wrote: In article , lamondi wrote:- Hi, i have been sea fishing for just over a year now, last year all i did was cast feathers of the promenade at Colwyn Bay with good results, mainly Mackerel & lots of them. This year i have upgraded tackle, rod & reel etc... & am trying for Bass using Crab. However my son took a trip to the tackle shop & came back with 10 LIVE crabs, WHAT do i do with them, use them live or not & how / where to hook them. Any advice would help.- You know they are fresh, dead crabs quickly become useless. Keep them in the fridge as otherwise they'll finish peeling and revert to hardbacks. Traditionally you peel all the shell from them - they are 'peeler' crabs because they are in the process of shedding their shells, and then tie the soft flesh to the hook using fine elastic. Don't bother. Take just the back shell off. Stab the crab between the eyes with your hookpoint to kill it and prevent it suffering and then put the whole crab, including the shell, on the hook by pushing the hook through the shell leaving the point clear of the back. If the crab is too big for this cut it in two and fish just one half by hooking it through two leg sockets. Do not use these baits in bright daylight as wrasse will grab them. Do not cast them into deep water as you'll waste them on dogfish. At dawn and dusk fish them close alongside weedy rocks in two or three metres of water. Use as little lead as possible. Use light line, a sharp, fine wire, wide gape #4/0 hook and cast no more then 30 metres. Bass expect to find peelers where there are hiding places and they are used to eating them shell, spiky bits and all. When you feel a bite count one, two, and strike. Cheerio, -- Fishing: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/ Writing: http://www.author.casterbridge.net/derek-moody/ uk.rec.fishing.game Badge Page: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/urfg/ Fantastic, Thanks for answering my question so well. This morning i went out Fishing from Colwyn Bay & i bought a pack of those plastic / rubber crabs that are meant to give off 400 percent more smell & in 3 hours all i caught was.... you guessed it a bigger CRAB with massive red eyes, evil looking thing. Next time i go i will heed your advice well. Thanks again Ian -- lamondi Have a trip out with Paul on Pathfinder down the bottom end of Colwyn Rhos Point it cheers me up after struggling on the beach theres plenty of fish out there at the moment . You are doing better than we did with rubber crabs nothing seemed to fancy them at all. squid mackie cocktail was a better bet Derek |
Bass Fishing From The Shore, Bait Dead or Alive
In article , Derek
wrote: "lamondi" wrote in message ... went out Fishing from Colwyn Bay & i bought a pack of those plastic / rubber crabs that are meant to give off 400 percent more smell & in 3 hours all i caught was.... you guessed it a bigger CRAB with massive IF they give off 400% more smell then they will only do so for a little while. (Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?) Fresh peelers are good for about half an hour so for 400% more smell use 4 on the hook ;-) Did the packet say whether the plastic crab would be good for four times as long (2 hours) - or will it be four times as good for half an hour? My guess is they're only good for the two minutes it takes to flog them to an unsuspecting bait buyer. You are doing better than we did with rubber crabs nothing seemed to fancy them at all. squid mackie cocktail was a better bet It takes a lot to beat very fresh mackerel - very fresh peelers are one of the few baits that can. Cheerio, -- Fishing: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/ Writing: http://www.author.casterbridge.net/derek-moody/ uk.rec.fishing.game Badge Page: http://www.fishing.casterbridge.net/urfg/ |
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