mark
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been pondering whether to share this one or not. So if you\'re a bit squeamish, p\'raps best not read any further.
Whilst in scotland a couple of weeks back, was talking to a local who \'makes\' his own bait. Now the priciples of this sound pretty good, but his execution (I chose that word carefully!) might leave a bit to be desired. Getting fresh peeler is a bit of a problem, keeping mussel on a hook is a bit of a problem too, so his solution was this. He\'d get down the beach and gather whatever small crabs he could find (peeling or not) and a good pile of mussels. The other ingredients varied (lug/rag/cockles/fish), but the one last constant was either tubegauze finger bandage or bits of fish net stocking.
back in his shed, he has an old blender, into which he would drop his crabs (still alive!) followd by mashed up mussels (shell and all) and whizz it all to a paste - apperntly the ground up shells of both the crab and mussel bound the whole mess together. The resultinmg paste would sewn up in sausage shapes from the stockings or tubegauze, which would then be used or frozen until needed. Easy to attach to a hook, don\'t fall to bits as soon as they hit the water and could be a cocktail of anything.
They looked and worked brill, but dropping live crabs in a blender - what a way to go!
[Edited on 15/11/2003 by mark]
Whilst in scotland a couple of weeks back, was talking to a local who \'makes\' his own bait. Now the priciples of this sound pretty good, but his execution (I chose that word carefully!) might leave a bit to be desired. Getting fresh peeler is a bit of a problem, keeping mussel on a hook is a bit of a problem too, so his solution was this. He\'d get down the beach and gather whatever small crabs he could find (peeling or not) and a good pile of mussels. The other ingredients varied (lug/rag/cockles/fish), but the one last constant was either tubegauze finger bandage or bits of fish net stocking.
back in his shed, he has an old blender, into which he would drop his crabs (still alive!) followd by mashed up mussels (shell and all) and whizz it all to a paste - apperntly the ground up shells of both the crab and mussel bound the whole mess together. The resultinmg paste would sewn up in sausage shapes from the stockings or tubegauze, which would then be used or frozen until needed. Easy to attach to a hook, don\'t fall to bits as soon as they hit the water and could be a cocktail of anything.
They looked and worked brill, but dropping live crabs in a blender - what a way to go!
[Edited on 15/11/2003 by mark]
