limpets for cod bait?

[fisherprice]

twice i have found limpets in cos belly has any one else, and has any used them for bait if so are they any good cause ive never heard about anyone using them:question:

 

[magpies]

I am sure I read somewhere about people bulking out crab baits with them mate. Why not give them a go ?

 

[toonboymc]

got to be worth a shot mixed with muscle and lug cant fail
when i was i youngun many years ago i left the bait on the bus but realised when walking on pier so went onto rocks looking for stuff to usecaught my biggest cod about 4-5 lb on a single limpet

 

[OXY]

ive never heard off people using limpets for cod fishing, if youve found limpets in a cods belly, you should give them ago and see if you can catch

 

[Codcodcod!]

I had a 7lber up at craster a couple of weeks ago that had a muscle bag with 3 pieces of muscle still in its stomach.

You don't even take the muscle out. Just put a 4/0 straight though the bag and bobs your uncle.

Limpet Wouldn't be my bait of choice though.

 

[john1977]

had a cod out of collywell a few year back with a half emty mussel bag in aswell

 

[mick dunn]

I used them in Norway last year mainly out of waiting between bites and the fact there was loads everywhere i was stood at low tide. Personally i did not think they were any good.

Mick.

 

[TerryC]

I knew an old guy, Temple Sharp, who would fish with limpets after a really big sea as he said this ripped them off the rocks and they were "natural bait" at that time. Never tried myself but I could see the logic

 

[fish fingers]

i,ve mixed them in with my bait to bulk it out of the rocks but apparently the best way to use them is to collect a few days b4 and just leave them in a cool place the they go black and fish better this way

 

[canman]

Years ago when I took my kids to Logans fish pond at Port Logan, we always collected limpets off the rocks and would hand feed them to the captive cod/coalies in the pond.
Dave Higgins, a popular Tynemouth club member often used them fishing off the rocks, and caught fish on them.

 

[Mogthemackem]

Years ago when I took my kids to Logans fish pond at Port Logan, we always collected limpets off the rocks and would hand feed them to the captive cod/coalies in the pond.
Dave Higgins, a popular Tynemouth club member often used them fishing off the rocks, and caught fish on them.

I've seen that place. Looks amazing

 

[TeamTrip]

Down south they use it all the time after a big SW blow! There most effective for Bass and flounders, it's all ways worth a go there free and thousands of them about! All you need to do is take them out the shell drain them pore a little table salt onto them to make them tuff then freeze down for the winter! Simple

 

[fisherprice]

Down south they use it all the time after a big SW blow! There most effective for Bass and flounders, it's all ways worth a go there free and thousands of them about! All you need to do is take them out the shell drain them pore a little table salt onto them to make them tuff then freeze down for the winter! Simple

thanks there is no harm in trying them on a 2nd rod to see what happens

 

[jamcod]

my mate caught a 5lb cod on limpet from behind the kings arms at seaton sluice , jamcod

 

[pistol]

Like fishfingers says pick them a few days before and leave them in the sal****er till they turn and stink as give a crackin scent trail. Use a pennel with the limpets to bulk the top hook, like a banquet to ya **** guzzlin Cod. And best of all they are for nowt, just pick a box full when ya wrap up ready for the next trip doon the coast.

 

[CHUKKA]

The limpets they use on the south coast are not the ones we get up here. slipper limpets are found on the beaches washed up in clumps along with small razors and can be deadly after a storm for flounders, dabs and bass. I wouldn't waste my time up here but they are better than no bait!!

 

[sam harris]

Limpets.

Limpets.

The name Temple Sharp brought some memories back. I bought a 3 piece rod off Temple back in the 1940s. for 10 shillings (50 pence) It had a hickory butt with the centre and tip sections greenheart, it weighed a ton but was great with a 10 inch scarborough, happy days. As for limpets for bait, I was filming for Sky sports up at Seahouses about 8 or 9 years ago. We were catching fish but not as many as the skipper who was at the bows of the boat. When I asked him what bait he was using he said "limpets, help yourself"
I didn't have a lot of faith in them, but I tried a couple on the hook and got a codling of about 5 lbs. on it, from then on we all started using them and the catch rate went up. They are always worth a try.

 

[phil]

we use to spend many an afternoon using limpets as bait in the summer and caught fish, mainly small sprat but it worked and kept us all entertained "oh the good ole days"

 

[Davyred]

Down south they use it all the time after a big SW blow! There most effective for Bass and flounders, it's all ways worth a go there free and thousands of them about! All you need to do is take them out the shell drain them pore a little table salt onto them to make them tuff then freeze down for the winter! Simple

They're slipper limpets, totally different.