baiting worm

Joined: Jul 08, 2010 Posts: 4 Location: south west england

Fished last night at sea town with lug rag black lug squid and mackeral and not a bite lol was well dissapointed. anyone no why everytime i baited up worm with or without bait elastic the worm was gon within 10 minutes without having a bite

Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:56 pm

Hi Shane, welcome to the forum. The most likely culprits are crabs, they are rife now, and they can strip your bait without you knowing. Cheers..Mick

Joined: Jul 08, 2010 Posts: 4 Location: south west england

thanks i thought as much were going blue anchor on wednesday was told lug worm is good for that bay just hope the crabs arent as bad there

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:53 am

Something I've tried which might work...

Thread on the line above hook(s) some pieces of cork I bought somewhere some cylindrical bits of cork about 1 cm long and 5 mm diameter, thread on by means of needle (a fairly big one) do it at home rather than on beach as sometime pliers are needed and a bit fiddly, 4 of these things has done the trick for myself on a pulley rig or if the snood is up the line. Obviously if the little blighters (crabs) swim well it wont deter them.
Try it - it may help.

Beehive

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:26 pm

A warm welcome to the forums mate.
Cheers
keith big grin

Joined: Jul 08, 2010 Posts: 4 Location: south west england

yh m8 cheers mite giv that a go think were gunna give blue anchor a go soon dunno if anyone has any info on where is fishing well at the moment in the south west area

Joined: Aug 26, 2010 Posts: 1 Location: barnstaple n.devon

well shane im new on this site and your problem is most deffinitly crabs but are you using a baiting needle with your worms ..... big grin

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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:25 am

A warm welcome to the forums Dragon mate.
Cheers
keith big grin