Prawns as bait ?

[jcbuz1970]

Cheers again people, some excellent feed back.
Canny forum this.
@Gerry , gonna give Wing Hongs a try for razor and maybe some other stuff, I use quite a lot do during the winter,£ 5 a box will save me (our lass) a fortune.

[clarky]

I used the raw king prawns last winter with some great success for codling.
(Bought them from asda 4.95 for a large bag)

[clarky]

I used the raw king prawns last winter with some great success for codling.
(Bought them from asda 4.95 for a large bag)

I always take the usuall baits rag, lug, squid, macky and was also taking about 10 frozen king prawns to, when the usuall bait wernt catching the prawns were.

2 of us fished hendon prom and there was a club comp on think there was about 30 fishn, the guy next to us was partenering jim dobie they had blacks some whites and crab and no one had caught owt much apart from me n me mate we had 6 codling all about 3lb ish all caught on prawn.

As we were packing up i gave him the last few prawns and within 10 mins he'd landed a nice codling and as we were leavn he was bringing his second in, he was straight on the phone to jim dobie laughing sayn you'll neva guess what am catchn the codling on.

[paulthespark]

have been using raw prawns for a few years now with great success,my marinated prawns are even better,use frozen blacks or mussel, top notch winter bait

[Deans]

had cod on prawn a few times in the past. had a session in norway one night and it was the top bait cocktailed with mussel.

some sessions locally i have found that the cod will take one bait only at a certain time.

one time down the low drum, the cod would only take squid. one time on steetly the cod would only take cock clam. many times blacks and many times crab at different venues

for prawns, once in norway and had good success up craster when they stayed away from lug.

when gutting cod I find crabs more than anything, followed by small white prawns (or something very similar to them)
now thats gotta mean summit my friend

[Jimbob]

razor cuts the prawns imo

[clarky]

used em on the walkway last night and nowt, rag and macky did the biz

[rock]

Had a few flattys on them, i started looking at fishing with prawns like this.. It is cheaper to blank with prawn than crab.

[Cod,cod,cod!]

I wouldn't waste my time using them...buts thats just me!

[Jimbob]

I wouldn't waste my time using them...buts thats just me!

Agreed

[mark0191]

prawns

Ive caught every speciese of fish on raw rawns but no cod and thats what im after. Cods guts are always full of shrimp tho

[<(Andy2009)>]

I wouldn't waste my time using them...buts thats just me!

Me to mate. A would be tempted if a was low on other bait...