Where to buy crabs
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willywetegg
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You must be a mate Graham. He was charging me more than 50p mate.
Jim.
Jim.
SIXFOOTSTEVE
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I\'ve never had any luck at all with velvets and personally don\'t rate them although the velvets I\'ve had have been imported.
The imported Velverts are the biggest con going, no scent no nowt just full of water.
The velvets out of you pots wont be much cop niether, just like shore crabs they have got to be in the moult (popping).
If you do get some that are about to peel you will be onto a winner, they have got to be the second best cod bait going (hermit being the first), they are normally very big and full of scent.
just my oppinion lads but they can outfish most other baits from most venues.
My preferences.....
1) fresh hermit
2) Velvet swimmers (not the imported sh!te)
3) Eddy peeler( no that aint a geezers name lol)
4) Shore crab
5) Big blacks
6) Mussel (rotten)
7) Blow
8) Squid
and the rest are much of a muchness.
Who ? can disagree with a list like that
[Edited on 21/1/2005 by tala]
The velvets out of you pots wont be much cop niether, just like shore crabs they have got to be in the moult (popping).
If you do get some that are about to peel you will be onto a winner, they have got to be the second best cod bait going (hermit being the first), they are normally very big and full of scent.
just my oppinion lads but they can outfish most other baits from most venues.
My preferences.....
1) fresh hermit
2) Velvet swimmers (not the imported sh!te)
3) Eddy peeler( no that aint a geezers name lol)
4) Shore crab
5) Big blacks
6) Mussel (rotten)
7) Blow
8) Squid
and the rest are much of a muchness.
Who ? can disagree with a list like that
[Edited on 21/1/2005 by tala]
Yeh! u got it Dash, the big b@stards, best bait I have ever used but they are hard to get hold of unless u know someone in the know
Velvets are taking all the big fish at the mo, lads are putting big shore crab baits on and lashing half a velvet to it, big foocing bait (and I mean the size of an adults fist) but out fishes everybody else.
Have a word with local pot men, they will sort you out for the price of a few beers...
bonus is u can get hermit nearly all year round, dont need to be in the moult...
[Edited on 21/1/2005 by tala]
Velvets are taking all the big fish at the mo, lads are putting big shore crab baits on and lashing half a velvet to it, big foocing bait (and I mean the size of an adults fist) but out fishes everybody else.
Have a word with local pot men, they will sort you out for the price of a few beers...
bonus is u can get hermit nearly all year round, dont need to be in the moult...
[Edited on 21/1/2005 by tala]
I actually live as far away from the seas as it is possible to get in the UK (shropshire) so only get to fish the east coast occassionally in the summer. But when I do get up I\'ve got a few pots I use myself, so hopefully enough hermits will wander in to give em a try. Has a wrasse of over a pound in one of em last year.
rod-the-cod
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i stil got 50 or so left havend done so good lately on them
