To catch peeler crab Help

I am planning to put old tyres out for peeler crab and hope someone can help
me with the following info.
Are ridge tiles better than tyres?
How long will it take to establish themselves?
What ground is best, sand, mud,stoney beaches. Are river estuaries any good?
How often should they be checked?

Thanks
Tom

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I am planning to put old tyres out for peeler crab and hope someone can help
me with the following info.
Are ridge tiles better than tyres?

Probably, or a length of gutter. Whatever will stay put in your local
tides, some people swear by a section of corrugated iron.

How long will it take to establish themselves?

Only a few days at this time of year.

What ground is best, sand, mud,stoney beaches. Are river estuaries any good?

All of these but sand/sandy_mud is easiest to work.

How often should they be checked?

Every tide.

Cheerio,

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In article , do do
wrote:
I am planning to put old tyres out for peeler crab and hope someone can help
me with the following info.
Are ridge tiles better than tyres?

Probably, or a length of gutter. Whatever will stay put in your local
tides, some people swear by a section of corrugated iron.

How long will it take to establish themselves?

Only a few days at this time of year.

What ground is best, sand, mud,stoney beaches. Are river estuaries any good?

All of these but sand/sandy_mud is easiest to work.

How often should they be checked?

Every tide.

Cheerio,

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"do do" wrote in message
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I am planning to put old tyres out for peeler crab and hope someone can
help
me with the following info.
Are ridge tiles better than tyres?
How long will it take to establish themselves?
What ground is best, sand, mud,stoney beaches. Are river estuaries any
good?
How often should they be checked?

Thanks
Tom

Hi Tom
Tiles and short lengths of roofing guttering are less unsightly and just as
effective, try and place the traps as far out as safely possible and in mud,
as this will deter others from raiding your traps, I would say that river
estuaries are very effective as all the traps here in the River Mersey are
set within the first 2 miles of the mouth of the river, also the traps
should be checked at every low tide, to maximise the amount of crabs you
collect, also wear thick rubber gloves as sharp objects like broken bottles
or syringes can also be caught in these.

Good luck
Pete




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"do do" wrote in message
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I am planning to put old tyres out for peeler crab and hope someone can
help
me with the following info.
Are ridge tiles better than tyres?
How long will it take to establish themselves?
What ground is best, sand, mud,stoney beaches. Are river estuaries any
good?
How often should they be checked?

Thanks
Tom

Hi Tom
Tiles and short lengths of roofing guttering are less unsightly and just as
effective, try and place the traps as far out as safely possible and in mud,
as this will deter others from raiding your traps, I would say that river
estuaries are very effective as all the traps here in the River Mersey are
set within the first 2 miles of the mouth of the river, also the traps
should be checked at every low tide, to maximise the amount of crabs you
collect, also wear thick rubber gloves as sharp objects like broken bottles
or syringes can also be caught in these.

Good luck
Pete




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Berkeley has a new natural flavour enhanced "peeler crab" bait out
that has been found to be quite effective. Comes in light and darker
colours.

If you're not catching then a wonder bait won't help and if you are catching
you don't need it.

There's a new sooperdooper enhanced bait out every month or so. They're
great for catching rookie anglers but I never heard of any catching fish as
well as a decent fresh, natural bait.

Eshew. Cheerio,

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Berkeley has a new natural flavour enhanced "peeler crab" bait out
that has been found to be quite effective. Comes in light and darker
colours.

And I'll bet you pay stupid prices for it, NOTHING beats, local ,fresh bait,
plus it's free if you put the time in to colllect it...........



Pete

wrote in message
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Berkeley has a new natural flavour enhanced "peeler crab" bait out
that has been found to be quite effective. Comes in light and darker
colours.

And I'll bet you pay stupid prices for it, NOTHING beats, local ,fresh bait,
plus it's free if you put the time in to colllect it...........



Pete

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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:33:54 +0100, "Derek.Moody"
wrote:

You folks don't catch much of anything with anything anymore do you?.
Your neighbors to the north, east and south of you have seen to that.

It's all a matter of adaptation. True, the politico's have created a regime
where the traditional fish/fishing have been severely impacted but, nature
being what it is other species have moved in to exploit the unused resources
so there is plenty of sport to be had, it just ain't quite like it was. Not
necessarily better or worse, different. Naturally many lament the change.

Strange that you have concluded that you are powerless to do anything
about it. Though with the coming of the EU you are now incapable of
doing anything about your "neighbors" virtually raping you. Who needs
any sort of bait when there are no fish to be caught.

Quite. If you're not catching with natural bait artificial bait won't help.

There are dozens of excellent natural baits to be had. It's a safe bet that
the fish will (mostly) be eating whatever is currently abundant locally so
the time to use peeler crab is when peeler crabs are plentiful, the time to
use or imitate small fish is when small-fry are everywhere and the time to
use artificial bait is when the tackle shop on the pier has got fed-up with
it not selling and dumped its entire stock over the side...

Cheerio,

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