Fresh vs Frozen

[john1977]

I use mostly frozen all the time with fairly good results,runny down,razor,muscle,squid, bluey,and even refreeze unused bait for next session.works for me but each to their own.

[Deans]

all my frozen bait wrapped in cling film, then wrapped in newspaper, and taped up tight. mussel from the wear, and macky from the pier. all free of charge

innit crap when you get frozen stuff from the tackle shop and turns out mush.

best get your own, when the cod disappear, fills in the time until September arrives

[Boro5707]

Will always prefer fresh over frozen. Apart from fishing for coalies, very rare nowadays, but they love frozen peeler. Yet winter, cart/peeler/blacks all frozen make up most my baits. Summer, fresh peeler all day long.

[regpude]

curious

Will always prefer fresh over frozen. Apart from fishing for coalies, very rare nowadays, but they love frozen peeler. Yet winter, cart/peeler/blacks all frozen make up most my baits. Summer, fresh peeler all day long.

what bait were you using when you caught that codling,in picture profile?

[regpude]

sorry looking again,could be a cod my mistake.what size is it.

[Boro5707]

Frozen blacks, fresh blow lug, mussel and maybe a bit of crab. 6th dec 2013 cullercoats :-)

[Boro5707]

10lb 4oz

[pablo]

IV had most of my better fish this winter on frozen squid on its own but always take fresh worm as well so best of both really!

[mick dunn]

I found peeler in the river to be dynamite especially fresh-but when u live away from the coast like me you sometimes have no other option than to use frozen baits. I use bluey, macky and blacks. A lot of the time I buy ragworm from the tackle shops.
If a fish is hungry they will eat out-I know his by checking their stomaches when I gut fish I catch.

[brix]

Get yourself up over the border into scotland and go into a fishing shop and ask if they sell fresh bait.they'll think your crazy, nobody uses fresh.

[LiamNE]

An update - had a fresh vs frozen experiment

2 rods out one on frozen blacks, clam and macky - the other fresh lug, blacks and a bit macky also used.

Not really a successful experiment as whiting where out in force. Aside from first cast caught a whitning...or two at once...on every other chuck. Lovely whiting like, but could not give any backing to the test.

[Tonygdodds]

Fished Blyth beach Friday with frozen black lug with razor & mussel & got small whiting almost every cast I was tempted leaving one on for cod live bait!!!

Proved for me frozen works with 19 undersized fish

[magpies]

Have experienced frozen runnydown outfishing fresh worm several times

[Tonygdodds]

I was using 3-4 black lug with the mussel & razor it must have weighed more than the fish I was catching!!
But it must have given off enough scent as I was getting bites as soon as it hit the water

[LiamNE]

I was using 3-4 black lug with the mussel & razor it must have weighed more than the fish I was catching!!
But it must have given off enough scent as I was getting bites as soon as it hit the water

Just something about the whiting the past few days, dont think I have ever caught as many as I did Thursday/Friday.

Mind you they taste lovely! I never take mine home but with the size they have been coming out my dad cooked me some up and was shocked - taste a bit like haddock