limpets any good ??

[kela66]

i can remember kicking some of the rocks and using them as bait when on holiday when i was a young un but does anyone use them now and are they any cop ? , i thought they might work as a cocktail with rag and might help stop the tail of the worm flying of when i cast if used on the tip of the hook , any views or idea's ?? ( from what i remember they were like a wet leather 10p ) thanks davey

 

[RONVIK]

Are limpets any good? used them as a kid and we caught nothing on them.
but i have heard of anglers in the south-west(cornwall) catching wrasse on them from rock-marks.

 

[5150]

Used them as a kid, caught flatties on them at S/Sluice harbour. Heard quite a few times about Wrasse having a taste for them.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Henry "The Plonker" Gilbey was fishing for Wrasse in Ireland on TV last night...used limpets...I used limpets for Wrasse at St Marys L/House last year and caught a couple...tipped ragworm with 'em

Have asked the question before about them and thinking about it, once the "heart" etc had been ripped off the back it's just a lump of (flavourless?) rubbery tissue which prob has no appeal...could be wrong

Although I do fancy trying them from boat...

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

The huge Oar fish that was caught a few years back off our coastline fell to limpets if I remember correctly , and as others say wrasse seem to like them although I've not tried it myself.

 

[mark]

I suspect that oar fish may have bee a red herring if I remember rightly, the peole that 'caught it claimed to have been fishing for mackeral, with limpets, in january!

It looked to me like they'd just found it washed up

I used limpets last year when I ran out of everything else, float fishing from the rocks in scotland, worked ok, little wrasse, pollack and coalies seemed happy to take them

 

[kela66]

cheers lads might give em a go as a cocktail after all they don't cost owt

 

[5150]

Nowt to lose at that price!

Might be worth trying them both fresh and left to go a bit soft and stinky.

 

[eddie t]

cheers lads might give em a go as a cocktail after all they don't cost owt

let us know how you got on if you use them. i used to use them when i was a young'un when i was fishing for bullhead in the rockpools.

 

[gazzawill]

ive used them off the boat and took cod after cod
trick is shell them and leave them outside till there stinking and tough
leave them in there juices like you would mussel
3/4 days ps
they realy do stink

 

[RONVIK]

ive used them off the boat and took cod after cod
trick is shell them and leave them outside till there stinking and tough
leave them in there juices like you would mussel
3/4 days ps
they realy do stink

In deep water cod will eat anything. i have caught cod on bacon and other food srcap. when i was in the navy, we were up at the line between international waters and russian waters north of numansk, we would drift for hours(cant say why!) so we would fish in our free time, we caught loads of cod! i would never eat them though that place is a well known nuke-sub grave yard

 

[jamcod]

had a walk down seaton sluice rocks a few years ago and this fella fishing caught a five pound cod on limpet , jamcod