Rotten Bait and Crabs
Submitted by Jackfrost80 on Thu, 2018-01-25 15:35
Long story short I turned off my bait freezer to elimate the source of my power tripping and forgot to turn it back on. That was Sunday and I only realised today when I walked into the garage and smelt evil.
I've got a kg bunch of Shorecatch tuna heads that I bought for a crabbing trip that I'd hate to go to waste so if I can stomach using them will they still be ok to use or will they in fact be more effective?
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dano83
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I dunno if mick c still does
I dunno if mick c still does it Take it up to shore catch and get it minced up and make into burly maybe
Travisd
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dig it into the garden
plants will love it but wouldn't introduce it back into the water
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They should be fine
They should be fine
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If need really be have a
If need really be have a go. Ive often had to resort to shit but i consider it shit based on baitability. IMO it never stays on good, and i dislike adding cotton to refrozen mulies or scalies. The habits us fishos generate. Have a go mate and trial and error shall inform you more. Good luck. The stink is a benefit for a group of species but may attract undesirables if targetting specifics.
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Lol my bait freezer tripped
Lol my bait freezer tripped out at my holiday place once for about two weeks. The stench when I walked in there was something even the devil could emulate. The thing that got me though was the plush pile carpet of blow flies surrounding the freezer, poor fuckers couldn't get in lol. Anyway just taped up the lid and straight to the tip,problem solvered.
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I'm heading to Mandurah for 5
I'm heading to Mandurah for 5 days tomorrow. I've turned the freezer back on and ignoring it in the hope that by the time I come back the bait freezer fairies have cleaned it out and cleaned the blood off the garage floor.
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Faulkner Family
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if your going to handle the
if your going to handle the stuff , make sure you have gloves on as the smell will stay with you for a while. if you just want to be left alone dont wear gloves,
heard of people using rotten baits before and the smell will bring the crabs around
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Redheads have more fun?
As a side note , I always found that red reefie fish , eg king wrasse etc that we caught outside when put it pots always seemed to attract
more crabs, half a red fish and then some chook wings or off chops etc seemed to be a killer combo. Not sure what others use but we had fine
galvo bird type mesh , softish stuff for our bait bags wired by homemade giant safety pins in our pots and very rarely needed to redo baits
each session.
And stinky stuff wise , I once left a 2 litre milk bottle of cow blood ( shark fishing in the 80,s , dont ask) in a beach house garage for weeks in summer.
Upon rediscovering said blood bomb , the bottle was at bursting point as I had sucurely tapped up the lid with 100mph tape to stop leaks.
We gingerly and ever so gently lowered the ticking devise into the bin , never to be seen again, but sweated on the local mandurah paper for the next
few weeks in case murder had been called at the local tip ( sorry tip guys)
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I only ever use mulies, crabs love em, make up bait packets out of gutter guard, cut sections, fold it in half, cable tie the two sides leaving the top open. Only way your bait will last.
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fresh
fresh is always better but could work
just do it.
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Usually use blowies however
I usually use blowies as bait, however they are thin on the ground at the moment and taking to much time to get enough for bait I have had to resort to chicken necks, which are a cheap buy at woollies or other big food shops. A kilo of necks provides about 3 - 4 necks in a wire bait holder in each pot and they seam to last for a session on the water.
As you all know every seagull and pelican for a 100 miles around comes to your boat when you have finished crabbing and are emptying out the nets of bait right.
Well I can tell you the pelicans down here are a bloody fussy lot, you throw them a chicken neck and they are liable to spit it back at you, they don't like them. It's mullet or some other fresh fish they want a feed off.
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Chicken necks and mulies in a
Chicken necks and mulies in a round bait cage. Got these in 4 runs of 5 nets near the southern science platform. Not easy work in the wind and with small children getting in the way
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nice size there. that wind
nice size there. that wind is annoying atm no escaping it .
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